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Yes, Jack Bruce, but there is no entire album on fretless, but his way playing was a great source of inspiration for me. He was also a great vina player, an Indian instrument. His first Warwick Signature model was a terrific bass. On the double live album Cities of the Heart with Gary Moore, Ginger Baker, Simon Philips, François Garny (another terrific bass player) he is playing a lot of fretless, just like on Sometin Els.

That's indeed a Godin, you are right. Maybe he burned my bass after what I told him.

I'm preparing my entrance examen for the conservatory as it's about time to sum up all my knowledge at 53 years this August. I'll have to play 3 jazz standards. I thought that these 3 standards would be perfect : Take Five (I can easily solo on this one), Autumn Leaves and All Blues. If you have any suggestions, they are welcome.

And probably with my former Leduc 6 strings fretless that he still owns and I always told him when he still was on some forums that he was playing too many notes, seems like I was right as this what has upset at least 2 band leaders...

Love the original by Joe Jackson, but also love the cover by Anthrax :

What you call a lot of excursion is simply due to the fact that, now, for an unknown reason, your string is really moving freely. The chorus effect is certainly a twisted when fitted string, quite easy to correct, simply release the tension and put the string backwards a bit, you will notice that it's twisted. It's not against you, but a lot of people including some repair shops are mounting the strings by turning them around the post, so twisting them and thus creating that chorus effect (which as you wrote could also come from a too close pickup). If you mount your strings this way, it's ok as long as you untwist them the way I explained above.

And yes the first two albums are the best ones : Adolescent Sex and Obscure Alternatives, still lots of rebellion in the music.

And here, my favourite Japan track, the single : I second that Emotion (one of the best cover of this Motown hit ever)

Bestial Cluster itself with Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Mick Karn & Steve Wilson (3/5 of Japan) :

Francis Moze also played bass in Magma and was terrific.

It's also the best shredder album, the only one that still is audible nowadays. That said, Devin Townsend never appeared on Passion & Warfare, but on the next one, Sex & Religion, which is real deep sh*t, especially the awful singing of Devin Townsend and I'm not speaking of his solo work which is even worse : circus metal as I called it at the time.

To me, Mick Karn's best album is Bestial Cluster. Terrific mastering of the Wal and extraordinary compositions as usual.

Sold a set of strings to Jeff. Again ultra fast payment, great communication and a pleasure to deal with for the second time. Thanks Jeff.

Trio Joubran on AsFâr, again not bass, but 3 terrific oud players (the fretless ancestor of the European fretted luth).

It's not bass, but acoustic fretless guitar and it's simply amazing : Erkan Oğur on ... Fretless (yes it's the album title).

Anything by Mick Karn with Japan and Gary Numan or on his own, plus all the work of Percy Jones with Brand X. Pino Palladino with Paul Young on No Parlez and again with Gary Numan (who discovered him, by the way) on I, Assasin.

I've been a great fan of Eric Johnson early work, I've tried a few times to listen to my favourite album of that time which was Ah Via Musicom : just can't stand that pretentious music anymore, so boring and dead flat.

Sold my Boss GT1-B to Brian. Lightning fast payment. Another perfect deal thanks to BassChat and Brian, of course. A++++++++++ as they say elsewhere. Thank you Brian.

Turn up the mids on your amp, but you'll ear every default in your playing. It's strange that you're asking for low gauge for round wounds when flat wounds are always (except for the Thomastik's) heavy to very heavy gauge. Steel is brighter and more aggressive than nickel. The cheaper the brighter.

I was fed up with a once a week concert while in the 40's, now that I'm in the ealy 50's, once in while is enough. We did some 3 concerts in 3 days a few times and even play 5 hours in a row a lot of times, but now I would certainly say no, erm... maybe.

Seems like he loves distressing all kind of things. Is Fleetwood far from Langney ? He could spend a night there.

The Status Maple Slipstream looks lovely :

And only 10 guitars left for sale when there were thousands musical instruments...