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[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='656228' date='Nov 16 2009, 06:50 PM']No, it's got the grey pearloid one on at the moment, but the shiny black one is coming in the post tomorrow, hopefully. As for the bald guy... There's another one now... The wicked witch put us there, LOL! [/quote]Brill. Or Superman.

Looks great, not the kinda of bass I would feel happy taking out but I ticks most of the boxes for me.

[quote name='4-string-thing' post='655515' date='Nov 15 2009, 10:36 PM']It's official.....I own the best amp in the world， 34 pages and not one person has slagged of Acoustic amps! Thats the answer folks, sell all your expensive modern gear and scour ebay for cheap powerful 70's Acoustics![/quote] The amps I always wanted to own but never got round to doing so.

The reason I started this thread was to show how amazing Level 42 were before the arena tours. 1982 was a bad year, Thatcher was looking for re-election and unemployment was killing the country from the inside out. Drugs were everywhere, heroin was destroying towns and cities all over the UK, it was pretty bad. I was listening to a lot of punk, rock, prog, soul, funk, new wave, there weren't that many genres back then. I was listening to music that I liked and part of that music that I liked was Level 42. Music for yuppies and stockbrokers? get f***ed. I knew a stockbroker who listened to Captain Beefheart and oscure 60's garage music. I love Black Flag and Bad Religion and other bands of that ilk but I still have a soft spot for the Gould Brothers era of Level 42.

What kind of tone are you looking for?

Xmas 2010.

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Can I just say, I would love to see Clarke and Wooten do this, don't ever dis the Kingster. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63je71U9Jns&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63je71U9Jns...feature=related[/url]

How tight? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSUMnEWadU...feature=related[/url]

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11 years.

I suppose they're ok.

...and when you talk about destruction, you know that you can count me out, IN.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='651088' date='Nov 10 2009, 10:09 PM']Interesting, I think that what is lost on you in motown is very similar to what you try to point out to others in your various assertions regarding the artistry of many jazz performers. It seems to me that you possibly don't have a connection with what motown is for, eg it feels good, it's not taxing, it's light natured, it's for the lightness of spirit emanating from the need to shed the troubles of the working week and what it meant to be black in America at that time, it clings to Africa in that the players let down their hair and invite the listener in to a feel good half hour or so, and join in with a holler or a shuffle. I can see that compositionally some of the material is not substantially artistically challenging but would it fulfill the same role if it were? I doubt it... and surely any attempt for it to be that would miss the point. One of it's greatest attributes is that it's done by people who didn't have to think hard about what they are doing, because it's a very natural art form, or furrow their collective brow in trying to eke out the quintessential last drop of pained artistry from every note, they simply did what they did, and millions couldn't resist the urge to get to the dance floor and suspend the drudgery of the working week, the racism, the poverty. Some of history's great players went through the motown studios and their magic ingredient was how good it all felt. Thats what I reckon anyhow....[/quote]Well said Jake. Motown is the main driving force in modern popular music, it was of the people for the people and the white audience didn't even know what was happening. It took jazz, sex, soul, redemption, freedom, darkness, gospel, all the infuences of modern America, that had winnners and losers. It challenged rock and roll and made men, women, black, white, rich, poor feel good.

Larry is funky but he ain't the funk, Bootsy is the funk.

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[quote name='OldGit' post='649207' date='Nov 8 2009, 10:08 PM']It may be sacrilegious to say so, what with Larry being a funk God and all, but for me there's not enough space in that to make it funky .....[/quote]Agreed. Bootsy is d man

[quote name='wombatboter' post='648405' date='Nov 7 2009, 10:12 PM']Thanks ! Well, it was all about paradise :-)[/quote]I'll have to ask my aunty if she can understand the words, she's half Dutch, (Beverwijk).

Drove to London on a pilgrimage to Wapping back in the late 80's to see Barry Moorehouse s mullet, he wasn't there.

[quote name='wombatboter' post='648228' date='Nov 7 2009, 05:21 PM']I helped out a band last week since they didn't have a bassplayer, I used my fretless Lefay 5, plugged in the DI (you won't understand a word he's singing, I think :-)) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXHVraiLy3s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXHVraiLy3s[/url][/quote]Great stuff, nice sound, great playing. I understood the word Paradisj,

Looks like Paddy McAloon, see my avatar.

My old band had been in negotiations with Warners for a deal, having signed a publishing deal with Polygram. We were playing Food Records birthday party at the Islington Powerhaus supporting Blur. First surreal moment. We had just come off stage and were having a post gig smoke, Alex James comes over to me and asks if he could have a go on my pipe, I offer said pipe and away he chuggs. We go out to see Blur play and Alexs legs look a little bit bendy. Into their second song, he marches off the front of the stage and decks himself flat on the face, fair play to the man, he dusts himself off and carries on like nothing has happened, all be it not playing anything remotely in time and tune. Second surreal moment on the same night. We are back stage at the end of the night and we see our guitarist trying to remove an old unshaven guy in a raincoat out of our room, to the total horror of myself and our singer, we realise that said guitarist is only trying to f*** off head of Sire Records Seymour Stein out of the room, thinking that he is some sort of old dosser. He had flown over from Ney York to see us, luckily, he later signed us and thought the evening was a laugh.