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I thought my collection was complete. Well, I always had GAS for a vintage Gibson EB-2 but they were way out of my budget. And then I found one online here in NL, for a decent price. Non-original knobs and switch (pots are original), non-original truss rod cover and a non-original case. But boy is this bass amazing. So happy.

Not sure how you get sacked from a band you started. I’d take everything with me - cancel gig dates, protect the name and logos, the lot.

You soon might be able to hire it out very cheaply.

Bacchus, blocks and binding? I don't really play 5 strings anymore so decided to move on my beloved 04 Bacchus Standard 5. I love the tone of it, but have just accepted that 4 bangers are where I'm most comfortable. Then I had an idea and found this Woodline in Japan from the same era, when they had the "Handmade" range with the two-piece Deviser bridge. After repairing some things the seller amazingly omitted to disclose, and a thorough clean, this thing is just what I was looking for. I still think I'll install a Bart XTCT preamp I have knocking around to get me exact tone of the 5 string, though, however it is lovely sounding as is. Anyway, here it is. Fitting in with the 4 string members of Team Bacchus

Not a whole lot of love, there. Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.

I wonder where the venue stands, legally, to impose this? If a photographer or band is hired by the couple, then that's who their contract is with, not the venue. The venue is just another contractor hired by the couple and, as such, should have no right to access information on other contractor's payments details or impose a fee, based on the value of the contract between separate contractors and the couple, surely?

I got a new short scale yesterday, in the ACG flavour. It seems my son has decided to steal it from me already 😫

Hello everyone I introduce myself My name is José Manuel and I live in Seville (Andalusia). I am older. When I was young I was in London 5 times studying English, I took advantage of the holidays in July to go normally, but sometimes I did it in winter. In fact I stayed two months (January and February). I really like the bass and I currently have three: Squier jazz bass affinity 4 strings, squier jazz bass affinity 5 strings and Höfner Shorty White 4 strings. I consider myself a beginner, because I have been many years without playing the bass and I have started again since March of this year. Delighted to be here. Thank you and sorry for my bad English.

Who thought he was on the Reggae thread then...? Duh.

Saw this on FB market place, and even with the price of petrol, it was well worth a little jaunt up the M5. I love that folk won't touch HB gear, especially when I know just how good it is. The price was ludicrously cheap, the amp a belter. Loud as the apocalypse, built in tuner which works like a dream, silent fans, and a very usable compressor. Everything you want to access on the front of the amp, speakons at the rear. Excited to gig this.

Shaolin Temple is probably one of my favourite albums from Barrington , around 1979 and backed by the roots radics , there’s some great Basslines on the album, which I think might be on YT, this is a great song

Been replaying this lately too

Just to open this up to everyone- Stoneham are interested in making a small-footprint 100W bass valve head. I’ve spoken to a few people today and am gauging interest - it might be that the economies of (small) scale production may assist. May not of course, I might be taking bollocks! FWIW I’m thinking Ashdown Little Bastard size and features but 100W - likely 2x KT88s.

A referral scheme makes sense and isn't a bad idea in principal, plenty of businesses use them. It sounds like they've just thrown that out there as a way of trying to deal with all of the negative backlash though. 'Oh stinky poo, we've made a bad decision. What can we say to get out of it' There's no way that original email was written with the intention of introducing a sort of loyalty scheme with preferred suppliers.

I sold my old T'n'B to a guy in Croatia. I took out all the valves and wrapped them individually in (newly-washed) old socks before packing the thing up. I'm glad I did. On arrival in Croatia the local Customs guys completely dismantled the whole thing looking for drugs. The buyer wasn't even slightly concerned; he'd been expecting that to happen. He re-assembled the amp, fired it up, and away he went.

This is my thought process too. Buy strings that were built for that bass! Obviously there are other good strings out there but I just use stainless steel Ernie Ball's on mine. Now I've got an ABM600 I'm loving my Stingray more and more. Soich more I treated it to a custom scratchplate today with the band logo on it...

The funk is in the gunk, but only if it’s tone-gunk .

Hipshot recommend aluminium HVAC tape, at least they did when I sent them an email regarding a similar situation, some time back. I eventually just used masking tape, worked/works fine.

I guess it would have to be Norman Watt-Roy. Why? Here's a clue.

The correct way is of course to fill the holes with a fitting wooden dowel and woodglue, then drill the appropriate size hole.

