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Hi I am selling my Fender Marcus Miller V Made in USA Shoreline Gold 2005 (early 2005 according to the serial number) impeccable violin, sold with original case and all documents. Shipping possible at buyer's expense8 points -
Here we have a superb example of a Stingray PDN special edition (2017/18) 4H. This was obtained off BC in a trade and was originally intended for use in my Glam Rock tribute band due to it’s erm....subdued paintwork. Alas it hasn’t been used in this function as I tend to find my Mustangs more suitable for this job (and the Mikey Way sig is glitter tastic also) and for ‘long scale’ use I tend to favour my Sterling as I prefer the neck profile. The camera struggles to capture how awesome the pearlescent large flake paintwork is; this is in excellent condition and has just one tiny 2mm blip which was there when I obtained it. This looks to have been a small paint defect rather than a ding but I can’t be certain. The neck is roasted Birdseye maple with a gorgeous dark ebony board with stainless steel frets. I love the stainless frets so much I had these installed on my Sterling when I had the neck refinished. I know it’s difficult in these pandemic times but I would prefer a collection or close-ish meet up. I am amenable to trades or part trade but only of the 4 string fretted variety. However I am picky but the worst I can say is a polite no thank you.7 points -
KiOgon Tone Switch. An alternative for the tone pot, bass or guitar, a 4 way rotary switch that gives 2 tone positions + Bypass and Kill/Off. Solderless fitting, screw terminals for your wires, simple to install, wiring instructions and screwdriver supplied. Your existing volume control/s can remain in use or be bypassed. . Clockwise operation gives; A = Off or Kill B = On - Bypass, no tone pot/resistor or capacitor, straight through output C = .033uF PolyDrop capacitor, changed from .047 for better differential D = 0.1uF PolyDrop capacitor, Old School deep velvet tone Pointer knob or 20/24mm round black included. Chrome or Black knurled brass extra £5. I can build into any of my looms instead of a tone pot and incorporated with blend or series/parallel switching looms, POA. Standard fitting to control plate, scratch plate or through top, (<6mm), 9.5mm hole required. Space needed, minimum 29mm / 1 1/8" width and 25.4mm / 1" depth, (just bigger than standard CTS pot). Tone Switch alone £15 delivered, UK, overseas at cost. P-Bass kit with CTS Volume pot and Tone Switch, £35 delivered UK, EU approx. £10 Royal Mail. PayPal friends/family please to [email protected] and delivery details ta.5 points -
As above, you really want the twin cartridge filter type as a minimum, the sort of paper makes being bought up in huge quantities at the mo are just dust masks and won't stop paint fumes. The other problem with that type is they don't generally seal against your face very well, as you can see after using one when the sides of your nose around your nostrils are covered in whatever dust you were creating. On a lighter note, the correct gear is not good with this covid19 around for a different reason. Our house is up a lane (pedestrian) off the road, my workshop is the opposite side of the lane to the house. When painting three basses a couple of weeks ago I'd come out of the workshop between coats, as even with extraction it fills up pretty quick in there. Some people walked up the road to see me stood in the lane outside the house in full hazmat gear, white paper overalls, latex gloves and full face with hood breathing apparatus. They looked quite worried to be fair.5 points
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Couldn't do it in the end so holding on to my Will Lee. Still the best 4 string I've ever played and would regret it if I sold it! I'll bring it to a south east/London bash some time!5 points
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There's a simple answer - everything I don't like is obviously over-rated, and everything I like is obviously under-rated.5 points
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I am amazed that people think they can’t see past their likes or dislikes to decide if someone is over rated or under rated. There are some amazing performers out there that just aren’t for me, doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate their talent. Equally there are some bands I love that I realise are from demonstrating musical genius and can see that they don’t deserve the status they have when compared to other bands.4 points
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I'm playing an acoustic gig this Friday . We will be playing The Barley Pop in Germantown. We will be playing outdoors to the customers picking up their " take out" meals. This is the way it is for some of us, basically grabbing anything we can get until Wisconsin opens up. Hopefully we'll get some media coverage. We have good gigs booked starting the first week in June if we're open. Blue4 points
