oldbass

Totally agree. My baseball bat 71 had a rounded vroom to the tone that I cant find in any modern P at all. Those fat old necks are 80% the tone IMHO. And if might add. If you ever see a Duncan Designed PU out of a VM P, snag it!. They sound big and bold.

P's are peculiar in a way, and that simplicity can be deceptively difficult to make right. Try this, you might just be amazed..I know I was. Get some old well used dead flats off evil bay or somewhere...cheap. Then take ur practise rig outside where there's a bit of background noise, ie traffic, noisy neighbours..planes going overhead etc, now play it with a light touch and eh voila!..you will suddenly notice that flat sounding mid range come alive with a dry low punch....

Played with a pick when I was young but after seeing Mr B Edwards the first time..well it was bye bye pick..I mean, how do u play fast mute strokes with a pick?...

Its taken me decades to realise that a light but positive touch is actually more efficient and powerful than fingers a flailing.

Its Philly soul for me. O'jays, Archie Bell, David Ruffin..the list is endless. I can play bass all night to this stuff its soooo melodic with subtle bass lines.... eg

Ha... ur not kidding its just the way he plucks the strings, it all seems kinda awkward.

Heaven: Jamersons slightly distorted tone in those isolated bass tracks. Hell....and I'm running for the door as I say this...Geddys tone and the way he hits the strings...eew

Bit cheesy but bass playing heaven. ....3 Degrees Get Ur Lurve Back.

Flats encourage me to play with a lighter moire controlled touch which kinda translates into a punchier sound...have tried rounds over the years but there's too much movement in them for my liking. Course if a clever BL barks..rounds only bass guy, them I'll surely oblige.

Here's a thought. Do upright players ...."search for their tone" if they do, well it all sounds the same to me. I tell you, with leccy bass as far as the audience are concerned, a rounded taught bassy tone will work with 999999% of all music.

Guy said to me recently, wow you sounded great..I said oh, how'd you mean was it a good tone?, no idea he said ..but I could hear that low sound under everyone else. Dosent that just go to show you what this is all about..the audience havent a clue!And to be honest Ive been to a few gigs lateley (big and small) and even I started loosing interest in the various bass tones I was hearing....seems out in audience land bass is just a drone that seems to be lower than everything else!!

I agree with u totally. Lnn & Mctny were an amazing writing duo..incredible, but Ringo a drummer?...not when you put him up against the pool QJ had to choose from.

Plse re-read Lemmywinks quote. Ringo comes back probably feeling postive and happy after a break and thinking I can do it only to be shot to pieces by QJ. That was my comment.. Ignorant?..Nope.

Interesting and totally understandable. He spent his life working with top tier pros who could read a chart in a second and who could play anything. Would hate to have been Ringo when he realised. Refreshing in this era of PC strangulation.

Hard to imagine how MB cant sound good but, and I know this might sound a bit odd.....check ur technique. Playing with a fim but light touch away from the neck will tighten up ur tone like nothing else. The other thing of course is that tone out in the middle of the crowd will sound nothing like the tone we get on stage. Ive always found a thinner stage tone sounds thick and tight on the dance floor!

The best way of dealing with this scurge?....for every band to start a few bars then to stop, and if said annoyance wasn't put away then they would not play on and show is effectively over.

+1 I get just a little bit fed up with this idea that cause ur disabled the world owes you a ton of everything. I have a mildly debilitating neurological condition which is very difficult to explain, do I keep on about it.....nope, I get on with it and there are days when its so bloody difficult I just wanna lay on the sofa and to hell with it all, but you dont cause life goes on and waits for no-one so you compensate as best you can and keep going.

Well after yrs of lugging the weight around and spending way too much on vintage stuff I didn't really need I have finally come to my very happy and satisfied senses. Lightweight Squier Vintage Mod P, P/J basses. Two stacked Fender Rumble 100v3 combos with line outs. The whole lot weighs next to nothing, looks pretty, and sounds good.

Plagarism....plain and simple. Did Bowie et al nick stuff, course not they were...."original".