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When you think about it they came out of the blocks right into the mainstream from day one and have been in the lime light ever since which is some going to get a product out there so quickly. John Deacon was right in there with his and I'm sure we could link the earliest users right upto players like Lauren Taniel on tour with Beyonce right now without much effort! Let's have a go 1976-2016, I'll start us off, fill in the gaps! Anyone got a hit single for 76 I can only think of the Queen album that features some Ray action? I'm going from memory, videos and hearsay, I'll bump tracks off for better suggestions and or evidence 1976 Queen day at the races album. 1977 Queen good old fashioned lover boy. 1978 Chic Le freak 1979 Chic I want your love 1980 Queen another one bites the dust 1981 1982 Billy Idol white wedding 1983 M Jackson Billy Jean (L Johnson) 1984 Sade smooth operator 1985 The cult she sells sanctuary 1986 Peter Gabriel sledge hammer (Tony Levin) 1987 Peter Gabriel big time (Tony Levin) 1988 Defunkt Smooth Love (Kim Clark) 1989 1990 1991 Red Hot Chili Peppers give it away 1992 Rage Against The Machine killing in the name of 1993 Rage Against The Machine bombtrack 1994 1995 1996 1997 Blur song 2 1998 1999 Blur coffee and TV 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 McFly Obviously 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Take That up all night (Lee Pomeroy) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 The Vamps Cecillia 2015 2016 Beyonce Lemonade tour (Lauren 'LT' Taniel) Come on guys help me out

I think Jake Newman is using a Yita carbon as his spare after he liked mine, £120 bow entertaining the audiences of London's West End shows

Then you still have to reach the bow over for bass and cello but not for violin as the bow is reversed but the left hand isn't. I suspect the earliest version of the violin family was made roughly how it is now and with the strings in the order they are as that was what worked best, after that they just built bigger versions of the violin.

I don't mind the normal ones but them grabby rings will ruin a jack socket in no time, I haven't seen them for a while, do they still do them?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1480366917' post='3183815'] With small spaces do UK pub owners realize how rough that is for bands, or do the leave tables and bar stools in the way making it even harder for bands? Blue [/quote] I find a mixture, in some places the landlord can't be found and a handful of young bar staff are left in charge with no idea a band were even booked!, others will have cleared a space and stopped daytime drinkers taking over the area where the band goes, plenty of power sockets and a round of drinks or two, then there's everything in between

What were you planning on buying if you had sold it as planned on facebook? And what's the budget we have to spend for you?

Cool

Cool as!

Planet waves cables should only be sold as the ones with the grabby bit and only as a temporary fix for an already faulty jack socket, utter junk!

'Most' upright players don't play a finger per note either Tim There's actually a topic in the DB forum at the moment, I've started using my upright technique on electric, which isn't good but it's a lot easier than trying to fudge elec technique onto a DB

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1480282139' post='3183098'] You can't have the strings opposite on a cello and bass to how they are on a violin and viola. It would be impossible to move from one instrument to the other. Sometime around 1600, everything was standardised. Cellos and basses are just bigger versions of violas and violins. If you can play one you can play the other. They could equally have standardised the other way round. But they didn't. When I turn my head to look at the headstock and fretboard on my bass; the E string is on the left and the G is on the right. . [/quote] So you play a double bass and cello looking down the neck from behind but a violin/viola looking up the neck so in the words of our own blue, I'm calling shenanigans I can play double bass with a bow (well in a fashion), I can't just play a violin. The fact it's tuned the opposite way with the thin string being the E and the fattest being the G wouldn't make life easy either!

[quote name='NickA' timestamp='1480247968' post='3182736'] [i]"It doesn't matter because bassists shouldn't be playing above the fifth fret on the two low strings anyway 'lol'. ????????????[/i] Try playing the header of Donna Lee (or pretty much any other Jazz tune) without doing that!! there are a lot of nice chords and harmonics up there too. Used to be said that you only get a good bass tone using as much string length as possible .. so it sort of depends on your priorities. :-) [/quote] I'll think you'll find he's pulling your leg mate, Dood has many basses with many many strings!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1480268296' post='3182951'] Convention. Every stringed instrument, even the piano, goes from low to high, left to right. [/quote] Except the left handed piano.

As ever with these things why does anyone else care? Unless I'm being asked to carry or pay for the gear to take to a gig I'm going to see I don't see how it affects me.

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1480262604' post='3182876'] Just a polite grammar correction. Your= It belongs to you You're = You are [/quote] Thanks, small screen and auto correct honest chief, I'm not a regular offender

[quote name='ChunkyMunky' timestamp='1480206563' post='3182569'] Thanks for your help, guys. I'm picking her up in the morning! [/quote] Like

It's ok if your Jimi Hendrix because well your Jimi Hendrix and that's the sound you need, if your playing a couple of Hendrix numbers amongst dozens of artists then you are going to need a couple of distinct sounds imo. In a previous band our front man had a strat for most of the set but he also needed a Gibson for some of the songs, he had a guitar tuned really weird for some killers tracks I think they were and one that was totally detuned a semi tone, the other guitarist just used a strat and a les paul. The guitarist in our trio has a Variax

I'm gonna mention Lee Pomeroy.

I think circa 1990 was a good era, best of most bits imo.

Trans Teal and maple is as they say "for the win!"

There's probably a technique thing at play too, those that grab onto the neck like their life depends on it are going to have more problems sliding up and down the neck than those who grasp gently with their thumb 'resting' against the neck aren't they? I've noticed it more with neck dive prone basses with glossy necks where you spend all your time holding the thing up!

1200 grit wet and dry up and down the playing area, gloss gone. Bit of cutting compound at a later date and it's glossy again if you want to sell it on.

I have nothing to add here

Got to be an upright!

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1479996100' post='3180868'] Nah, not even a moan, certainly not annoyed. [/quote] This thread isn't over yet, that's why I said threads like these, referring to the topic, the last barefaced one someone waded in laying into everything bad he thought the thread must have already contained after two pages, but it hadn't at the time! Of course a page later it had done