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This has been a bit of a challenge for me over the past week or so. We recorded a few tracks in the studio a little while back with the intention of using them to make up an EPK for 2020. One thing lead to another and before we knew it gigs were cancelled and there was little to no prospect of getting anything booked for the foreseeable future. So we thought we would use one of the tracks to dedicate a thank you to all the NHS and Front Line Responders out there helping to keep everyone safe. I've put a few videos together for the band before, but this was a really steep learning curve for me. All the individual elements were recorded at our respective houses using different equipment/frame rates etc and I don't mind telling you, it took a bit of time to get my head around it. It's not perfect (these things never are), but I think it turned out OK in the end. Please feel free to share it with anyone out there putting themselves on the line as a huge thank you. Stay safe.4 points
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Over-rated: Controversial I know but.....David Bowie IMO everything he did after he stopped taking drugs (Scary Monsters) was well below par. Lets Dance - poor, Tin Machine - absolute disaster. He should have been shot for what he and Jagger did to "Dancin' in the street". In fact, they both should have... Under-rated: Corduroy - the founding band on the "Acid Jazz" label. Some wicked basslines and amazing grooves. Totally unacknowledged by the majority of music listeners.4 points
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arrived this morning. Birdseye maple facings, ebony fingerboard I've had a couple of Wal's before (one second hand from the mid '80's, one that was new but not my custom order from the late '90's) and those never quite felt like they were "mine". Also, necks a bit on the chunky side. This one is most definitely mine, and the neck is unbelievably slim and fast. Plus, you know, it sounds like a Wal. Just all round gorgeous - now that I have it the two year wait seems completely worth it. Another reason to hope for the end of the lockdown so I can take it to a studio and play it through a cranked up amp And Paul and Philip at Wal were excellent to deal with - top marks all round. My boss thinks I'm working this afternoon. My boss is wrong3 points
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<<< NOW SOLD >>> Fender USA Original 70's Jazz Bass 4 string Black body, pearl blocks on maple board with binding, Made in 2017 and in really excellent condition, barely a mark on it. Weight is about 9.5 Lbs (4.3kg) see link for more detail: https://youtu.be/ZeMtYC-T3Ks new these basses retail for between £1,600 - £1700 £800 collected form Pinner HA5 (from doorstep!) or add £20 for courier.3 points -
The story of the Shadows celebrating 60 years, Friday 1st May 2130 BBC43 points
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Quick mock ups to see lay outs. This is with the control plate fully covering the cavity but it then eats into the scratchplate in a telecaster kind of way. This is where the control plate looks best. Still to far back for a Stingray but better looking. The cavity will need filling though which will show up in the future. This you'll need imagination for. Ignore the horns of the scratchplate and imagine the two plates bevelled on the join like a Baldwin/Burns, maybe even a top horn plate. I'll make them in black card tomorrow to better envisage it.3 points
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I don't know if I'm going to write a proper review as such. I haven't owned a lot of different basses in my life, and so I don't have a good sense of what's out there for comparison. This is the first bass I've bought in over ten years, and for most of that time I only had one: the Tune TWB43 I describe here. Any references to "the other bass" will be to that. This HB is at least a kilogram heavier than the other bass, though only slightly larger, which is mostly down to the wood, I think. It looked bigger in the hands of other players, especially Julia from Thomann, who says this is lighter than the MJ-4 J-style version. I'm 6 foot in socks with muscles, so I'm OK. Both are basically Sandberg-inspired, mine being a clone of the Californa VM4. I didn't really want the blue, and it looks like I'm not alone there, since the other two colours (cream and natural) are sold out for the next six weeks at least. But I can live with it and may consider refinishing it some day. One disappointment: the pictures seem to indicate that the body is sloped to accommodate the picking arm more ergonomically: it is, it's barely cut down at all, so it's more of a slab. So I'm not totally happy when playing seated, but less bothered when standing. On a strap, there's a little neck dive: nothing that a decent strap can't handle. The bridge is solid and looks more complicated than it is: each bridgepiece has an optional locking screw to hold it down once you're done with adjustments. These arrived loose, presumably in case the player tries to raise the action and can't. Through-body stringing is standard but optional, and I believe the supplied strings are the specified D'Addarios. I mentioned the neck already: modern C shape, satin finish on the back, and I don't think I'll need to touch the truss rod in the foreseeable future. If I did, it's an easily-accessible wheel method. I've been learning more about setup, starting with Fender's advice here, and the feeler gauges told me the relief was just under 0.35mm, which was spot on. However, the action at the bridge was way too high, about 4mm (double the recommended 2mm), and I struggled with that a bit. Today I lowered it to about 2mm, and am much happier. The bridgepieces are low but didn't bottom out - a problem I've had before. (On the other bass, I ended up sinking the whole bridge