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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1471200465' post='3111230'] [color=#000000][font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif][size=3]Teddy Pendergrass. Superb, soulful singer.[/size][/font][/color] Down Tempo, but what the heck. Teddy at his Soulful best. [/quote][quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1471200465' post='3111230'] [color=#000000][font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif][size=3]Teddy Pendergrass. Superb, soulful singer.[/size][/font][/color] Down Tempo, but what the heck. Teddy at his Soulful best. [/quote] Someone pass the caviar..love it

[quote name='Asambique' timestamp='1471371173' post='3112609'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5YaApfSdQ[/media] [/quote] And that is how you produce a dance tune...clean crisp bass and instruments beautifully seperated by some tasty engineering....old school style.

Look at the tunes on that short list above..all classics and I bet just a fraction of the pop stuff she played on, let alone the masses of film and tv stuff she did. She's spoken about a typical day in the studio where after ten hrs you neither cared nor could remember which track you played on. "Charts were placed on the stand and you just played the stuff" I think she said which kinda makes the whole Jamerson thing even more fascinating. Seems she could be one minute finishing some old TV theme and then at the end of a long session be given a chart for a Detroit pop tune, who knows ...but it sure is fascinating.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I think Bowie would have loved it cause its new but not for me. His stuff is so remarkably different that I simply dont think it transposes well into anything..it is what it was and in its original form was completely iconic. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I even struggle listening to covers of his music, guy was unique.[/font][/color]

sfunny..been a complete fender snob for yrs until I found my squire VM PJ....fantastic lightweight little bass for silly money... and so playable.

Same here so I turned over and was floored by EW&F....a great live experience and I thought it actually sounded like great musicians playing live unlike all the other bands who sounded to me like someone had pressed the backing tape button. .

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1466957038' post='3079978'] I suffered the opposite to you last night. FOH sound through the P.A. was truly excellent but my rig sounded very thin and weedy from where I was standing. As soon as I saw the venue, I knew it would be a challenge. It was a huge glorified cow shed, concrete floor, walls of concrete blocks and corrugated steel sheeting and then a pitched roof of corrugated sheeting. Higher than your average house and about 50 foot wide x 150 foot or so in length. [/quote] Spot on. Thin and weedy on stage is the way to go for a nice mid range grindy sound out front.

Saw Squeeze....as usual superbly musical and fab.. Saw Adele.....loved her mumsy image and I love the way she does what she does as a larger woman.....but I've never rated her voice much...thin and nasally, and she was flat here and there which for someone who is super hyped and who commands so much cash seems a bit wrong. 0.2$

Here ya go. a, Best drummer the worlds ever seen...check b, A nasty sad pathetic little man.....check. And thats what I think about this. If it was a quick 10 sec blowout...that's understandable and not so bad, but this type of paused protracted bullying says it all really. Horrendous.

Ha just seen a vid from Lisbon and Im impressed with this vocals....cant help thinking thats exactly how Bon Scott would have sounded today as an older man..ie mega gravelly and u have to hand it to Angus, he's amazing for his age...still a great band.

Just googled Steve Lewinson...yep I reckon that's the guy and looked like he was playing a Jazz style fiver....sounded huge. First No was 1999....I love it when a pro soul band kicks off with that style of uptempo No...with swirling keys and brass, almost takes the top of ur head off. Brilliant.

That 'loose' feel is 50% the song for me....and strangely enough kinda difficult to emulate...brilliant tune. and don't forget 'U Wear It Well'......equally brill.

Saw these guys last nite in Portsmouth. Ok, Peter Andre, and before u ask I was working at the venue! ...anyway he's a good performer etc etc.. but his band were super tite and bang on the money. Anyone know who the bassist is?...big black guy with dreads, got the impression he was band leader etc...he had a huge very solid tone..kinda hit where it mattered, the whole thing sounded very good indeed, pretty exciting actually.

"I think I would go nuts if had a particular sound in my head I was chasing. To me all basses sound "bassy", otherwise they're pretty useless basses! That may sound infantile in its simplicity but I have a pretty broad spectrum of what "good" sounds like to me, because when it comes to playing with other musicians, in different locations, through different rigs if using house gear/gear share, to various quantities of people/room meat, with the FOH sound not in my control anyway - all that carefully researched and planned sonic calculation goes right out the window! As long as the basic tone of the instrument has some bassy heft to it and I'm able to get a bit of twang out of it for note definition and general "being heard over the ruckus" (thus eliminating some more old school designs - got shot of a Fender Starcaster after playing 1 gig with it for instance - plenty bass but not enough top even on the bridge pickup) then I'm happy. Brilliant post...been saying the same for yrs.. and to prove it. Did a summer fest gig using a P with old flats, lovely I thought nice and thumpy with just the right amount of cut. Set was video'd and I could not believe the FOH tone which sounded more like a Wal wide open than a P bass. with old flats and the tone rolled off a smidg.

Thks very much for this..should be fun.

I'm with the OP...struth what a tasty player indeed. But that verse?...wasn't there a tune called 'Candy Girl' by an early 80's kid band..sounds very similiar.

sounds like a typical ear crunching saturday morning in my local guitar shop...eeeuw!

Guys, Just wondering if anyone might have the transcription for 'Winter Games' by David Foster or might have the means to transcribe it. And of course I'd be happy to pay for a one off etc. Regards Ian

When I gigged many moons ago I could never remember the names of the songs..always had to quickly get a handle on the first instr chord or vocal bar to know what I was doing....hated it when I had to start a tune first...ha

Not quite sure what Im trying to say here but for years I wanted a vintage P and four yrs ago bought one cheap which was great and it's now probably worth double what I paid. Thing is I bought a Squire VM PJ recently and now the vintage stays in it's case not cause Im afraid it'll get dinged but simply put the VM plays better and sounds better.

This perceived volume increase appears to be across all areas of entertainment. I work in the promotions industry and I've lost track of the number of recent events employing a large PA, inside and outdoors which were often being run so loud that I've seen little kids running around with their hands over their ears....madness. Suffice to say I wear my custom plugs at all times. Bliss.