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    That is a genius experiment! I'm surprised it actually floated that long - learn something new every day!
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    Like most other people have said, yes if it's a mate, someone else sensible or someone genuinely interested in my bass; no if it's a pissed idiot in a pub or anyone I don't know or don't like.
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    I hear you! I'm the same. I only used stainless steel roundwound strings up until about a year or so ago, and randomly bought some nickels as I needed some strings and couldn't find my usuals. Initially I wasn't so sure, but I got really used to them and found them less sticky/coarse to touch, less noisy and generally warmer and, well, better sounding. I only use nickel roundwounds now, and I prefer them to stainless steels. Tho I did use a nearly new set of steels for a mate's spare bass I've been setting up, and in fairness they do sound and play well - especially now the new stickiness has worn off them. I think some steels are rougher than others, but generally nickels do feel softer.
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    Fender Precision when I was about 18 and had New Model Army 'Thunder and Consolation' album. The inside cover had a pic of the back of a P bass headstock and I fell in love. I eventually got my first P at 19 and still have it. I traded a pointy headed charvel for it, so a good choice I reckon
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    My mum used to play piano and organ in church when she was little, and my dad has always been a frustrated drummer who never learned to play but has always loved his music. They divorced when me and my bro were 12 and 15, at the same time as me and my brother were discovering music thru an older family friend in a band (which fascinated us at the time!). Me and my brother began learning to play a few weeks after my mum left, and it sort of became the focus of all our energy/frustration/dreams from then on (him on guitar, me on bass). That was 30 years ago. My dad helped us buy our first gear, and we paid him back each week from doing our paper rounds for years and years! He still loves coming to see my brother or me play whenever he visits and we're gigging, tho my mum never took any interest in our music really up till the time she died earlier this year. Not sure what a psychologist would make of that, but there you go!
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    I washed one that had gone abut mildew and it came out fine and fully refreshed. As long as you don't overdo it and stick to a cool wash there's no problem. Take the bass out first tho.
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    New cab to me, bought on this very forum last week. Purple Chili 1x12. I needed a lightweight 1x12 to use as the majority of the gigs I do with one of my bands are support slots and small gigs. Used it this weekend for the first time with a LM3 head and it was great. Surprisingly good bass, and quite big sounding rather than small or boxy, and effortless to carry, so did the job nicely. I think the purple/black leatherette colour scheme looks ace too. I'll be using it this coming weekend with my louder rock covers band, in a smallish city centre pub gig, which is a nightmare for parking, so having mega portable cab will come in very handy.
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    There's definitely a Fender characteristic sound and feel. I've had four USA Fenders over the last few years, only one of which I still own as I sold the others to finance another bass. Enter a Lull PJ4. Very fine bass indeed, but sounds very different from the Fenders, despite being essentially the same construction, the same sort of pickups in same location, passive electronics etc. On the other hand, i've borrowed my mate's mid 2000s MIJ precision to set up properly, and it sounds much like my other Fender P, far more so than the Lull. Weird.
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    [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1475189181' post='3143969'] You should buy my book "101 Creative ways to accidentally injure punters with a speaker cabinet" [/quote] I tend to say "excuse me" the first once or twice, and then just carry on bumping into them after that until the penny finally (usually) drops.
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    That's pretty weird even by Leicester standards! I think I know broadly where this incident was, and there are a fair few odd bods in that part of town, tho not usually on a Wednesday night! Glad it ended peacefully.
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    Jim Gregory and Harvey Vinson books! Wow I haven't thought about them in years! Yep as everyone else has said really. Listening to stuff you like, and learning it by playing along. Back in those days I had a record player with a pitch control, so you could adjust it to the bass if the recording speed wasn't quite A440, as well as picking up the needle and going back over the same bit over and over again. Worked tho. Just listening and playing as much as you can is the key to it - eventually you can hear thru stuff and work out what's going on quite easily. Books and stuff will teach you the rudiments but the rest is just from doing it lots. Good fun tho!
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    Now just [b]£325[/b] collected or[b] £345[/b] delivered in the UK Hello, I'm selling my PRS SE Bernie Marsden Signature guitar. It's from 2015, made in Korea like all the SE line, and is based on Bernie's 1959 Les Paul, tho with a few differences (a wrapover bridge, three controls instead of four) presumably linked to copyright! Construction wise it's like a Les Paul, with mahogany body, maple cap and a set mahogany neck, with two humbuckers, vintage style tuners etc. It weighs 3.6kg, and balances really well on a strap. It's in fantastic condition, as I haven't done much guitar playing since buying it in late 2015, so it's surplus to my needs. It's been beautifully set up, and comes with the PRS padded gig bag, tools etc as supplied. I'm asking[s] £375[/s][b] £325 collected or [/b][b]£345 inc postage in the UK[/b] (These were £595 new but are now being replaced with a USA version costing a heck of a lot more!) It's genuinely a really good guitar, in great condition, and with a genuine reason to sell it. I'm not really looking for trades as I have plenty of instruments and could use the money. Some helpful reviews and links added below: [url="http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/prs-se-bernie-marsden-534659"]http://www.musicrada...-marsden-534659[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c97SP3pYK8w"]https://www.youtube....h?v=c97SP3pYK8w[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Vig46sOLI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=V0Vig46sOLI[/url] NOW SOLD THANKS
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    He was a bit of a legend, and on Cliff Em All comes across as a right good lad too. RIP fella
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    It was 1985 and I was just getting into rock music, via stuff like The Scorpions, Iron Maiden and Kiss. I didn't get a bass till i was 12 but did pay violin (pretty basically, and pretty badly) so i started holding that like a guitar and plucking it. Luckily playing bass took over the following year.