in to the body to get the range of adjustment I needed, as a project, rather than use shims. I have a little buzz low down that tells me the neck may be a little too straight now, but nothing requiring action yet.) So I like the construction so far, I think I have a solid base for modding. Which is good, because they have skimped on the electronics. First of all, the pickups are decent, I think. The split-P is definitely powerful. The MM HB not so much, but it sounds good, if a bit anonymous. After adjusting that up and the P down, the balance is better. The P is now nearly 3mm below the strings, and I am not short of signal. I might replace the HB with one of these, but it doesn't seem urgent at this time, since it's adequate and the P is the priority. The other bass is active, but with everything pegged it's still not as loud as this P pickup in passive mode. Which is where it will spend most of its time, since the electronics let it down badly. I thought the electronics in the other bass were average, which makes this new bass' below-average. The pickup balance pot only seems to "blend" around the centre: more than a few degrees either side and it might as well be a switch. The low EQ seems to add boom, the high EQ seems to add string noise, and both seem to be off-centre: not flat when centred. The 9V circuit seems to lack headroom, since there is audible distortion from the P when it's up full. (I thought it was 18V for some reason, but that was probably my mistake.) . I don't have an amp - too antisocial - so I'm testing using two different headphone setups: a cheap-and-nasty Amplug clone - great for practising while walking around - and a tc electronic SpectraDrive, which has two TonePrint sections. On the SpectraComp side I like the Captain East preset so far - a great all-round compressor. On the TubeDrive side, when I use it, I try a few different TonePrints: Dark Horse for distortion, Natural Drive sometimes, most of the time that section is off. As other reviews have noted, the P-signal takes distortion well. The best tones I get so far are from the P in passive modem, which was my top priority, since my other bass is more Jazz-like if I want that. I am already planning a total rewire to passive mode, 2V2T controls, maybe a HB coil split switch, and stereo out (Rick-O-Sound style, switchable). I would rather have no circuit than bad circuit, and the SpectraDrive has a 4-band EQ already. Pro: solid construction, good bridge, string-through, zero fret. Good setup range. Very good passive P tone, not affected by lower action. Con: the colour, electronics, the weight if you're weedy. I'll add more updates / impressions over time.3 points
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Always a "wallet risk" to have space for one more pedal on your board! Proton arrived yesterday to take the remaining slot on my mini board. First impressions: very positive - it’s really easy to dial in a tasty filter sweep. Signal chain is Smoothhound wireless-->Boss LS -->Zoom B1X-4-->3Leaf Proton--> Digitech Mosaic. As mentioned previously, the Zoom is in the LS2's loop to allow me to blend in as much clean to combine with the Zoom's effects. That's a must for a lot of the Zoom drive patches, particularly my fav Rat Tail, but it's a "nice to have" to keep some authentic low end with other fx.3 points
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And there's the UK's departure form the EU to take into account. I suspect many bands from outside the UK won't bother with the extra expense and hassle of getting permits to tour here after the end of 2020.3 points
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It's a difficult decision. On one hand go with the designs that people already play, but how do you make your take on it an improvement when most people are more than happy with the choices that already exist? On the other hand if you go with something completely different how do you convince the majority of very conservative musicians to accept it? As I've said before here and other similar threads I really can't see the point of offering something that is essentially very similar to instruments that already exist in vast numbers with almost infinite slight variations and the standard designs. Yes it is perfectly possible to improve upon the basic design of the Precision and Jazz basses but unless you do it and still sell it for less than the price of a MIM Fender, your market is at best going to be niche, in which case why not do something completely new and different?3 points
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Here we go again. Is anyone bothered?3 points
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Absolutely love this - very rock’n’roll. Love the one-knob approach too - who really needs more!? Volume I assume - possibly even better if it's just on and off? You know, I feel like buying this just to build a balls-out, early '70s pub rock band around it. I see a Marshall Major and two scruffy 4x12s... wiping away a misty-eyed nostalgic tear3 points -
Like a lot of people my job has been furloughed leaving me with more time on my hands. Obviously I could be using the time to get better at playing but that would be far too sensible. Instead I decided that the hideous pink of my cheap Joyo British Sound pedal was the perfect excuse to get creative with a bit of a horror vibe.2 points
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I'll have a fiddle in the morning before I say yes 🙂2 points
