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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1367158289' post='2061877'] How about this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpg5PuaGBw[/media] [/quote] I don't see what you couldn't achieve with a volume pedal and a P-Bass on a track like this (any bass in fact), but to be totally honest the space for electric bass doesn't really exist on the track anyway, it's far better suited to a synth bass type swell and benefits from a lack of low end in the track to add to the atmospheric quality in which it succeeds so well. Great track, maybe a bit of a straw man argument though really?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1367153277' post='2061763'] If you want it to do so then it can. However, if you don't want it to do so then it can't. [/quote] Best answer probably. I think they can be used for everything I've ever been involved in, rock, R&B, hip hop, soul, jazz, pop, prog metal even at some stage, I could have very easily covered all bases (pardon the pun) with a P. If you don't like them though then they're never going to be for you, and you should just get something else.

Most of my focus comes on playing bass, I've worked quite hard recently at guitar too as I absolutely love playing. I swap between the two happily, I'm more adept on bass but I'll play guitar happily, swap and change when I want and all that.

All got sold, I was there last weekend and they're gone. The only thing left was a Pensa hollowbody fretless that was designed for Marcus to play but never properly used. Eye watering price for that Fodera fretless, will have been snapped up by some investment banker.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1367086606' post='2061208'] Isnt his son Paul McCartneys drummer?? [/quote] This man. Enough said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQnxGppzGtM

Cool clip. The thing is that Trombone is incredibly hard to play especially in a Jazz situation, rarely do you hear a Trombone player blasting quickly over changes and the ones that do are absolute monster players. Underrated instrument I reckon.

Gone the total opposite way, I was a Jazz bass player for years and have moved over to a P. That said, I'll pick up a Jazz again soon if I can, that '75 reissue looks immense so if I could get hold of one then that's what I'd go for. Great choice then!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1367074488' post='2061002'] It certainly could have been said of whatever stringed bass was most common. [/quote] Yeh absolutely. It obviously made sense at the time for the transition from upright to electric bass to evolve around the tuning of the upright seeing as most players who were to adapt the electric bass as part of their ensembles would be most comfortable with the former. What I'm sure most people didn't realise at the time was the adaptation to electric would involve a whole new approach at what they'd been taught before, they're two very different instruments. It's interesting that the Fender Bass VI didn't become the norm, I think had it been introduced a bit earlier than it could have become the standard as it would have encompassed a lot of what came naturally to guitar players of that era.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1366397462' post='2052157'] ... and the great majority of recorded music over the last 60 years has used a four string bass. [/quote] If 6 string bass had been the standard since the start I often think that the same could have been true of the ERB. I'm a 4 string player mostly, I've owned 5 strings but currently they don't 'suit' what I play for the majority of the time. If I started doing more session stuff I'd be a 5 string player mostly because I could keep up with most eventualities with what a keyboard player might be doing with his left hand for example. 5's and 6's are just a means of extending the range around what you're already playing on a 4. They make things easy when you find yourself spread a bit too thin on a 4 string, tying together longer passages, extending what you play into a lower and upper register. Having seen Anthony Jackson play last week, I totally get why some players choose 6 string, a player like him needs that range. It's just not really for me right now, maybe in the future though.

Sound great! Most mates of mine who are bass players are using them and I can see why.

Ah yes, I know the one, suggested to Roger she might look better as a 7 string with just a piezo instead of any pickups and some Ibanez-style tuners on, those hipshots weren't doing it for me. Oh and it's got a perspex body on it now too... Haha, didn't see it, but I'm sure you're in for a treat when it arrives! What a lovely bunch of guys they are.

Was in the factory a few days back matey, might well have seen your bass getting worked on or even completed. Spoke with Kevin, played every bass in the workshop, what a great place.

Mingus, Scott LaFaro, Ray Brown, Mr. PC Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Patitucci, Christian McBride and Dave Holland.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1366433723' post='2052562'] They say you should never meet your heroes, because you'll be disappointed and disillusioned, but you were obviously lucky enough to pick a hero that's well grounded, and not someone like Flea, who's bound to be a bit of a diva. Lucky you! [/quote] A friend of mine met Flea, he stage invaded at Leeds when he was 17 and gave Tom Delonge a hug, which I don't think he liked very much. Promptly got ejected into backstage where Flea had watched the whole thing, he said he thought it was funny and gave him a backstage pass.

So cool Steve. Got talking to Simon first, talked about his PSP project with Pino for a bit then he introduced me to Anthony who was just sat backstage, one of the most shy unassuming people I've ever met but probably (IMO) the most accomplished bass player alive today. Baring in mind I'd just watched this guy blast through the most insane duelling with Hiromi and was already gobsmacked, I basically had nothing interesting to say to him and was probably a gibbering wreck! Lovely blokes the pair of them.

Simon Phillips introduced us after the Hiromi gig in Blue Note, words failed me as I tried to make conversation!!

Wow, really sad, RIP.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1365871937' post='2045477'] Tim LeFebre experiments with effects a lot : [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHAcPadx_Q4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=oHAcPadx_Q4[/url] Juan Alderete of the Mars Volta relies very heavily on effects and is bit of a guru when it comes to using them on the bass . he even has a Youtube channel devoted to them : [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNkup2PjM4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=QcNkup2PjM4[/url] [/quote] Got there before I could, exactly the two guys I was thinking of too. Alderete uses kill switches on his instruments from time to time to cut stuff in and out of what he plays like Morello and all the great turntablists do.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1365793894' post='2044735'] I'd hunt for a nice late 80s or early 90s one, six bolt neck but two eq, nice figured neck etc [/quote] Passed up an opportunity that I will regret forever to buy a late 80's one in cream with the most amazing birdseye figured maple neck, an out and out beauty and an incredible player!

Can't help you with the pic you're after but I can say that my old DJ was not only excellent (I regret getting rid of it really but I had to) but also lightweight too. I know that it doesn't mean they all will be though, mine was Indonesian made and as easy enough to get around with. Probably my favourite neck profile of any instrument I've come across too.

Lovely, thanks for sharing! I'm going to be in NYC from Sunday for a whole 10 days, will be in and around the East Village for a bit so I'll hunt the Warwick store down.

I don't understand the 'either or' argument in this thread at all, multiple bass players have been mentioned that strongly contend the idea that a player can only be this one-dimensional musician capable of singular genres and styles. It's not even close to true! I'll admit that you are somewhat a product of your environment, maybe if your background has been growing up listening to a lot of R&B, Soul etc. then your playing is likely to mirror this, but that's certainly not true of everyone, probably even becoming less and less true as time goes on if you consider how easy it is to access such a wide range of music as opposed to what you have to listen to because your parents do (for example).

Nice to read, I'm glad you've chosen this over the newest Marcus Miller release that basically no one but a cross-section of bass players will listen to! I like the album a lot.

Second heaviest instrument I owned, expect a lot of them to be solid. I've played heavier examples on the wrong side of 10lbs (for those with back issues at least, not me personally).

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1365617082' post='2041924'] Didn't really want to make this about one player but in this example... he doesn't groove by any defintion I understand.so yes, I'd call him a rock player pure and simple ... [/quote] Interesting, I actually find that a tiny bit hard to believe myself (difficulties separating personal musical preference from it all maybe) but you're entitled to your opinion!