Louis Johnson: Instructional Bass

Chili · #1 04-02-2007, 06:06 AM

Hey all, i'm gunna order Louis Johnson: Instructional Bass dvd in a few days from amazon.co.uk, this is the one i'm gunna order:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Louis-Johnso...5511686&sr=1-1

i've never ordered anything online before, and theres no picture, is amazon 100% reliable? and will this actually be louis johnson instruction video volume 1?

i'm also intrested in ordering this one off ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LOUIS-JOHNSON-...QQcmdZViewItem

since the amazon one says it probably wont work in any other countries exept america and canada....i'm tempted to get this one

also i'm looking to buy louis johnsons instruction video volume 2 but cant find it anywhere, does anyone know if this is available anywhere (i live in the u.k) or if anyones whos seen it could they tell me the kind of things he shows you that are differant from volume one?

jerry · #2 04-02-2007, 08:30 AM

It's been awhile but if I remember correctly the first one was just Louis and his Musicman where he would do the lick in slow and at regular speed. On the second one he had a interviewer and some testimonials from George Duke and Quince Jones. The second one also had Louis playing with a band plus some footage of him with George Duke and with his own band with his brother. He also didn't have the Musicman on the second video, I'm not sure what make bass it was.

Chili · #3 04-02-2007, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by jerry

It's been awhile but if I remember correctly the first one was just Louis and his Musicman where he would do the lick in slow and at regular speed. On the second one he had a interviewer and some testimonials from George Duke and Quince Jones. The second one also had Louis playing with a band plus some footage of him with George Duke and with his own band with his brother. He also didn't have the Musicman on the second video, I'm not sure what make bass it was.

yeah i've seen the first one, and i wonna buy the dvd, and from what you sed, the 2nd dvd sounds really good, do you know anywhere i could buy this??? i've searched and cant seem to find anywhere that sells it

Baryonyx · #4 04-02-2007, 09:34 AM

There you are not ordering the dvd from Amazon.co.uk, rather you're using their "marketplace" service, in which they place your order to another company. You're not gonna get screwed by Amazon Marketplace, I don't think, especially if you're careful about who you order from (look for positive feedback). I have ordered loads and loads of stuff from Marketplace sellers and have only had one "real" problem, in which my copy of Rush's "Hold Your Fire" was scratched and didn't work. Return and refund was not a problem.

PM me if you have any more questions.

Good to see another Geordie on TB by the way!

nubs · #5 04-02-2007, 09:44 AM

great video, great player...and you don't have to be concerned with Amazon....i have purchased tons of things from Amazon and have nver been short changed.

Chili · #6 04-02-2007, 10:07 AM

so which one do you think i should order from, amazon or ebay, i'm just concerned on amazon it says it may not work outside of america or canada.

yeah i've never seen any other geordies on here

thx for the input guys aswell

one more thing, where could i get louis johnsons instructional video volume 2, if anyone could help me out that would be awsome

Delberthot · #7 04-02-2007, 11:31 AM

There are 2 reasons why Amazon say that the DVD may not work outside of the US or Canada.

Stuff from there is recorded in NTSC which is, I'm sorry guys, a low quality version of what we use here in the UK - PAL.

Try watching an old episode of Columbo or Murder She Wrote on a good flatscreen TV, compare it to a UK programme and you will see what I mean. That's why High Definition has been in the US for a few years and only recently in the UK.

If you have a decent enough DVD player and a TV that will display NTSC then you'll be fine.

The other thing is that it will be region 1 encoded and we are region 2 in Europe. Most DVD players can be region modified to play anything, some occasionally need to be 'chipped' others require an engineers remote programmed specially to unlock certain makes of DVD

Baryonyx · #8 04-02-2007, 01:20 PM

Most DVD players these days are multi region, meaning they'll handle NTSC formats as well as PAL. In fact, I would have thought that these days, the majority of DVD players won't even need to be manually made to play Region 1 discs, they just automatically play them.

My Bass Extremes Live dvd is encoded in NTSC-it's only available in that format. It looks fine close up, but on the long range shots of Steve and Vic it can look a tad grainy.