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Is it possible to get the positions in this order: Off / 0.1 / 0.047 / On ?2 points
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Due to severe back problems (66% officially disabled because of it) and right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which ,after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4.5 kilos. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. NOGUERA Trinity 8 Custom Bruno Ramos ! The most ergonomic bass I've owned to date, except maybe my IBANEZ AFR. As it's an unique instrument, I'm opened (past participle) to (partial) trades, but please keep in mind that I'm fretless player and that the weight is an important factor to me, so must be less than 4.5 kilos ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £2222 GBP !!! (new price would be around £5500 GBP...) In fully working condition and excellent overall condition. Here are the specifications : Body : 2 pieces red alder from Noguera original stock Top : book matched flamed maple from Noguera original stock with in between veneer out of ebony from Noguera original stock Neck : 1 piece hard rock maple from Noguera original stock (with stiffening rods) Fingerboard : flamed maple from Noguera original stock Frets : 25, yes 25 Headstock : 4 + 4 shape (angled) with flamed maple top from Noguera original stock with in between veneer out of ebony from Noguera original stock Pickups : 2 Noguera single coils hum-cancelling (stacked humbucker) in 60's Jazz Bass position and ebony covers from Noguera original stock Preamp : Noguera 3 bands custom made for this unique bass to Bruno Ramos exact specifications Controls : neck volume (push-pull for active/passive selection), bridge volume, bass, mids (push-pull for 400/800 Hz selection), treble Tuners : Hipshot Ultralite Bridge : Noguera patented 2 pieces flamed maple from Noguera original stock with zinc fully adjustable saddles Strings spacing at bridge : 20 mm Nut : bone Strings spacing at nut : 9 mm Knobs : Noguera wooden knobs from Noguera original stock (maple for the volumes and ebony for the EQ) Scale : 34" Hardware colour : black Truss rods : 2 (fully working) Finish : very light gloss Land of craftsmanship : France Serial number : none as it's a unique model Year : 04/2012 Weight : 5.6 kilos (on the light side for an ERB 8 strings) Action : from 1.5 mm under the F string to 3 mm under the F# string at 12th fret (can go lower, but was perfect for me) Will come with a brand new Rockcase Beast Bass hard case fitted with removable foam to block it inside. Non-smoking environment as usual. I'm only selling this wonderful Jazz Bass like ERB 8 strings bass because of my health issues. Trinity (as it was named by Christian NOGUERA) deserves to be played, and even if each time I play it, it sounds terrific even dead flat and passive, I always get back to my very very lightweight IBANEZ AFR A104F fretless as it's my sound. This extended range bass is unique and has been totally hand crafted with the best woods Christian had in stock at the time (as you certainly noticed it ). All these woods were in his stock for more than 20 years explaining the even sound and the fact that this instrument seems to be insensible to the changes in weather. It stays in tune for months. This bass was designed for Bruno Ramos who is professional player, a teacher and a journalist for the Bassiste Magazine (THE French magazine). This Noguera is perfectly balanced and really easy to play as every detail has been perfectly thought. Don't be afraid by the number of strings, it's so easy to play that you won't notice that you are playing such an ergonomic and balanced ERB. You'll be amazed, guaranteed ! The bass has been fully set up professionally by Christophe LEDUC. It has a new battery and has been fitted with a brand-new set of Kalium BH-190-8BS hybrid nickel round wound strings, except for the F that is plain (19P - 31 - 43 - 59 - 79 -106 -142 - 192). This marvellous Noguera will also come with a brand new spare Kalium BH-174-8BL set (18P - 28 - 39 - 55 - 73 -98 -130 - 174), a used Kalium BH-174-8BL set, a brand new Newtone Diamond taper type round core nickel plated steel all round wound set (20 - 28 - 44 - 64 - 84 -104 -128 - 174) and a mounted once for one hour exact same Newtone set. So you'll have 4 spare sets : 2 new, 1 hardly used and 1 used (that was fitted on Trinity before I put the new set on it). Link to the new Noguera website : https://www.noguera-basses.com/ A video with Bruno Ramos playing his bass : Another video were Bruno Ramos used it at the end of the tune : What you see is what you get ! Look at the pictures taken under different angles to see the real almost new condition : some hardly noticeable very few marks and very small knock over the neck pickup (at around 2 cm away). The bass is photographed with the special Loxx Strap Locks, but will be fitted back with the original black strap buttons (as on photos 12 to 15, which were made by Christian NOGUERA). Don't hesitate to ask for more.2 points -
Been checking out Miles M on YT, some fab stuff a little bit different from the usual.2 points
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That would have been right up my street back in the day. Anyway, back to the music stuff (havn't climbed in years anyway, it got so it took over a bit and I wasn't doing much else). Track was really really good BTW, but I confess I also leant towards the chilled out stuff based on the photo.2 points
