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    Here's the full amp rig. It's been a long time since I needed that whole rig at a gig tho.
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    They're cool cabs aren't they? I'm considering shifting the Aguilar for another Schroeder to be honest - smaller and easier to carry, tho the Aguilar does sound divine.
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    The Levellers and Ginger Wildheart last night at Leicester's De Montfort Hall. The venue had the England v Croatia match showing on screens in the bar and public areas which inevitably meant Ginger played to a half-empty auditorium while many opted to watch the football (he was still brilliant tho). The Levellers headline set (once the football had ended) was a sort of acoustic orchestral affair, with violins and cello alongside the usual members. Worked nicely on their new material as well as reworkings of their older classic stuff.
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    Sure thing. But i think there's a risk of overthinking it too in searching for some holy grail of bass, which imparts some mystical connection etc. They're just instruments at the end of the day - the rest is all subjective. If you're a collector/trader then original, unmolested condition is going to command the highest price and be most collectible. But you're going to play it (presumably like the people who got a cool guitar for their 16th birthday etc) then it comes down to what feels and sounds the best to you.
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    I have a 1970 P in sunburst/rosewood/tort just like that 1966 P, which is in used but certainly not abused nick. There's a mobile phone sized patch of wear on the back, and various smaller patches of wear, about half of which were there when i bought it 24 years ago, and the rest has been picked up along the way. I think the fashion for relicing has given an unrealistic idea that old guitars become inevitably battered - if you take good care of them, they don't. Mine has clearly been well used and had some professionally-done repairs over the years (on its second refret and its third jack socket) so its no museum piece, but as a working instrument it is incredible. I would neither seek out battered examples, or shun pristine ones really. All instruments are individual anyway, so it's down to whether or not I like the one in my hand (or more likely, whether I can afford it!)
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    It's great - I've tried lightweight basses before and not really got on with them. Found Mike Lull to be too hi-fi and modern sounding, and hollow-body stuff to be neck heavy as a result. But these seem to nail it as cool little instruments in their own right.
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    Ah its a great cab - it's one of those bits of kit you buy (off Basschat incidentally) that immediately becomes your go-to gear. It's done pretty much every gig with me since about 2013. The Aguilar underneath it is even better, but too big for me to get out much.
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    Gigged this on the weekend for the first time at a big outdoor garden party in front of about 100 or so people. It sounded great (even thru the cranked medium-sized 1x12 combo which was provided as backline) and was just a pleasure to play - small, light and looked cool. Plenty of low end, smooth with flatwounds, and plenty of mid/high punch which sounds nicely retro. Really pleased with it and surprised I hadn't explored these sooner.
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    Just come back from playing a big garden party in the sunshine as part of a charity fundraiser. Watching the football this afternoon we realised we might need "Three Lions" should they win. When it got to 2-0 I reached for my bass and a few texts later we'd all had a go at learning it as our set closer. Went down a storm. Of course it did! Probably not the most accurate version ever delivered but even by our own last-minute standards that was a personal best. Oh yeah and it was my first gig with my new Jap Fender Mustang. It was great.
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    Aye another vote for the Korg Pitchblack. Got two of 'em and I love 'em.
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    This is from a big outdoor gig I did back in 2015. An LM2 and an LM3, each powering a cab - a Schroeder 1210 and an Aguilar GS410. There's a Korg Pitchblack tuner and then a Boss Chorus pedal (switched off) to split the signal into the two heads. I normally just use one head and one cabinet for regular gigs. The bass is an old USA precision. Not pictured are the spare basses - a MIJ Mustang and a Yamaha BB604. (I didn't have them yet).
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    Totally - Appetite is another one i had on vinyl at the time (with the original banned cover...) but then bought again about 10 years ago and fell in love with all over again. Still sounds dangerous. But Def Leppard have been an odd one for me. I loved them at the time, and still like to read interviews with them etc, but hearing the music again after all these years it did strike me as being very 'of its time' with extremely polished production etc. There are some good tunes tho, you're right.
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    PM incoming
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    Def Leppard's Hysteria sounds very dated now, in terms of production etc. I bought a copy a year or two ago having not heard the original for about 25 years since it came out, and it was a bit of a shock. Same as the albums I used to have from the band who supported them on some UK dates of the Hysteria tour - Tesla. Used to love them in late teens, but their albums had aged dreadfully. Weirdly stuff like INXS 'Kick' which was released the same year (or nearly - i'd need to check) still sounds pretty fresh.
