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Glad its going well- there's nothing like being thrown in at the deep end to make you get your proverbial sh*t together!

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='849144' date='May 27 2010, 08:35 AM']Quick edit for afterthought:- Stop telling everyone how great your Gear is, and how wonderful you are. It might be, and you might be, but it comes across as pretty arrogant reading. "Good Gear and loads of experience" sounds so much better. Just my two pennorth about the Geordie mindset. [/quote] Put more politely than I could

I started on double bass, then bass guitar and now play a bit of guitar also, albeit very poorly. I quite like the hybrid instruments- I like having the high notes on my ERB, and if I buy another guitar it will certainly be at least a 7 string, and more likely 8.

[quote name='Toasted' post='847195' date='May 25 2010, 09:14 AM']Answer: It's a high-mass headstock to reduce deadspots.[/quote] Aha! Every day really is a school day.

I clicked. Now I'm off for a cold shower.

Why is your headstock design so ugly?

Common knowledge. That's why they don't get any actual music to play

Elixir strings- at least five of them. Bonus points for a super stable neck.

Depends on the band, but I quite like doing the "sideman" thing. Less creative input means less overall responsibility IME. I can just turn up and play and not worry about the other stuff that goes with being in a band- its "their" band, so they can deal with irate promoters etc.

Mail order bride?

As long as you don't try and go too loud it'll be fine. All my 15" cab does these days is serve a a table for the rest of my hifi to sit on.

I got two copies in the post! Bizarre.

I see he now has a column in BGM as well.

I quite fancy a 5 string Jazz type, but with piezos only and a lovely top.

It sounds like a misunderstanding somewhere along the line to me. The distributor "quoted" in the TB thread was probably referring to the Corvettes we already know about.

Seems like third hand hearsay at the moment- I couldn't find any sign of it on the Warwick site.

An [url="http://www.outofthisswirled.com/"]Out Of This Swirled[/url] finish.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='840725' date='May 18 2010, 12:18 PM']I much prefer the Music Man wheel-thing down at the heel. You can adjust the truss rod with pretty much anything, as long as it fits in the holes. No need to find the right Allen key![/quote] +1!

Yep, Elixirs. I have them on all my basses- they're all about 9 months old and still sound good as new. I like their brightness as I have no problem rolling the treble off.

[quote name='deksawyer' post='840597' date='May 18 2010, 10:21 AM']Easy access truss rod[/quote] Yeah, a truss rod that doesn't require the neck to be removed would be nice.

[quote name='foal30' post='840374' date='May 17 2010, 11:39 PM']often I have to play it to transcribe it because my ears are catching up so it's not a reading tool per se ... generally I am not sure what I do with transcriptions it's just something you do because deep down it's good for you I don't need to know why, it just is.[/quote] Very poetic.

Exactly.

The cat must have seen the price tag...

Tubular bells? (I feel a song coming on...)