jazzburger

Well, that's got my Friday started. Groove for days - that's the air I breathe. Love this!!

'Second Coming' from that album is a total bass jam. Lovely stuff.

Mind if I join you? The Crusaders totally rule in my little universe.

Well, you hear that drum sound and you just know it's Philadephia International. I have driven at over 100 mph on the inside lane of the M60 listening to this. I'm not proud of it but there were extenuating circumstances... Derrick Graves on bass.

If you love mid-70's Blue Note and the many fine works of Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, I think you might like this. Thumbs at the ready...

Hi Phil, I loved reading your intro and dreaming of going to Bassday UK at the Royal Northern College of Music again. The fact that we share the same last name in no way contributes to my perception of you as a splendid human being 🙂 I only joined Basschat yesterday (was it only yesterday?) so I can hardly say "welcome" but I am aware that I'm in auspicious company. All the best. (real name Chris Mann)

This is for Bubinga5 - it doesn't answer your earlier question (though I'm on the hunt for that) but I love it anyway and there are great play-along possibilities here 🙂

SpondonBassed - thanks for the tip. Let's see if this works - I hope so because this is one of my favourite live solos.

I'm a big fan of Wayman Tisdale and I love the clean/filthy sound he gets on 'Circumstances'. I don't use effects but I think I'm hearing chorus and a fair bit of compression - not that I care really, I'm too busy grooving to it. If a forum member can tell me how to embed YouTube clips I'd be grateful. My posts are all looking pretty dull...

I'm afraid that's true. I had a health check maybe 12 years ago and they found 40% hearing loss in my left ear - that's the one where the tinnitus drives me nuts at night. If I'd known back then what I know now...

Incognito's Randy Hope-Taylor has the most gorgeous tone on this track. The solo takes me off somewhere else and though I have the part written down, I've never tried to play it (tut, tut). (I don't know why this does not display the video window - it's my browser I think)

Loudest live gig - Thin Lizzy's last gig at the Hammersmith Odeon in the mid-80's. I was in the first 5 rows somewhere and when they had 5 guitarists on stage at the same time, it was painful. I had pronounced ringing in my ears for about 3 days and I've lived with tinnitus every day since. Loudest DJ gig - DJ Cheese at Brands Hatch banqueting suite - again the mid-80's. Low ceilings and nowhere to get away from whatever his PA was pumping out. I was so shattered I can't really remember driving home to West London. I was phenomenally stupid in the 80's.

Thank you Marc. I definitely take the point about 'try before you buy' and I've read things about noisy bridge pickup and scratchy controls and suchlike. I've taken the plunge now and as long as the courier doesn't wreck my new toy, March could be an interesting month...

I'll try not to treat this as a counselling session - honest. I lived in London in the 80's and I bought an Aria Pro II RSB Deluxe bass (candy apple red with gold hardware) and little Ohm practice amp. I started out the wrong way - I wanted to slap 24/7 and be Mark King. I only had a few bass lessons but I wasn't focussed enough to practice properly or even figure out what I wanted to do on bass. I rehearsed with a couple of soul bands and a rock band but gigged very little. A Trace Elliot head (yes, I really wanted to be Mark King) came and went as did the loaned speakers, the fretless twin to the fretted Aria and a Precision copy that a mate 'just gave me'. I moved back to Manchester and rehearsed a lot with some very talented blues and rock players but, again, very little gigging. The Aria sat in its bag for ages. Just recently, I recalled a time in London when I often visited a mate who had a Fender Mustang bass which I could not put down whenever I was round there. With that memory in mind, I just ordered a short-scale Ibanez bass which looks like I always wanted a bass to look and has the short scale that I hope will let me play all the stuff I used to play but, more importantly, let me learn some proper technique without hurting my old hands. I'm 62 - will I go out gigging? Probably not. Will I record something? Likely. Will I enjoy having a bass back in my hands? I am hopeful. Nice to meet you.