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My gigging days are over but I still have a BA108 in the lounge...gets quite thunderous pushing a P bass with dead flats thru it, my neighbour thinks so too, apparently...haha

Saw the Marvin thing last nite too and was rather thrilled when I noticed the bassist playing an SB900 thru a Muisicman rig. Exact same setup I had back in 81. Nice basses tho the neck was always a bit skinny for my hands.

Watching that video and listening to that guy is one of the most fearful things I think Ive seen in the world of bass. No wonder AI will consign all of us to the dumpster. Meanwhile....a certain Mr Jamerson has my full attention....That's better.

Rubbish and wind ur flippin neck in. You wanna diss all those classic tunes that people like you now have to "sample" to make yoiur music right, go ahead. But you will never ever better what came before so wind it in. And with that I bid you good day sir. Tho no doubt youll have the last word. I will not be responding.

And that makes for great music does it? Of course not.

Sting. Love him as an original thinking, hugely talented renaissance man but that pretentious thumb thing he does where the bass just disapperars into the mire? Ive tried it, just stroke the string with the soft part of the thumb?...awful, mushy and indestinct, and now everyone does it. No ta.

Its always been a dilemma. Ive often found those types tend to be very good at what they do, they tend to have fiery difficult temperaments. Remember a fantastic male singer I worked with many moons ago. He and the hotel manager locked horns and one night he (the singer) stopped the band mid set and into the mic launched into the most awful dressing down of the guy....finished and we launched straight into Totos, Hold The Line...it was dramatic and bloody embarassing for all, but we carried on for the season because he was the draw. Crazy.

Late Hitsville, ie 71 was I think Bob Babbitt, By then Jamerson was on the wain for all the reasons Im not going to rake over again here.

So way before "digital" this and that on all those old jazz records Motown cuts the guitar/bass players are out of tune? I started playing bass in 1977. I tuned to whoever was the dominant player, guitar, keys...horns, whatever and I was always in tune. As a much lesser cello player I use a tiny pitch pipe...never fails me..ever.

Has to be one of the easiest tunes to figure ever. Try and hear the progressions. Whilst its imperative to read notation its also good practise to train ur ears to catch stuff like this.

I'll leave the hate for the politicians but tunes? hugely dislike maybe and its pretty much everything from around 1990 onwards and, apart from the Sugar Hill Gang, and only that thnks to Bernie Edwards bass line, pretty much every hiphop and rap tune ever written.

Lucky man. I love those walnut 70's P basses, theyre just so 70's, and if its a good one then its a keeper. Having said that my walnut CV70 is not far off...

Now go listen to Radio 1 jingles from the 70's. Sorry but its predicatable and extremely boring.

Complete opposite here. Played an original Ray from 79 thru 91 and was never really happy. Heavy, kinda thin sounding. Been playing P's since I got back into it in 2000 and couldnt be happier. Funny ole world.

Ha.. the Chinese really are taking over the planet. When not playing bass Im a free time cellist of questionable ability. They are knocking out quality cellos for crazy money...Ive played 30K luthier instruments and 1.5k Chinese instruments and its hard to see the difference, so I'm not at all surprised that ur bass is as good as you say it it. Nice.

Hands down the CV 70's P bass. I ve owned loads of Fenders, Jap bases, Squires but the CV is the ony one with the big ole fat, 70's neck.

Yes, makes a feel a bit old. See me Smile..one of those unique tunes..nothing like it before, nothing like it after. Brilliant stuff.

Not one...Today, its almost like one massive great big competition to see who can the play the most notes the fastest in the shortest amount of time. I cant think of a single YT vid just showing a bass player playing... One.....in a funk style and doing it with touch, feel and groove.....One.

Agadoo anyone?..haha

..........why

Oh my Ive just heard....another of my heros gone. First time I heard this I couldnt beleive it...still cant play it like he does. Superb groove maestro...

Oddly never heard of him but couple years ago a Kylie Minogue track came on the radio and the tight little bass line really piqued my interest....found out it was him. Very tasty player indeed.

A while back. Got a call from a little rock outfit..I wasnt busy so thght Id go along...keep the chops going. Not bad musicians.. all flowed well sounded good but they didnt have a drummer. Q a couple of drummers for an audition...One was no good at all and the other one an older guy, long blonde hair,...ha...played an identical 1-3 on the floor back beat throughout each tune...no fills no nuthin... just bam blat bam blat for 90 mins. Ha ..we all kinda looked at each other... it was funny.

Some perspective . Back in the late 70's thru 80's I played in 'function bands' doing old school disco, funk, pop on a P bass and Stingray. Not a single bod from either the audience or music fraternity questioned my playing, my tone, sound or anything....on the contrary, my phone never stopped ringing. So yes this ole dinosaur says if you cant do it on a four string?...well there you go.

Yep. A keyboard player, guy called Jon Metcalf who I worked with ..blimey 40 years ago. Big beardy fella, big Harry Potter glasses (way before HP) and a lovely old Fender Rhodes. Guy was off the wall brilliant. I did an entire seaside season with, him, drums and a female singer just off a cruise and we packed the floor every night....doing old school disco, soul, pop stuff. He could make that Rhodes do things I didnt think possible..... No strings, pedals, gizmos nothing, just plain old rip rollickin musicianship. Happy days.