Cosmo Valdemar

Everybody loves a bit of The Shadows now don't they? Plus the audience will most likely recognise the tune. Also, Walk Don't Run or Wipeout.

[quote name='Immo' timestamp='1387058333' post='2307917'] There she is: Sounds pretty neat! Went simple on the wiring and it's only Vol, Vol, Tone. [/quote] Fantastic! I do love the PP arrangement. It's no wonder Entwistle was so fond of it.

[quote name='Storky' timestamp='1386937644' post='2306585'] Outside of The Shadows, footage is a little thin on the ground, but this is a really versitile bass and can do lots of things - not famous, but there is this... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAR27aLrrjs[/media] you need to get past the first demo to about 1.15 before the Marquee comes in. [/quote] Awful review. Here's a bass with loads of different pickup selections / tones, but I'm just going to play with one of them. Oh and I'm going to show off my AWESOME slapping too.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1386954766' post='2306818'] I read in a book written by a Sabs roadie that their stuff was stuck in customs, and that's why GH lent Geezer the Ric for that show. Like many rock stories, their seems to be multiple variations! I remember reading somewhere where Geezer denied ever using the Ric except for that one gig. I swear he's using a 4001 on parts of 'Never Say Die' - 'Junior's Eyes' for example, and from memory, some of the other songs as well. [/quote] Junior's Eyes is a Rickenbacker, no doubt about it.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1386703079' post='2303383'] We play that I'm always surprised how well it goes down, never thought it was that bigger hit [/quote] He [i]was[/i] at a Tenpole Tudor convention...

I bloody love Geezer... I've had the good fortune of seeing him live several times - -the best being with G//Z/R (supporting Fear Factory!) and with Sabbath on the original reunion tour - both times at the London Astoria. Incredible. He also has the honour of playing on my favourite album ever - Black Sabbath's Sabotage.

I love that Marquee! I've often considered taking the plunge on one.

I love Mr Bungle, have done since school. All of the albums are amazing, but California is a masterpiece, regardless of genre - in my mind the best thing Patton has ever worked on. I was lucky enough to see them live at the much-missed London Astoria, in '99 I think it was. And of course, they have an absolute bass monster in Trevor Dunn - has anyone tried to play Dead Goon?

I had a dream about one of these basses once. When I asked the guy in the shop to get it down for me it was an Aria SB1000, but was a Steinberger when he gave it to me. The sound was beyond anything I had ever imagined and I soon had a crowd of gasping admirers. Caused quite severe GAS for some time, let me tell you.

Mine is Heard It Through The Grapevine - played in the CCR style. So much room to play around with the bassline.

I played one last year and loved the feel - particularly the neck - but found the whole thing too dark for me. I often wonder about getting one and popping in a couple of those Bisonic reissues...

Does anyone else think the vocal mix was a little odd? It sounded like Geddy was going through an 'old-time radio' effect throughout, quite boxy and echoey.

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1385643732' post='2290576'] The " 25 Bass Guitars under £500 " review states that the Fender Modern Player Jaguar bass has a scale of 24" ! ( should be 34" ) . Probably a typo . On the same page it gives the scale length of the Freshman FA1BN as 32" . I doubted this and tried to find out online . Even the manufacturer's site doesn't give the scale length ( [url="http://www.freshmanguitars.net/product/fa1bn/"]http://www.freshmang.../product/fa1bn/[/url] ) , so as a last resort I dug mine out and applied the old fashioned tape measure technique ,and..... sure enough it is 32" . I didn't know I had a 32" scale bass , so I learned something thanks to BGM I find the David Etheridge articles to be very helpful . [/quote] The same article states the Steinberger Spirit has a maple (I believe) body and neck, then goes on to marvel at how warm the instrument sounds considering it doesn't contain any wood... For all the sloppy errors, BGM is still far more entertaining than Bass Player, which is little more than an advertising pamphlet these days. And they've changes the shape too - I mean, [i]why[/i]?!

Another fan of Animals here! My favourite Floyd effort. It's strange, as much as I love DSOTM, Meddle, Animals, and The Wall, I [i]cannot stand [/i]Wish You Were Here.

I generally don't like extreme singlecuts (LP/Tele are ok) but that one really works - bravo!

I'm still struggling to get over Pino in The Who...