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My grt inspiration. Yep its a bit out and sounds glorious. Bernard is one of those rare original muicans who didnt really care much about anything other than the groove....Pretty sure he didnt even know what strings he was usin, and that original thinking still sits head and shoulders above todays need for every note to be tinkered with to the enth degree, extremely refreshing in this age of misplaced digital perfection.

The trick is firstly technique then to cut the bass right back and slam the low mids/mids. Too much bass plus a soft touch in any small room is death.

Wow hold the front page huh. In 43 yrs Ive not used a single pedal.. and I sound darn good, P bass, dead flats, punch and grind for days....technique.

Played for 40 years on and off but no more, but I have a small amp and P bass in the lounge and play it everyday...kinda therapuetic.

Eh?. Placing the wonderous Mr Giblin to one side for a mo. Karn is equally as good as Pino he just didnt get the commercial exposure Pino got with Paul Youngs hugo massivo hits. Equally superb workers of the fretless animal.

She died. My dad died last year and dear ole mum died four years ago. They are all dead. So you gonna say all those people who died in war or by any other means "passed away". Nope, they died...they're dead. We live in a soppy silly world where people have lost all sense of reality, people die, they do not "pass away".

Her death has really got me thinking. I'm 63, started off a punk ended up in a pit and all the clubs and dives inbetween.. done a lot, loved it all. To me she was more than Peely, maybe because she was a woman...I dunno...In a way the female equivalent of Bowie tho not a musician, just one of those people who maybe influenced more people in the pop scene than it's realised.

Here we go. Im talking about "happy" party music. Youve named a small handful I can think of 100's from the past that were joyous and made you wanna dance.

What a legendary original pop figure. Kinda represented everything that was cool and groovy about the crazy 70's. Often copied but never replaced.

I look at it this way . Play a a young person some Bach and they'll probably go wow. In other words old classics are just that, old classics and at the risk of being flamed for the umpteenth time, way more "old" stuff is just better than new stuff. In fact I would go so far to say new stuff is dull and miserable sounding compared to old stuff which ... As an eg, a dep I did a while back, to show willing they did a George Ezra hit single.....The band hated it and it didnt seem to cheer the audience much either, we then played Disco Inferno and the floor was heaving.

As above really, been on finger style auto pilot for 40 years so just need to try to imagine what it is ur sensing. I did play with a pick for couple mnths before hand ...(then I saw Bernard Edwards and that was it... no more pick!) and remember my fingers at first being all over the place with barely any control. I think my method was to alternate very slowly 1st and 2nd on each string relentlessly for hrs on end...and eventually it started to gel....But even all these years later Im still improving...becoming even smoother...At the end of the day its practise..a lot of it. Practise, practise practise. Just to add cause its important and without seeing ur technique. Whatever u do do not put a sharp 90 deg bend in ur wrist ala 80's style.....Ur forearm and hand want to be as flat as poss, one long limb so to speak, the effect being your entire lower palm will always be just kissing the strings....good for muting etc.

Im 63. What exactly do u mean by that....creatively or something else? Not trying to be clever, genuinely would like to know as I have my own view which tends to upset a lot of people.

Precisely. Book em in at the Dog and Duck on a Monday night fronting a four piece and hear the truth...Unlike back in the day when most 'famous' performers could entertain at the scariest of levels. Small town pub, all the ceiling lights up and three old geezers and a dog sat right in front of you....terrifying.

Fraid not, tho agree this guys a tasty player ...Its so annoying when good ole vids are removed

For what its worth Ive had vintage P basses and now I play the CV 70's...Maple, blocks and a fat ole neck and its as good as any of those old Fenders I had for years....sounds good too.

Not suprised. Ok I'm getting on a bit (eg old fart?) but the place had a strange vibe...was happy to leave.

Easy. Take a tip from the classical world. Buy a half decent instrument then practise like ur life depends on it. No need to ever buy another instrument. Practise.

Few could touch Rodders back in the day for griitty pop/rock vocal prowess...total original talent. But the day he donned a tux was a sad day indeed, who's he think he is...Sinatra? And Jools follows a line of key players who never gave a give a fig about the bass player...watch his left hand...major dis-respect. As for the show...Ive no idea..same ole thing for ever..., question is, what else is there?

Confusion? "HE" = her other half.🙄

Ive got one of these too...so good I sold my two vintage P's and that thick ole neck is to die for. How do they do it for the money?

Certainly be kind and civil but my experience with female singers is you cant tell them anything. They are about the most fragile musicians on the planet. Band I was in, she and the very good guitarist were a couple....She looked really good had the moves, attitude etc...but it wasnt until I viewed the playback from a significant outdoor festival the that awful truth was revealed....she would go way out on the high notes but it was no use remonstrating as... 'HE' would get ridiculously protective. I left.

Just had a go. Its pretty simple and so over produced no one will care a hoot how you play it. Sounds like a series of octave stabs or not...depends on the night...Dont over think it...just play.

May I suggest that way too many keys players play bass anyway. My biggest beef with them that most just play as if theyre playing solo...banging the left hand on the bas notes.....

Lovely and nout wrong with 'Basswood' either, both my P's (VM + CV 70) are BW, sound grt.

Atomic is basically a high impact disco octave workout...The verse is the tricky bit..Its just repetition to build the stamina really. Practise doing fast octave leaps up and down the board.