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[quote name='Sharkfinger' post='36625' date='Jul 24 2007, 11:08 PM']Wow, the mother lode of scale lengths! Will have a good dig around.
Well, I've been playing a good few years now. I just want to see if it will make things easier, rather than struggle on with something when there seems to be another way around.[/quote]

I think it was a penis envy thing. I used to go to classes and see teenagers / kids managing on 34" scale basses and then I broke out my 30" scale bass and felt a bit of a twot. I feel a lot more comfortable with a huge bass in my hands now but then perhaps I am trying to make up for something else, like short blokes who drive a Porsche.

Drums - Jimmy Chamberlain / Stewart Copeland
Guitar - Johnny Marr / Billy Duffy
Bass - Mick Karn / Sting
Vocals - Richard Butler / Ian Astbury

God alone knows what this would sound like!

[quote name='TheBrokenDoor' post='36712' date='Jul 25 2007, 08:52 AM']Dunno what he's up to but I'll ask Eddie when I next see him.

Dan[/quote]

Eddie Lundon?...say hi and tell them 'Wishful Thinking' is a cracking track thankyou

[quote name='Hutton' post='36716' date='Jul 25 2007, 08:56 AM']Even if you don't like Motown which is of course your right, I am sure that you would appreciate the bass playing of James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt. They are well worth a listen if you can blot out the rest of the song![/quote]

I have to say because Motown / soul etc is not my bag, I haven't really heard them.

These guys are obviously your heroes and inspired you to pick up the bass. I have different heroes Mick Karn, Peter Hook,JJ Brunel, Andy Rourke, etc. but I appreciate other genres such as Percy Jones, Bernard Edwards, Larry Graham. No doubting these guys were awsome it's just not my thing. I'm sure James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt were geniuses but I just don't get the whole Motown / Philly sound thing' just as I can see why people would hate The Smiths because of Morissey but Rourke / Marr are just amazing musicians.

[quote name='paul, the' post='36510' date='Jul 24 2007, 06:40 PM']You and Jim Davidson.

For the good of mankind, I hope that's it.[/quote]

LOL...still don't like it though

Been learning a bit of China Crisis recently and discovered another long lost bass hero, Gary ‘Gazza’ Johnson.

Some lovely stuff on ‘The Highest High, ‘African And White’ and some nice subtle fretless on ‘Christian’

Anyone know what he is doing now and if he recorded with anyone else?

Am I the only one who hates Motown music?

Well here we go. I kept a list when I asked some while back of all the shortscale basses that were available and here is the reply.....happy researching

Here's a stab at the list with scale lengths:

Fender Mustang 30"
Fender Bass IV 30"
Musicmaster 30"
Fender Urge 1 32"
Fender Bullet 30,32" (also 34")
Fender P-Bass Jr. 28.5"
Bronco 30"
SX (Essex, Rondo) shortscale P and J 30"
Alembic (custom)
Birdsong 30.5"
Landing 30,32"
Gibson EB2 30.5"
Ric 4001 and 4003 33.25"
Gibson EB1 EB0 and EB3 30"
Danelectro
Hofner Violin 30"
Rob Allen Mouse 30"
Ovation Typhoon 30.5"
Epiphone Allen Woody 30"
Epiphone ET-280
Ventura 32"
Carvin SB series
Phantom bass (new reissue) 30"
Vox 30"
Gretsch G2202 Electromatic Junior Jet 30"
Cort Action Bass
Samick Corsair 26"
Ovation Applause AE-40 30"
Teisco 30,31,32"
Hamer Slammer 30"
Hallmark Swept-Wing 30"
Guild Starfire
Guild JSB-2 31"
James Bass (custom)
R Bass (custom)
Michael Dolan (custom)
FBB (custom)
LeCompte (custom)
Framus 30"
Egmond 30"
Gibson Les Paul 30.5"
Wishbass (custom)
Ampeg SSB 30"
XStrange/Bruce Johnson SSB 30.5"
Ampeg AMB-1 (Dan Armstrong) 30.5"
Jay Turser 30"
Ibanez GAXB 150
Gretch hollowbody
Gibson EB-6
Gretsch Synchromatic BassVI
Epiphone Rivoli
Epiphone EB-O 30"
Epiphone Viola
Jerry Jones Longhorn 30"
Jerry Jones Longhorn BassVI
Jerry Jones Shorthorn 30"
Harmony 30"
Hagstrom (various models) 31,31.5,32"
Hamer 8-string
Hamer 12-string
Rickenbacker 3000 30"
Hofner Club
Hofner President
Rogue VB-100 31"
Fender Hello Kitty/Badtz-Maru 30"
Daisy Rock 30"
Fender Squier P-basses (a few) 32"
Kubicki Ex-Factor 32"
Kramer (aluminum neck) 31.5"
Westone 32"
Aria (some older models) 32"
Univox 30,32"
Vantage 30,32"
Epiphone EA-260
Lyle
Hohner
Dean Evo 30"
Luna
Tanglewood 30"
Brice HVB-600 30.3"
Douglas WVEB Violin Bass (Rondo)

what a brilliant bit of software

To be honest, i paniced when i first got a 34" scale bass because I'm a 6ft bloke with girls hands!

