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I've always had a soft spot for Mick Karn's bassery.... a very unique player... +1 for [b]Liquid Glass[/b] (with Yoshihihiro Hanno) & [b]Polly Town[/b] (with David Torn & Terry Bozzio) & [b]Three part species - master[/b] ...classic Karn weirdness! [i]I liked Dali's car[/i] ....some very inventive bass playing!

a Jedson bass at 13.... it was sh*te!....looked like this: ...followed by an [b]Audition bass[/b] from Woolies!... it was 'shop soiled' (string missing & ding in scratchplate) so I managed to haggle with the shopkeep from £26 to a tenner!....was well chuffed! ... anyone have a pic of an Audition bass?

Well... I've been using the GB neo-pak for several months now.... & it's a great amp.. & light too!... at a mere 350 watts it's half the output but twice the size of a shuttle!.... reckon the sound must be similar... same EQ configuration... but coz of it's [i]HUGE[/i] proportions I can see to fiddle with the knobs without putting me glasses on!... [i]old skool rules![/i] If I ever had to replace it..... I'd have to get a shuttle......

Here's my contribution.... [url="http://www.the-man-from-funkle.com/"][b]the Man from Funkle[/b][/url] the [i]'nice little earner'[/i] [url="http://www.torn.biz/"][b]Torn[/b][/url] the one to vent my spleen! [url="http://www.myspace.com/grooveplanetuk"][b]Groove Planet[/b][/url] project with a drummer & producer [url="http://cerberusmusic.blogspot.com/"][b]Cerberus[/b][/url] bit of fun with the two guys I started playing with.... 1000 years ago! ([i]...at least![/i])

[quote name='kdphysio' post='394060' date='Jan 28 2009, 09:13 PM']It's all good stuff as far as i'm concerned. Music is music, whether you're playing the comb & tissue paper, the spoon, or the bass! His version of 'Stairway...' is very impressive. K[/quote] Quite!... he's got a good feel as a musician, whatever the instrument.... personally, I like his own compositions .... [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nEI_vzI_CWQ&feature=PlayList&p=4D4CEFEC7FBC84B2&playnext=1&index=4"]'Epic love'[/url] This is what he says about himself: "My aim is to play melodic music with a full and complete sound using my bass guitar. All of my original compositions and arrangements are played on my Zon VB4 bass with D'Addario PICCOLO strings (extremely light gauge strings that are very receptive to altered tunings and allow me to tune my bass to higher pitches). Essentially, piccolo strings can be tuned anywhere between standard bass tuning all the way up to the first four strings of a guitar. Altered tunings are a key part of my approach. Musical background: I am lucky to have received cello lessons from a young age before switching to bass when I was 17 (ten years ago). I learned how to play by jamming along with my favorite rock bands. When I was 21, I discovered Michael Manring and Victor Wooten and was immediately drawn to the solo bass scene... I hope you enjoy the music!" .....Seems pretty unpretentious

[quote name='hairyhatman' post='368099' date='Jan 1 2009, 10:17 PM']Now Muckin' about with USE ME by Bill Withers on iTunes ........ INFECTIOUS!! Note to self .... must stop noodling this year and actually learn something !! [/quote] ...have you heard the [b]Raw Stylus[/b] version? .... it really kicks ass!

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='365878' date='Dec 29 2008, 11:28 PM']Anyone else astonished at the bass on 'Beat It' being played with a pick?[/quote] +1! Really very interesting thread this.... I'm lovin' it!

Excellent stuff!... thanks for that, he's always been a favourite of mine ever since that album with Gary Newman... a particularly sh*te & unfinished sounding album, but with the exciting & creative bass parts of Pino, it becomes very listenable!

[url="http://www.drumbankmusic.co.uk/acatalog/Musical-Instrument-Tuition.html"]try here[/url]

[quote name='lonestar' post='355267' date='Dec 15 2008, 06:47 PM']I'd love to see an old Bells catalogue from the mid '70s. it was my porn of choice when I was a kid.[/quote] ...ditto!

[b]This: [/b] Arrived today as expected.... & exactly as described... I'm well chuffed! Keith is a great guy to deal with, says it how it is & obviously had looked after this bass ...it's immaculate! (...as described) It was well packed &[i] bomb proof[/i] to the whims of 'Parcel Farce' too....

Since the last time I was in this thread I've changed me cabs..... So here's me tackle now....... Wish I had the matching shoes & earrings though!

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='342696' date='Dec 2 2008, 10:01 AM']That's not gay - it just likes pushing the hoover about a bit !!! Now THIS is a real lifter of gentlemans shirts!!!!!! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24037&hl=fettled+fender"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...=fettled+fender[/url] I came in from work yesterday and it had a quiche in the oven !![/quote] .....

+1 for Percy Jones & Mick Karn!.... :brow: That Jaco solo from Shadows & Light didn't make it to the album (...so that says something) That album was my 1st introduction to Jaco's playing & it blew me away, I still think some of his best work was when he was being the bass player for Joni... more 'playing for the song' & less w@nking if you get me.....

My daughter had a nickel allergy... piercings, belt buckles even coins would set off the most horrendous rashes.. after doing all the 'suppressant creams' we eventually got her a referral to the Homoeopathic hospital in Bristol.. where after one lengthy consultation, she was prescribed some little tablets & a powder.... In a few days it started to clear up, until it completely vanished!..... We were amazed! Over the next few years the rashes came back a couple of times.. We phoned the Hospital up & they sent us some 'top up' powder by post.... Again it did the trick... These days she doesn't have a problem with it at all.. I don't know what the stuff was & it may be that it wouldn't work the same for other people... but the principle of homoeopathic treatment is to stimulate the bodies natural defences by introducing minute amounts of the very thing that causes the reaction... Rather than just suppressing the symptoms...... It certainly worked for us...

...an interesting thread indeed!... I can relate to the 'light' & 'dark' sides of this [i]business they call show[/i] As a kid, I could never imagine me dealing with the 9 - 5 game, it just wouldn't suit me... sounded like a prison sentence! ...so I avoided it. For the last 30 years my income has mainly always come from 'music related diseases' ...Bands, teaching, recordings etc.. consequently I have had times of poverty & also [i]relative[/i] wealth ... I've bought up 2 kids (..for several years as a single parent) It has often been very tough making ends meet... but it [i][b]definitely[/b][/i] has been an adventure!.... I have no pension! [i]I'll be 48 in march 09[/i] I've just got back from playing a week in Cyprus with a funk/soul covers band, to find a royalty report for $303.17 for my share in a Sample CD that was recorded over 6 years ago on the door mat.... that gives me a glow! it's not big ([i]or clever![/i]).... but it's my life... & for the most part, I enjoy it... I don't think I could do anything else.....