Three recent acquisitions! I really like the sound of a BassBalls pedal with a P bass w/flats - with the sensitivity set low so that it burps and breaks up when you dig in. Live, it just sounds so chewy and fat, like a phaser into a distorted filter. Weirdly, I really don't like it so much on any other bass. I've come to realise that I'm quite into collecting pedals and as such I really wanted one of the super hard to find green sovtek versions, which I believe were made in very small numbers before they went into the black housing. Some say there were fewer than 10 but I have no idea. It sounds great, basically the same as my USA version on first listen (though the trim pots are set differently) so I'll do a proper A/B comparison in the coming weeks. This thing is huge... especially in height and weight. It's nearly as heavy as my Mutron. I love the switch on the front and the foot switch feels so satisfying - anyone who has a green Big Muff or Small Stone will recognise! It kind of clacks into place and stays down then pops up again when disengaged. Next is the Choralflange by Fulltone. I really like chorus pedals and bought this to compare to my Danelectro Cool Cat which sounds beautiful live but perhaps a bit strong when recorded, something I attributed to a lack of a clean blend, which the Fulltone has. Actually this pedal excels in the subtle chorus sound; paired with my Stingray it gives a really nice enhancement which gives slapped lines a little 'something' - set wide with a slow sweep it sounds a bit like an aural exciter. The wise sweep gives a range of about 2 octaves. Quite nice is that the LED pulses in time to the sweep. I've found that on less subtle settings it doesn't give that metallic sound when you decrease the delay time. Finally I got my hands on an EHX nano Hot Tubes. I really like a slightly growly 70s jazz bass sound and thought I'd give this a try as it was local and cheap. Still have yet to play with it properly but so far I think it does the light breakup really well and the tone doesn't rob any bass unless you turn it right up. It seems very responsive to playing style and doesn't give you the fizzy D and G strings which I prefer to sound relatively clean compared to a more growly E and A (though I always play in D)

Anyone else using old valve amps for bass? I bought this old beast right before the first lockdown as a DOA amp. It needed a full restoration (electronically). I finally got it finished and tried it out. Wasn’t expecting much, but it actually sounds great for bass. Balanced across all of the strings, and the G string sounds FAT, whereas I’m used to my Ampeg (PF-500) sounding a bit thin on that string. It’s a bit impractical to gig with (weight), but that aside, it’s a very cool amp for bass.

I mean it literally says: ”Register for FREE now to attend BASS SPACE 2022” Fairly easy to decipher. My further understanding is that once you’ve registered, you can, at your own behest, choose to pay a fee to unlock further features such as VIP Webinars and the recordings of all the content. But the free content is the live classes and the like throughout the weekend. Also with regards to ‘spam’, just unsubscribe if that’s what you want to do, so easy. Si

I'm not a big fan of sunburst in general but I was very happy to make an exception for this '64 Gibson EB-2 I bought yesterday.

It's only down the road from me, so I might lob in a bid. I'm sure anyone bidding on this is very happy you posted it and have attracted additional bidders!

A bit of Barrington levy , this one is a winner

Tinted Love - Soft Cell

I wonder if he charged an extra 10% for the admin?

Damn, exactly what kind of work do you do….. on second thoughts don’t answer that! 😂🤣

What drew me to the StingRay was the sound. When I were a nipper and just starting out on bass at the start of the 80s, I noticed that a lot of my favourite artists were playing them and then it clicked what was making that particular bass sound I liked. Typically they were out of production at the time so I couldn't buy a new one, but stumbled across a second-hand StingRay in a shop on Soho Square in 1984 and bought it. Still got it, and it's still my go to bass.

As the Horace Andy track has put me in the right frame of mind and @Reggaebassposted them earlier. I'm checking out Black Uhuru. I've only recently really started delving in reggae and dub properly. So discovering lots of great music...

Totally agree. Just watch the two trumpet players at the beginning. Not every one will agree, but for me it's just a self-indulgent pissing contest.

these might be a bit cheaper? (no idea about postage) another option is to find a bearing supplier locally and phone them, i'd expect that they would be a couple of quid each and they would sell you them through the trade counter as a cash sale. just ask for 18mm outside diameter and 16mm inside diameter and make sure the length is right, many of the cheaper options are easily trimmed to length with a stanley knife (nylon or polyamide) I would avoid Oilite beatrings as they are designed to leach oil out slowly which might damge the finish (possible staining of the wood under the finish) Matt

