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thanx to maxi (from NOArgentina) for this info
http://www.durandurantimeline.com/faq-duran-duran.html
scroll down to question 18! 
What is Freebass?
Freebass is the name of a short-lived musical project created by Roger Taylor and Mark Anthony (of Fuzzbox) in 1997. They recorded and released a radio single called "Love Is Like Oxygen" and played a few shows in Birmingham, but disbanded early in 1998.
so Hooky, Mani and Rourke should change their name to Stalingrad now, which i always thought it was a much better name than Freebass! 
This could be the connection:
Grandmaster Flash puts out a song (white lines -don't do it) that has the immortal words "Free Base".
Grandmaster Flash plays at the Hacienda.
Duran Duran records a cover version of White Lines.
Peter Hook needs a new name for his new side project (another side project Hooky, do you ever rest?). He has said that all three members of the project-in-progress play bass on one of the tracks. So, perhaps it's a play on three bass, perhaps it is used to conjure up the nasty drug rumors surrounding New Order, perhaps it's a sly homage to the Hac and/or the New York influence on New Order, or maybe it's just coincidence. Sometimes a band name is just a band name.
But Duran Duran seems tangential to any relationship implied by FreeBass.
twist wrote: Bastards of Bass Try that name, Hooky.
Bass Bastards rolls off the tongue a bit easier me thinks 
Geri wrote:
twist wrote: Bastards of Bass Try that name, Hooky.
Bass Bastards rolls off the tongue a bit easier me thinks
Bassic
Hey boys n girls, take it to the correct forum !!!! (music for pleasure)
Mods all on the piss ?? 
yeah, you´re probably right about moving it to the other forum. it´s just that i still don´t get used to have that forum! i´m an old fashion NOOLer! 
