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You can pay Fender to do it for you and call it relic-ing! I feel your pain. You either want no dings on a bass or loads of them!

[quote name='bh2' timestamp='1383748793' post='2268515'] Take a listen to this... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE0GkVTWKo[/media] Inspired me to defret my 62 Jazz, although I have been playing fretless on and off since the early eighties, I was about to give up playing alltogether, then I found this album! RIP Mick... Thanks for the gong link... I've just rediscovered Mike Howlett from another thread. Not fretless though. [/quote] Good heavens! That's good.... MK rules! (That's Mick Karn in this case...) The drums are great too...

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1383908529' post='2270599'] Here is a great example of Percy Jones. It saddens me that a British bassist recorded this before Jaco's breakthrough on the Weather Report album "Heavy Weather" - yet went almost unnoticed. Its maybe a reasonable assumption that if Jaco had recorded this it would have been lauded as earth shattering. I think Percy is totally underrated and almost ignored by the main stream bass press in the UK. [media]http://youtu.be/ZQYkBwfzHAc[/media] [/quote] +1... agree with the sentiment but I think Jaco's breakthrough year was '76 and this is '78. Masques is a favourite of mine too...

Actually I seem to remember also having an MP3 of his jam with Jonas Hellborg....?

Still there... just search... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5iUopTlxY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5iUopTlxY[/url]

Pedulla MVP 4... pea-green. Been in the shop for years. Made a cash offer of £500 which was accepted. On way home, brakes failed in Ford Orion (not a pleasant experience on the M602). AA rescue and following repair, you guessed it, £500 so no MVP. :-( It was a beaut' too - through-neck & P-J Barts.

[quote name='merchant' timestamp='1382616280' post='2254422'] We have a winner!!!!! That's it, Bolin basses. Boy do I want one of the single pickup restless ones. Ah well. Cheers everyone [/quote] No, cheers me. Do I win a Bolin bass or something?

Needs more 13th chord stabs!

For me, it's not exactly, 'tearing it up'... more like, 'having a run through...'. A bit dull I'm afraid...

P.S. I've no idea how (or why) I remembered that. Wonder what else is clogging up my brain.

Yeah it rings a bell... Bolin basses? You'll have to Google them as posting images is incomprehensible here on BC.

It's a beaut'! EBS_freak will give you the skinny when he sees this but it does look pretty Spitfire-prototype'ish. What's it play and sound like?

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1381421966' post='2238932'] Good album .Sammy says ouch ,is also classic. Too '80s for some now The hot licks video is funny tho'. He is totally out of it [/quote] I think you deserve the medal! BTW I think it was Carl Palmer this guy played for, replacing Bass Tutor Stuart Clayton. P.S. Rather nifty GB Spitfire 6 in original post!

To have a God, you have to have worshippers... And you'll have seen the stats that Urban/Dance now is by far the majority of music sales with guitar-based rock a minority. Coupled with this is the up-coming nuclear winter of America discovering dance music and the DJ scene in a big 'Ibiza' type-way - like our economy, the bass (&guitar) industry is driven from America and this (player as opposed to DJ-based music) will erode rapidly... Expect niche bass builders to go out of business and the big names to trade more on relic/artist models to an aging market. Bass Player will wind up too. (Will anyone notice?) Bass will continue to get less mainstream, i.e. in the top-40, and will only really exist at shrinking trade fairs, bass meets and on the 'net. The gig scene will move more towards hotels and holiday camps offering 'Heavy Rock' getaways and retro weekends. And the new gods - where they do pop up, will go straight to YouTube with no income stream. Let's meet at a hotel in Lytham St Anne's with our boutique basses to have one more round of 'Hot Water' in 2017. Look North may cover it.

Pretty much what my wife says on a daily basis...

I'm afraid it's over. Remember those 70's local news films of George Formby fans playing their ukuleles in some hotel room in Lytham St. Annes? That's us!

Loving the Statii with bindings...

Tried a Jazz USA standard in PMT Manchester a couple of years ago. Nut slots cut badly so the string spacing was off for the lower frets. Plus the standard strings (Fender) had such high tension, coupled with a high action, it was almost unplayable. Yours for £750... kerching!

[size=4]> [/size][color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Warwick - Love or Hate?[/font][/color] [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Love - specifically a nice Streamer off Warwickhunt years ago... Forky sound with bags of extra low-end if needed.[/font][/color]

Yeah but now you have to have a re-fret every 5 gigs!

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1380455346' post='2225434'] It's cheap and probably poor quality but please lets not get into that debate, but something as simple as this I suppose would be my best option [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Promotions-Guitar-to-USB-Interface-Link-Audio-Cable-PC-MAC-Recording-Adapter/310707231400?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D17233%26meid%3D1628186531065811607%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D8045%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D190705823610%26"]http://www.ebay.co.u...190705823610%26[/url] With this I presume I can just play along to whatever I've got running and if my stereos turned on it should all come through that, or plug headphones in to please my wife. I can just double sided tape it to the top of the PC tower. [/quote] Worth a go for fiver. Regards your other question, just use YouTube or MP3s as normal and you'll need the software for the interface running as well to control you volume. Windows volume controls for mixing and matching your levels.

Oh I see. Well your problem is your levels which is what the interface & software take care of... Best I can suggest is get a Line 6 UX1 and leads and leave it set-up for whenever you want to practise. Cost about a one'r...

Erm I'm not familiar with the x3 live but you should be able to plug that into your PC, use Line 6's Gearbox software to amp & model your sounds and play along side YT, MP3s or your DAW - as I do but with a Line 6 Toneport in place of the x3? Or am I missing something here with yuor question?

Good news... ish. The double trio got pretty mushy so I hope they sort the arrangements for a seven piece!