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[quote name='yybass' post='1359483' date='Sep 2 2011, 08:39 AM'][attachment=88503:photo_36.JPG] This one made it over here, next to the Sadowsky [/quote] WTF is the 3rd one in? Outstanding!

[url="http://ww.belowempty.com/bandinfo.php?s=equipment&p=robert_deleo"]http://ww.belowempty.com/bandinfo.php?s=eq...;p=robert_deleo[/url]

Pino Palladino....

ER...WOW!

Most I've spent is probably around the £550-650 mark for a second hand bass. Cars and basses are best spent second hand - let some other bugger pay the depreciation!

Just thinking back the the BBC rock star documentary when Townsend was asked where his aggressive rhthym style came from and he said, 'When I realised I was not the lead guitarist in the band!'

Tribute band! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFvgtK78VY&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFvgtK78VY...feature=related[/url]

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='1348020' date='Aug 22 2011, 02:05 PM']I can't watch the clip at work but if it's the bass I'm thinking of, surely it's a Precision neck? JE found the Jazz ones too thin at the nut.[/quote] Spot on.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_FZVD5lsAw&feature=player_embedded"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_FZVD5lsAw...player_embedded[/url] Where's our resident Ox to get photos of it and tell me the history? Colour? Orange - check! Neck? Fender Jazz - check! Body? Explorer! - check!

Started with a Columbus EB type. Ibanez Blazer next. Fender P walnut. Hohner steinberger copy. Squier P-bass special. Fender Jazz MIM. Warwick Streamer. Yamaha BB - current. I gigged the hohner the most and it was great for touring with but I guess I'd go back to the 70/80s P-bass and actually get it set up as opposed to thinking 'this doesn't play well!'

Imagine buying a bass to match your new kitchen.......

[url="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110816/09574115549/dear-musicians-riaa-is-about-to-totally-screw-you-over-again.shtml"]RIIA Screw Musicians Again[/url]

De-tune your bass to play open strings?

Black and white - David Starkey remix. "...to my baby, it don't matter if it's black or black!'

I'll alpha bet you never do!

[quote name='Conan' post='1330701' date='Aug 7 2011, 10:41 AM']What you tryin' to say man?! Although I am in two bands at the moment, neither is quite up to gigging speed yet. Having said that the bass I've been mostly using with both bands in full rehearsals is my Squier Affinity P. It just does what I want it to do, and I look forward to gigging with it when the opportunity arises. The Status is in temporary retirement! [/quote] Ha!

Gigged a Squier PJ Special I got for £60 and it cut through the mix like Conan through a field of daisies!

JJ Burnell

Probably when he started it was slightly more exotic than a P-bass. I think his position in bass playing circles is safe although I don't go for the 'best in the world' in the arts as music is so subjective. Bizarre really, JJ got me into the bass, I copied Foxton and loved Genesis but one night by accident Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light was on Ch4 and in seconds I was mesmerised. It took about another 3 months and ordering the album from Japan to discover who he was. I never aspired to be or play like him but occasionally I'd throw in Pastorisms on Stax and Tamla songs just for the thrill! Great player, great innovator and his best feature was the way he put impressionist colour into Mitchell's songs where others could only scribble.

Cool As F...

[quote name='SisterAbdullahX' post='1327866' date='Aug 4 2011, 10:00 PM']Marcus doesn't have high standards of tone, you say? It doesn't take much effort for you to get a better tone than him, you say?? Go and dig out "The Nightfly" by Donald Fagen, have a listen to "Maxine" and "The Goodbye Look" and reconsider those statements. Then post something you played on that demonstrates how you get a better tone.[/quote] One of the great 'bass' albums ever. Wee aside: [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/StealingDan#p/p"]http://www.youtube.com/user/StealingDan#p/p[/url] StealingDan tribute band!

Meanwhile in Glasgow.....