The Last Bass Outpost

I know Rob/Basvarken doesn't like it, but I'm totally intrigued by the 'new' Beatles documentary Get Back. 8 hours on Disney +. I wanted to wait for Xmas, but I read so many posts on facebook of people totally digging the documentary, i decided to subscirbe to a month of Disney+ some days ago. Besides the dcumentary I can watch the Macca/Rick Rubin interviews, so the best 8,99 dollars spent. A friend, not even a big Beatles fan - said: 'After eight hours it was like I was watching a group of my close friends play on that rooftop.'

Get Back. Yes, the first three hours are the least spectaculair, but still. And I watch it in parts. It's so great and recognizable to see this band making a record. Very recognizable if you play or played in bands: the chemistry, the irritations, the waiting, the insecurities. I guess we've all been there. After the first part they go to the brand new Apple Studios and there's much more to see.

Paul is the leader of the band and extraordinary to see him write some classics on the spot. Macca is really the producer and Lennon the easy one. Ringo just sits, makes everybody comfortable and George is the insecure one, but sometimes also a bit of a whiner. I still love George! Apart from some tape opps, who would be famous later on (Alan Parsons and Chris Thomas), Glyn Johns is really the co-producer. Such a nice guy and as a completely heterosexual man, I got a man crush on the young Glyn after this documentary haha. I think Glyn was never really credited as producer, btu he;s very important for those recordings. Yoko is much more sympathetic than I thought and she just sits (and does some screaming) and doesn't really interfere with the band. She looks as a nice girl and she's just reading and knitting. There is some tension within the band, to say the least, but when the awesome Billy Preston comes by, a lot disappears. What a player! Billy on Rhodes lifts up all the songs.

Bass wise there is enough to see. In the first part Macca uses his old Höfner with the close spacing, afterwards he uses his current Höfner and he tries the Rickenbacker for a song, but it has some issues with the nut. All are played through a big Bassman piggyback. There's a Fender VI used by Harrison, Lennon (quite a lot) and Preston. I spotted the headstock of a 4-string Fender somewhere in a shot and a Fliptop, but I really haven't seen them well yet.

I have one hour to go, but it's one of the best things I've ever seen. And I wish there would be something like this of The Who, Stones, The Band and other bands I like.

So if you're a Beatles fan, a Macca fan, playing in a band: spend those 9 dollars for one month of Disney +!

Hi guys,

This late seventies Diamant Bass is staring at me from a local shop wall for 20 years now. 20 years with a broken tuner and badly mounted strings. It's tuned DADG, so I could try it and this short scale sounds nice and sweet. The search for a tuner begins now, or Plan B: replace 'm all.

There used to be a Dutch TV series called Jiskefet. They had a lot of very funny WWII references. Like a scene in which two elderly woman talking in lenght about taking a person in their house, because the house is too big for them and there are people needing a roof over their head. After a while you find out this person is foreign, so you are lead to think this boy they're talking about might be a refugee. In the end you see him and it's a guy in full SS uniform.

Here's another one with English subtitles if you click on the right symbol

As you might know I'm a bot of a St. Vincent fanboy (*). I'm really addicted to the live version of a song she did on SNL with our old fellow Dudepitter Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass. The other band members are all big names. JMJ played his Mustang on one song and a modern Höfner Club on this one.

I talked to her last week and she told me she knew her producer Jack Antonoff is a good producer, songwriter and guitarsit, butaccording to her 'he lived out his Jaco fantasies on this album' which is very 70s, with wurlitzers and real guitars (**).

JMJ did it live and very well:



(*) I liked her as a person and player, but I never really got into her music, until Masseduction (and Masseducation). (**) but Massseduction has a lot of guitars which are hardly recognizable as guitars and on her new album it's just all good!!!

I posted about my dear friend Madelief before. Last year I helped her with a crowdfunding for the live recordings of four songs. One on double bass and the other on her '79 StingRay, all recorded in a little theatre in Amsterdam. Her music is bass heavy, so I wanted to share it with you:)

I don't know if it's allowed in this part of the forum, so feel free to move it to somewhere else.



From 18 mins on the bass player of Duane 'son of' Betts' band tells he has almost all classic Gibson models and how he uses Gibson necks and parts on his two own builds you see in the vid.

I won't put it on the site of my magazine yet, cos I habve to wait four more hours (embargo) but I already found them online.

The JCS will be out soon in Sparkling Burgundy and Faded Pelham Blue:

https://www.peachguitars.com/epiphone-jack-casady-bass-sparkling-burgundy.htm

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/epiphone-jack-casady-bass-faded-pelham-blue-pre-order

I have other pics in which the blue looks darker. More Pelham, less powder.