Barking Spiders

Actually I've forgotten several DP albums other than Machine Head, which is still 👌. I remember buying WDYTWA blind thinking it might nearly be as good. I've just had another listen and it still sucks and probably explains why DP never hit the heights again in the US and while they're not revered as led Zep. Still it's better than Stormbringer

Well worth getting their Master Plan compilation which has early Kool and the Gang all over it, not surprising when the band featured the younger brother of Ronald and Kool and Ronald, with the latter doing the arrangements and production

I was never a fan of the more prog lite elements but Crime has some great moments like the more commercial/poppy Dreamer and Bloody Well Right. Great arrangement and production throughout

I used aspire to having either a US Stingray or a US Jazz, both in natural finishes. Having also had a go on both a Ray 34 and a 90s MIJ Jazz as well as the top end models I no longer see any point in shelling out top end wonga when these mid -priced versions are just as good to play

Well, the reviews I read all give the 👍 big time. I assume it's great for slapping considering Marcus Miller was involved in its design. Now I've got to work out how to quietly take delivery and then sneak it into the house during lockdown

I think I know of you mean. You might see some of them at Musikmesse vids on YT. I'm a mahoosive fan of Miller. Remember seeing him play a Cheltenham Jazz Festival a fair few years ago. A great gig which I remember well. Not only was he playing some triffic bass but he also had a huge saxophone or was it a bass clarinet? And he has an impressive pedigree in his role as a sideman.

Just browsing the Andertons site, carefully keeping Tinder open in another window so when she comes over the mrs wont see what I'm really up to. And that is I've a few grand in my savings account and for the last few days I've had a severe attack of GAS and am rather liking the look of this. Just wondrin' if anyone here owns a Sire?

Go on, go on, go on, go on..name and shame the guilty parties 😁

I was more interested in what he is saying about not allowing Canada to be a temp member of the security council. The Canadian government is complicit as the Trump one when it come to desecrating wilderness in the name of making money

And slapping is so much fun..

some good stuff here from Scott explaining why Hair by Larry Graham is his fave slap bassline and that it's got nowt to do with the rata-tat-tat style

I've been a bit slap heavy in recent years and am now focusing more on fingerstyle funk. Over the last few weeks I've been refining several Jamiroquai lines including Too Young to Die, Virtual Insanity, Travelling Without Moving, Runaway and You Give Me Something. Since then I've moved onto Mark Smith's lesson viz Vulfpeck's Dean Town.

I suspect you could be right. No doubting Nigel Clutterbuck has technical skill by the shedload. Sometimes I see buskers doing this sort of thing and usually people just walk by, including myself.

except it's actually the bassline for a song by Incognito, called er.. Jacob's Ladder

I know this clip has been posted here before but's worth putting it up again as IMO it's a classic example of tasteful and purposeful slapping at its best, as well as being one of the best bits of bass playing I've ever come across.

Damn right. I'm a big fan of MK's guitar style so much so I've nicked many of his chops over the years. However, those two singles are fvkin atrocious. Up until Little Creatures I had been a mahoosive fan of Talking Heads. It wall went south from there esp with Road and She Was. Hard to believe it was the same band who made a run of three cracking albums from Songs About to Remain in Light

As i was trawling YT looking form some tasty slapping I came come across this chappie, one Federico Malaman. Don't tremble anti-slap heads, this clip is a groovy jazz type thing with nary a slap or pop to be heard!😁

Dunno the cardiacs but I'm with your wife (so to speak) viz Kate Bush. Mrs Spiders mkII was a mega fan. This would have me running out of the house, into the hills, across the seas and far into the deep blue yonder

I don't think the worst excesses of slapping are to be found on albums but among the ranks of full-time You Tube merchants. Seem to be loads of plankspankers of both the 4 and 6 string variety that spend most of their playing time thrapping their strings in front of a laptop in their bedrooms etc rather than making.. erm.. proper music. I see nowt excessive in Mark King's lines in Level 42. They all drive the songs and all have melodic edges that stick in the memory.

Yep, even as a lover of slap I have to agree with you. This is technically impressive but is essentially musical onanism.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I take it for most BCers who aren't fond of slap, Mark King is something approaching the anti-christ of slap bass?🤨

Good to see another here who enjoys a bit of Biosphere.

I'm interested to see vids put up by BCers showig what they consider to be bad slap

I'll have to make the shameful confession that I wasn't really that aware of Guy or his work, which is all the worse as I see he played on the first two Orb albums which are among my faves. Anyway, that bassline is a cracker although I thought the song was by the Kane Gang. Anyway, they're Geordies too so I'm in the right ball park. I'll certainly be checking out more of GP's lockdown licks so good call viz the OP

I've always played the PE bassline with fingers near the bridge. On record it doesn't sound like it was played with a pick. Then again I'm not a fan of most pick playing unless it's JJ Burnel, Michael Dempsey or Stuart Morrow. Anyway, the best thing about DD songs were the basslines. PE is by far DD's best although Ordinary World, Notorious and Skin Trade are pretty good. But they didn't half come out with some stinkers like Is There Something I Should Know, Union of The Snake, The Reflex and Wild Boys.