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After more than 7-8 years, going back from big to smaller board7 points
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2006, France. Music bar. I'm depping in a seven piece blues band. Alain, the keyboard player, whilst technically brilliant, was a nightmare to play with. He'd spent the previous five years in a jazzy trio, drums, rhythm guitar and him so, he'd played all the bass, all the solos and couldn't help over playing. You wouldn't have even noticed if me, or the two guitarists and the harmonica player had left the stage. We got to the end of the first set. I unplugged my bass (active) popped it on the stand and went out front to have a smoke. The first thing I see is two feet, waggling, about 18" off the ground. The harmonica player has him pinned up against the front window, screaming at him in french except for the English words. " My fu#k#ng solos" 😂 I was told he'd left after the next gig with a "no time to really commit to a band" excuse.6 points
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I love MIJ guitars and basses I couldn't resist this, I was after a 75 reissue but you don't always know what you want until you see it5 points
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I’ve had a personal crisis and need to sell my gear and raise money fast. Hence I’m selling my new bass. It still has the cellophane on. limited edition premium Ibanez. its stunning and plays and sounds wonderful. collected from Cheltenham only. £500. I just paid a grand for it.5 points -
The Gulf Of America describes the space between the giant Wotsit's ears.5 points
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Oops, 2x10 also came up for £40 on facebook yesterday, right off my commute home... just need to come up with a suitable excuse for the gear abstinence thread... but I didn't know my 4x10 was even expecting a baby?4 points
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No good for me then. I've got deep (empty!) pockets and short arms!4 points
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Not quite the same thing, but if I gave any concerns about a gig... lighting, pressure to deliver, feeling under the weather, I make life as easy as possible for myself and take my Flea Jazz bass for maximum playability. My Sire P10 gets close.4 points
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This works too.4 points
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Because this particular leader has a revenge list and is happy to use it instead of being an actual statesman.4 points
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I use Transcribe from Seventh String. It only costs about £35 so it is not expensive and it is incredibly versatile. I have had my copy for years and have been upgrading for free repeatedly ever since I first got it. Incredible value for money. You can slow stuff down to 10% speed without changing pitch and you can isolate passages to focus in on one note or a phrase etc. It's marvellous for those tricksy little licks that you can't quite hear at full speed. I could never have done half of the stuff on the website without it. Highly recommended. I then transcribe onto Sibelius which I have on a subscription for less that £20 a month (I can't remember how much). https://www.seventhstring.com/ If you want any Magnum tunes off Chase The Dragon transcribed, let me know. I loved that album when I had more hair. 'The Teacher' is already up there!3 points
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I skipped over to 5 stringers never to return. I tried a Dingwall in a store and that low B made me tingle. I’ve spent the last 4 years trying to get to grips with the extra string, extended range and fanned frets and I just can’t go back. It just feels right to me.3 points
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Just dipped my toes a bit deeper into the world of cab sim and amp sim IRs:3 points
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What is also a joke is posting while waiting for my pizza in an area with very poor signal.3 points
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Sire z3 5 string bass ..upgraded tuners from Northwest guitars which I believe come from the Wilkinson factory..I will supply original tuners which to be honest are fine ..also had a clear pick guard made (will supply original also along with knobs)..and will refit to factory standard before posting if you wish ..it’s a great bass with no issues..apart from a small mark which I wasn’t aware of and a small blemish under the pick guard …weight is 4.25kg Will include gig bag as shown …3 points -
Fender doing a 15% off sale today. Squire Sonic Bronco for £179. In 'ultraviolet' or 'lime green'. Unsurprisingly, ultraviolent is sold out, but slime green still available, if you like that sort of thing.3 points
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So glad I got my Mk 1 back in the early 90s (personal ad in the back of Guitarist) and my Pro2E back in 2001 (randomly turned up in a local guitar shop - both for about 500 quid) before the prices got silly!3 points
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I dislike the guy intensely. But, when it comes to the music business, he does know what he's on about, since Oasis did start very much at the grassroots level and work their way up. The problem is, they started back in the 90s when the old music business model still applied - the whole grassroots > get management > get signed > put out album on CD > tour > get lots of press coverage > repeat cycle. I'm not sure many people of his generation have acknowledged or adapted to the new reality of this streaming world. I'd be more inclined to listen to some of the younger musicians who have succeeded in the current environment.3 points
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...so I heard banging and commotion, came downstairs and lo and behold my Trace 4x10 had given birth to a healthy baby 2x10, a £40 lovechild from Facebook marketplace - I didn't even know she was pregnant and now have to find room for another cab to feed! I'm guessing blaming my 4x10s infidelity isn't an excuse to still be in this?3 points
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One of those basses very few know about. Sometimes I forget how good it is.3 points