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Flop it out! Go for crazy jazz next month!!!2 points
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Fair play (ish) to the seller, I let him know the issue but said I'd keep it anyway (I need it for lining stuff up and can replace later). He's refunded me £3, I only paid £3.64 plus 90p p&p, and said he thinks that's fair if I'm keeping it. He says he thought it was new, I don't know, but life's to short to worry about these things.2 points
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I think it may now be on it's way to me! 😂2 points
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The type of mask needed for painting is very different to PPE needed for Coronavirus so may* be available (*but may have been bought by people thinking it will help). I use a twin filter Scott one, I think it was about £20 plus about £10 a time for a pair of filters. I was spraying the wings on my Capri project over the weekend and you cannot smell anything. When I took the mask off I was hit in the face with the smell. It’s worth getting the right protection and not trust to the fresh air approach.2 points
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Hi, the strings are all hand wound onto a hexagonal high carbon content core. The Energy and Groove strings are the "standard" line, Grooves are Nickels and Energy are Stainless Steels. The Ultimate and Advanced are again Nickels and Steels respectively, but they are "Soft Touch" strings. They feel softer, bendier and lower tension. The Vintage strings are very highly hand polished flats, again Hexcore, wound with a mix of nickel and laminated steel wire. Hope that helps!2 points
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Thats obviously good for for Ska!2 points
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It's possible to take plenty of classic design hints and still come up with something that looks new and awesome, while having enough familiarity not to offend. I think this looks far better than many 'boutique' basses:2 points
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Absolutely - as I'm also within the risk categories for respiratory issues anyway, that's certainly something I want to avoid!! In my limited googling, getting the filters doesn't seem to to be the problem, getting the masks is, as all appear to be diverted to medical uses.2 points
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Good luck with that one whichever thread it's in.2 points
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Glad to hear you've made a measured response. Sorry to see there are such blatant liars out there. The trouble seems to be that these folk can't distinguish between exaggeration and deceit. They have a genuine problem with their moral checklists. Let's hope you can give the item a new lease of life somehow.2 points
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Not indoors, certainly, however many windows are open. As I've said in another thread, this is no time to end up in A&E with a serious respiratory problem...2 points
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I would disagree mate. We have a beach just out of town. I always used to drive there to walk the dog. Ive heard people have been told to go home from there by the Police. No shops open, streets empty, no bars, no entertainment. I know by the strictest definition of the word it isn't a lockdown but I would say its pedantic to say it isn't actually a lockdown. edit: Plus if it was a complete lockdown, how could anyone survive for 6 weeks?2 points
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I used to own an Aftershock. Once I'd got my Stomp I sold the AS, the Stomp does all the drives I need well enough.2 points
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If your existing bridge has no problems, any decent luthier should be able to fit adjusters to it. Most prefer to fit the bridge before installing adjusters rather than using a bridge with them pre-installed anyway.2 points
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The wife and I are off out tonight by our back gate to watch someone up the street playing 'Happy Birthday' on a trumpet for an old fella. And, what with it being local, we'll get home in good time.2 points
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Hi everyone, its been a while. For the past few years I've been over to the darkside playing guitar in a couple of bands, and in my current band we went to record an Ep but due to this damn Covid-19 we're still waiting for the tracks to be mixed and mastered. The recording was going great and everyone bought their A-game and knocked the recording out of the park apart from the bassist who despite having played the chosen songs for 6 months really blew it, despite offering him help and encouragement. Anyway..... to cut a long story short I ended up having to track all the bass in an hour (The other guy took 4 hrs and only got 20 seconds recorded which was out of time and also the wrong notes) so time was of the essence and as we couldn't book anymore sessions for 2 months due to being fully booked, it fell on me to lay down the tracks as the bassist turned around and said he wasn't ready to record......thanks for the heads up! After all was said and done, I've stitched myself up and have found myself back on bass which, after a good long break feels really good and I couldn't be happier! So after looking about at what the used bass prices were (It's been a while) I ended up finding and buying a 2001 Fender American Precision Bass in Inca Silver with a maple neck and I think its one of the best sounding P-basses I've played/owned. I need to spend more time with the neck profile as I find it a little chunkier than I'd like however I may end up trading out the neck for a Us Jazz bass neck....if anyone is after a US Precision neck and want to trade me their Jazz neck, please get in touch. I'm also thinking about putting a black scratch plate on it aswell. Enough blabbing, here is the new addition:2 points
