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I'd love to have played with the Funk Brothers in their prime, although I suspect they'd be begging Jamerson to come back after the first half hour.

I really wasn't keen on the aesthetics of these when they first came out, but they've really grown on me. Lovely colour on that one too.

He needs to get that bass refinished, it's in a right state.

Precision deluxe specials have a jazz profile neck. I'm very happy with my 2016, but the deluxe special has been in production, with various electronic specs since the 80s. If you keep an eye out you could probably pick up a worn in earlier model for a very reasonable price. Edit. Ah, I see OBBM has already mentioned them.

The greatest is entirely subjective. The most influential of all time? In the western world my vote would go to the classical greek who first developed harmonised choral singing, or the 5th century AD monks who perfected it and discovered and formalised the scales and chords we still use today. We don't know their names, but they're the ones who set us on the path to harmonised instrumental accompaniment, leading to everything from the three piece punk band to the full orchestra and everything in between.

He doesn't have a formal endorsement with Hofner, but I'm pretty sure he has some sort of relationship with them. I've noticed him with a couple of limited special editions over the years, most notably his Union Jack bass which I guess they probably send to him, rather than him checking their website for the latest models.

I was disappointed with Super Brights. They definitely do not do what it says on the tin. Hi Beams sound exactly like I expected the Super Brights to sound.

Dee Dee Ramone inspired me. When I started out 'acheivable' was more inspirational to me than 'virtuoso'.

You mean you wouldn't be tempted by any of these 'packages'... http://www.genesimmonsaxe.com/meetgenebackstage/ Not even the one where you buy a signature bass for $10,000+, he plays that bass for one song at a gig, then signs it and hands it over to you?

I got into jazz through listening to 70s funk and graduating to Herbie Hancock. I'm not exactly an aficionado though and I'm still not keen on big band or anything too experimental.

Awesome, in it's own special way.

Pure class. Reminds me of getting home from school in about 1980 and turning on the telly.

Cheese and groove The thing is, in my head I can hear Marvin Gaye or the Miracles doing this with a falsetto lead vocal, and it would be amazing

The Ramones.

I downloaded an app like this a couple of years ago. It was easy enough to get a tune out of it but it sounded nothing like slap bass. There's an instict to putting in ghost notes and percussive slaps on a bass that just didn't translate to programming them in the right place on the app, not for me anyway. Without them it just doesn't sound like slap.

I think 'bell end' gets through. Edit. OK, I'll stop testing the swear filter now.

Interesting. I've only watched the first part, but he's already fallen for the fallacy of judging foreign 'low' wages by western standards. Someone working in one of these factories may only earn $50 a month, but what's actually important is what that $50 can buy in their home country. If for that $50 they can feed, cloth and shelter themselves and their families for a month, then in real terms it's actually the equivalent of a western wage with a much higher nominal value. I'm not saying that there is no exploitation in these countries, but assesing the real extent of the problem is a lot more complex than just stating that Indonesian factory workers only earn x$ a day.

Cheers, Im thinking of getting a V7 fretless, but i 'm a bit of a tinkerer so might try swapping out the pickups.

Off topic, are pickups on the Sire standard fender size and easy to replace, or did you have rout the bridge cavity for the new pickup?

Didn't Gibson and Fender buy up a load of rival guitar and amp manufacturers in the late 90s/early 2000s, then let pretty much all of them go to the wall?

In many cases I reckon passion beats ability. There are a lot of very successful bands who, when they started out at least, were not exactly virtuosos. Edit: That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

14/15 To be fair I guessed the double bassist and I wouldn't have got Tina Weymouth if I hadn't already read the answer on here. I might not have got Steve Harris just by that particular bass, but his stance is a dead give away.

Have you explored modding gas? I'm getting quite excited about a project I'm planning to soup up a jazz next year. Preamps, pickups, knobs, bridges, tuners it's a whole new sphere of items to lust after.

And, not sure it counts as a song, but

The soundtrack to my teenage years. Cheers for the good times Malcolm.