Musicman666

i have no feeling of sadness whatsoever ..to me he comes across grounded ...just like any regular guy not just into playing but collecting as well.

yellow brick road by elton john has some excellent playing and tones on it by dee murray.

thing is he needed to play bass and distorted rhythm at the same time .. that was the hole he needed to fill.

paladino on bass ..rob allen.

put your fingers in the place where it sounds most musical...

having a larger war chest just means you can pick from a wider selection of basses ...it doesn't mean you have to blow 1500 quid for the sake of blowing it but generally the more you blow the nicer it gets however there will be exceptions.

interesting you should say that ...on first hearing i was also a bit put off by the gratuitous distortion but my god does it grow on you to the point that my appreciation of bass tone has evolved somewhat.

a lot of the stranglers bass sound is also tied up in how you attack the strings and how you play ..in the 80s i used to get quite a few comments after gigs about how i sounded like jjb even though we were playing our own stuff and my rig wasn't set up specifically to sound like him...

derek was a huge influence on me .. it's a shame he doesn't get back together with the old band, bearing in mind all the early stuff was structurally started on the bass ..the guy who plays bass with them today does not do the early basslines justice at all in my opinion.

geddy was a huge entwistle fan from the get go so the two go hand in hand in my mind..

good old mother nature tends to have that effect..