TrevorR

Does "Penwith Live 83" count... there was no 84, 85, 86... because they lost so much money. Planned for about 30,000 but got 5,000! It was Cornwall's first rock festival and, to be honest, a lot of people thought it was probably a hoax. It was logistically doomed to failure though, if for no other reason that they organised it for a Tuesday (yes, you read that right) after the August bank holiday. I think that reasoning was that the bands could do it as a add-on to whatever gigs they were doing over the Bank Holiday weekend and therefore be a bit cheaper to hire. They never figured that a) all the Bank Holiday tourists might have gone home on Monday and b ) all the locals might have needed to go back t work on Tuesday!!! It was a great gig though and those of us who were here had a whale of a time. The lineup was... Sid's Taxi (local covers band who opened), The Opposition (dull dour electro-goth), Renaissance (wonderful folk rock - what a pair of pipes Annie Haslam has!!!), Chuck Berry (strictly for his contracted minutes plus one song as an encore for a cash bung back stage - and you know what song he sang, don't you), Aswad (absolutely glorious on a warm summer evening), 10cc (with Graham and Eric and utterly brilliant), Meatloaf (OTT, wonderful and at risk of giving himself a hernia or an aneurysm at any moment - it was at the height of his "even larger than normal" years). Oh yeah, and between the acts to entertain the audience while the gear was changed, some bloke wandered on stage with an electric guitar to sing these slightly humorous, sometimes political songs in a kinda rough estuary accent. Found out later it was some bloke called Billy Bragg. Wonder what happened to him?

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1498966495' post='3328265'] Top Gear The Allman Brothers - Jessica some tasty bass playing, as usual [/quote] D'uh, of course!!! My brain! And of course I should've included The Chain by Fleetwood Mac too! How could I have forgotten those two?

The excellent Great TV themes thread (and the passing of Barry Norman) got me thinking about those TV themes which started life as singles or album tracks in their own right rather than being specially commissioned or culled off some library albums. There really are some great ones which are just amazing tunes in their own right and deserve to be appreciated as such... here are a few of my favourites... Film 19xx/20xx - The Billy Taylor Trio http://youtu.be/jlH_XFuf3wU BBC Holiday - Gordon Giltrap http://youtu.be/ktRsmHrLHU4 Graham Norton show - The Propellerheads and Dame Shirley Bassey http://youtu.be/yzLT6_TQmq8 The South Bank Show - Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber (Backed by Barbara Thompson and Coliseum II) http://youtu.be/TMCb90JpvxY

Used to work with Mary Christmas... it was her married name so she only had herself to blame!

Always loved the Red Dwarf theme tune. Rob (Guitarist Magazine) Burns on his nice new Wal 5 string. He also did the Blackadder Themes and a load of Not The Nine News songs

Congratulations guys! And looking good both of you!

Paul makes some lovely feather-light ones now. Did you try the walnut 5-er at the SEBB? Lifted it off the stand and nearly threw it through the ceiling!!!! Just saying...

[quote name='mark76' timestamp='1498636425' post='3325964'] Did you get a short scale model made then? Because I'm close to your height (about 3/4¨ shorter) and a 34" scale P bass neck looks longer on me than that Wal's does on you. [/quote] Nope, standard 34" scale. Must be a camera/bass angle trick of the eye going on or something. [quote name='ZilchWoolham' timestamp='1498650649' post='3326091'] A thing of beauty, this one! How heavy is it, by the way? With a European ash body I suppose it's not the lightest. [/quote] Ha! Both my Wals weigh in at about 10lbs. Note three 4" wide soft leather Italia Leathers strap! But anyway, my first ever bass was an Aria SB700 which also weighed... you guessed it, 10lbs! So when I bought the Wals I just thought that was what basses were supposed to weigh!!!!

[quote name='mark76' timestamp='1498559719' post='3325475'] Bloody hell. Trev's a giant I kinda want a TrevorR signature Wal. It look neat [/quote] Well, if that's true then I must be the tallest 5 foot 8 and a half inches in the world! Maybe I'm measured in metric feet and inches rather than Imperial ones... that must be il!!

The Mk III basses do play and balance beautifully but I still love the more retro look and feel of my Mk I and Pro... Who reeeeeeealy needs a high G anyway. I barely need one at the octave!!! Lol!

Great new about the Bash, Nik! [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]Sincere condolences for your family’s loss. You are all in our thoughts.[/color][/font][/size]

The wedding/covers band I used to play in was guitar/bass/sax/drums. Stuff we played varied quite a bit and got quite rocky in places. It worked brilliantly on a whole range of non-sax and quite rocky numbers. Give it a go and keep an open mind and you might be surprised.

There are elements of the more melodic end of progressive metal. The acoustic intro and middle section reminds me a little of some elements of my mate's band Threshold, except that it never quite builds into actual metal as others have said. So somewhere between melodic rock and prog metal.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1496081216' post='3308650'] Mustang Sally is a cracking song, it's great to play, audiences love it. Even when played badly. The down side is we've probably all been playing and hearing it played for 30+ years and are bored with it. I think that's a more honest point of view. [/quote] This, I've never ever played Mustang Sally to an empty dance floor. And spent many renditions with the bridesmaids smooching up next to me singing what we will charitably call "backing vocals" into my microphone. I love playing it. And Brown Eyed Girl and Sweet Home Alabama... But then I've always got as much of a buzz from seeing a crowd have a great time as from the complexity of the music I've played!