I swapped in my first Ibanez gsr200 and traded it in for a short scale bass and it felt horrible, more like playing a toy or a six string.

I was told not to worry that with various hand stretching excercises I would be able to play ok so I sold the short scale and now have two 34" scale basses and i can easily span across 4 frets even with my girlie hands

So what i'm trying to say is to carry on with the large basses because if I can play them, anyone can

Well when i first started looking i was told the Ibanez gsr200 and one that i know have a Yamaha rbx170 which is very nice. I hear those harley benton ones are good value also.

Running In The Rain - New Model Army...the awsome Stu Morrow.

Mark King was a milkman

Aw man CHips!...never noticed the bass when I was younger....I do now thanks

[quote name='simon1964' post='26790' date='Jul 3 2007, 11:19 PM']Colin Moulding, XTC - underrated bassist and an underrated band[/quote]

Yes i'll agree with that...currently trying to learn "Making plans for Nigel"

So Red The Rose by Arcadia. Bass duties by Mark Egan I Believe.

[quote name='The Funk' post='26032' date='Jul 2 2007, 02:08 PM']Ah, I see. Is 'Eighties' a classic bassline then?[/quote]


Well yes and Dave Grohl is a big KJ fan......hmmm

[quote name='nick' post='26055' date='Jul 2 2007, 02:58 PM']Your'e bang on there.
On the subject of two those bassists, have you heard of [i]Freebass[/i] - a side project with Hooky, Mani & Andy Rourke?
They should have some material out soon, looking forward to hearing it. Don't think I've ever heard songs with three basses before! [/quote]

Hope it's better than Hooky's Revenge project. That sucked

[quote name='nick' post='26211' date='Jul 2 2007, 08:32 PM']Great thread this!
Too many great basslines.... started going through my old collection, hearing a lot I didn't listen to first time round - getting new inspirations.
Though I can't think of one being being [i]best ever[/i].

A few more suggestions:
'Kowalski' - Primal Scream
'Same Old Scene' - Roxy Music
'24 Hour Party People' - Happy Mondays
'Funeral Pyre' - The Jam
'Radio Babylon' - Meat Beat Manifesto[/quote]

'Same Old Scene' - Roxy Music is utterly fantastic

[quote name='nick' post='25947' date='Jul 2 2007, 12:27 PM']They are top basslines.
I also reckon the likes of Peter Hook, & possibly Simon Gallup are influences on Mark Stoermer's style along with Andy Rourke.[/quote]


Can't get much better influences than those three

[quote name='The Funk' post='25982' date='Jul 2 2007, 01:03 PM']I don't like Nirvana but the bassline on Come As You Are is classic.[/quote]


It's a total rip off of 'Eighties' by Killing Joke.

[quote name='acidbass' post='25334' date='Jun 30 2007, 05:15 PM']Anything off the new Kings Of Leon album! [/quote]


That 'on call' track winds me up...it's really badly produced as well as some of the vocals are clipped off before the end.

Thanks for the Herbie Flowers lead, after a bit of research it looks like it was him.....cheers

Here is an odd one for you.

I have one of those TV theme tune albums and 'Return of the Saint' was on it.

The bass is just lovely on it and I have had no luck finding out who played on it. Anyone got any ideas?

[quote name='nick' post='25153' date='Jun 29 2007, 10:11 PM']oh just remembered some old indie stuff, anyone remember a band called Sensless things? they had some really good bass lines in there, Bassist was Morgan Nicholls....

I do. Some years ago band I was in got a few support slots with band formed by Miles Hunt, Billy Duffy & Morgan called Vent, so got to know him a bit. Amazing bass player, & a lovely, gentle bloke...used a H/H V-S Bassmachine.
He's now in Damon Albarn's Gorillaz band. Jamie Hewlett loosely modeled character Murdoc Nicalls on Morgan (he was also a Senseless Things fan).[/quote]

I saw Vent at Reading '95. We only went to see Billy Duffy. Someone threw a beer can at him and he just ducked and without batting an eyelid kept on playing and gave them a smile......one of my guitar heroes.