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[quote name='shippo' timestamp='1360583747' post='1972572'] Also I'm subscribed to this (and many other) topic onBassChat but I NEVER receive email notifications of responses. Any ideas why? [/quote] Click on your name at the top right of the page. Go to My Settings. Then Notification Options on the left hand side. Set it how you want it.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1360620011' post='1973652'] ... They were a staple favourite among many people when I was a teenager, and for precisely that reason I made a conscious effort to buck the trend and ignore them - I mean, that's what teenagers do, right? [/quote] What is it that you're saying teenagers do or did? Did they have the Beatles as a staple favourite? Or did they buck the trend? Or was it a mixture of the two?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuqrF-3Q-Q

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1360617304' post='1973585'] Mongolian actually, Anda Union, on tour at the moment and absolutely stunning. Steve [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zzSVaX1Lmg

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1360609209' post='1973347'] Fender American Vintage series. Either '57ri or 62ri actually Ive not heard a bad word about the pino signature P [/quote] I've played a couple of Palladino sigs and they are very nice but the bad word is a number and it's the price. You can pickup a used 62RI for probably less than half the usual new price. As long as you're happy with the 1.75" nut, then it's the one.

[quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1360604958' post='1973219'] ... I'd certainly rather the influences of some great bands came through because kids still listened to them, rather than them being lost forever and One Direction being the poster boys for aspiring 'musicians'. [/quote] Like many others I am sure, my aspiring musician son and his aspiring musician friends listen to (and play) all sorts of new and old music but not One Direction.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1360581079' post='1972518'] ... maybe JS Bach should get credit for 'most influential' ... [/quote] That can't be true because some people don't like him.

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1360579366' post='1972475'] Yeh mate I do understand your point, always read my comments in the tone of a stoned news reader lol But I just feel for the younger guys, these kids were not borne into a golden age of music, in most cases they were borne into an age where music is considered as disposable & throw away. They have a different approach to music, information & the world. Our generation have to stop judging these kids with our set of rules because they are not their rules. that's why we have now got a generation gap far wider than we had with our parents. [/quote] In my experience, the so-called generation gap is much much smaller now between myself (61) and my son (19) and his friends than it ever was between myself and my father (with a similar age gap).

[quote name='niceguyhomer' timestamp='1360578954' post='1972465'] Soapy tit w***. [/quote] I think you may have the wrong website.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1360577701' post='1972441'] I'm afraid it will take a lot more than TS Eliot to convince me that LZ were good [/quote] Yes, he was obviously a bit cr@p too.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1360577114' post='1972428'] No, I didn't [/quote] Then either you haven't listened properly or you don't understand Eliot - or both - but it really doesnt matter.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1360575942' post='1972393'] LZ were immature, mature, and bad all at once? [/quote] Yes, but you missed out 'good'.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1360573209' post='1972345'] That doesn't work - listening to previously unexplored genres of music soon leads to the whole "I've heard this all before" syndrome. [/quote] Which unexplored genres?

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1360574727' post='1972367'] Lets not forget that a large part of led zeppelin's output was shamelessly "borrowed" from elsewhere in the first place! [/quote] 'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.' (T.S. Eliot)

[quote name='niceguyhomer' timestamp='1360575120' post='1972375'] Who's being hysterical? [/quote] Probably that will be the Screaming Headless Torsos.

If she's got a bass teacher, which presumably she has at her school, then the teacher could (and should) be checking out the bass in the hands of the student and then give hands-on advice.

That looks to me like bridge or neck slightly misaligned. You could loosen the neck screws and see if there a little play in the neck socket. Then tighten it up again with slightly better alignment - it only takes a small amount of movement.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1360536795' post='1972101'] Exactly the reaction i expected. Well done for not letting me down. [/quote] Well, it may be a let down for you, but it's not a reaction, it's a revelation of the inconsistency and the incoherence of your claims.

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1360533069' post='1972020'] considering that this is a bass players site, I find this discussion almost surreal. In the book 'bass masters - paul mccartney' by tony bacon and gareth morgan (a bit of a 'must read' the authors talk a lot about their influence. Particularly that they tended to listen to US bass players and music and imported those influences into the UK, often adding their own twist. Good examples would be Joe Mauldin (Buddy Holly) and Elvis's bass player Bill Black. Paul McCartney also listened a lot to James Jamerson - who Mccartney said was his hero. He would have the motown records sent over to listen to before they were released... The first time motown riffs were heard, were through the beatles music in the UK. To name just a few... [/quote] What is the surreal part?

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1360532679' post='1972012'] Absolutely. As someone who saw Beatlemania (and saw the Fab Four in the flesh) unfold upon the world i do admit that although i bought all the LPs i was never a real fan and at the time they were never thought of as they are now. They have become a group that you can't seem to criticise. You could have done this in the 60s and wouldn't have got into much of an argument about it. It would just have been your opinion. You'll soon be shouted down if you have the cheek to criticise nowadays. That's what i find amazing and how and what they have become. [/quote] The Beatles are constantly criticised, you're doing it yourself.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1360531402' post='1971986'] ... I can't see things changing in the near future. [/quote] ... but the future lasts a long time.

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1360529631' post='1971942'] ... Classical music gets more and more appealing to me .... If it has anything to do with current 'trends' I just aint interested. [/quote] But surely that appealing classical music had something to do with a current trend sometime in the past?

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360510549' post='1971431'] ... I don't see Victor as an innovator. He's also hardly known to the general public ... [/quote] Almost everyone you mentioned is 'hardly known to the general public'.

[quote name='coachcbg' timestamp='1360518857' post='1971628'] Well, it's all come from somewhere! [/quote] Yes, new and old at the same time.

[quote name='coachcbg' timestamp='1360518154' post='1971610'] ... Neither me nor the guitarist remotely had Led Zep in mind ... [/quote] Perhaps a bit like Led Zeppelin didn't have Willie Dixon and others in mind.