Coming late to the party, but for others with a G10 an alternative fix could be this... http://www.switchcraft.com/Drawings/13_cd.pdf http://www.switchcraft.com/Product.aspx?ID=2698 Rather than a TRS arrangement to make a power circuit closed for the bass preamp it has an isolated make circuit separate from the audio circuit. The jack tip locales in a plastic cup and physically pushes the circuit closed. This is the arrangement Wal use for switching on their active circuits.

[quote name='kendall' timestamp='1495697667' post='3305881'] Even more weird, I could have sworn John McEnroe was playing guitar. [/quote] The other guy on the Tele was Geoff Beauchamp from Eigth Wonder. Got the single when it first came out. As a charity single it's got a lot more going for it than a lot... still wonderfully ridiculous though!

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1495305998' post='3302898'] I know it doesn't start with a W but you mention Westbury - Shaftsbury maybe? [/quote] That's quite possible. The mind is trying to dredge up mental images from over 35 years ago...

Oh, and this one, http://youtu.be/Xu7Y08wOHs8 L'arc en ciel de Miles is great too!

Crumbs, how do you classify best bassline. Mine probably aren't going to hit a lot of "brilliant because they're difficult" lists. However, the bass lines that put the biggest smile on my face when I hear them are actually quite simple but perfectly executed and an integral part of the song. So these are the lines that just make me grin every time I hear them... http://youtu.be/BL8NNTNmPT4 http://youtu.be/VcrY6eSViXQ http://youtu.be/y5G8AJf4Xzw http://youtu.be/wziJqdq4LcA ...oh, and Good Times, of course!

This sounds a lot like the Looperlative gear that Steve Lawson used to use... [url="http://looperlativeaudio.com/"]http://looperlativeaudio.com/[/url] Don't know what the status of the company is these days...

[quote name='philw' timestamp='1495441994' post='3303665'] Blimey that was quite an 18th birthday present Trevor! I got a bottle of champaign for mine, which I drank in one sitting and later deposited, back up the way it went down, in the Thames at Kingston. Happy Days. I was still on my fist bass I think - an awful Arbiter short scale thing. P [/quote] Yes, that Aria was one heck of a present. Much badgering involved before a bass was on the agenda as a present. It was sold to us by a guy who played in a band my brother depped in fairly frequently plus he was saving up (unbeknownst to his boss/employer) to start up his own shop so was more driven by commissions than profit and my mum could haggle for Britain. Let's just say she got a healthy discount. By the time my birthday rolled round she was pretty convinced bass wasn't going to be just a passing fad so was happy to take the advice of the guy in the shop, buy once not many times as an investment. God bless her, I do miss her.

Well since I got my first bass, an Aria SB700 for my 18th birthday in 1982 and I still have it and pull it out for a session now and then I guess the answer for me is 35 years! I've had my Wal Custom since 1992, 25 years and my Wal Pro IIE since 2001, so that's 16 years.

And on iTunes too... Pendofsky by Pendofsky https://itun.es/gb/M7VL1

I prefer mine about half way down, under the rib cage. For me it keeps the wrist nice and relaxed for both finderstyle (90% of my playing) and pick...

And this is the big problem with this sort of debate generic statements bump up against specific examples - where both are to some or other degree valid. I do get the "It's brand snobbery" camp and I think that it is a valid presumption. I've not done a statistical analysis of course... But I'd reckon that for every one person who adds a decal to their bitsa for aesthetic reasons (as Rich put it, "to complete the look") but would be happy to respond to a question about its origin by saying "[i]Actually, no it's not a Fender! I made it myself from bits as a personalised custom version...[/i]" there will be maybe five or more whose motive will be so that people think they're playing a more expensive name bass. I like the car analogy - for me I'd go with buying a Toyota (or a no-name modern style car from India or Indonesia or somewhere) and sticking a Lexus badge on. If the latter, deceptive reason is the motive I personally think that's a bit sad. If it's the former aesthetic reason then that's a personal choice but I suspect that someone doing that can expect that some may occasionally presume the motive is deception/delusion no matter how convincing an argument they state. Just human nature really. As to Limelight's old ploy of offering a Fender logo on the front and "Limelight" written in marker pen on the back of the headstock it always struck me as bad form, a bit distasteful and a bit sad. It's not exactly "passing off" because they did have the truth on the back sealed by varnish but it's edging in that direction. Especially for a commercial company selling to the (mostly private) retail market. If they were making a replica "[i]bass which must not be named[/i]" rather than replica Fenders then m'learned friends would rapidly become involved, marker pen on the back of the headstock or not. Personally, I'm in the camp which if I bought a Limelight would NOT want to have a Fender logo and happily tell folks, "Nope it's not a Fender but it's twice the quality and half the price! Who'd buy a Fender when you can get one of these?" Same with my Signature bitsa from Buildabass on eBay.