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Old Man Riva

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    Fender Custom Shop Disappointment

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    2 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    I’ve played loads of Fender CS basses and own quite a few. The only two I’ve had issue with was a Pino Signature which had a really chunky neck that I didn’t particularly like and a Van Trigt Master Built which my brain couldn’t correlate the price tag with (£8k). It was a nice bass, but not 8 thousand pounds of nice.

    Aged ice blue metallic 1970s P bass with Jazz neck in Peach Guitars? 

    Vintage Fenders

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    34 minutes ago, Clarky said:

    Here's a heavily modded '66 Precision on Reverb, whereby the mods were likely carried out in the 1970s (ie  vintage themselves!) Will be overly tinkered with for most people's tastes (and certainly for the collector) but in my opinion it looks quite cool and I would guess it's a great player's bass.

     

    https://reverb.com/item/58282987-fender-66-precision-bass-with-rosewood-fretboard-vintage-70s-mods

     

     

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    This is going to sound ridiculous (because it is a ridiculous thing to say!) but, for me, that LOOKS like it’s going to sound great!

     

    Those white DiMarzio p/ups were quite the thing back in the day…

    What are you listening to right now?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    No, this is not the latest hip and groovy release by Ghost Funk Orchestra or some such, but Affinity from 1970 and features Mo Foster on bass and brass composed by JPJ.

     

    Get down with these very British groovy cats…

     

     

     

    P.S. I also found a lovely early 70s clip taken from an Annie Nightingale show featuring the band on the road. “And you try and tell the young people of today…”

     

     

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    Vintage Fenders

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    9 hours ago, bassbiscuits said:

    Mine neither - I've got a 1970 TV logo P bass which weighs just 3.8kg, has lovely tight neck joint, slim B profile neck, no scrappy workmanship at all and sounds bright, loud and resonant. 

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    Lovely, that.

     

    I had a 1970 Precision that had a lovely shallow neck (a B width nut, but slimmer front to back).

     

    One of the few basses I properly regret moving on… 

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    RIP Taylor Hawkins

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, Mudpup said:

    The most outstanding moment for me was Wolfie Van Halen doing Hot For Teacher. You could smell the family genes coming out of him on the guitar, Josh on the drums was totally focussed and Dave did a great job on the bass. (I tolerated Justin Hawkins for the whole gig but he got away with it on that song)

     

     

    Crikey, yeah, forgot about Wolfie Van Halen.

     

    His playing was ridiculous!

    RIP Taylor Hawkins

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, toneknob said:

    Yep that was the official live stream from MTV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOnjLuBBkhU - for comparison purposes). I've had a look on Paramount+ on my Sky box, but nothing there yet.

     

    Ah, okay! Wished I’d managed to stay up and watch it now!

     

    It’s only since his departure that I’ve come to realise/appreciate what a phenomenal player and musician he was. He also seemed to live and breathe music, across many genres.

     

    What a bloody shame… 

    RIP Taylor Hawkins

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Old Man Riva
    Shane not Shawn…

    3 hours ago, toneknob said:

    MTV 90s (Sky channel 352) has got an hour's edited highlights at 11pm tonight

     

    There was a 6hr version available on YouTube last night that looked like it included the whole event feed including stage changeovers (I got about half-way through before having to turn in at about 2am!) which, when I tried to view this morning said was ‘private’?

     

    Although not really a FF fan the overall event was something I was definitely interested in checking out, and from what I saw there was plenty to be blown away by - loved Shane Hawkins drumming and Violet Grohl doing the Jeff Buckley tracks and Valerie. And I also thought The Pretenders we’re just superb (and Supergrass, and Stewart Copeland!).

     

    Looked like a fitting tribute to a wonderful person and musician…

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    Your perfect album.?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

    IMO, There's nearly always a track on album that I think "Could have done without that one", when I was thinking of an album where I really liked every track I was thinking there must be a Beatles album, being a big Beatles fan, you know what? there's always a track or two I could do without, even Revolver, don't really like Eleanor Rigby or Yellow Submarine, with Rubber Soul it's Michelle

    That’s been my experience too.

     

    Bowie’s Young Americans album is nearly flawless for me, but I’ve never been able to fully embrace his version of Across The Universe so can’t genuinely say it’s one that I can listen to in its entirety… 

    What are you listening to right now?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Old Man Riva

    Feels like a ZZ Top day. Feels like a Tres Hombres day.

     

    Two songs where, for me, you can’t have one without the other (and where, to this day, Dusty’s bass always sounds out of tune at the beginning of Waiting For The Bus - it’s not, but over the years I’ve convinced myself it is?!)…

     

     

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