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A Yamaha, can't remember the name, look on Ishibashi, they crop up...
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Loz...
It's probably for the best you don't let me near this! -
That review is unreadable.
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has anyone got a version of 'Christmas Wrapping'?
Edit - Too lazy to go looking, or to figure it out. -
Ed Friedland gets it right, plays the same Riff 10 times, different pickups, tone settings etc with 3 or 4 techniques.
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I'm guilty of it, then after 2 seconds realise that I Slap 0% of the time with the band...so it's useless for me.
DON'T DEMO WITH IT!!!
Although i do enjoy it for the rythmic end of things, I'm tasteful with it, others aren't. -
Used to have a Jackson C5P (Yours is the C5A) fantastic neck profile, it's resting with a mate these days...
Hmm, if I need a fiver, i'll be nicking it back.
Nice gear. -
Saw an acoutic guitar in a local 'Quality Save' this afternoon.
Failed to see the quality, although I did save the £20 they were charging. -
As Above...
Has anyone got a set spare (ideally need 2 sets) or are any of our BC Luthiers aware of a reliable and cheap source for new ones?
Thanks
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Ah - I only really have a Jap Precision 70's reissue Fretless to offer.
The Fretless in The Avatar is the reason i don't really need it anymore, but i'd like a Jaco model.
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What Trades are you after?
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there is a Betles tune I had to learn for a dep gig last month, and that was the same, half a note out of tune...
I just scrapped the YouTube and Itunes and mashed my way through it.
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[quote name='Master blaster' post='1043142' date='Nov 30 2010, 11:25 PM']i'de like to see the bit after this video. It goes into a nice groove at the end. I love some of the smv stuff, like thunder but I didn't really enjoy this video to much. The start and the end were good but i found the middle a bit hard to listen to. Particularly as BottomEndian said between 2.10 and 2.30.[/quote]
Watching the SMV videos on youtube etc, there are moments with 3 great bassists making great music, and then when they go into 'technique' mode, it clogs up, they all have a unique aproach and signature sounds which don't really fit in together.
This is easy to see on the version of 'Beat It' they did, they all go into this slap thing in the middle, and it just cocks the groove up as much as it can be cocked up...
But, they are 3 of the greatest bass players to have lived, and the three of them on a stage is great fun at times, and they're cool, and i'm not making a living from my bass playing, and they have and are. So my opinion is worth very little. -
Love playing with a Pick, have played with a pick from day 1, stopped for a couple of years, and in the band i've reintroduced it and i'm enjoying it.
The technique i can't get to grips with is double tapping, but to be fair i'd never ever use it to the level where i'd need to get better than i am at it.
I spent so much time slapping from about late teens into my early 20's, i then realised i should have been working on being a better bass player rather than the best slap bassist.
These days it's all root note fingerstyle, or nice chordal work and some nice straight picking.
Any technique is worth dipping your toes in as far as i'm concerned, it's like being a good mechanic with a decent toolkit. -
I appreciate the techniques on display.
I'm just moving away from enjoying this kind of bass playing, think my tastes are changing a bit.
No denying Vic's prowess, Miller is more musical. Both greaat players. -
Yes, keep it, then i'll buy it when i've sorted myself out!
This bass is beautiful. -
bargain, £150 for one of these is ridiculous.
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Hit me With Your Rythym Stick - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
But Anyway - Blues Traveller (Killer bass solo towards the end)
Please Do Not Go - Violent Femmes (Big bass part throughout, with a cool lead part in the middle)
Colour Me Once - Violent Femmes
Barbary Coast - Jaco Pastorious
Sex In A Pan - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
I've Got a Right - Oleta Adams (Pino Palladino)
Hand In Hand - Phil Collins
Behind The Lines - Phil Collins
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
A million others, listning to Hand In Hand as we speak, and i think it's a bigger inspiration on my playing than i realised; Alphonso Johnson is a monster on his performances throughout the Face Value album.
edit - Nightshift - The Commodores -
Would be nice to see the Fretless Tony, the CS is temptation incarnate, and i only saw it at bassday, didn't play it.
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My lovely old Jap Squier has similar patches, and when I used it for a 12 hour recording marathon, I had marks up my right forearm akin to Nettle Rash.
Sounds mega though, so i'll take one for the team everytime I record.
edit - this photo doesn't really show what i'm on about = fail. -
£399 ish is the word from the men...
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I think Fender is done with Mr Hamm, he took a bit of a pause at Bass Day when he announced the Washburn thing.
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Fretless Fender Precision (CIJ)
in Basses For Sale
Posted · Edited by AndyTravis
Hello, been a while.
Selling up, may have a shot at a dream Jazz.
£550 - Or +/- if you have a nice P/J Pickup set Nordstrand/EMG/Duncan etc.
Fretless Precision is a rare Jap reissue.
Has US pickups
Paypal is fine, add fees.
Bank Transfer is preferred.
Andy x