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Having had my £350 Wal in the 80s, I knew I was never getting one of those again, since prices went into the stratosphere. That's why I had this homage built, which bears a vague resemblance to a Wal, late last year. With the multi coil pickups and LPF based preamp, it nails that sound.3 points
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Apart from 6 Music! They have Giles Peterson with obscure jazz on a Saturday afternoon. And Craig's funk'n'soul show is filled with gems both obscure and ancient. There's even bangin' choons for da kids with Jamz Supernova's show. Even during peak afternoon shows I've heard bands like The Residents, Goatgirl, Gillaband...3 points
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Yep, although I only have one bass now. It's still surprising to me how happy I am with it.3 points
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"The seller is a liar and a crackhead" possibly the finest neg ebay feedback I have read, I salute you user o***o, strong work3 points
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It's the kinda tweak ability that's great.... till my daughters decide to play with my pedals and move all the knobs- and then something like a SA atlas with saveable presets comes into it's own!3 points
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Up for sale.. An all original Westone super headless bass from 1986, in walnut finish, in very good condition, flawless neck..for a 40 year old bass!! Everything works as it should..Hardware in great condition for age..Tuners hold pitch perfectly.. Active/passive switch, phase in out switch..Volume/tone/ bass/treble cut boost pots. Comes with original Westone case in very good condition..This bass is a joy to play and now becoming very hard to come by in thier short year long production..It was the top off the range model and rightly so in my humble opinion..40mm nut 33.75 scale 24 fret..3 piece Maple neck..locking clamp can use normal and double ballend strings..18v circuit.. Any questions I will try to answer..Not really looking for trades..Feel free if near Edinburgh area to try out..Can ship to UK for £20ish. Cheers folks👍😀3 points -
Duck Duck Go works well as a search engine and does not track you. I have long considered Google the evil empire.3 points
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i prefer p-bass to be honest3 points
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Looks like him. He was on the tour at the York gig last week.3 points
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I have just learned that Tamsin Greig plays bass in a forthcoming TV series and I may need to loosen my collar and lie down for a bit.3 points
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Why has the OP been typed as some kind of incomprehensible prose poem?3 points
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For Sale is my beautiful Sandberg California II TM4. Just took delivery of my new Alpha Hammerhead customer build so I need to let one go 😞 Purchased brand new from Bass Direct November 2023. Recently changed the preamp out to the Delano Sonar 3 band, which suits this bass great. Full set up and new elixir 45-105 on it. Comes with gig bag. 3d printed thumb rest. Crap and taking pics and feck all room in my house, so apologies! Found one little dint on the back. Pro description below: Product Specs/Additional Information Neck – Bolted x 6 / Maple Fretboard – Ebony 22 Frets, with black dots instrument fully Plek’d Body – Alder Scale – 34″ Finish – San remo High Gloss Pick guard – Black Hardware – Sandberg lightweight tuners and bridge, chrome - *Now updated to a Delano Sonar 3 Band, Mid control at 500hz, Stocked Bass and Treble at 40hz and 6.5khz.* Pickups – 1 x Delano M style, 1 x Delano J Electronics – Vol/Pan/Mid/Treble and Bass Stacked. An up to date take on Leo Fenders ubiquitous bass from the 1960s that has had a modern makeover including: High specification pickups, flexible and natural sounding active preamp, precision bridge and stunning German build quality. This is the new TM bass, hand made in Germany by Sandberg. These Sandberg Basses are finished with a High gloss finish. It features two Delano Pickups, one jazz and one mm for a big, clear tone with plenty of tonal options and features a coil tap switch to go from classic tones to more modern. The MM style pickup can be run in single coil mode giving all those classic J style tones. The Hardware is of a high quality standard and features the new lightweight tuners and high mass bridge and is designed by Sandberg and comes with a deluxe padded Sandberg gigbag.2 points -
Excellent condition japanese Fender Jazz bass. I think the 90’s japanese reissues are as close as you get to the vintage instruments but without the price tag. This one has had new pickups (originals will come with the bass also) which are the superb Tonerider pickups. Electrics were upgraded at the time too as the cheap japanese pots were noisy and the tone pot didnt seem to do much at all. It had a full setup 2 weeks ago at PSG Guitars in Bury where the current elites Groundwound strings were installed. The is one finish scratch to the back as photo’d and a few playing swirls here and there. I dont believe the pickguard is original to the bass as its needs a tiny bit if fettling round the bell plate to sit fully flush. Finally that is a real genuine 70’s bridge cover. Only reason for selling is my p basses are getting more action and i have a rickenbacker itch i want to scratch. Can be seen, tested and played here in Bolton. **Postage is possible within UK as i do have a packing box but no case. Would be well packed though** Would consider a part ex with cash my way for a black Dirnt sig bass (ideally fender but would consider the Squier)2 points -
Any Zoot fans out there? I’ve somehow ended up with a nice pic of one. If there is a real fan out there I’m willing to post to them… Shame to just toss out…2 points
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Thought I'd wait for pics, but yes - very nice Fujigen 4001 type, from 1990 but the only change from the mid/late 70s 2388B, (once they'd updated from the Maxon mockmudbuckers & full-width glitter inlays) was to swap the checked binding for pinstripe. Nice little detail that makes it less of a clone, but it still has the 1/2" pickup spacing & tug bar of the early basses. Greco's a Japan-market brand, so they continued selling copy instruments like these for many years after they stopped exporting them - wonder when Fujigen finally stopped making Fakers?2 points
