Telebass

On 13/10/2018 at 17:26, Mickeyboro said:

Best wishes from the guy who sold you your original and long gone Tele bass!

Actually, it was my 2nd - the first was a 69! Certainly wish I still had that 96 though...it were a right cracker!

2 hours ago, FinnDave said:

Good to know, I wrote to them a week or two ago asking if they were interested  in giving us a gig!

A bit like a time machine. Odd doorway in a back street. Cheap beer! Good stage with ample power points. If you use your own PA, you get 100% of the door.

Goog gig at the Palladium Club in Bideford. Just a fun place to play!

On 09/10/2018 at 16:30, The59Sound said:

Went to GuitarGuitar today and played a CS Jazz relic by Master Builder someone or other...

Beautiful bass to look at - my favourite colour combo; candy apple red, tort pickguard and rosewood neck.

But upon playing and hearing it, it just feels and sounds like a normal Fender MIA Jazz in my humble opinion. It was priced at £3.2k... but in a blind test could have been any MIA Jazz to me.

I have played old Fenders that sound 'old' but this just looks old yet sounds modern.

Just me?

No. Years ago, I had a cracking 1996 51 P-bass re-issue. Then, when the London Guitar Show got rebooted, I had a go on a 55 CS Precision. Mine was better in every way that I could tell, except that this had heavy flats on and mine had TI Jazz Flats.  Not long after that, I began to put together 'Fenders' built as I wanted them, and have had a much better playing experience all round. CS are very well made, but not very characterful, if you like.

14 hours ago, PaulWarning said:

 although that's  what she said,  but what she demonstrated was don't play different open strings without damping, which is correct. 

Fair enough. 

It will be a (hopefully) sold-out night at the Wharf here in Tavistock, so we should go out on a big high!

Thank you!

Beyond special projects, this is surely a solution looking for a problem...

Can someone please point me at the place where the "never play open strings" sh*te comes from?

On New Year's Eve 2018, my band, The Rock 'n' Roll Outlaws will play its final gig. Our founder and guitarist/vocalist is leaving for a better life in Oz, and with a young family, what a good idea that is.

For me, it will mean the end of playing any rock, in an effort to preserve what's left of my hearing. I do have other things on the cards, but much quieter. To that end, the faithful Markbass rig is planned to be replace with a Trace Elliot Elf or similar, and a Barefaced 110. I might even downsize the car...

It's timely anyhow. I'm likely to have a reverse shoulder replacement in the first part of the year, due to the irreparable damge from the cycling accident. So lightweight is now a medical must as well as a convenience.

So, new year, new...everything!

Wedding gig in mid-Cornwall. All good, plenty of folk we knew, so good crowd.

Main bass dead out of the case. Just an earthing fault, but irritating. The BB414 was well up for the backup, but I'd forgotten how heavy it seems...

1 hour ago, Kevsy71 said:

Bass Centre Bruce Thomas Profile bass - it's a 41mm nut but a slender neck profile (hence the name) with a smooth (not glossy) neck finish. Well worth an audition at £495

http://www.basscentre.com/british-bass-masters/bruce-thomas-profile.html

Edit: sorry, just spotted you were after PJ. They also do the Norman Watt-Roy tribute PJ but it's a 43mm nut:

http://www.basscentre.com/british-bass-masters/the-bass-centre-rhythm-stick-rosewood.html

Those look really nice!

Greatly looking forward to it, but the surgery on my shoulder was not successful, so it will be a painful return.

So and in equal measure. No, the edges it!

Always a Precision man, age and arthritis have led me to the way of the 38mm Jazz nut. Have a slim 2014 American Special Jazz neck on a standard 2003 MIM Precision body.

Other bass is a 40-mm width Yamaha. 

Welcome!

On 25/12/2017 at 22:40, stewblack said:

Hurts doesn't it?

Certainly does...

Welcome Stew, recently did that to my right shoulder. At 2mph. On a road bike.

Wet leaves...

Welcome!

A most informative thread!

Noticed on another thread that someone didn't use open strings, for him because if damping issues. 

I'm a user of open strings. I see no reason why not, although apparently Phil Lesh always thought it an abomination - never really understood why. I certainly do NOT agree with the "nut and frets sound different " argument. In a band context it would be all but impossible to ever tell, and difficult anyway. 

Let's hear it...

Yes, the setup was easy, little adjustment needed. Using standard Chromes, after TI Jazz Flats. 

Spare bass has been set u like this as we're going to be doing some Pretenders stuff. 

Anyone else tuned this way?

Welcome! A 414 is my (just about) second bass!

Right, that settles that, then! Let the saving begin!
Thanks for all your feedback.

Thinking of moving to a pair using my LMII to drive - good plan? Need to ease my back even more!