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Difficult to pick one out. A total hero when I was younger and the guy who made it cool to pick up a bass, dress all in black and stomp around (playing Jam songs mind you!) Love his music but lost a bit of respect for him after reading Hugh Cornwall's biography and how he actually feared for his life at the mood swings and attacks from JJ. I assume he is calmer and more mature now and still love listening to the grooves he lays down. The OP's Raven is something I always love listening to but as an aside, I was at a GuitarGuitar Martin promo workshop and I wandered in. Diane Ponzi (?) approached and asked which Martin Acoustic I wanted to play. I replied, 'I'm really a bass player..' 'Oh great she shouted! We've been waiting for one to come in all day - try this!' She handed me the GPA Bass and I was put on the spot in front of about 15 shoppers! What could I play on this beautiful piece of acoustic wood? Easy...out came 'Peaches'! 'Oh that's nice' she said, 'What is it?' About 4 guys shouted out 'Peaches' at the same time! A lot of JJ fans there!

Fender P-bass Specials have the PJ config I think?

Midnight Hour My Girl Do I Do Sir Duke Soul Man Hold On I'm Coming.....stax I know but great fun to learn.

Out nowt, In Breedlove OOM type 6 string

Happy - P Williams Just a Girl I used to Know - can't remember the mad Oz name!

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1419433350' post='2639919'] I only ever have my amp in a straight line from the mains, I find the electrons having to slow down to get round bends or corners in the mains lead affects my tone! [/quote] No! No! No! For every gig you should use a virgin cable gently stored in the freezer for at least 28 days. On the night of the performance, the cable should be unwrapped very slowly using : ut = (l/d)x(1/n), where ut is unwrapping time in days; l is length of cable in km; d is mean distance from amp to bass in km and n is estimated number of crowd. Anything else and I walk.

Not read the whole thread but this strikes me as being an example of a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good"]Veblen Good[/url].

Buddy Holly - Weezer Guide Me Home- Sugarland

Stunning.

The White Stripes! I mean White Lines!

The Pot Wholes

A keeper. Nice bass too.

[url="https://www.youtube....h?v=TRjiMN2qJHI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=TRjiMN2qJHI[/url]

[quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1419186892' post='2637393'] That bass is a Cheyenne2....cracking bass, has a playable neck for normal bassists unlike the first Cheyenne which could be converted to a 5er ;-). Forgot to say K, nice purchase! [/quote] Cheers.

an excellent review full of honesty and perception. Thank you.

[quote name='Martin E' timestamp='1419186492' post='2637385'] Wow! If Liberace had played bass I'm sure he would have had one of those. [/quote]

Tremendous. Is it a Cheyenne?

Jings! what a load of moaning minis! The Who were staying at Mar Hall and relaxing next door. They heard the band and Daltrey had a wee listen. After a quick talk, everyone agreed to a busk of 'Can't Explain.' Everyone happy and kudos to the bass player who really knew what he was doing.

Cheers for this - very interesting.

pm'd

BUMP!

Tony Levin. Always brings something to a song...even the John Lennon ones! I think Levin is quoted that on meeting Lennon in the studio for the first time he was told, 'I heard you're good. Don't play TOO many notes!' [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im3AUiCGqnk#t=46"]http://www.youtube.c...m3AUiCGqnk#t=46[/url] This is the original version of 'I'm Losing You' that ended up over-produced on Double Fantasy. [quote][b]“I’M LOSING YOU,” [i]ANTHOLOGY,[/i] (1998):[/b][color=#211F1F] Skip the more polished version found on [/color][i]Double Fantasy,[/i][color=#211F1F] which doesn’t — for some reason — include the original take’s crack group of sidemen: Guitarist Rick Nielsen and drummer Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick, and do-anything bassist Tony Levin. [/color] [color=#211F1F]There’s a crunchy, kinetic sizzle here, as John looks back at his own alcohol-induced mid-1970s dumbassed-ness. We get an even deeper sense of the return of Lennon’s muse — the vibrant, angry yang to his bread-making house-husband yin. Levin’s chunky bass part is also far more prominent in this mix: “Playing with John, that was great — an honor and a huge musical pleasure for me,” Levin tells us. “Not a lot to report about it except that, of course, I wish there had been more.”[/color] [color=#211F1F]That this version somehow ended up on the cutting-room floor is another reason to reconsider [i]Double Fantasy,[/i] which often ended up more gossamer than necessarily great. Lennon was, at his zenith, a scratched-and-dented treasure, laconic and all edge, and too often on this project he seemed to have settled into middle-aged domesticity — both figuratively and, by employing the prevailing pop veneer, literally. [/color] [color=#211F1F]That’s blown apart by his muscular alternate take on “I’m Losing You,” which emerges with a sinewy new grit. We hear more distinctly the way Lennon was beginning to understand what lay before him — middle age, a settled life, marriage and parenthood — and, how much fight was still left in him. Lennon, blessedly clearer of voice, sounds like a rebel again.[/color] [/quote] Just bumped a Basschat original thread! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/70403-john-lennon-with-cheap-trick-and-tony-levin/"]http://basschat.co.u...and-tony-levin/[/url]

Found this years ago and love it. Great orchestral concert. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI9lo5BRJmg[/media] Antwerp and I'm assuming [i]Hofner[/i] are sponsoring it!