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    My Mike Lull PJ4 from Bass Direct, which was £2,250 last month. Pricewise it was by a country mile the most i've ever spent on anything other than my car and my house. I had no intention of spending so much, but it ticked all the boxes i needed from a bass.
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    I bashed my shoulder in quite badly earlier this year, and tho it's slowly getting better, the osteopath i've been seeing reckons there's also cumulative problems from 30 years of having heavy basses resting on it. So I few buys and sells later, I find myself with a Lull PJ4 (3.6kg and nicely balanced) an Epi Jack Casady (also 3.6kg, but with a tendency to neck dive) and my long-serving old precision bass, (3.8kg). The the shoulder will get better, i don't want to go back to the old days of heavy basses. I remember i had a Tokai Thunderbird briefly which looked incredible, but i honestly couldn't play it for an entire gig.
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    I've pushed a drunken clown offstage before now cos he wasn't taking the hint and I was getting fed up of him. It wasn't a high stage - perhaps one foot high - so he didn't get hurt. He clattered back onto the dance floor, looked round in a mixture of surprise/annoyance so i gave him a wink and a thumbs up, which confused him even more, and then he carried on dancing, presumably pleased that he'd got his 10 seconds of attention. Div.
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    [quote name='basskit_case' timestamp='1463636758' post='3052923'] Sounds like a useful home practice solution, did you take it to the bash? Are you experiencing the background noise that others have spoken of? [/quote] Hi basskit case - sorry man I only just spotted this reply on the thread. I did take it along to the bash. I've not had any problems with background noise at all - what's the issue people have raised? On guitar I tend not to use mega gain - more just classic rock levels, so haven't had any problem with noise from uber distortion (if that's what people have found). Picking up this thread four months later, I can safely say I've been using it happily since spring and all good.
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    [quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1474714870' post='3140016'] Folks, thanks for all the sound advice, and just to reiterate, I definitely won't be getting it refinished, and as for buying another bass? I already have seven others (all precisions), and they are all really nice instruments, so I have plenty of choice. My goto bass is my new [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Maruszczyk Jake which I had made to my own specs, it's medium scale, jazz nut width, and very lightweight, which I need due to severe back and neck problems.[/font][/color] [/quote] Good lad for keeping it as it is. It looks like a great bass. I've turned to using a Lull PJ4 as some shoulder problems mean playing anything heavier a PITA at present. But my 70 P is staying exactly where it is, cos when I need it, I'm very glad I've got such a cool old instrument. Enjoy it bud, and good luck with the back problems too.
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    Yep - i'd agree with (almost) everyone on here. The more original the better. My 70 P has had a refret and new nut because it had become unplayable, so to continue using it I had to take that decision. But the finish isn't affecting the playability, so i'd leave it alone, or as others have said, sell it for something newer looking if that's what you'd prefer. Lovely looking bass by the way - mine's got a slim B neck, so I bet an A neck is interesting!
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    Man that's pretty bad. Poor chap. Hope he's on the mend soon, but yeah it sounds from that like he mightn't be playing with them again. Get well soon fella.
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    PM'd
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    The neck is lovely - its got a beautiful smooth satin finish that's almost too smooth to feel, if you know what I mean! The fretboard is pretty flat - might be 12" radius or thereabouts - and the frets feel slightly smaller than medium jumbos, but larger than vintage frets. The rosewood board is a slab rather than a veneer, with an overhanging fretboard to accommodate the last few frets. Its a very very comfortable neck in hand - i did two gigs with the Lull on the weekend, and I didn't have to fight for any notes or fluff them with my left hand - everything felt very easy to play on it. In fairness the really good balance of the whole instrument contributed too, as I'm not having to hold up the neck while playing it. Really good bass. I was going to put my old precision bass tort scratch plate on it (the holes line up perfectly, apart from needing a longer truss rod access rout) to make it look a bit more vintage, but i'm really warming to its original looks now. Looks quite 50s onstage under lights etc.
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    Nice one Happy Jack. I'm loving La Bellas on my other P bass, so i reckon i might go down that route. The TIs on my Jack Casady are good tho, but a bit lightweight than i'd choose. Both good flats tho!
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    I've got a GruvGear duo and it does distribute the weight very evenly over both shoulders. It does hold the bass fairly high, but I guess that's part of the 'correct' posture that I've been resolutely ignoring for the last few decades! But yeah it certainly does the job. It seems to also counter neck dive a bit as well - I wonder if the extra surface contact of having straps over both shoulders does something to stop it slipping in that sense. They are quite expensive (I got mine secondhand on here) but they do seem well made, and as far as I can tell it's possible to unscrew the second part of the strap and use it as a single, thick padded strap if you so wished. I haven't gigged with it yet as I've been using a very lightweight and balanced Lull with a comfort strap lately, which seems to hold things comfortably already, but with my old precision it should work a treat. If you're near Leicester you're more than welcome to pop in and try it.
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