Telebass

28 Nov 2008 Phoenix, Callington, Cornwall 29 Nov 2008 The Revenue, Devonport, Plymouth 6 Dec 2008 Cornish Arms, Gunnislake, Cornwall 12 Dec 2008 The Royal Standard, Mary Tavy, Devon 20 Dec 2008 The Revenue, Devonport, Plymouth 31 Dec 2008 Tavistock Inn, Tavistock 16 Jan 2009 The Stoke Arms, Exeter

Mental female vocalist? That always spells doom to me! And has done. Twice.

Now, that's a Rig OF Doom if ever I saw one...Fretmeister, where are you?

Rats...then, if I can get the dosh, Rob will just have to build me an S2...

Yes indeed, Darwinism, no argument. In Leo's defence (bad pickguards, wrong-way tuners, 2-saddle bridges,etc) - these WERE advances, and also shortage of decent materials for somethings (middle of the Korean War, remember...). The larger 57 headstock less prone to neck dive? Never, ever, heard of a pre 57 style Precision that suffered from neck-dive***..pretty rare but not unknown on post 57s...although I've never personally come across a neck-diving Fender bass, except the Jaguar... If I'm seemingly stuck mindlessly with my precisions, it's because nothing else has ever felt right, no matter who made it. And yes, I do like that name on the headstock. I grew up with these being the only good bass around at the time. While that is patently not the case now, I just love 'em, and have yet to see much that is other than minor tweaking, even in the big picture... Headless? Hmmm...If I could have a 'modern' bass, it would be a Status S2 headless. With a single passive P pickup. That, I would step up for. So maybe I'm not QUITE the stick-in-the-mud even I thought I was! ***Some modern, basswood bodied versions might, but no originals or Telecaster Basses...

All the above, +1. But also, don't think of yourself as a beginner anymore, once a bass player, ALWAYS a bass player. It's what you want to do, right? Get the Tascam MPBT1 if you can, as mentioned earlier. I have an old CDBT!MKII which has just died, and my new MPBT1 arrives tomorrow. I have a dep gig (on Boxing Day of all days...) and the set list is going straight on it tomorrow. Put the songs you want to mess with on your ipod and listen to them when you can't be playing, if that's practical. Then you'll be ITCHING to get your mitts around the thing as soon as you walk in the door. I took 17 years off, never had an instrument in all that time, never even listened to music much. When I got my Sting bass in 2003, it was like I'd never been away. And I was, beyond all doubt, BETTER, because I KNEW I wasn't going to have to start from scratch! And you don't have to, either! Bonus!

And why not?

Batteries = point of unreliability. I only ever use simple basses, but into a bang-up-to-date amp, and a radio, so no cable loss. Active = redundant. JMHO...

Matching headstocks were VERY rare on Ps, even when in custom colours...

Leo got it 99% right in 1951, upped it to 99.5% in 1957, then added a different flavour in 1960... Anyway you look at it, no-one is [i]capable[/i] of revolutionising it that much... Avtive, woods, other materials - just icing on top of a cake who's fundamental (!) recipe is un likely to be bettered any time soon. Of course I'm biased! But it IS what I think.

Sounded good!

Hi Chris! Also from Devon!

PMd

The black one should have a set of covers on it, but they've not both arrived yet. Another pic when they do!

Come on, EVERYONE needs a Precision at some point...! GASGASGAS

[quote name='rjb' post='253135' date='Aug 2 2008, 07:46 AM']How's about their telebass? These look pretty decent indeed for the money..[/quote] EEEK! A TelEB3! Wrong. In so many ways...

Howdy!

Welcome! Back!

You'd never have enough signal. You need the magnet AND all those turns to have enough induction taking place. In addition, there'd be terible problems of frequency response, as stated by mcgraham...

Def a bit slow at the moment...but I have picked up one dep gig for...Boxing Day???

Have got Notepad 2008, and am working on it...It's the timing aspect that is worst; can sort out the actual notes a bit already. That last site looks interesting - thanks!

Title says it all, really. What's the best way for an old fart to learn to read music?

Agreed on the 'too many bells and whistles' front. 'S what I like about the LMII - simple and bombproof. There are always some of anything that simply don't go wrong...long may your amp survive!

Or how about....(large)

Howdy, Carla!