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[quote name='jbn4001' timestamp='1450293264' post='2931475'] I think a Yamaha Synclavier [/quote] The Synclavier was made by New England Digital, not Yamaha.

[quote name='ratman' timestamp='1450350022' post='2931849'] Actually, he's got quite a reputation for being a grumpy f****er. [/quote] That's the first time I've ever heard that. I've met him a few times & a nicer person you couldn't wish to meet. Plenty of others have said the same thing too.

[quote name='Philly' timestamp='1450302252' post='2931592'] Do you get dud strings straight out the packet? [/quote] You sure do.

[quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1450274479' post='2931246'] I think this is perhaps at th base of the issue. The fellow is a terrible guitar player (I mean awful, knows no theory and cannot string a melody to save his life) [/quote] Not knowing any theory doesn't necessarily make you a terrible guitar player. Having said that, going by everything else you've said he sounds like a terrible guitar player......

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1450262526' post='2931035'] That only works if you play exclusively in Dorian mode. [/quote] Very good!

You can really hear the Beatles influence even though he died in 1942 - that just proves how f***ing good the Beatles were.

I like the threads where Blue tells us how old he is.

That looks really good for the money.

The Mellotron intro to "Watcher of the Skies" by Genesis. One of the very few things I still love as much now as I did when I first heard it.

I forgot to mention Tim Butler from the Psychedelic Furs in my other list, so I'm doing it now.

What has he played on? I've never heard of him apart from seeing his name mentioned on here occasionally.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1450005749' post='2928648'] I think this is being overthought, imagine showing a group of various people a flip book with pictures of various bass players, singing or not, mindless noodling, rocking out, whatever. Answers like "yes thats Paul McCartney from the Beatles, wings and the frog chorus" is a 100% hit, but I'll take a "ah thats the boys are back in town guy" or a "him with the tantric sex thing" as 50/50s etc, chris Squire for example, no chance really is there? [/quote] It's a bass forum, so obviously the people on here will have a vastly overinflated idea of how important/popular/well known bass players are.

Saw him live a couple of times & he was superb.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1449962399' post='2928476'] The studio version is substantially shorter. [/quote] Jaco played drums on the studio version too, the little clever clogs.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1449914202' post='2927875'] A tuning fork for one string and then tune to that was the smart way to go, not that anyone told me at the time. [/quote] I still use a tuning fork.

[quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1449950838' post='2928369'] ahh I was gonna chime in with Entwistle obviously haha perhaps Roger Waters, Brian Wilson and Jack Casady? The first two are probably better known as the brains of their bands however [/quote] Jack Casady a household name? Are you insane? At best a small percentage of people might think he was a member of the Partridge Family.

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1449948513' post='2928343'] ...there must be another famous John Paul Jones. [/quote] I think he was a pope.

Just sounds like somebody playing with a slide on an electric guitar to me, not a pedal steel.

Not a name I'd heard of until the other day, but I've taken a chance on a secondhand one that will be with me sometime next week. The spec of the one I've bought is exactly what I was looking for, and I've got it for £900 less than a new one. Build quality look first class, and the couple of Youtube clips sound very nice indeed. They do a big all-valve bass head too.... http://www.mpf-sound.es

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1449941438' post='2928256'] Did anyone read my OP? I did say that knowing what a bass guitar was or indeed that is what they played was secondary, Kim Kardashian is a household name and she does nothing at all! [/quote] Going by your criteria I would say the only 'bass player' who is genuinely a household name would be Keanu Reeves. Do people really think that Jack Bruce, John Entwhistle or John Deacon are names that would familiar to the majority of the population?

A large majority of people who aren't musicians aren't even aware there is an instrument called a bass guitar, so to expect there to be bass players who are household names is just unrealistic.

[quote name='BassBod' timestamp='1449920205' post='2927946'] Colin Hodgkinson - look up Back Door. [/quote] I Googled "Back Door" & all I got was a load of adverts for replacement upvc doors & various bum sex sites.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1449922304' post='2927984'] I would argue Sting had nothing to do with Punk and New Wave, other than being a blatant band wagon jumper... [/quote] There are a lot of people who would be on that list, many of them already mentioned. Many of them were playing in pub rock bands & just jumped on the punk bandwagon when they saw there might be a bit of cash in it.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1449914466' post='2927879'] We are all better than someone unless we are the worst one of all ... [/quote] That'll be me.....

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