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  1. 21 minutes ago, lowdown said:

     

     

     I got that album when it first came out and to this day, it's still one of my all time favourite albums. The playing, groove and arrangements on it are blinding.

     

    I've always wondered why they didn't develop that track further, even with both parts spliced together it's only 1.45.

    I can see why they left it as just a groove, it stands up on its own.

     

    Rocco had some of the hardest working right-hand fingers in the business.

     

    The difficult thing about Rocco's busier lines is strict alternation. Raking throws things out of sync. That, and playing at the right location along the string for tension. Rocco played roundabout where a P pickup is on a P bass, lower tension there. If you play it further back along the string with the higher tension, it's a lot more difficult. You tend to run out of juice.

  2. 13 minutes ago, NJE said:

    I can still respect anyone that can write something that sells and achieves a mass appeal….I can’t do it! If I could write a piece of pop fluff that stuck in people’s heads and got streamed 139 million times I would in a heartbeat.

     

     

    But that now usually comprises of a team of songwriters and their dog. It's an industry and it functions as such. From 2019:

     

    "Music Industry Contributes £5.2 Billion To UK Economy – New Figures Reveal."

     

    https://www.ukmusic.org/news/music-industry-contributes-5-2-billion-to-uk-economy/

     

    Also, there is an element of nepotism in the industry, it's not what you know, it's who you know.

     

    It's a business.

  3. 20 minutes ago, Bean9seventy said:

    woodtone is as important as spliting hairs for those who go as far as dividing dandruff,

    so yeah, you got the time money & patience to work out what is best woodtone/other material for you, well done

     

    dose it matter ? probably, if you buy an expensive "all perfect" pro bass that doesn't sound & play well , it could be the wood / other saturating harmonic material its built with ,, 

     

     

    I thought it was interesting to see how a guitar vibrates. Make your own mind up.

     

    Dante missed out a particular circle of hell when he wrote The Inferno; Tonewood debates.

  4. Coldplay/Travis/Keane, I like a few songs from each of them. Keane would be the favourite, for Tom Chaplin's voice.

     

    There's only one way to find out who's the bestest really, a bare knuckle boxing match. I reckon Tom could have them.

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  5. Ostrich feather duster.

     

    If a bass needs a good clean, like the last bass I bought, I use a flat sponge pad and water of about 65 degrees with some washing up liquid. Cut the strings off, squeeze the sponge pad out so it's barely damp, at that temp it's evaporating off as you are using it. Then lift the front end of the sponge as you move forward rolling it back to lift the stuff off. If there is any grit left on the bass, and you hit it with the usual polishing motion, it will leave a skating rink effect, which looks particularly bad on black painted basses. 

     

    Some bees wax polish for the fretboard (sprayed onto the rag), then micro-fibre cloth the whole bass over.

     

    I've found that spraying stuff on a gloss finished bass, usually ends up collecting in the pickup routes or around the edges of the bridge plate and other fittings.

     

    For hands that do dishes to be as soft as your bass, use Mild Green Fairy Liquid.

  6. Kinga is a great player, I haven't heard that much stuff but when her first track came out, it was obvious that she has it in the genetic code. And long slender fingers too, which is handy.

     

    I like the extra little bit of concentration on the 16ths pattern at 1.15, I picked up the bass and tried it, it's quite quick. If you are going to do it, you can't lag, then you're playing catch-up. Not a good place to be.

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