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For ever there's always been someone trying to find away around this painfully simple concept......hard bloody graft. Its the only way.

Again as with so many good things in life especially music collaboration, its the sum of its parts. Could never really get into them and grew up with them as a kid from when they first broke. My best friend at the time has had a deep musical love affair with them for 50 years. They are musically very clever and they are great 'rock' musicians but Geddy Lees playing and style of playing leaves me cold and empty inside. They are a monumental phenomenon with huge musical depth and gravitas who's music will be revered in 100's of years time .....For me? No thanks.

Ha.. its all a walk in the park compared to Talkbass. This type of blasphemus behaviour over there would downright dangerous to ones health.

Well this is a forum so discussion is encouraged and that means dissent is never far away..haha! With the exception of 1999, for me his music never really gets going, never really sounds cool compared to the likes of MJ, Luther, Barry White, EW&F and a whole raft of black groove artists that have shaped my playing experience over the decades... I guess he's just too quirky, experimental if you like for my tastes. Anyway tin hat firmly affixed..

The only bass I regret selling on. 75 P bass....lightweight ash, super thick neck...darn it.

They are a very clever lot indeed. Each tune is almost a unique genre in its own right..Stacks of themes. and off the scale chord progressions and melodies. Love em, and huge fun to play. Just don't ask as to what the name means....

45? haha how I remember those halcyon days..haha. Did my last turn at 61 two yrs ago and packed it all in and gone back to my classical roots. My problem was the amount of 'new' music people want to play, not enough melody and good writing for my tastes, but man, you've got years ahead doing the bass thing. Go for it.

Yep. When you've got chops at that level..it all comes down to personality and ur ability to sort a chart with ten minutes to go till the red light comes on..... in other words. Professionalism. Without all that your just another YT sensation.

Seems strange thinking of a child prodigy on electric bass but that's what she is. Chk out her Tube vids from when she started, incredible talent....Bk in the day a kid like that would be playing a stringed instrument and going places but its a new world and she's chosen bass.....it's impressive and takes some getting used to.

That Eagles thing I grew up, superb song writers, musicians, singers..a sad day.

I was the opposite. I'm a surly misery guts loner...so stuck all day in a bus with a bunch of party animals was tortuous to say the least ....getting up on stage at the end of the day was like entering flippin nirvana...When I was doing the pub/club circuit I would just rock up at the last minute, plug in and get on with it.

Oh dear...reminds me why I packed it all in and took up cello. Far better class of clientele what what..haha..and yes why not after 40 years of that silly nonsense and worse, never again. Mind you, the Albert Hall can go south pretty quick too so I've heard, something in the tea apparently. Careful..haha

What can be said. He was of a time and remained kinda current...Huge legacy..and a huge figure in 20th century music entertainment. The last of that post war group of stylish crooners, Sinatra, Davis-Junior. Dean Martin, Perry Como, and othes who laid out so many templates for today. Nerdy tidbit...He used the same pianist, Ralf, throughout his entire career... ps. Only seven comments on this a musicians website. Kinda poor huh?

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Forty odd years ago they were like hens teeth and I think always have been ...Don't suppose anything much has changed. On point female singers who can sing in tune and who are band orientated and not from... 'Diva Central' are about as rare as it gets. Anyway good ole Elkie was always my bench mark, so just for fun...Good luck.

Practise more.

Any bass is pointless if you look into the crowd and their either chatting , looking away or simply waiting for the band to finish for the DJ to begin. In other words irrespective of how many strings, they all sound the same to the punters who after all is why we do this.

I don't think he was that old either....There was another vid of him at an outside local festival in a square which looked like Belgium..or somewhere similiar.. but yes would love to find it again...YT can drive u crazy. One of those players who played with his fingers dead flat across the board....real natural talent, kinda messed me up for a while trying to emulate him...of course not a chance...ha

Tom Bornemann above is the best YT bass player imo period. Professionally delivered proper old school bass lines which are soooo good to play....accurately written out and that P bass sounds so chewy and well... bassy. He's the type of bassist that Joe Public love even though they don't even know it, unobtrusive, un-flashy and gets the job done.

Template? Its never gonna happen bands are way too dysfunctional for that caper. Reminds me why I left a very good prog rock band back in 1980. We had a 10K JBL PA, coach, management, a publishing deal etc good gigs great tunes. Then one day the question of a new Soundcraft mixer was floated. A month later they wanted 200 quid from each of us...a huge amount of money back then. So with a heavy heart I left.....Anyway got a CD to remind me of the fun that nearly turned to masses of tears.

Have to say in all the years I've owned and seen old white P's I have never seen an original finish stay white and check like that., anyway nice weight.

I played a black 78 from 79 thru 89...Heavy and kinda meh. But that's an interesting example...would really like to know the history. Nice.

Blimey..your kidding right? Fantastic little well written pop tune. Great playing, and not bothered about the lyrics. To be fair not easy to do live cause everyones gotta be on point....but if you are then its fireworks.

Sfunny how some songs are just awful and don't fit any genre. As Ive already mentioned, tunes like The Birdy Song and Aga Doo are intentionally very very well written to do a job. But last yr I stood in for a bass player and one of the tunes was by George Ezra?? omfg! Myself and the drummer nearly got up and walked....in 40 yrs Ive never played such a dreary droney pile of whatsit.