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Yes Dave you've got it there comes a point when you actually want to do what you want to do. I look in my wardrobe and realise I have been wearing black socks, black trousers and white shirts all my life, From school, in Brass bands , orchestras, Big bands and in our functions band wearing DJ's - I have been playing music that other people want to hear which is right and proper, but i never got to play in Rock bands and the music that moved me in my teens. No regrets on what i have done, but just the bits I didn't get to do because i was too busy pleasing everyone else.

Never thought i would be feeling the same, but things change for better or worse and you have a whole new perspective on life. I have just packed in playing my main Big band after many years, due to musical direction and not enough time to rehearse properly. playing what individuals wanted and not what public want to hear. Bought a CS precision this time last year for a 60's band that never materialised, Its been to one jam. So that will probably have to go. This will probably be the last year our function band gigs, due to effort to do it properly and the expense - Website , insurance Pat testing and advertising. I feel a cull coming on, But its nice in the Garden, mustn't grumble.

I always think of Mario Cipollina for Huey Lewis and the news he played wicked bass lines with his thumb nail. sadly no longer with us.

As I have two of these broke and sat in my garage I fancy a repair job like yours - what glue did you use on the metal bracket. Cheers

https://www.electricbass.ch/websites Have a look through these just been surfing these all night comes with a GAS warning happy browsing

PED - are you sure you didn't just misread, easy mistake really - Stockholm or "stock - home"

Basschat - is my favorite all things bass market place, apart from strings and batteries all my gear is from here. 😊 Bassgear was great in Wokingham, can still be contacted on line, or a trip to Warwick where you can park, or fight your way the the Gallery Camden, best go by skate board and a taxi back if you buy something 😁

bought my replacements through Thomann quite cheap so worth checking out.

We have all done it after a late night - but I always now take as much stuff in the house as I can of value, Bass gear, PA and lights, with just four trips to the car there is 5K's worth of gear now safe. Good luck tracking it down - A good timely reminder to all to think the worse this time of year.

DOLOMITES - that's bad No hand rail on that roof 🤸‍♀️ If you had used music stands you could have put some warning tape round the band, oh sorry that's a different thread 👍

I agree with you on a lot of this but think this is better split into what makes a difference, and what you need for comfort - your crotch to allow you to concentrate on the music. On the latter the neck feel and string spacing is number one for me Two points for me i disagree on, Bridge mass - had an old P bass and installed a Badass It was noticeably a different instrument after that. So can make a difference The other is Cabs, I have had good and bad, too many companies compromise on cab design and construction to fit models into price brackets. Even reputable companies ? produce top of the range cabs and lets say high street range ? why ? If they are serious about doing the right thing by you the consumer a great cab should be based on physics alone will probably be big and possibly heavy. anyway most of this has been covered by Bill and Max on here. I wish Basschat had been around when i started out before GAS took hold

I'm with Bill here. Not the best idea, I have bi Amped to good affect and would suggest bi amping, keep the sub frequencies mono, in fact all the frequencies on your fret board to the larger amp and speakers that can handle the power, but then stereo the top end this sounds good if you use a lot of sweeping chorus and flange sounds in your playing. Use the crossover to experiment but best with just the harmonic content to the stereo side, you will keep the attack and drive this way and not get muddy and fosters everyone off 😊including yourself

Well good news here contacted Hercules and as stated above just offered me 50% discount, which i feel is pretty good for the age of mine - they have been great till recently. So just ordered two for 40 quid you may be able to sort sticky handles but when the grip handle lets go that is an expensive bass on the floor, so just watch out the plastic is not about to give way.

Yep me too first i have heard of this but both mine are sticky and both roll pins holding the sprung handle have cracked the plastic.

Funny that clip didn't explain what swing is at all. Just a big band line up playing a typical swing number. nothing on how you would play two quavers - long and short to give that signature swing In swing style the beat is divided into two, but unevenly, reflecting an underlying triplet feel. Downbeats are 2/3 of a beat in length, while Upbeats are only 1/3 of a beat in length.

Thanks Guys, phew 🐔 looks like its Slade and Wizard again this year

Crisp was the other band i couldn't think of last night, were they from Banbury ? or was that Prism. My night started in the Blenheim at 7pm, then off to the Crown, may be Roebuck before the Dolly, whites Bar and or Chequer's last.

You Ole Tarts fancy getting whizzed and trowing up on the bus on the way home. Tut tut Ahhhh Sunfly Steamroller Kicking Chicken Mayfly Prism 10 pints and 4 shorts then stagger to Gloucester green and hope you haven't missed the 10:30 bus home

Back to the topic in hand Leo was a radio engineer he knew people in the business, musicians and studio engineers. He also made the Fender bassman to compliment it and the 15" speaker did the business over other bass makers using guitar amps. He gave them away to the right people so word got about. Lionel Hampton insisted his bass players used it rather than the upright. He was a business man and simply made a great product and got it seen being used by top artists. Ampegs, Gibsons and Ricks slipped from view. GAS was born.

Now that i own a CS fender P bass i have to say the reason they have the potential to be better instruments is because of wood selection, good seasoned tone woods e.g quarter sawn neck blanks is where all the money is for me, I also have some custom made five strings they are good for the same reasons care in wood selection ,that when constructed with care will sound good. It is sat beside me now - if i pick it up unplugged and play "My Girl" it is a 62 P bass, that sound is there unmistakable so has to be worth what you would pay a luthier to construct any bass for you circa £3K Having owned a 77 P bass Oly white maple neck ( heavy with slight D dead spot) this is in a different league, so for me a quality controlled CS wins over say any 70's bass priced just because its getting old

For me Swamp ash body + 1/4 sawn maple neck as per the Fender CS range made that way because is the best, this of course means graphite and woods like Wenge are also very stiff and resonant so cant be ignored lets not get into effects of strings, pickups and set up on your fave wood combinations 😁

Me too It was glued in as photographed, the dark grey ring inside the coil on the magnet housing being the glue, this coming off and twisting round did the damage. Just wonder If this has been re- coned in the past Or maybe Eminence have adapted a model where this does more to help move air to help cooling, the four holes must be for something. Anyway sounded great last night so if still good at Thurs rehearsal, it will go to the Friday and Saturday gigs

Was at a jazz jam last Wednesday and rather annoyed to discover a farty speaker that was fine on the gig Saturday then noticed the dust cover in the center was ripped. I thought something must have been poked in the grill at the gig but on getting the grill off at home I noticed what looked like a piece of wood up inside the coil behind the cover ?? Knowing it was curtains decided to cut out the center to see if i could remove it and do a repair - nothing to loose. anyway see pictures there is a piece of machined cardboard the stuff carpet tubes are made of with four pillars as though this should house something, I thought it must be a guide for the moving part of the voice coil but the tolerances were too great to have any effect for anything like that, it was clearly once glued to the magnet structure at the base of the voice coil and had broken loose ripping the center. As i could not see what the hell it was for I tissue papered the dust cap and after some PVA glue and careful positioning stuck it back together. I 'm please to report it sounds just fine - big test at practice levels tomorrow night It ain't pretty but is functional, that'll do me just fine. Note. this was a 350 watt 4 ohm 12" Eminence