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I always have a look. If i go to a gig i hardly ever talk to the band so how would you know if they went or not?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359581631' post='1957124'] I know it says 70's, and I did say 80's......but hey no problem, Music [ fusion] is Music [fusion] regardless of era... shame to let some goodies get away...... Garry [/quote] I agree! The trouble is that you've opened up the 80s and a whole load of albums that i have to search for in my house to play again!!!

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359576243' post='1956992'] sounds good [/quote] Nucleus were up there with the best of them in the 70s but mostly overlooked the other side of the pond. In the 80s i saw Weather Report @Hammersmith Odeon and the same week saw the Steve Franklin Group with a similar line-up in a London pub. I can honestly say that the SFG would have blown Weather Report off the stage with their playing but who cared? One group had their name in lights outside Hammersmith Odeon while the other group just played in pubs.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359578859' post='1957052'] Although early 80's, two albums by Wayne Johnson - The fanatstic Jimmy Johnson on Bass.................. [/quote] The original post was re: 70s fusion but if you're venturing into the 80s then this was a very good period for British Fusion also.

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1359551827' post='1956443'] I'm not sure that what you're after actually exists. There were British artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine, but may well be a little too Proggy for your taste. Later in the 70s you had Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Brand X etc but they may be a little too rocky for you. Seems what you're after comes mainly from the States, as your list of artists would suggest. Not sure there are any British Jazz Classics, of the kind you want, from that era. [/quote] I agree that most is going to come from the U.S. but there certainly were a few British Fusion classics of that era. Anything by Ian Carr's Nucleus, a couple of Gary Boyle LPs for example and there was plenty of musicians playing that kind of stuff around this period. I think that it just all got lumped into the jazz scene in the U.K. whereas the U.S. had it's own Fusion scene. There may not be many LPs that could be classed as British classics but there is a lot still out there that maybe should have been classics.

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? [/quote] Gary Boyle was (i think) born in India but this has lots of British musicians on it from 1977 and is certainly a Brit Jazz Fusion classic. http://youtu.be/0Tkoz_R4J3w

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? [/quote] What about this? http://youtu.be/lDfCkJ_LwcE

I've had this on LP since the 70s and have always liked it. I saw it on youtube so here it is. If you haven't heard it before. Enjoy! [media]http://youtu.be/JFnzH5yGbws[/media] Barre Phillips (Bass) Barry Guy (Bass) J.F. Jenny-Clarke (Bass) Palle Danielsson (Bass) Stu Martin (Drums)

I still dig out his Captain Fingers LP i've had since the 70s. Still good after all these years. P.S. It's Ritenour. Hence his nickname 'Rit'

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1359538826' post='1956179'] Is that with insurance? I find Interparcel as cheap as that, until you put the insurance on. [/quote] +1

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' timestamp='1359485513' post='1955523'] Had a Jazz style pick-up fitted near the bridge in the 80s, replaced a few of years ago with a Wizard. It sounds like this: [url="http://www.ianhalstead.com/bc/Fretless-Marathon.mp3"]Fretless Marathon, bridge pickup.[/url] It looks like this: Not much resale value though, too heavily modified. I'll be hanging on to it though. [/quote] Tis a thing of beauty! What's yours like re: the body finishing cracking (the Shergold curse). Mine's not too bad compared to a some i've seen.

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359448523' post='1954776'] yes it had its moments, bit on the nice side for me but good to see, and free! [/quote] Yes i can imagine. I used to like The Plough, Stockwell many years ago with John Stevens etc tearing it up. I was really into the free jazz scene in the 70s and 80s. Happy days!

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359394839' post='1954109'] funnily enough i was there last night [/quote] Fletch's Brew wasn't it? Sounded interesting. Any good?

[quote name='hookys6stringbass' timestamp='1359400556' post='1954251'] They're great basses ...I love my two 6ix string Marathons.... [/quote] .....and so you should!!! Have you seen the Masquerader that's on the bay at moment?

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1359397680' post='1954187'] That's what I want!! [/quote] Good luck if you can find one. It won't be cheap!

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1359395738' post='1954126'] Think it's a modulator [/quote] Yes. The Modulator has two pickups.

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1359391070' post='1954049'] I really want a two pickup one... [/quote] A two pickup Marathon?

Here's mine!

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1359385054' post='1953875'] Try Cafe OTO in Shoreditch, This fella's on tomorrow night. Join in everyone! [/quote] Saw him with the Art Ensemble Of Chicago many years ago. Amazing!

Boaters Inn, Kingston, Surrey. No improvised jazz but worth a visit. [url="http://www.boaterslivemusic.com/"]http://www.boaterslivemusic.com/[/url] +1 The Vortex.

[quote name='mbellishment' timestamp='1359313452' post='1952965'] Doesn't the whole objects being called 'she' come from the fact we have a Queen or something? I'm sure I heard once thats why ships are called she. My basses are she's like. [/quote] When we had a King ships were also called she.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1359308711' post='1952852'] It' all in the programming of his synths. JZ was renowned for messing with them. On Black Market, for instance, he has the keyboard programmed the wrong way around (high notes to the left, low to the right) etc [/quote] Thanks. I'm just reading Brian Glasser's book on Zawinul again. When i saw Weather Report (Victor Bailey period) i remember there was much synth strangeness even before the band appeared on stage with the stage in near total darkness and before Victor appeared out of a trunk!

Pedro Aznar. Pat Metheny's percussionist in the 1990s is a superb bass player.

Firstly i don't read music so be gentle! The song Forlorn on Night Passage has always intrigued me as the Synth sounds 'off key' (if that's the correct term) towards the end of the song. I realise that's the aim but how does Joe Zawinul get that sound? Is it pitch bending? I saw Weather Report do this song live and it was a bit mind bending.