chris_b

IMO if anyone is wearing holes in their frets they're gripping too hard.

I wish I could have written several songs that was as popular.

Let the band decide that.

It seems these days, live music is not a form of entertainment that most kids (below 30) have an interest in. Our audiences are usually long term music fans. . . . . so probably 50 plus.

I'll set everything up at sound-check and have a quick double check during the first number. After that I rarely touch the controls on the bass. I might crank up the amp if the guitarist screws around with his volume and skews the balance of the band, but normally I don't change my sound once it's set. Differences in volume are controlled by me and how I play.

It was unexpected when we moved to our current house and found that Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell lived up the road at No 10. We occasionally get to chat a little about the weather and stuff. Nice guy, mad as a hatter, a ray of sunshine in a grey street.

I saw Nathan East at a bass clinic at GAK a few years ago. He said he ran through Get Lucky a few times and gave them 3 or 4 bass lines and left them to chose which one they wanted to use. So the finished song could be one take or a mash up of those versions. Whichever it is, it's just another fantastic Nathan East bass line.

How can we say if we don't know what bass and amp you are using. I used DR Hi Beams or Lo-Rider rounds on my 5 string basses for years and now have a set of D'Addario NYXL's on my Jazz bass. No muddiness there.

I had Pete Stevens explain the Wal controls to me, twice, and I still never got it!! when I got home I had to sit down with the bass and fiddle until I got the sound I wanted. I never knew what I'd done, but it sounded pretty good.

I did know a guy who bought a brand new TVR Griffith 500. It was his pride and joy and he'd only drive it if he wasn't going to park it. So definitely no car parks. After about 6 months he was out for a drive, hit some ice on a country road, flew through a hedge and rolled over in a ploughed field! He was OK, but (cruel, I know) oh how we laughed at work!!

And don't forget Tanglefoot. I bought that 45! Great record.

Nice tone and an excellent example of a good left hand technique. No stretching, 1FPF or any other shenanigans.

I always have to listen to this track when we're talking about great bass tone. Nathan East just kills with this tone. . . .

Sharay Reed has played plenty of non religious music. It's all out there.

You don't have 5 songs in the top 5 positions of the US top 10 unless you're the best there is. They were that good and then they went and got better! Good enough to change the way the whole recording industry operated. You can hate them and you can try to ignore them but you can't escape them. They influenced all your heroes so, like it or not, they have influenced you!! Poetic justice for all the haters.

What do you guys want from an18 year old bass player? Playing a musical instrument well is an end in itself as every" proper" musician will tell you. Playing it this well is something that many of her critics can't do. There are composers and musicians and sometimes there are guys who do both. It's very boorish to criticize one for not being able to do the other.

Good Pop music is great. Listen to chart songs from every decade. This was supposed to be "disposable" music, but the production values are very high. The guys making those records weren't banging them out. They were crafting the music. Even Punk, supposed to be the antithesis of what had gone before, has high production values. You'd think as they were rebelling against the musical establishment, there would be some rougher edges, but everyone is in tune and in time. The guys in the charts have always taken care over their music.

She's obviously having a great time, but the band is overplaying to the max. You really think Jaco is serving the song? Not for me.

He probably is but didn't change the way bass players played or viewed their position in the band or song.

I can appreciate a great player no matter what genre/style/band he's in. Some guys are exceptional players and transcend their surroundings. Sharay Reed is certainly one of those.

My bass players who changed the world, rather than just great players, list is a short one, Paul McCartney, James Jamerson and Larry Graham.

There are some great players around these days. . . but IMO this guy takes the prize

I regard McCartney as a great musician who was playing bass, rather than being an exceptional bass player. In the early 60's he said he didn't know a lot about bass, but just tried to follow Ringo's bass drum line. After Revolver he seems to have discovered his confidence and became a very innovative bass player.

Melvin Lee Davis is pure class. This isn't the kind of slap I dislike. It fits the song perfectly.