The Last Bass Outpost

10,000 Dave Hills playing SOTW could not have bugged the Man in Black more

On the contrary; Johnny Cash was a huge fan! He only covered a U2 song or two because they once supported Slade. Well known fact!

Ok. Cows can fly. I've never heard one say it couldn't.

Apparently only if YOU say so??
Such an outburst should be beneath you. Until the day comes that you publish a Bible which states that you personally know the capabilities of any named bassist I will doubt your authority on who can play what and how.

We should really talk about Slade again. Wyman could easily emulate Jim Lea too.

Now, no! Don't you mean Wyman playing bass in the style of Paul McCartney who Jimmy Lea copied? (See your previous posts/declarations)

Are my credentials sufficient then? 

I'm afraid not, it's still an unsubstantiated generalisation - which just to prove wasn't a fluke you remodel to this

Bill Wyman couldn't play like the Gillan bassist (John McCoy

Unless you'd heard him TRY to play anything like that you can't know, it's just what you guess from what you've heard on his commercial recordings and/or any gigs. You can't KNOW it any more than you could say "Bill Wyman wipes with his left hand".

It's one thing to have an inferred "IMHO" but to say someone can or can't do something without knowing it is misleading to say the least. Get me a YT vid. of Wyman saying so & I'll believe you.

That is just not how Wyman would or even could play

I would dearly love to know your source for that sweeping statement.

Stu you trying to wind me up?

You mean your user name DOES have a Kiss connection?    Ooops! 

Sorry about that - I should have pointed out that I was resurrecting an old thread instead of starting a new one! 

You did! I just didn't notice, my fault for jumping in without reading properly. Booker T stuff does that to me! 

edit: cos I hadn't noticed how old the thread was!! 

wowee.was that at the marshall factory  in milton keynes?i took my 9005 power amp there and had it fixed by paul marshall.

Yeah, I was invited down for a full factory tour - long story - met them all, autographed copy of Jim's book to go home with (they don't do free samples!    ) and at the very end I was taken to a theatre they have on site, which has a copy of every classic amp they ever made lining the walls (if I'd been there the day before I would have been in there with Slash).
Danny said......
"You play bass don't you?"
"Yeah",
He pulled back the curtains and there were the amps all fired up and he said,
"These are being shipped out to Frankfurt tomorrow to meet up with the Motorhead tour, Lemmy's not heard them yet, would you like to try them out for him?"  When I met Lemmy a year or so later we had a laugh about it while he poured me about a half-pint of Jack Daniels  ......... since I don't smoke!
If I'd known they were going to do that I'd have taken my bass - or borrowed a Rick, but it was a vintage plank Fender I suppose.