Old Man Riva

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1486597687' post='3233235'] I right-click on a picture within my Dropbox folder and select "Copy Dropbox link". Then I come here and click on the little "image" icon on the editor, which prompts me to enter a link, so I paste the link I copied before, click ok... [/quote] Thanks so much, really appreciate it. Nice bass, btw...

Do the sites listed above allow you to copy and paste pics into a thread (if that makes sense?). I'm looking to list a bass for sale and I'm dreading trying to get images into the ad - would like the ad to show the images rather than links (unless someone tells me that's not the correct way to do it!) but know nothing about this type of thing at all...

See.oh.oh.ell... https://youtu.be/z_KoWlVkkQc

Always thought Paul Gray of the Damned looked cool. Ditto Pete Way of UFO and Norman Watt-Roy both circa late 1970s.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1484487297' post='3215792'] [b]Standard CV bridge is chunky with brass saddles[/b], and you'll struggle to replace it with a vintage style as the hole spacing isn't standard on the CV. But £215 is a great deal![/quote] That's the one..!

I was in Guitar Guitar Birmingham on Thursday and they had a used CV 60s P-bass in Fiesta Red. It was up for £215. The previous owner had changed the knobs for muliti-coloured Strat-type plastic ones. The bridge looked a bit more chunky than a 60s bridge, but not being au fait with these models that may be standard for the bass? Anyway, for anyone looking for a s/hand one...

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane. It helped having the lyrics on the inner sleeve (with the exception of Let's Spend the Night Together). One of the few albums that I still listen to from start to finish these days. Definitely "that" album for me...

John Martyn - Small Hours

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1483797371' post='3210201'] There is also a nice companion piece here called [url="http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/bowienews/news.htm"]The Last Supper[/url]. [/quote] Thanks for that, wasn't aware of it... really good/nice piece.

I love this. Chuck Rainey (him again!) on bass... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyf2naIPD9g

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1482074671' post='3197403'] Mott the Hoople's (David Bowie) song 'All the Young Dudes' mentions T.Rex ( as well as the Beatles and the Stones ) [/quote] Bowie referenced a number artists/well know people in his songs - Andy Warhol, Aleister Crowley, Che Guevara, Benny Goodman, Twiggy, John Lennon to name but a few. Oh, and Mickey Mouse..!

Nevermind was released the same week as Screamadelica. Nevermind/Nirvana meant nothing to me, Screamadelica, on the other hand, was a game changer. One man's meat, and all that...

The one that does it for me is John Paul Jones and Ramble On. Bags of melody, groovy as you like and supports the song brilliantly. JPJ's playing encapsulates everything I love about bass in rock/pop music: groovy, funky, melodic, interesting and always adding to the song.

A black Fender Precision with a maple neck that hung on the wall in Woodroffes music shop in Brum, circa 1977/78. I used to get the train from Cov to Brum just to go and look at it. Woodroffes was a bigger store than Coventry music shops, where the staff in the latter were an elitist nightmare to beginners at the time. Woodroffes, on the other hand, were as friendly and welcoming as they could possibly be...

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1474664271' post='3139793'] Wahay - some great memorabilia on show here. I have one of those somewhere as well - pretty sure it's incomplete though! I do, however recall 1970 being the first World Cup (of far too many groan.....) with an expectation of England being capable of winning - 1966 was simply a bolt out of the blue. And at least there were some decent excuses back then - as you say Mr JF nobbling G Banks, R Moore etc etc - these days the average world class football star is pictured in Tatler or wherever sunning and cavorting on a foreign beach the day after England get beaten before the knockout stage even starts. [/quote] None of the Nike 'climacool' nonsense back then for the sweaty footballer, just Aertex shirts that looked like giant teabags. Black football boots (except for Alan Ball and possibly one of the Newton brothers) were de rigueur and sensible length shorts were, well, sensible. Happy days... My favourite Beatles album is Revolver.

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1474641795' post='3139533'] Just to clarify, I love the bass and I actually brought it because of the mojo, and I certainly have no intention of selling the bass just now, I was really just curious to know whether a refinish would affect the value at all. This bass is a fantastic player and the tone is to die for, it really does sound like a vintage bass, I don't know much about it's history but it's obviously been around the block a bit, and the case is even more battered, but it does turn a few heads when I walk into a venue with it. Edit: I will be leaving it as it is. [/quote] I've a '71 P-bass with an A neck and it's a fabulous instrument. In terms of resale, an A neck 70s P-bass will generally fetch a bit more as they were (I believe) a special order instrument at the time. A vintage dealer once told me that, in (very) basic terms, a refin would broadly halve the value of a vintage instrument vs. an original finish instrument. I've also read the same in various publications. FWIW, I reckon your bass looks great in its current state! Enjoy how it looks, plays and sounds, and leave well alone, would be my tuppence worth...

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1474584556' post='3139096'] Esso 1970 world cup collectors' coins was the thing in my day. Terrible scenes of playground bribery, extortion and savage physical violence. What made it all so horribly pointless was the actual competition was a total wash-out for The England. [/quote] Less of a 'wash out', more a feeling of what might have been had G Banks not been gastrically challenged by naughty J Foreigner. No forgetti Peter Bonetti...

Does anyone know what the line is he's playing at 6:35 on this Aguilar demo? https://youtu.be/1exrD10v4mg

Fred Thomas - The J.B.s and James Brown. Doesn't ever seem to get a mention when 'best players' are discussed. A fabulously gorgeously funky treasure of a player.. Not just the James Brown tracks, but loads of funky good stuff on the J.B.s albums..

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1466892015' post='3079637'] Caught the tail end of something called Wolf Alice earlier on. No idea what the music was like but they were giving it some stick and having a ball, so might have to YouTube them. [/quote] Never seen/heard of them before seeing the Glastonbury stuff on telly today - really liked them. That last track was Giant Peach..

A guy called Jackie Mittoo was a big player in the Studio One house band (was also a member of the Skatalites). A lovely Hammond player, his solo stuff is really worth checking out - this excellent compilation courtesy of Soul Jazz Records is a good place to start https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jackie-Mittoo/dp/B0000457L5/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1466897702&sr=1-1&keywords=jackie+mittoo

Same as others have said, not heard of them before but really like it how they sound. I always thought/assumed (incorrectly) Funky Broadway was a Wilson Pickett composition. Fast forward a few decades and the singer reminds me of Lee Fields..

The Blue Note album cover designs are consistently fabulous, IMO.. There are a couple of good books out there that feature them as a collective that are well worth a look.. Here's one of them.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FA0iWu5eOc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FA0iWu5eOc[/url]

Like Malcolm Tucker without the wit..