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Very nice bassy tape system in a Mk1 Scirrocco (beautiful stubby little thing, shifted too) and at the time doing hotel lounge/club residency stuff. Twas all Al Jarreau, George Benson, Sting (Set Them Free...loved doing that one) and Quincy Jones....and playin a flippin grt heavy Mk1 Stingray which I eventually grew to loathe.

True. And you'll be surprised how many famous names met each other from the classifieds back then too.

Back in the late 70's when I was a very young fellow it was all word of mouth...it had to be, no internet, phones etc. You'd pop in the local guitar shop store on a Sat and see what the latest happening was, he might have a board but gigs back then were always full of local musicians on the look out for each other etc....But a couple of years ago I used JMB and it was ok. The only weird bit was sitting in a corridor with two other bassists....like waiting outside the headmasters office for a whack!...haha.

Threads got me thinking and remembering a lot of stuff. That thing when you've setup but the male bog door is on ur side of the stage, and this can be the case in the nicest of places and that wiff of toilet cleaner hits u every now and again.....I can remember it now looking out onto a packed floor, me killing Boogie Oogie Oogie or similiar and then that pong hits you. Haha, the life of a pro musician. You either love the circus life and grease paint or you don't. To be fair I did for a few years and then it wained, and once it starts to go there's no stopping it.

This. If you were to isolate the bass in all those brilliant classic 70's chart tunes it will be ever so slightly distorted, usually a P bass run direct into a valve pre amp on the board......and yes it kinda places it perfectly in the mix. Even Jamersons P bass on the Motown stuff is purposely distorted.

Seems there's two aspects here. "Making it" ie fame and fortune (good luck with that as a bass player) and then simply becoming a working musician earning good money. The guys I still admire are the ones who stuck at it and then become first call for say a touring act or a TV show...That kind of thing....real work, real money, and to some extent some sort of celebrity what ever that means.

Well as a naive sprog, twas 1980 in a real good Prog Rock outfit....but we just could not find a good enough singer so I quit. Then a completely different situation in 1984. Prolonged summer season on the Isle of Wight. 5 nights per week. Start at 5pm for the tiny tots, 4 sets per night. Three months of that and I was done with the entire thing. Went off to college and studied photography which I did for the next 30 odd years, retired last year and having a blast now studying cello. I still have a bass in the house plugged in and I'll fill in if needed tho its very rare nowdays. But that moment in that holiday camp all those yrs ago playing that fun, old school disco stuff but at the same time gazing outta the window wishing I was somewhere else cause I've remembered the chart?... That's the moment when I realised my dream of a life being a successful working musician was dead.

Ok, you want weird chk this out in the verse.

What for churning out a load of predictable mush?....

Have a listen to the Gadd, Paul Desmond version of 'Autumn Leaves'. It'll do ur walking practise the world of good.

This. Ive recently began studying cello. If there is anything to kill GAS permanently it's learning a classical instrument cause its all about study and practise practise practise....Sure you can get a better instrument but it'll be just has hard to get the notes right as the beginners instrument. I now see my bass playing in a completely different light as well....that its so darn easy in comparison.

Watched it after the Proms. Seen if before too. It's brilliant. Proms, AC/DC, weird combo but hey...

That single sounds like an 80's American power rock big hair chart tune...Utterly predictable chord shapes...awful thick compressed sound...Mick on autotune? NFW! Yep, all nice and safe for the modern world which really is the definition of 'sold out'. Luckily for me my music box has the antidote. Paint it, Brown Sugar, Honky, Wild Horses, Angie and Miss You for starters...That's better.

Calm down Malcolm..... Anyway, maybe...tho it'll cost ya haha

Played finger style down where most of us play I can tell u exactly how it sounds....but I wont.

My days of earning from this caper are long gone so now it's nothing. Chromes on my P bass are 17 yrs old and very nice....they may even do another 17, well see, if Im still around that is.

For me its all about my No 1 tone and not bass so much tho after years of this and that its basically any old P bass with dead chromes as I just know that out in the room that dry biting lower mid bark is tearing peoples ears off.

Just had a listen and it sounds suspiciously like something from a long time ago...Cant think off hand what tho... So maybe BD was covering the original and not her "cover".

Im pretty sure it was in a Ron Carter book, so its probably more jazz than blues. I down loaded it from the internet years ago ..Just an idea.

Try this for fun, kinda jazzy blues

Found two different bands in the last four yrs with JMB. Seems a pretty good site. One for drums, the other bass.

Just chkd out the trio...Nice work all three of you. Great to hear old school power trio rock, thought it had died. How bout some Robin Trower? ...haha Anyway you play the way you want...U prob wont get much pit work but ur having fun thats the main thing.

Guy from around our way I think has got his Cornettos and Corneolis in a muddle. Heard the Godfather theme the other night...haha twas very funny.

Just had a look. That looks very nice indeed if it's the right weight. They were very well made. Looks better than the Fender 71 there in cream. Ive never come across one yet between 71 and 73 that has the bridge like that in the right place....

Those PB-70's are the biz next to the Mex RW which appear to be unobtainum at the mo....no ones selling them...not surpirsed. Also don't disregard the CV70's P either if you can stand the Squire Fender style logo. The only non Fender copy with the thick ole 70's neck. Ive got one..it may well be a keeper.