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Yep had this with a rotosound string also, It helped that the timing meant i could hand it back to the man himself at a show. He told me they never get any trouble with their strings like this. then promptly gave me a replacement

It looks like they meant to say use only [b]one[/b] 4 ohm cab connected to (20) You can use an 8 ohm cab. It is lost in translation by the look of it. The main twin speakons labelled 20 are designed for one 4 ohm load or two x 8 in parallel. So hence my interpretation they meant to say just [b]one[/b] 4 ohm cab in there.

The last two bars of this 8 bar intro are why i play the bass, who else would have thought to do this to complement the piece - plus I have never managed to feel the timing shown here on playing a simple scale, magic. https://youtu.be/W-apaIOOoAo and of course this https://youtu.be/LogVbyzUws4

from your wish list check out Cotswold bass shop they have one sub £600 http://www.cotswoldbassguitars.co.uk/for-sale.htm

looks very organic, will probably look like a turtle that's been hit by a speed boat once the top is varnished up Nice lines. may be nice to cut an angle across the finger board to follow the contour from the upper bout to the lower. It is gonna be a fantastic looking bass

crumbs you guys are cramming the gigs in - I got the designated drivers job when two women dropped out to take the remaining two to see Elvis in Henley Friday night. AKA Ben Portsmouth + live band Didn't want to go but really enjoyed it, great performance and band were very good. Those Jerry Scheff bass parts well handled. Great night I can recommend

And a fine job you do too, in making us all welcome and part of the basschat family

I guess one shouldn't exaggerate, there are several tracks i like, I did learn the Chicken and Birdland, So I guess more than one spin but not a fan. I do believe he helped make electric bass more acceptable to the wider jazz community, and if he were still alive maybe it would have been as acceptable by now as the dog house. His contribution and influence is without question.

Wow emperors new clothes and all that - thought it was just me but didn't want to say - I have his back catalog because i thought i was missing out. Listened to it once

Oh and Bluejay of course

Schack basses are there this year so I will make the effort, and bring my Wad

We lost or keyboard so became guitar/bass and drums n vocal, but reworked it as a four. Never had feedback again was one plus, Guitarist had to adapt to rhythm and lead, and I had to play more legato than the staccato style i had adopted previously to be heard to cut through his left hand stuff. I now listen and learn tracks differently to identify what i need to cover and what the guitar will cover. sometimes this will need discussion if the track has multiple instruments you have to judge what are the most prominent hook or signature instruments and leave the others out. e.g. the guitarist may have to play a prominent sax part and not the guitar rhythm part and you may have to play the keyboard part but also cover some of the guitar whilst he does the brass. But for me there is no going back.

Love what you are doing here but would suggest you should make the head stock look more like the bass e.g. ( upper and lower horn ) I feel this would look much better in context with the bass as an entity, rather than approaching them both separately. all the best

That could catch on, a couple of sofas and an easy chair, you would need a standard lamp and large rug for effect.

"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the [url="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Universe"]Universe[/url]. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish." sorry couldn't resist it

TV through a 4x10 cab do you take a sofa to gigs and play laying down

even when blowing is asked for sucking is preferred, well generally speaking

As pointed out by Muzz above - I don't see this being anything to drag me away from the Mark bass I have gigged for ten years, Mesa have just adopted their VPF from the description on the youtube demo.