stingrayPete1977

Funky!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1489060095' post='3254010'] Facebook is not a place for people who take themselves or life too seriously. It will drive them mad. My weekly bin update gets a huge number of likes and comments. Some people get it and some don't. I don't think people should slam it as a terrible thing just because they don't partake in it. I moderate a huge social group, I don't want to be close friends with 540 people as I only see some of them occasionally but I do need to exchange information and ideas with all of them on a regular basis. Some of those 540 people don't get Facebook either and are constantly complaining about the background noise. It's like going to a pub and complaining that someone at the table next to you is talking about Eastenders but you're talking about Football. [/quote] You lost me at bin update? Photos of stuff in your bin?

They are all red hot on information sharing these days too.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1489129840' post='3254511'] Interesting. I've never been there, though have driven past a few times. What's the parking like? [/quote] It used to be four spaces out the front, three of which blocked the only disabled bay and access to the hotel next door, ah clever developers. Mind PMT isn't much better.

I un friended and unliked everything on mine so it wouldn't have anything other than friend requests if they did ever reactivate it, I did the full delete on mine where you have to not log on for two weeks.

That's his image done for.

Fingers crossed, looks well clamped up, patience required, no peeking!

I started on an Avon SG copy bass, awful tone, played terribly, terrible neck dive, susceptible head stock joint, horrid neck profile, body was too heavy but still had the neck dive, no where for a strap to attach properly and topped of with a thick red globby varnish, it was just like a real one!

White Hart pub in Cannock 1999 (the band was formed in 1989! Lol), a Sunday evening for a crate of Becks I think. Bass Collection SB320 Peavey Foundation as a spare. Peavey TNT 120 AMP I can't recall the pa but I think it was a borrowed Peavey, probably 200 watt at most wit just tops for vocals. Gretsch drumkit that's still busy with the drummers covers band. Epiphone Les Paul and a Marshall 80/80 amp. No lights and one mic I think. Ace fun!

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1488234793' post='3247173'] They need this for an online licence check code. This is fairly new since the paper part of a driving license became defunct. [/quote] That's not their job though is it? You are supposed to do it and give them the temporary access code. I suspect in that case it's so you can do it on their computer if you haven't bought the code with you?

If I tried a new bass in a shop that went head down on a strap I'd put it back without plugging it in, that said I dont think I've ever tried a bass on a strap in a shop, luckily all the Thunderbirds and Rickenbackers I tried were dogged with other faults so I never got that far, they look nice though

Bugger!

I had a 78 Ricky on loan for a while, I don't know why they didn't just put the bridge on the opposite end so you could play it the other way up!

No it looks hard to me, maybe a pointy hat would help?

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You can electroplate stuff at home using donuts of donor metals, a battery charger, buckets and solutions, I have always fancied having a go but it looks a bit of a faff tbh. It does however end up with an anodized finish much more suitable for a bass bridge. Powder coat is a bit clunky all told.

There's no rule to say you cant buy another if you do feel the urge remember, I have thought about slimming down my elec bass collection in a kind of reverse of your situation where I can see me looking for more upright stuff in future and less electric band stuff. Good luck whatever you decide

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487956567' post='3244606'] Limited numbers... but it's easy enough to do. Blast the coating off existing hardware and powder coat. Hipshot would probably send you a bridge uncoated cos they seem awfully nice chaps. [/quote] Someone wanted one the other day and I suggested that but afterwards I replied thinking actually powder coat might be too thick, it's not great on anything detailed like saddles, Also it's quite soft so saddle screws would sink into it even if you just did the main part?

Oh right, odd as they were correct, lol.

What was that stuff popping up during The 1975 slagging them off, ironic or disgruntled employee?

How long has the scale extension on a double bass been around, fanned frets pah who needs frets at all?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1487778814' post='3242808'] Image is important. And I find it hilarious that "Progressive" rock band should be so boringly conservative. I'd have understood it if they had deemed you Yamaha to be too conventional. If this was me, and I really liked the music I'd be tempted to turn up to the next rehearsal with either a Fender in exactly the same colour as the Yamaha, or something really weird looking, but in a nice safe sunburst finish. [/quote] Musicman Big Al 5 in sunburst would be perfick!

Just over a year in it's revolving format I think and that's on a knife edge, lol. I once joined a blues band as a temporary member as the proper guy had cancer and they had gigs booked, it wasn't my thing at all, about seven years later I realised I was the only original member!

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1487717764' post='3242217'] He should have pulled that trigger before starting a family, what a waste of ones and zeroes. Sorry if this offends anyone but when you have a family you have bigger responsibilities, that's my opinion. [/quote] I'm not offended but it shows how much with work there is still to do in educating people about mental health issues.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1487696330' post='3241939'] I have heard it said on here that if you practice /rehearse all the time, you just get good at rehearsing/practicing and actually playing gigs is a different skill. My Americana Band rehearse every week (and it does my head in) unless we bring on new material, which we are doing this year, thank goodness! [/quote] At our last gig we made a car crash of the stuff we practiced at the previous rehearsal yet I was apprehensive about the songs played on double bass as I hadn't practiced at all, they were our best songs all night!