Cosmo Valdemar

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1348006661' post='1808161'] Cheers! Hammersmith Apollo is 10 minutes walk from my house - think I'll get tickets for the May 2013 gig [/quote] See you there!

Not my teacup at all, but it still annoys me why it has to sound like a club remix from the off. If it sounded like a real, organic breathing band behind her it would be ten times better. IMHO if course.

I want one. Thanks for the video!

Argus is definitely one of my favourite albums in every aspect, but particularly Martin's incredible Thunderbird tone and playing - Sometime World should be far more well known than it is, such a fantastic bassline. WIshbone Four has some great basslines and tones, particularly the aforementioned Sorrel, but ropey production and slightly lacklustre songs let it down. "Interesting" fact - MArtin's tone is the sound of the Thunderbird neck pickup only, sent theough two amps - one clean and bassy, one toppy and driven. I recently saw MT's Wishbone Ash and these days he's using a Hartke head for the clean lows and an Ashdown ABM for drive, all through Ashdown MAG cabs. He also had a Blackstar pedal for boost when soloing - sadly he buggered up the solo to Why Don't We, and looked rather annoyed with himself. Soundwise, it was his classic tone through and through.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1347953370' post='1806959'] Awesome. How can stuff like this be left to fester in an archive somewhere? Criminal. Anyway - this is [i]proper[/i] prog. Atmosphere, emotion, clever... The current 'Clever-for-the-sake-of-it' Prog by numbers (Dream Theatre etc.) is a different beast entirely, IMO. It's of no interest at all to me. [/quote] This.

Glorious.

I was happy to hear a track from Babbacombe Lee, but most of it was a bit meh. Bring back Mattacks!

Lol 'Laugh Out Loud' Creme!

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1347057597' post='1796679'] They were neck and neck with the Chilis until Under the Bridge then it was game over. [/quote] In terms of mainstream success, maybe. I don't consider the Chilis to be anywhere near FNM's level of musicianship and originality. Billy Gould though - great. His tone on 'King For A Day...' is just incredible. If anyone asks me to define bass 'growl', it's right there.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1347123644' post='1797224'] Without You by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. Most people credit the song to Harry Nilsson. A few wretched souls even think it's by Mariah Carey. [/quote] As I'm on a real computer now I can add the actual song. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBS_1vGwpU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBS_1vGwpU[/url] Such sorrow.

Without You by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. Most people credit the song to Harry Nilsson. A few wretched souls even think it's by Mariah Carey.

My ears have always said flats, but JPJ says otherwise...

Looks like Burns pickups...

+1 to everything said already - and there's no reason why this bass shouldn't play excellently, and I know from experience even this 'lowly' model of Spector can sound great. Unless there is some inherent fault we don't know about, this is nowhere near a 'crap bass'. It just looks like it needs some TLC.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1346763226' post='1792797'] Yes, the two others are miserable f***ers, but Martin is a gem, always talk to Martin if he has time. [/quote] I'm afraid I spent a bit of time with Martin in the workshop downstairs, and he gave me just as much guff as the other guy on the shop floor. He was a bit more polite though, I'll give him that.

Is that [i]another[/i] Rob Trujillo sig?

Chris McIntyre used to have a workshop in Peckham, and he is excellent but sadly for me he's moved back to Edinburgh. AFAIK though, he regularly comes back down this way to keep his London clients happy. I'm sure he could squeeze in a setup. As for the Gallery, I found them unhelpful and disinterested whenever I went in, and on one occasion quite insulting. I've had a couple of setups by them and they were ok at best.