Coverdale hasn’t aged well…

I am really pleased with my 2 Super Compacts which I have owned for a number of years. At a smallish gig 2 years ago one of the SCs just went silent. I was using just the one SC with a Fender Rumble 500 head and just at the end of the first 45min set the cab just stopped working. Emailed BF the following morning and a new driver arrived the following day. Swapped the driver and hey presto all good again. Great after sales support and customer service. I owned a One10 which was great for home use but after building a 10ins combo using one of @stevie and @Phil Starr cab designs I moved the One10 on as the combo cab just sounded better to my 70 year old ears ears. Two SCs with a Mesa D800 head is just sublime.

not enought space to display in better ways... but this is may family! - 1963 Fender Precision Bass - 1966 Fender Jazz Bass - 1979 Fender Precision Bass - Fender CS 1959 Precision Bass - Fender CS 1958 Precision Bass - Moollon P Classic - Fodera Custom Emperor 4 koa - Stingray MM with Status neck - Fender assembled reissue '72 jazz - Shecter '80 jazz bass - Ibanez ATK 305 japan 1996 - 1979 MM Sabre Bass - Squier Affinity P Bass - Jacoland mini bass - Harley Benton PB-50

Back on my Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, which I named "Dud Bottomfeeder", and which I just added a Jack Skellington (from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas") skull sticker to, and swapped the regular D'Addario XL nickle plated roundwound steel core strings, which was gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .034, to accommodate the G standard tuning I use for this bass, that is 3 half steps above regular 4 string E standard tuning, for a set of Elixir Nanoweb nickle plated roundwound steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 (using cut off ball ends from old bass strings to thread the strings through in order for them to be able to mount in the bridge holes and not slip through) : Oh, and by the way, as you can see the J pickup has been uninstalled, and instead replaced for a folded piece of matte black cardboard, the P pickup replaced for an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, wired directly to the output jack socket, which has been moved and replaced from a side mounted barrel type one to a front mounted regular jack socket, installed in one of the redundant pot holes, the remaining 2 knobs being there exclusively for visual decoration, further decorated with green electrical tape (also known as insulating tape), the P pickup also having been decorated with red electrical tape.

Mate, I’ve been playing for 40yrs, I tried most brands, although Dean Markley are not one of them. EB or D’Addario have been my staple for years, after using DRs before that. Blimey I’ve tried them all….. always hated Rotos, not keen on Warwick black labels either, but most others are cool as long as they’re Nickel.

I used to always say that my Big Four were Jaco, Jeff Berlin, Jimmy Johnson and Percy Jones - each for different reasons. I have also grown to love Anthony Jackson whose work with Michel Camilo and Hiromi Uehara and others can be absolutely thrilling (the whole Camilo album 'Caribe' is a rollercoaster of absolute delight). If I have to say which one of these was the one who had the greatest impact on me personally as a player, it would have to be Jeff Berlin. Our shared love of Jack Bruce, his work with Bruford, Allan Holdsworth's 'Road Games', his solo albums. I have since found flaws in his concept that often make me doubt myself (I have found the same with Jaco and Percy Jones, if I am honest, although I still love both) - his chorus sound I find irritating and his obsession with featuring the bass when it doesn't actually work very well (his Low Standards and High Standards cds are a it icky - I don't think he understands the Art of it as much as he does the Craft), his obsessions over bass pedagogy (just let it go, JB) but I keep going back to his back catalogue of recordings and many of them are just absolutely fantastic. It is appalling how little performance footage there is of JB where the sound is decent (a lot of it is mobile phone footage that sounds terrible). Here is a something I just found that gives a sense of where he comes from - the tune is 'Solar' by Miles Davis. I add a second track (recorded) just to show JB when he is smokin'. The tune is 'Emeril Kicks It UP' from the 2009 CD 'In Harmony's Way' - I also attach a link to a complete transcription I did of the tune. Transcription link - https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/emeril-kicks-it-up-jeff-berlin/

Gah! Just one? It’s always a toss up between Pino and Tony Levin. My knee jerk reaction is always Pino, but now you’re making me think about it and since my recent ennui with the typical ‘80s style fretless playing that got me into playing bass in the first place (Paul Young’s ‘No Parlez’ album to be precise) I think I’m going to have to say TL (takes a long look in the mirror and asks, “Who are you?”). He’s not dissimilar to Pino in his playing, but he also has that prog sensibility where he might go off on a tangent and come up with something completely unexpected and new (funk fingers for instance) and then he also plays upright and cello. So, waves of hate to you @Barking Spiders for making me choose 😂 and here is Mr Levin doing his thing.