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[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='962691' date='Sep 20 2010, 08:31 PM']He had to give up playing drums due to back problems. He's a highly under rated drummer, awesome feel.[/quote] Agreed. Check this out, great Big Band sound. Not even my thing at all but worth seeing. Nathan East on upright as well.

James Jamerson Pino Palladino Paul McCartney Anthony Jackson Nathan Watts

Chester Thompson who I saw drumming on this Motown clip Phil Collins has got going on currently cannot play Motown to save his life IMO. He's just not got the feel right in the clips I saw.

if I listened to all those twats and what they had to say I'd be angry basically all the time. You can probably take some solace in the fact they're all living in their mum and dad's basement and will probably never achieve success?

Sick setup! That Jazz is ridiculously good looking.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='959644' date='Sep 17 2010, 04:36 PM']To be honest I think a mercy killing of that 'bass' should take place.[/quote] Huge +1.

[quote name='tredders' post='959082' date='Sep 17 2010, 07:50 AM']Thanks for the replies. I've now got terrible GAS for one of these! I've noticed that there's a Contemporary series Club bass for £450 or so.... wonder what that's like? :-)[/quote] Terrible, very badly made with massive design flaws, avoid at all costs. I had one briefly, seems strangely ironic having praised Hofner so highly only to slate them but the cheaper models are pretty terrible and are definitely worth avoiding. Just IMO.

Superb, and proof there's good music out there still to be had. Agreed on the great tone also, took an old 67' Hofner Club bass into the studio a while back with flats on it and it sounded so great on record. I like some modern basses, but there's nothing better than a cool hollowbody like a Hofner.

I think dynamics are the first thing a drummer should concern himself with. Bad dynamics = bad technique as far as I'm concerned. Telling him might offend him but it's probably the only way round it, either that or find I new drummer I reckon.

Yeh saw this guy playing a while ago... pretty damn good!

[quote name='ezbass' post='954869' date='Sep 13 2010, 03:05 PM']That's no defense as they're both TV programs that happen to have live music. Their primary audience are people in their lounges in front of the box so the sound should be tailored accordingly. The sound at the recent Jamie Cullum RAH proms gig was brilliantly mixed, proving that it can be done. As to hiring any old idiots, I've worked at both TV centre and Broadcasting house and the quality of some of the staff is staggering and not in a good way.[/quote] Yeh okay so I'd probably point the finger at whoever was in charge of broadcasting the live sound. I agree that the likes of Jools Holland's Later show is poorly done, but I know a few people for examle who were at Stevie Wonder's gig in Hyde park a month ago who said the sound was excellent live, then watching it back on TV later the sound was dire and in no way an accurate representation of sound quality on the day.

[quote name='ezbass' post='954592' date='Sep 13 2010, 12:15 PM']+1 Tonight With Jonathon Ross always had the crappiest mixes, Later is often another victim of a deaf sound guy.[/quote] In both these show's defense I do think the live sound isn't translated as well through television, which is probably the case most of the time. The BBC aren't just going to hire any old idiots to do live engineering after all.

Jerry Meehan is a great player, heard him on an Omar album a while back and he's damn funky. Used to be Chris Sharrock on kit who's a local guy, but he moved on to Oasis (Noel Gallagher apparently saw an opportunity to piss both his brother Liam off by hiring a Robbie Williams band member, and then piss Robbie off by stealing his drummer... hilarious move ). Yolanda Charles will always remain my favourite RW bassist though.

Yeh I'd get it if I had the money to keep it going. I love Fenders.

[quote name='Protium' post='953159' date='Sep 11 2010, 09:13 PM']Or just use the volume control on the bass...[/quote] I don't get the sort of tone I require from my two basses without maximum level both in a recording and live setting and the output of both basses varies greatly, so I don't reckon it's as straight forward as using the volume on the bass IMO.

It's a personal thing, but have a look at Nordstrand NJ5S's, the split coil will cancel the hum.

[quote name='chris_b' post='951882' date='Sep 10 2010, 02:55 PM']I only posted that because you seemed to be having a Melvin Bragg moment!![/quote] Ha, the old Manchester/Hacienda music scene is really interesting to me and often gets overlooked as important hence the answer. [quote]i dont think you need to be "up there" to be a good player...you just have to like it...[/quote] That was my point really. Noticed from other posts you're a big fan of a lot of funk and groove stuff so maybe it might not be up your street, but hey, worth listening anyway isn't it!

[quote name='chris_b' post='951873' date='Sep 10 2010, 02:43 PM']Does that mean no?[/quote] It means that it's up to you whether you like him or not, doesn't it. He's never going to be up there with the technical greats of his time but it shouldn't detract from the fact he was an important figure in Manchester back in the day.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='951861' date='Sep 10 2010, 02:35 PM']ive never heard Peter Hook play...is he any good??[/quote] He's a very different bass player who revels in playing in more of a baritone guitar range. Some people hate it, some love it. As far as I'm concerned he's an innovator of post-punk and dance music who was part of a very important time of popular music history.

[quote name='urb' post='951770' date='Sep 10 2010, 01:09 PM']Awesome bloke - awesome musician - end of.... The thing I like most about him is his willingness to fail in order to try new things out and really push himself all the time - it's the imperfections that make compelling art - even though I know he strives for ridiculously high standards in everything he does. And the other thing I like is that I don't like all of his music - meaning he remains challenging and not happy to be predictable in any way. I'll be getting the new album regardless...[/quote] +1. The guy has got some brilliant ideas, and happily he fits into the kind of music that I find very interesting to listen to.