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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1450129798' post='2929951'] And let me assure my position remains. I also think there is an age and generation distance element to this debate. Blue [/quote] So what is your age criterion?

[quote name='stevebasshead' timestamp='1450123457' post='2929870'] Oh god yes! I still can't look at Carol Vordemman without remembering one of his more slanderous posts [/quote] Do you look at her often?

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1450122999' post='2929862'] Most of my favourite guitar sounds come from humbuckers. But then I like jazz and fusion, so I'm probably a hopeless case For me, guitars don't get much better sounding (or looking) than something like this: [/quote] Lovely.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1450120275' post='2929822'] Was Jimmy Blanton all that [i]what[/i]..? Please complete your sentences..! [/quote] Actually, having considered the matter carefully, it must be 'Was Jimmy Blanton Really All That Jazz?'

Those threads ages ago when the Big Beef Chief got banned over and over again. Until he was no more.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1450120275' post='2929822'] Was Jimmy Blanton all that [i]what[/i]..? Please complete your sentences..! [/quote] I was hoping that you would work out what that was for me. Anyway I have checked the dates of birth and death and it's possible that McCartney is a reincarnation of Blanton.

Anyway guys you really are not taking this seriously so you my have to sell all your gear. Was Jimmy Blanton really all that or was he really not all that?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1450115573' post='2929767'] I am more irritated by the Drummer, or the punter, or maybe both, who seem to be munching their way through a very large bag of crisps. [/quote] That will be the Pringles percussionist setting up... http://youtu.be/q-RbjrMb53s

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1450118109' post='2929796'] Nah, modern hi-gain like Mesa, Diezel, Engl et all have a ton of gain baked in and available. Tubescreamers and Boss SD-1 pedals were used with the gain very low, or at zero and the volume up to push the front end on Marshalls and crunchy 'British' amps to get the valves cooking. It's just a clean boost to saturate the valves and kind of acts as a preset EQ. Edit to say, with a Marshall or Laney type amp it still won't provide that Peavey 5150 chainsaw type distortion. It is a 'cleaner' drive. Even with heavy metal, this is still very popular for recording, maybe not so for live use. [/quote] OK, not my field nor my music.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1450113115' post='2929730'] You can hear the origin of Moondance in those clips. [/quote] Steady on!

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1450112838' post='2929721'] it seems you've already said both of the things I came here to say... [/quote] He managed to keep them in separate posts so he probably got away with it.

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1450112718' post='2929719'] if you were, could you confirm whether or not he wore a headband.... that could certainly sway some opinions. i'll be honest i had not heard of him before, but i like his groove, he holds they rhythm but has his own groove without "aimlessly noodling", compliments the music right nice. [/quote] No headband, but suit, shirt and tie, probably hat, trilby style. He was dead at 23.

http://youtu.be/IyOO33JOvbY

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1450112383' post='2929713'] i think to be honest before this gets to far, you had to be there or you don't understand [/quote] What if I was there in a former life? You know, man, like reincarnated, man?

http://youtu.be/8FN7m8iMBlQ

http://youtu.be/zrvHckvHj90

I like the threads where you had to be there or you don't understand.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1450105600' post='2929612'] Surely the finding of the waistcoat guy trumps everything? [/quote] Perhaps you're confusing it with the Donald Trump thread.

[quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1450104837' post='2929602'] The gain available then through the amp alone was limited compared to some the current hi-gain heads available today. And was Jimi not associated with early overdrive/distortion/fuzz units such as the Fuzz Face? Even Gary Moore would front load a Marshall 50w head flat out with a tube screamer and a Boss DS-1, especially with his Strats. [/quote] I take your point (and I also may not know what I am talking about) but aren't the overdrive/distortion/fuzz/tubescreamers doing what the modern hi-gain heads are doing?

You get some instrument insurance included in the annual fee if you join the Musician's Union.

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1450098426' post='2929503'] What is it with bass players and telecasters? I've got a MiM 1972 thinline reissue which I bought c.2000. It's the best skinny string I've ever owned and up there with the best I've ever played. I don't know if it's the simplicity of the controls or the relatively chunky necks, but I've known a fair few tele owning bass players down the years. [/quote] I prefer an Epiphone Casino with P90 dog ear single coils.

http://youtu.be/Zd6DTRywF7Q

You won't know without trying it but why wouldn't it match up?

[quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1450091856' post='2929433'] I think the difference between the two types was much more obvious before the introduction of modern hi-gain amps. Back when a JCM800 ruled the roost, a single coil guitar simply couldn't get the same drive and break-up as a humbucker shod instrument. [/quote] Nonetheless there were guitarists using single coils and plenty of 'drive and break-up' - Hendrix for example.

Bass VI, neck and bridge pickups on, strangle switch engaged, thin pick. Play rhythm.