stingrayPete1977

Awesome!!

I'll use whatever I can get my hands on for free firstly, failing that I do use EBMM strings on my EBMM basses but I've been using them longer than I've been playing EBMM basses. I didn't even know fender made strings!

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1471982190' post='3117492'] Hats. Used to be all about the hats. [/quote] Still is in the upright bass section, it's compulsory to wear head gear on a double bass.

If you have chosen the bass from all the possible instruments then your brain is working just fine, good luck

Letts

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1471946341' post='3117117'] Someone plonking away on a string might not be classed as music, hence that person may be training to be a musician. [/quote] Do we always have to use Adam Clayton as an example? *(I can hear WaterOfTyne sending a pm to the secret AC account as I speak!)

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1471889450' post='3116760'] And to think I nearly bought one..... [/quote] I think there will be some bargain priced ones soon if you still want one, failing that a can of pink paint and a house brick taken to a second hand Mex Jazz with a pair of pots and twenty minutes with a soldering iron should yield similar results

Ah but it's got £18 quids worth of stacked pots on it,that must be worth the near USA asking price surely?

Some things are rare for a reason imo, I go to car shows and one will have a plaque proudly claiming it's rarity and I often think "yes I can see why!". When car designer Bertone saw the triumph TR7 that Harris Mann designed for the first time he apparently walked around to the opposite side of the car and said "oh my god they've done it to both sides!"

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1471808376' post='3116067'] Am I going mad - isn't that a second guitar, not a bass? [/quote] You could be right, even watching it again I cant see very well, I said they aren't my thing, lol.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1471809771' post='3116088'] I'm a musician when I make music. When I'm cooking, I'm a cook. When I'm shaving in the morning, I'm a shaver. Erm ... what's this all about exactly? [/quote] To cook and to shave are verbs, musician/music isn't. Musician is a noun, Stevie Wonder is a musician even when he is alseep for example.

There can't be many bands where the singer is signed to a different label, she was 13 or similar when she got signed wasn't she? That would have created a 'backing band' feel from the off wouldn't it.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1471802597' post='3116010'] Like you said, not much, if any info about who played on that track. But, I think during my searching, strangely enough, he has, or had a headless Steiny (Talkbass I think). So, it may well be him doing a pi** taking mime? I am sure a geek will be along with the real story behind it all. I have got to say. Terrific, tight Bass playing on the track. EDIT : Yes, he might have used a Ray, and it does sound like one...And you are the one to know for sure!! [/quote] Yes it's a nice bass line isn't it, im no expert on fretless basses tbh but it sounds like one and everyone wanted to be Pino back then surely?

I enjoyed the sax mime too That was my thought, fretless Ray? Not a picked fretted steiny, lol

I would like to see them live, she will have a good future no doubt about it, I think a hookup with Charlotte Hatherley (from Ash, plays guitar for KT Tunstall) would make a interesting collaboration.

Headless Steinberger (?not my thing) with a pick played to a totally different rhythm, could it be much more different to the recorded bass? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlh_JJihv4g[/media] What else have we found out there? Anyone fancy a stab at who and what it is actually played on? Leland Sklar, Nathan East and Dean Garcia all come up in google searches.

No never seen one, the principals behind everything else they have managed to do like motorbikes, cars, white goods etc would be welcome in the lower priced bracket IMO.

The answer to your question is of course, both :-)

All my amps are class D so that one is still going strong with or without the heft!

I'm over 6 foot myself, not as bad as people would think are they?! Ta dood it's not bad is it, still got the original Rover tape player, just turned onto 28k miles on the way to the gig. most of them have disolved now, we are planning on keeping this one forever, it's our 6th since 1998, ace cars!

Next stop Mcdonalds with some banging tunes then!

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I guess so peteb, I think they've nailed it! Mind you there are plenty of pro still rocking a Ray 5 on high profile session gigs, Lee Pomeroy and Lauren Taniel spring to mind.