stingrayPete1977

Calling essential tension.....

The walnut finish is really cool

I've only found the ebmm forum members to be overly touchy really and I suspect that goes for any forum for a specific brand of anything? I must admit ive never seen a weak G on one which woukd be odd if its anything other than some form of eq thing, not necessarily the users fault as it could just be a compatability issue or something, I'm still struggling to get what I want from my Jazz but I know its not a faulty bass.

There's a lot of timber used in them big headstocks! Great basses though, you pays ya money etc.

I'll take whatever I can get and I agree if everything else is good I'd be happy to keep it if its fixed quickly/properly, finding another nice one could be hard

Do I win a prize?

The Classic 5 looks like a possible fit, the sr4 wont as the neck pocket is narrower and the pickup wont fit in the hole. The SUB 5 predates the Classic5 as the only 5 with the oval plate so its a bit of an unknown quantity.

Are they scratches? Looks like plastic swarf in the picture and a bit actually on the pickguard.

As much as I'm not a Clayton fan that's a great looking jazz bass!

Did they have any other guitar stuff?

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I dont normally do 6ers but I do like that

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1417466844' post='2620708'] dood Dingwall don't pay Novak anything anymore. The patent expired so no-one pays to use the fan-fret idea. That's how patents work, you develop an idea and the patent makes sure you are paid by anyone using your idea For a Set Time. It's different from copyright or trademark. How do you feel about the Super P & J models ? [/quote] Beat me to it!

What about Dingwall P and J basses then? Lol

Dakota (both of my bands so you can count it twice) Teenage Kicks (both bands again) Valerie Superstition Mustang Sally

I've owned, lent, gigged or tried loads of great basses including some real high end stuff but I'm always happiest with some form of Stingray.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1417436271' post='2620250'] No – I would say that one of the biggest mistakes you can make is pandering to the audience too much! Obviously you have to play stuff that your audience knows and likes but if you let them in effect choose the set list, then even though you will get a good reception you will always be yet another band playing the same old songs that every other band does. None of our set list would be on any list of overplayed tunes yet anyone with a passing interest of the genre (I try to discourage people from promoting us as Classic Rock) would know pretty much every tune. Therefore, when we play Guns n’Roses tunes we bring out Nightrain rather than Sweet Child and we play Sin City rather than Whole Lotta Rosie for the AC/DC tunes. The audience knows every song but doesn’t hear the same as every other band playing the pub circuit and we seem to be picking up a decent following after a handful of gigs… [/quote] We don't play the songs they ask for buy they still ask for them, although we do have alright now and Dakota in the set the rest of it is proper random, great for pubs which is where the trio mainly plays but terrible for a wedding which I do with my other band. My function band does play some ska so I apologise for being a tribute band and closing venues down in advance for no apparent reason, lol, even if the venue is desperate to book us again as we had the place pumping all night last time, we had to start removing tables half way through!

The thing is I've seen these bands that do "something different", it's often played very well but to an empty room!

[quote name='Grassie' timestamp='1417371028' post='2619654'] What did Billy say then? [/quote] When asked can you play Valerie in Eb with a horn section he said "err let me see, nope but I can twiddle with three fingers all over it instead if you like?", something like that anyway

Parallel, one lead to each or loop from one to the other if the cabs have two speakons labelled parallel inputs?

Classic black black and maple, nice one

The last two bands I've joined have set out to do something different, you get two songs in and "do you do any kings of leon, sweet home alabama, sweet child?" etc , I suppose you have to give them what they want?

I guess people are coming at this from various angles to be fair? I am the local bike and can be found with almost any outfit around here so first come first served is the only way I can do that but I suppose if my function band picks up a lot of gigs for next year then I'd be less inclined to offer my services to every man and his dog.

Show me a genre of music without a stingray being used and I'll take that seriously