EssentialTension

No.

I'm a big blues fan and I'd certainly support the comments about its importance to modern popular song forms. However, I think one of the reasons that blues has got a bad name - a boring name perhaps - is because, since the British blues boom of the late '60s, your average pub blues band or pub blues jam has a strong tendency to repeat the same old songs in the same old arrangement. So pub blues has increasingly less and less reference back to, say, Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf, to Skip James or Robert Johnson, but instead merely repeats the way, say, Fleetwood Mac or Savoy Brown or whoever did it. There are standard arrangements of a limited list of blues songs such that the tradition has a tendency to petrification. I don't mean to over-generalize because I know there are plaenty of both traditionalist and creative blues musicians around but I hope people might get my point.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='706674' date='Jan 9 2010, 03:47 PM']Just so long as it's only four pieces ... I'd have been concerned if it had been, maybe, seven or something. [/quote] Ah, but when he finds the other three pieces it will be seven ... what will you do then Jack?

Stop worrying folks because: [quote]THE FRETBOARD HAS BEEN FOUND - see new photos 9 and 10. It is in 4 pieces and I would estimate it is is 70% there, so should be useful as a pattern.[/quote]

Guitar version here: [url="http://www.theguitarcollection.org.uk/gallery8/tuxedo.html"]http://www.theguitarcollection.org.uk/gallery8/tuxedo.html[/url]

[quote name='basshead56' post='705898' date='Jan 8 2010, 07:20 PM']Had a similar idea re pickups and the dean, though mine would be the cabbie! Thanks Dave, And Happy Belated Birthday! [/quote] Ah, thanks very much.

[quote name='basshead56' post='705772' date='Jan 8 2010, 05:23 PM']Really? That´s strange. The two I´ve played (one cabbie, one seafoam green) sounded great. Both were run through an Ampeg SVT 200T and 4x10HLF. Both sounded exactly the same, though the green one had a bit more Hum with the tone on full whack. Perhaps anything sounds good with that Ampeg! I really want the cabbie bass though! Didn´t know they were guitar pickups. Interesting.[/quote] Maybe I was playing a duff one - it was sunburst. I love the seafoam finish. I recall reading at another bass chat place (maybe TB) about someone who had replaced the pickups with TV Jones bass pickups and another who replaced them with some custom made jobs. IIRC, both said that the stock pickups were guitar pickups. And an interesting review here at BC saying something similar: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1308"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1308[/url] I'd still really like one in seafoam with TV Jones Thundertrons like this:

[quote name='ahpook' post='705838' date='Jan 8 2010, 06:15 PM']ah, of course...a lot of it's been poured into old wounds... [/quote] ...yet again...

[quote name='basshead56' post='705524' date='Jan 8 2010, 02:30 PM']Dean Stylist (Cabbie version)[/quote] I played one of those (although not the Cabbie finish) and thought the sound was very poor. I've since been led to believe thay have six-string guitar pickups.

[quote name='ahpook' post='705685' date='Jan 8 2010, 04:26 PM']it's friday...maybe we should all chip in and get some more beers. oh, and a few pinches of salt - i reckon some people could do with them [/quote] Unfortunately there's a shortage of salt at the moment.

There are medium (i.e. 32") scale MIJ Fender Jazz and Precision but I never heard of a JV Squier version.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='704019' date='Jan 7 2010, 12:24 PM']Did Visconti play bass on The man who sold the World - some fantastic bass playing on that[/quote] Yes, according to Visconti's book [i]Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy[/i].

[quote name='William James Easton' post='703786' date='Jan 7 2010, 07:01 AM']Brian Wilson was very underrated.[/quote] 'Many of the bass parts on Beach Boys recordings were played by Carol Kaye.' Discuss. However, even if she did play them I would guess that Wilson's input was important. So +1.

[quote name='SteveK' post='703883' date='Jan 7 2010, 10:19 AM']Okay, no sniggering though [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3Usn3mFgI"]Embarrassing clip[/url][/quote] OK, definitely no sniggering here but I have to say nice dancing. Mind you, that note, reminded me of my own fretless playing. Spicy.

[quote name='SteveK' post='703850' date='Jan 7 2010, 09:45 AM']I wouldn't argue that I'm reminded of a record that I played on in 1981, which, incidentally, made number 6 (IIRC) in t'charts. There's a line in the chorus, octaves played from root, Maj 3rd, 5th. One time I accidentally played a b5. Went back in to the control room to apologize for my goof, and [i]could I do it again[/i]. Producer said it was perfect (?) and I should do it again, and [i]this time[/i] play the b5 every time... Who was I to argue with Tony Visconti.[/quote] Steve, you should reveal what the song was so we can decide whether we agree with Visconti. Also, we could ask John Taylor what he thought of it.

Not only 'RARE' but also 'WOW !!!'.

Underrated as a bass player and has his own (large) sofa:

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='703326' date='Jan 6 2010, 07:33 PM']Is there still room on the sofa ? i've got beers.[/quote] I've got beer too.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='703296' date='Jan 6 2010, 07:14 PM']*pulls up chair, grabs popcorn, waits for fireworks to start*[/quote] Fireworks? Excellent!

[quote name='bigjohn' post='702991' date='Jan 6 2010, 03:53 PM']That's two sides of the same coin though innit. "Rules" can help formulate new ideas more quickly, [i][b]but they can become dogma[/b][/i].[/quote] It can also become a dogma that theory limits creativity. There's a long thread on this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72005"]here[/url] - a thread that seems to re-happen every few weeks. [quote name='bigjohn' post='702991' date='Jan 6 2010, 03:53 PM']I argue with my girlfriend (grade 8 theory) that it's possible to play any note with any chord and make it sound harmonious. She argues till she's blue in the face that you can't - despite me repeatedly asking her to pick any note / chord, watch me play a run or melody which includes said incongruous note over that chord, and then tell me it sounds out of key when it doesn't. But then, she don't know the blues [/quote] I don't see what the point is here - other than that your gf is making a mistake.

[quote name='PaulWarning' post='702839' date='Jan 6 2010, 02:05 PM']To much theory gets in the way of creativity, if it sounds good use it[/quote] I've never known theory to get in the way of creativity. In fact I'd say some knowledge of theory improves the chances of creativity occurring.