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There's nothing wrong with only having a album or two that's really any good. That's an album or two more than most of us on here can manage. Both Kraftwerk and Bowie managed to produce a vast amount of consistently good work all through the 70s so I can forgive them for making music that doesn't captivate me as much since then. They made plenty of music early on in their careers that I like and I'll stick with that. What they do afterwards doesn't bother me if I don't like it. TBH I can't think of any band who have produced more that a handful of albums that have managed to keep me entertained with all of their musical output. At some point they will either start repeating themselves (while generally being less interesting) or go off in some different creative direction that I don't like. Even one of my all-time favourite (and IMO very under-rated) bands: The Pretty Things who were constantly re-inventing themselves during their 50+ years of making music have produced a couple of albums that I have zero interest in.2 points
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9 entries and only 11 members voted! Maybe everybody's busy preparing themselves to enter next month's compo compo? 😆2 points
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Thanks for that WOT! Might have known it would be him. He really was everywhere all at once at the time like some omnipresent bass god wasn't he. Following links from that led me to this: Scroll through to track 51 at 1:51:06 and it's all there! Great tone, lot's of space and feel with minimalist percussion. Time to get playing along!2 points
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Sub'd his channel. Thanks!2 points
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Ive got kids so mine live in gig bags or cases standing up in an alcove when not in use. EDIT - the basses that is, not the children.2 points
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Well, back in 1999 a new Wal Custom Series Bass was in the region of 2 and a half grand. Up in that London a second hand Custom Series 4 string was around £1,500 at most. An old Pro Series Wal was about £450-500. Well, in Spring 1999 a nice red Wal Pro 2E turned up. Really good condition and IMHO a real looker. But the price tag said, £1,500! Of course I had a try (I’d actually been looking for a Pro 2E ) and said to the owner. It’s lovely. I’d take it off your hands today but it’s just way overpriced... by a factor of about 3, you know.” “Nah mate. That’s a Wal that is. They’re top flight basses those. That’s what they go for up in London. Properly rare.” “Well, yeah, the newer Customs go for that, the ones with the exotic wood bodies and newer electrics. This is a Pro Series. The market value is about 500 quid. Honest, I’d take it off your hands today for that.” “You’re ‘avin’ a larff, mate. This one’s worth one and a half grand. That’s the price. Take it or leave it.” “OK, I’ll have to leave it. But I’m telling you now, it’s just going to sit there gathering dust, taking up floor space and cluttering up your inventory. But if you don’t mind I’ll pop in every two or three months to have a bit of a play on it and see if the price has come down to a sensible price. That OK?” “Huh, please yourself but it’ll be gone in no time. Really sought after these are. It’ll be gone within a week.” So that’s what I did. Every so often I’d pop in, have a look at the guitars have a noodle on the Wal and offer £500 for it.” Over the course of two years the price label was amended to say £1400, £1250, £1100, £1000, and then £900. Then one month in 2001 The Guitar Magazine covered Pro Series Wals in their vintage basses you might see around and what they’re worth feature. As ever, it finished with a price round up which said that a good condition Pro IIE could go for up to £500 or £550. It was a Saturday morning so I rushed down to the local library and got a photocopy. Then it was straight to the shop to wave it under the owner’s nose. Sadly he wasn’t in, just the Saturday boy (to whom I was a familiar face by then. I had a chat with him and said, “You know that Wal?” He smiled, “Well can you show your boss this article in this month’s TGM and let him know that my offer for £500 quid absolutely still stands.” I wrote my name and number on the sheet and toddled home for lunch. It was about 2:30 when the phone rang and the Saturday boy was on the other end. “I’ve had a word with the boss and showed him the article. He says that you can have it for five hundred and fifty quid.” “Shall I pop over now?”... Got there about 20 minutes later and watched him take the £900 sign off and hand me the bass... Here she is...2 points
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