The Last Bass Outpost

For what it's worth: The much derided Model 1s have a fine nuanced sound with a lot of musical detail which you were probably thirsting for if you owned a mudbucker-equipped bass in the seventies where the mudbucker's emphasized frequencies boomed out everything else beyond audibility and people would always implore you to "get your bass clearer, please". They also record well. Just one thing they aren't: a force of nature like the mudbuckers. They are un-rock.

Robert Palmer was a cocaine head in the late seventies and eighties. Like lots of people (e.g. Bowie in his pre-Berlin phase, Parfitt and Rossi from Status Quo, Parfitt now has multiple bypasses for it). Because it was perceived as a "clean" drug, people thought they would get away with everything and that the most serious repercussion was psychological addiction. Not so. While contaminated heroin has a better chance of killing you than contaminated cocaine, it is almost unheard of that a former heroin junkie dies, say, 15 years after his last heroin hit without having taken the drug again. Your body seems to recover from it once you are and stay clean. In contrast, with cocaine, your heart muscle seems to have a very long memory. It always makes me wonder how ex-cocaine abusers must feel when they read of another heart attack death of someone known to have (ab)used the stuff.

"Or even Fender Japan!"

Insulting but apt.

Victimories often fall prey of such foul things!

You think we should have a devoted Thread of Shame and Despair to collect such crimes?

I like that suit! He knew how to move too.

Here is his daughter, Katie:



and his dad, Jack



and there's a new novel coming out tomorrow with David as a central character.

http://www.amazon.com/I-Think-Love-You/dp/1400042356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297125930&sr=1-1

Oh, and those extra pickups make that bass look unattractive.

Quite unlike Katie C. then. Unattractive I mean. 

Heart attack in your sleep when no one is around to help you is kind of sneaky too. It's another rock star death really, Robert Palmer, the Toto drummer, JAE ... the list is endless. Always makes me wonder whether that is the price paid for cocaine abuse decades before, but of course non-cocaine users die of heart attacks too.

I caught him live a couple years back & there is pretty much nothing he can't do. I guess he does not slap though.When he did hid solos, he did them accompanied by drums, which to me, was much more song like & structured. Still he's one of the greatest bass players ever like him or not. Really unique tone he has.

How gullible you are, John:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6c6zWpzlQk

I still think he could have done wonders for post-JAE The Who.

Fresh ingredients or not, I ain't coming for visits anymore!



But best of luck to your venture, I hope it is a barking success!

Uwe