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    I bought The Nightfly on the recommendation of my former keys player, who appreciates really good music. He couldn't praise it enough. I thought it was awful - the kind of thing I'd imagine playing on a posh yacht or wine bar in the 1980s. Also, 10CC How Dare You - same recommendation from same keys player, but hated that one too.
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    Bog celebrity spot - i once had a pee standing next to Rod Hull (no Emu thankfully) in a pub toilet in Swansea. I said hello but I was being a terrifying drunk Welsh bloke at the time. Poor man!
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    Definitely! The P has La Bellas too which I only discovered about two years ago doing some recording and have never gone back to rounds. They are a lovely pair - it's sort of a smaller brother to the P!
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    Ah - was the replacement pickguard hard to find? I'm liking the idea of a pearloid one or even a redder tort than this. They're very likeable and playable basses - I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great.
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    One of those situations where I'd been lusting after one of these for so long clearly I wasn't going to be happy until i'd bagged one - and here it is! Its beautiful to play - even though it's 30" it doesn't feel at all cramped compared to my regulr 34" precision - it has the same sort of proportions, and same very Fendery sound. It's a 2013 Made in Japan model, with a slab body, 7.25 radius and smallish frets - kind of slightly bigger than vintage. Really lightweight at 3.5kg and pretty well balanced too. The condition is immaculate - the guy i bought it from was retiring from playing and selling off his stuff - he'd barely played this, and never taken it out of the house. Genuinely could pass for new. Its just had a set-up by our local luthier here and now has a lovely low action and strung with La Bella Mustang flatwounds I'm gigging at a little festival next Saturday and itching to take this along - I really, really hope it's a keeper, as I've had to sell my Epi Jack Casady to help pay for it
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    Cheers Cosmo, Yes with the scratch being in the surface of the gold paint, it sometime appears dark and sometimes white, so it's quite hard to capture properly. I was still v annoyed with myself for doing it tho...
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    AC/BG - i love it!
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    Forgive me if this has already been asked.... Is there a rule of thumb to calculate/estimate how much string tension decreases as scale length gets shorter? A set of 45-105s feels looser on a 30" bass than it does on a 34" bass, right? But is it possible to accurately calculate what gauge would be needed to keep the tension the same? (For example when i play guitar, i use 10s on Fender scale lengths, but move up a gauge to 11s for Gibson.) Just curious...
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    Now sold - thanks. Hello all, I'm selling on this lovely Epiphone Jack Casady Signature bass. It's a 2007 model, wonderfully made at the Peerless factory in Korea (unlike the newer Chinese-built models). It is beautifully set up and has been well cared for by me since I bought it in 2016. I've played a few of these and this is a really good example. It's strung with Thomastik Infeld flatwounds, with nice low action and zero fretwear. Its 34”, with a fully hollow body, one low impedance humbucker, controlled by master volume, master tone, and three-way Varitone impedance selector. The Varitone also gives you three distinct sounds – ’50’ gives you an acoustic bass sort of tone; ‘100’ gives you a fat, Precision bass-esque thud, and ‘500’ gives you a real growling, driven snarl. Great bass, full of very tasty, useable tones and a lot more versatile than you might expect. Excellent condition all over too, with only one noticable scuff on the paint between the bridge and the bottom strap pin. It's a very shallow scrape in the top coat of the gold paint, and while it is narrow and just in the paint surface, it is about an inch long and noticeable up close. Obviously it has no bearing whatsoever on the playability of the bass but I've tried my best to picture it. (I knocked it on a keyboard stand while in the throes of a gig, but alas that's the life of a working instrument I guess). It comes with a very good condition fitted Epiphone hardcase, with a plush fur interior giving a perfect snug fit. Overall weight of the bass is 3.7kg. It looks great onstage, and has been very useful for recording too. I’m not over the moon about putting this up for sale, but it'll help to cover the recent purchase of an MIJ Mustang. I’m after £425. I’d much prefer collection from Leicester LE2, or happy to meet up for a share of petrol money. I’m not keen to post this one.
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    I did a gig standing in on guitar for an old couple's diamond wedding. We'd been told the old boy was a guitarist and sure enough he said he'd like to play Johnny B Goode, so I gave him my spare guitar and plugged him in. He asked what key, and I said A. Off we go. Throughout the song I could hear an annoying background noise, but couldn't pinpoint it and just ignored it. Afterwards the keys player pointed out that the old boy had actually just been playing the same A chord for the entire song.
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    We were a five piece pub rock/indie band of blokes all aged between about 38-45 at the time. A drunk woman asked if we did any Girls Aloud. Jeez.
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