bassbiscuits

Bump - back up for sale following change of plans my end. 

3 hours ago, FinnDave said:

We were considering streaming a no audience gig from our rehearsal rooms, but that's blown out as the rehearsal rooms are in Leicester! 

Our next scheduled gig was late July, that's already been cancelled, so next opportunity to play now is October.

Ah yes we are in the forbidden city of Leicester.

Made me realise that if more localised lockdowns are to be expected it will really affect gigging.

If anywhere any member of the band is coming from, or the place we are playing, gets covered by a lockdown at relatively short notice (as with Leicester) that’ll be a massive problem. 

Homeschooling the kids. Had the best of intentions. Never happened tho.

PM'd

5 hours ago, ubit said:

What puts me off signature models is the garish stuff they put on them. The Steve Harris with West Ham badge 🤢

That Nikki Sixx with his name written on it 🤢. Why would anyone want to play with these on their guitars?

I have a Geddy Lee Jap. and all that has is his signature written on the back of the headstock. Very tastefully done.

Totally.

I‘ve had a Epi Jack Casady Bass, plus an Epi Gary Clarke Junior Casino and a PRS Se Bernie Marsden signature.

Each was very discreetly a signature model with a small signature on there at most. 
 

2 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Especially not in Leicester....

I’m in Leicester and was very much trying to avoid playing on July 4. Well I’ve succeeded in that...

Willie Nelson’s Martin acoustic “Trigger”

Jaco and his bass of doom surely?

They look identical to the ones I had on a BB350 donkeys years ago too. Nice solid chunky things. 

I never liked the particular tort on the MiJ Mustang. Very dark brown. My first choice of replacement (red tort) seemed to be hugely expensive, as did my second choice (pearl white) so I settled for the white which I actually prefer. Not too bling but different enough to look cool. Looks a bit 70s to me which is cool. Just need a thumb rest now to complete the look. 

On 26/06/2020 at 16:56, Dosi Y'Anarchy said:

Here's my current stable of shorties, 

Two Bass VIs (squier and gretsch) 

32" jag

Fender Mustang 

Gibson DC Les Paul 

Digging that double cut Gibson one. That’s unusual but very cool.

Love the Mustang with the gold pickguard too - again not the obvious combination but it looks great. Is it a Pawnshop but with original-style pickups added? 

2 hours ago, ubit said:

I just looked them up on Youchoob. They are indeed really good!

Yeah they were mint. Combined with too many tequila cocktails I had a grand old evening! 

I went to Canada for a wedding a few years back and the wedding function band were just full on 1980s and were absolutely brilliant!

Half the smarty dressed guests got changed into neon, legwarmers etc and everyone danced their a..es off. Was an excellent night.

They were weirdly called Val Kilmer and the New Coke. (Nope me neither...). Quality tho. 

On 21/06/2020 at 14:38, casapete said:

To be fair though, didn’t the good 80’s stuff decline during the decade? Most of your great list does still have a late 70’s feel to it ( except Green Onions, obv.) 😄

The 80s music went down the pan when Stock Aitken and Waterman raised their heads.

Ive been watching the re-runs of TOTP from the 1980s and there’s a huge variety of stuff for most of the decade, some bad, some good.

But by about 1988 it solidified into identikit soft pop dross by SAW and fronted by Kylie, Jason, Sinita, Sonia etc which just seemed to dominate the charts forever after.

And that High-80s era of big shoulder pads, mullets, bingy-boingy electro noises etc seems to be the stuff that’s aged least well.

This is the only short scale I’ve owned (apart from a really short scale Satellite bass I started out on in the 80s).

Its a cream white 2015 MIJ Mustang. It had a brown tort plate which I swapped for a white one. 

A shoulder injury four years ago set me off looking for a lighter smaller bass than my regular P bass, and led me to this.

I love it. I’d be interested in other short scales to see how they compare. 

I prefer the tone and feel of my P bass, but it’s a close run thing and I’m very happy with both. 

I'm glad I don't drink, but i couldn't help scoffing at the pronouncement from the Government that going out drinking at the pub is the "patriotic thing to do" and part of a great British tradition. Wow.

I like it. It's a good bass part, even if it's not a bass guitar part.

I like a lot of dance music bass parts, regardless how they are created.

1 hour ago, Happy Jack said:

I'm down 24 gigs so far, with at least another dozen guaranteed to be cancelled, possibly more like 50. I think it's safe to say that I've missed each and every one of them, and I'd start gigging again this Friday if it was an option.

It's not that I'm desperately bored or short of other stuff to do ... Lockdown unexpectedly turned out to be one of the busiest periods I can remember. But I took early retirement largely so that I could play more gigs, and I'm feeling pretty frustrated.

 

I hear from lots of people who've had lots of downtime to rethink their life/work balance, learn new skills etc. But that's not me.

My wife and I have been working full time and caring for two young children since March (apparently homeschooling one of them too).

Gigs are a valuable, but not essential source of income for our household. I've missed about 12 gigs so far from what was meant to be a busy diary.

I've been playing at home quite a bit just for my sanity, but with no gigs on the cards its all a bit aimless.

As soon as it's safe to gig, i'll be there.

That looks tremendous fair play 

Definitely still happy using a LM2 and a LM3 - both Italian-made ones and quite old now. 

Had Peaveys, then Ashdown ABMs, and then a GK1001RB before settling on the Markbass stuff, and it suits me the best of the lot - a fraction of the size and weight of the others too and plenty of volume.

Running them thru a Barefaced Big Twin 2 and/or a Genz Benz 2x12 and they sound righteous...

This one. I’ve owned it for 26 years and it was my only bass for a long time. It’s been stolen and recovered, has been round the block a few times, and refretted twice. 

And I’m originally from Swansea just down the road. Welcome aboard! 

I’ve always used index, middle and ring. The pinky is too short to join in but would if it could.

They do each seem to have a slightly different attack tho, and the quest for me has been getting them consist, in terms of strength, timing etc.

I don’t think about it that much when playing tho. I don’t usually start on a particular finger and sometimes find the middle and ring finger work as one for an extra thick thump. 

I have a Hohner acoustic guitar I bought in 1988, along with a metal guitar stand and Arion tuner I got for Christmas 1986, all of which still work fine. 

I used to love it in the early 1990s when I used to listen to David Lee Roth, Mr Big and Stu Hamm. I got quite decent at chucking in bits to the sort of funk / rock band I was in a the time (it was the early 90s, right?).

Ive written a few nice little bass tunes with tapped harmonics etc, but not the whole super fast shredding sort of tapping anymore.

Doesnt really fit in to anything beyond that slim genre, and I’ve never needed to use it since, er, 1993?