silverfoxnik

+1 It does look really good....

[quote name='Rich' post='276900' date='Sep 4 2008, 12:42 PM']Prince[/quote] +1 Great producer, great musician, great writer and great performer. As if that's not enough, apparently he can engineer as well....

[quote name='Monz' post='277684' date='Sep 5 2008, 11:12 AM']Sound and Vision does it for me...[/quote] +1 And 'A New Career In A New Town' from the same album...

Fabulous! Though I prefer the original pickguard myself...

[quote name='WalMan' post='277476' date='Sep 5 2008, 12:00 AM']Times is hard. We had to eat ours last week this end of LA [/quote] You too!!

Other web forums just don't do it for me...

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='277371' date='Sep 4 2008, 09:23 PM']Promises, promises...[/quote] Sorry guys; am still waiting on one final detail to be confirmed before I can post up the info for the day.. With a bit of luck, I should be able to put something up tomorrow or Saturday at the latest.. Good to see you've been paying attention though!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='277407' date='Sep 4 2008, 10:26 PM']I don't think so - they're still on dial-up in Littlehampton. [/quote] What's dial-up then? We still use carrier pigeon round here..

That's gorgeous!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='276905' date='Sep 4 2008, 12:48 PM']Good to see I'm not the only one who still rates Dunaway. Alice Cooper had a cracking band in the 70s and it was largely built around Dennis.[/quote] There's a few of us lurking around here I think! [quote]Not that I'm being pedantic but it's "Bolder" as opposed to Boulder[/quote] Oops - sorry molan.. Must look at the My Space later and +1 on Gail Ann Dorsey!

[quote name='bnt' post='276608' date='Sep 3 2008, 11:30 PM']Michael Brook and Daniel Lanois among my favourite producers, though they're guitarists. Larry Klein and Bill Laswell are other bassists/producers to know. Not forgetting, of course, Brian Wilson.[/quote] +1 for Brian Wilson and what about Macca?

[quote name='steve-soar' post='276594' date='Sep 3 2008, 11:02 PM']Just been listening to Bowies "Singles" album, absolutely mesmerising bass lines, Ashes to Ashes, Fashion, Boys, China Girl..... WOW. Production, amazing. This may lead on to a great producers thread. So here goes....[/quote] +1 Bowie's my absolute all-time favourite artist and I started listening to his stuff in 1972, a few years before I first picked up a bass. So the early playing of The Spiders From Mars bassist, Trevor Boulder really influenced me, along with Dennis Dunnaway Alice Cooper's bassist. In both cases, their bass playing was always very musical and creative, doing much more than just playing root-note stuff so that the bass lines were really integral parts of the song. There's lots of other great bass lines on Bowie records too.. For example, the descending bass line in the chorus of 'Changes' absolutely makes it for me and is a great hook in itself.. And later on, when Bowie had Dennis Davis on drums and George Murray on bass, some of the bass lines on 'Station to Station' and 'Low' in particular are brilliant! Another +1 for Tony Visconti as well...

I always use the tone control on my bass in order to vary how bright the bass is from song to song. In my band we have to play songs by bands as diverse as The Killers to The Temptations, so the bass sounds required can be very different across a two hour set! Luckily, the tone control on my Roscoe Beck 5 string is excellent and offers a lot of variety for a passive bass, so I can get some great results without too much effort.

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='276043' date='Sep 3 2008, 09:41 AM']So, is it time to start working out lift-share type deals? Even if popularity dictates that I'm taking my full stack, I'm still going to have 4 empty seats, and in the current socio-plitical climate this seems like a freakin waste! Should I start a new thread for this?[/quote] That's a good idea! BTW, there'll be another thread starting later tonight (when I get home from rehearsal) with all the details for the two rooms, workshops, speakers etc...

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='275941' date='Sep 2 2008, 11:55 PM']Could that be because the rig looks 'old school'...[/quote] Now you come to mention it, your rig does look really 'old school' until you look closely and see it's totally up to date kit. Good combination!

[quote name='Josh' post='275122' date='Sep 2 2008, 12:30 AM']May I present, Brian Fox: I advise that there should be no mugs/jugs/cups/vases/pint glasses of coffee near the monitor or keyboard whilst watching.[/quote] Thanks Josh - that was hilarious! I kept flicking the clips backwards and forwards and it sounded like he was playing the same riff at each point so I hate to think what a whole gig of it would sound like. He looks like the bass playing equivalent of The Big Lebowski; imagine Jeff Bridges playing a sad loser of a bluesman/bassplayer frontman who doesn't realise just how awful he and his band is?? But as the saying goes, truth is always stranger than fiction and it looks like Brian Fox is proof of that!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='275909' date='Sep 2 2008, 11:18 PM']No, just cheaper ones so that can I stand my beer on them. I'm offering to bring this beauty along as a cupholder: [/quote] Mmm; looks good that Trace! I had one very similar in the late 80's.. How old is your?

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='275394' date='Sep 2 2008, 01:26 PM']+1. Quirky stuff nice and all but it would be good to have some more bread and butter stuff.[/quote] Do you mean it in the sense that we can contrast & compare standard gear with more 'boutique' stuff? If so, I think that would be useful...

[quote name='yorick' post='274940' date='Sep 1 2008, 09:05 PM'][attachment=12829:l_d02402...ffc81490.jpg]This is me with the new Sandberg and colourful strides........................ [/quote] Great picture!

That looks great!!

Cheers Mert! Any feedback on this idea would be welcome by the way folks??

[quote name='WarPig' post='274148' date='Aug 31 2008, 11:45 PM']Everything, ever.[/quote] That just about sums it up!! Been popping in from time to time on this thread today and it's really made me laugh a lot, so thanks for that! Still raining down here a bit though.... Can't beat a great British summer, eh... or would that be over-rating it???