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All the things that have made it easier to be a musician/songwriter/band member have made it harder at the same time. Decent quality musical instruments have never been cheaper or more plentiful but that means there are lots more people playing music. Access to recording and video making technology is there for anyone with a computer and/or a phone (which is pretty much everyone in 1st world countries) and you can make your music available on all the streaming services for about $10 which means that there are somewhere in the region of 40,000 new tracks appearing on Spotify EVERY DAY. So while anyone anywhere could listen to your music, finding your audience and maybe more importantly your audience finding you is much, much harder. What could be described as current fashions and trends are far less important than they were in the 20th Century, you can be whoever you want to be, but that means audience sizes for all those different genres are much smaller. So these days it is perfectly possible for almost any gigging band to be self-sustaining, it is also far harder than ever before (and it was never particularly easy in the first place) to actually make a living out of being in a band, even if you are also the main songwriter.2 points
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There's always been "scenes" - groups of people who'd listen to certain genres of music, dress a certain way and have interests and personal/political beliefs in common with other people in that scene. Thinking metalheads, goths, indie kids, teddy boys, skinheads, New Romantics, punks, beatniks, mods, rockers, etc. They still exist, but one side effect of the whole streaming revolution is that, for people who actually listen to music instead of using it as audio wallpaper, they seem to have broader tastes these days. A lot of kids listen to a bit of everything and don't feel the need to partition themselves into a "scene". Anything from metal to R&B, to West End showtunes, to video game music. They just pick and choose what they like, and this extends beyond music, to fashion, etc too. This is a good thing since it means many of the prejudices that some of us faced for our taste in music is fading, but it does kinda dilute the influence a "scene" can have on attracting its own audience, and hence how many die-hard fans they can sell stuff to.2 points
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It all depends on what you use music for. Most people have a very superficial relationship with it nowadays. In my day, it meant everything to nearly everybody but, now, it is mostly the soundtrack to computer games and box sets. Let's face it. The market is saturated and most bands have an audience that is too small to generate an income. Like all marginal activity, it is economically unviable. Musicians are increasingly a minority interest, like poets and painters. We all have our favourites but no-one is generating the kind of universal interest that surrounded bands like The Beatles, Zeppelin, Maiden etc. That's all nostalgia now. You realise we are all turning into Jazz musicians, don't you? Our audiences are just other bands waiting patiently to have a go themselves before going back to the day job tomorrow.2 points
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More Knobs than a Boy Band!2 points -
Oh, that VW. Makes more sense than what I was thinking.2 points
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Minimum size fo an adult, even a tiny one like me, has to be 3/4. Otherwise get a different-shaped, and less deep, DB - Eminence, Kolstein Busetto - or an electric upright. I would steer well clear of anything smaller than 3/4 for an adult.2 points
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Please buy it... put us all out of our misery!2 points -
Pfft, if you see it, you'll want it too. I guess that would solve my problem from a gear abstinence point of view2 points
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I just checked Google Maps and they renamed the Gulf Of Mexico into the Gulf Of America. Apple Maps is still calling it Gulf Of Mexico. Why are these so-called disruptors in Silicon Valley suddenly listening to the whims of a political leader? They never have before.2 points
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BURN THE HERETIC!!!2 points
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A single grainy picture taken with a phone camera circa 2002, doesn't even show the head and some -ve feedback reviews that probably should warn anybody and everybody to keep as far away as possible...2 points
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I played in a band that toured the North East as a Dire Straits tribute. Very rewarding musically. That Knopfler is a genius. The van was a bit of a state. It was covered in rust patches. We named it Speckled Jim after the pigeon murdered by Lt Blackadder. After the last gig in Blyth we had to drive home, putting in almost as much oil as petrol. We got as far as Guildford and just started to allow ourselves to think we'd get home when Speckled Jim had the last word and conked out.2 points
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A trio would suit me fine. 2 less idiots to fall out with, win win!2 points
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Mine have been my shortscales for the last two years, which was a huge surprise for me. I traded one of my Ibanez MC924's for an Atelier Z Baby Z-4J because I had wanted to try one for a long time, but I really didn’t expect I would like it as much as I do. Then one year ago I added a Sandberg Lionel that I put LaBella flats on (which was even more surprising, because I had never liked using flats before, but the Lionel just begged for them) and it's just a ton of fun to play. I really enjoy them a lot! I have no place for them in my band (I play doom metal tuned down to low A) which really just adds to the surprise2 points
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Just scored an Epiphone shorty. Picked it up yesterday afternoon from FB marketplace, gigged it last night. It's this one and it felt so tiny! But it sounded and played really well. Glad I went for the short scale, there was a little bit of neck dive so I imagine the full length would be, for me, unplayable.2 points
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