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[quote name='Sibob' post='743003' date='Feb 12 2010, 12:45 PM']Yup, nice to hear from another pro a bit more often! And I do have a soft spot for the new Take That tunes (oh and Million Love Songs...tune). Ian don't suppose you know who has the bass chair on Wicked at the moment?, saw it the other week, and although you don't really expect any less from pro players and written parts, the playing was excellent! Si *edit* Actually I do remember looking up the name in the program at the time, but was unknown to me, should just check again when I get home haha[/quote] Hey Si, Yes, it's Dav Lewis on bass at Wicked at the moment.. He's a great doubler and a nice chap too.. Cheers, Ian

[quote name='StevieC' post='721913' date='Jan 23 2010, 08:14 AM']Dear All, Watching the Take That musical 'Never Forget' on DVD last night (nowt on the telly!). Noticed the bass playing was nicely prominent in mix and sounding extremently good - Nice tone, very assured playing and even a long solo in one of the tracks. The bass player was Ian King, who i'd (not surprisingly) never heard of. He doesn't appear to have his own website. I was wondering if he posts on here or anyone knows him. It would be good to learn what it was like playing that gig, what his set up was etc. I know we've had 'Pro-playing' threads on here before, but what the heck... Anyone help? Steve[/quote] Hey all, I noticed this thread and just thought I'd write a few lines in response.. Thanks Steve for your kind words about the 'Never Forget' DVD.. I played on the first tour of 'Never Forget' before moving onto 'Hairspray' in town in October 2007, it was only for 10 weeks but I was lucky enough to get to play on the DVD and the cast album during that time.. The tour was great fun and musically one of the better shows I've played on with a rock solid rhythm section of Chris Taggart on kit, Rob Taggart (no relation) on keys 1 and the awesome Lewis Osborne on guitar (who I'm now enjoying working with on 'Sister Act' at The Palladium).. I was playing my fretted and fretless 5 string McIntyre basses on that one and just had a basic pedal set up with headphones (as there wasn't room up on the gantry for amps).. I think I was using a Sansamp programmable bass driver DI, an EBS unichorus for the fretless stuff, the obligatory Boss TU-2 tuner, a Boss line-switcher and a Morley Volume pedal.. All pretty simple really.. Pedal wise I'm actually much more excited about the set-up I've achieved more recently and am now using at The Palladium.. I realised that certain pedals will just sap your sound and you'll always be fighting against them unless you replace them with something more neutral sounding.. The passive Morley volume pedal was the worst culprit of this and changing it over to a Visual Sound Volume Pedal made an ENORMOUS difference and essentially completely restored the midrange that I felt I'd been losing on these shows.. Anther change I made was ditching the Boss line-switcher pedal for a Lehle 3@1 pedal, it's a true-bypass switcher with no loss of sound and is super quiet.. I also ditched the Sansamp for an EBS Microbass II which is far superior, the EBS has 2 channels, the 2nd of which is a dirtier sansamp style channel but you have the added benefit of a super clean 1st channel and a parallel blendable FX loop (great for adding subtle chorus) amongst other great features.. I also bought an Analogman modded Boss GE-7 pedal which has had some of it's components replaced with better quality ones to reduce hiss and I use that for my double bass.. Oh and I use an EBS Multicomp too.. So my set up now runs like this, For the electric bass. Bass -> EBS Multicomp -> EBS Microbass II -> Channel 1 of Lehle 3@1 -> Visual Volume Pedal -> (tuner out into) Boss TU-2 For the double bass. Bass -> Analogman GE-7 -> Channel 2 of Lehle 3@1 -> Visual Volume Pedal -> (tuner out into) Boss TU-2 Channel 3 is spare in case I have a show with fretless as well as fretted and Upright I've got it all mounted on a Pedaltrain 2 with a Jim Dunlop DC brick powering it all Some might say it's overkill but it's all super quiet true-bypass stuff and it sounds killing!.. I'm not using an amp in the pit again as I'm sat very close to the string section but have had a butt-kicker attached to the underside of my chair which helps give the feel of a large amp shifting air next to you when you're actually playing away silently on headphones! Well, I hope that answers some of your questions.. I'll endeavour to get no here more often and keep basschatting! All the best - Ian King

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='526890' date='Jun 28 2009, 06:22 PM']I just bought a Mono bag yesterday. It's probably the best that I've come across, a bit expensive maybe but so were my basses.[/quote] Ah cool, do you think I could fit my 35" scale Jazz bass in a Mono case?

Hi everyone, I've now got a couple of Overwater Jazz basses and one of their Perception basses, all five stringers, 35" scale... I now need some decent gig bags for them.. Nothing too bulky but with decent padding etc.. The Jazz basses are quite long overall (smidge under 48") and I'm wondering which cases they'd fit in.. I've seen ads for iGig bags and Mono too.. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Ian

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='385232' date='Jan 19 2009, 07:26 PM']I agree! All the players for JTQ have been monsters, Andrew, Gary and Ian King. Ian was a member here for a short time until he had a negative expereince via PM in regard to a bass he was trying to sell. [/quote] Eh??!.. Nope, I'm still here! Ha ha..

[quote name='Merton' post='255116' date='Aug 5 2008, 09:58 AM']Welcome! Didn't even realsie Gary Crockett had left JTQ... Do you cross paths with Phil Mulford much?[/quote] Hello there.. Yes I see Phil every so often, I work at the top of Drury Lane at Hairspray and he works at the bottom of Drury lane on Dirty Dancing so we bump into each other quite a bit and occasionally grab a bite to eat in between shows on a matinee day and talk bass... or should that be bass chat??

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='255113' date='Aug 5 2008, 09:57 AM']Yeah, I haven't met him yet but it seems like we might have a few acquaintences in common. He's a superb player - some really funky solos! I went to see JTQ at the Hammersmith Palais a few years back. I think Gary Crockett was playing for him then though. Whats James like to work with? I'm guessing the JTQ bass lines are fairly demanding physically? Did you learn them by reading or by ear?[/quote] James is fine to work with.. On my first gig I'd had no rehearsal or even a sound check so was pretty much thrown in at the deep end.. But James is very clear with his cues and has been dead friendly to me... You're right, the bass lines are pretty fast and furious on a lot of the songs, but great fun to play.. Learning the tunes I did a bit of both, I listened through to a few recordings but also Andy had written me out some basic charts with example bass lines and the structure outlined, so that really helped..