Frank Blank

For a small fee, obv. 😉

The Taylor GS Mini-e Bass. I had one of these, sounds like the perfect solution to your needs...

Criminal indeed. I remember seeing the promo for Jessie late one night after the pub, it really put the hook in me.

What a great album.

Omne delectamentum in se habentem.

This page is good for generating a collage of your albums, like this...

Met Sid this morning at a bleak and windswept Park & Ride in order to give him an unused bit of kit. Had a cracking laugh, wish I’d had more time to hang but I’m due at The Vatican at five to be installed as a Cardinal. Deal confidently, a gentleman and a scholar.

Well I’ve got four and they are excellent, I think @Stub Mandrel’s theory about bulk buying is almost certainly right, business models aside the designacables are top quality.

Blimey, really? I saw them twice and never noticed, then again I was very, very drunk.

Kraftwerk but with four Ron Mael (of Sparks) clones.

*waves*

Done.

@Lee-Man Sorry to have headed off so quickly, I had Stomp GAS (which sounds like an ailment acquired in South Carolina) you know how it is..!

Man, if there's one guitarist I miss it's John McGeoch...

I certainly have, I’ve been a huge fan for many years, I love all their albums up until ‘10’. The Stranglers have been a constant throughout, they hit me at just the right time so their music never ages or diminishes in potency for me, proper. I think Baroque Bordello is possibly my top track from The Raven, I have the record with the prismatic cover, almost as treasured as my copy of Meninblack (my favourite Stranglers album) signed by Hugh Cornwell.

An absolutely cracker, what a sound, everything about it is sinister and unpleasant. Perfect.

Absolutely right on the money.

Damn, how did I forget Bow Wow Wow and the brilliant Leigh Gorman, along with Dave Barbarossa, surely one of the best rhythm sections ever. More slap bass that I’d forgotten I loved! Another great band live.

Strange how different people hear things, one of the reasons I love the bass on that album is because, to me, the bass sounds organic and a bit rough, the very opposite of the sterility I hear in other slap players. I’m trying to think of the aural equivalent of horses for courses...

Could you ask him if it is confusing performing in one European capital when you are named after another? Thank you. 😁

There’s 95% of music summed up right there...

I’m not a fan of slap bass, it always sounds dry and mechanical to me, then again my experience of it is very limited, Mark King and some Primus, I have never heard Stanley Clarke nor do I really have any idea who is considered a good slap player. That being said it might also be because one of my very first experiences of slap bass has never been surpassed, the playing of John Wilson on Heaven 17’s brilliant album Penthouse and Pavement. Someone on BC mentioned him the other day, possibly on this thread and I remembered seeing something on a documentary about him. Anyway here is some interesting info about the making of the album with a bit about John Wilson, he doesn’t seem to be playing now, such a shame, brilliant playing...

That looks fine!

The first two Bauhaus albums were (I was going to say influential, perhaps not the right word) eye-openers for me in a kind of ‘sonic palette’ way, what was actually possible with guitar, bass and drums. Excellent albums and a great live band especially around the time of Mask.