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[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='504535' date='Jun 3 2009, 11:06 AM']Can with give this clause a name like they do in the media? It'd be very exciting! We can print banners and everything! I've never been on a protest before.[/quote] Basschatgate.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='504503' date='Jun 3 2009, 10:31 AM']Not quite. Truth is.. All of us - forum users and mods - are accountable to the forum owner.[/quote] Not very democratic though, is it?

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='504474' date='Jun 3 2009, 09:57 AM']In the event of any disagreement between you and a Moderator or Administrator, you agree you shall not disclose the nature of these disagreements to any third parties.[/quote] I don't agree with that part at all. What if someone is treated unfairly by a mod and wishes to clear it up with the assistance of the rest of the forum? Mods should be accountable to the forum, not the other way around.

I first picked up bass because the 2 other kids in junior school I wanted to form a band with played guitar. The Oasis covers band never got off the ground, thank god. I played bass and guitar up until last year and now i've switched to guitar full time. Loving it, finding band practices far more fun and cant wait to do my first proper gigs as a guitarist. Plus I've got parts on order from Warmoth to make a freakin' sick axe.

I actually prefer the tone of nickel strings, but couldn't use them as I'm very allergic to it. So, as you're lucky enough not to be, go nickel! They just have a certain smoothness to the high mids I like.

Officially my favourite bass player.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='485740' date='May 12 2009, 11:08 AM']I usually tell pupils to group fingers - The index finger is pretty stong, but can be supported a little by the second finger. The second finger can pretty much stand alone. The third finger works better when combined with the second for stability & the little finger again, works well combined with the third. The thumb should always be kept in contact with the neck as well.[/quote] +1 on that. I'm a guitarist these days and struggled to get consistant, easy bends and vibrato until I started grouping my fingers.

I had a '99 USA Standard Jazz with a maple board and dot markers. Lovely thing it was too.

I had a fretless warwick with no fret lines for a bit. It was all well and good until we played at a pub in downend with no stage lights and I couldn't see where to put my hands... Great fun to play, though.

Love Gilbert's playing. Damn cheesy song though.

The Little Mark 2 I had was the best bit of bass kit I've owned by a country mile. Amazing engineering, for something so loud to be so light, and it was built like a tank. The only critique I have is the EQ was a bit lacking for me - it had plenty of cut and boost, and it could push out some serious lows, but some kind of parametric mid would have been nice as I never got the low mids quite how I like them without an external EQ. Purely a personal opinion on the voicing, though, as I'm more a fan of the Ampegs of the world in terms of sound over the likes of EBS.

[quote name='The Funk' post='476443' date='Apr 30 2009, 10:20 PM']THANK YOU! I've hated them since 1993. As far as I'm concerned, they undid all the good work that grunge did across all genres. Look at all the good albums that came out in '91, '92 and '93. Green Day are so f***ing '80s.[/quote] Grunge is possibly one of the worst things that has happened to music in living memory. What did grunge give us? Incredibly boring music, a celebration of being mediocre and the worst thing, the most unforgivable of all things... Creed. Edit: BBC will like this - I'm not a big Oasis fan myself, but this Noel Gallagher quote about grunge is so brilliant it nearly made me piss myself: [quote name='"Noel Gallagher"']"Live Forever" "was written in the middle of grunge and all that, and I remember Nirvana had a tune called 'I Hate Myself and I Want to Die,' and I was like . . . 'Well, I'm not f***ing having that.' As much as I f***ing like him [Cobain] and all that sh*t, I'm not having that. I can't have people like that coming over here, on smack, f***ing saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That's f***ing rubbish."[/quote]

[quote name='Beefy' post='477159' date='May 1 2009, 04:53 PM']I don't hate Green Day. Dookie pretty much got me into all the good 90's punk bands like The Descendents, Screeching Weasel, Crimpshine, Mr T Experience etc. They are totally a different band these days I agree but give me Kerplunk over any of Nirvanas back catalogue any day of the week.[/quote] Ten four! Give me the ebola virus over any of Nirvana's back catalogue, for that matter.

Dookie was definately one of my formative albums, and they certainly were very much DIY punk band back in the day. I don't much care for their recent stuff, but fair play to 'em. I wouldn't call them sell outs, just a successful band that know how to play the game.

I owned one of the aforementioned Tele Customs, and it kicked ass. Really nice tone from those P90s.

[quote name='jacojacojaco' post='464182' date='Apr 16 2009, 05:31 PM']hi, I used a 1971 Fender Fretless with a jazz pickup installed. If you go to www.bassplayer.com, the article has info on that bass. The only pedal I used on that track, and have used on almost all my recordings, is a Boss compressor that has three knobs (the two knob and 4 knob do not sound good to me). It helps bring out harmonics and with the fretless, it makes it a lot more compressed (obviously) and mid-range-e. Hope that helps, Juan[/quote] Crikey! Big respect to you Juan, your playing has always made me think "wow!" from Racer X to the Mars Volta. Keep it up!

Note I've decided to pull the P body (don't worry, no one had bid on it!). I've just set up a recording set up and a bass would be useful to have for that, so I'm going to whack a cheap neck on it.

[quote name='crez5150' post='450451' date='Mar 31 2009, 12:46 PM'][/quote] I see Status basses as tools. A Status is a very good example of a bass that is well engineered to do a job. It's better at what it does than a P bass, from a technical standpoint. They lack character though, big time - you could pick up an S2 classic and it will feel and sound like any other S2 classic with similar woods. I'm not knocking that, but from an asthetic standpoint they leave me cold now. I like my instruments to have a bit of character, and to demand a bit more input. You have to work something like a P a bit more to get a good tone, I find that rewarding, and cool. Of course, if you are say, a jazz musician, a good tool for the job is going to be high on the agenda. Looking cool probably less so

You don't need to own a bass to know if it's cool or not - that's what a sense of taste is for! I very much liked the S2 classic I had built and the old S1 I had, not to mention the Status necked frankenstein P bass I built. The only cool one out of those was the P though, and that had nothing to do with the neck.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='449970' date='Mar 30 2009, 09:36 PM']What do you get if you cross a musician with someone who doesn't care how he/she looks? Jeff Berlin. And no one wants that.[/quote] Quote of the year. I've owned 2 Status basses. They sounded great, and played really well. I used them for many gigs in a punk/rock band, and have to admit, they were in no way cool basses. But then I wouldn't consider any bass with a fancy wood top cool. I'm really starting to appriciate the "beat up solid colour covered in stickers" look these days. But then I am a guitarist.

Someone just asked the same on ebay, to which I responded: "These are as accurate as I could get using a tape measure - it is around 61mm wide at the headstock end widening to around 63mm wide at the back of the neck pocket."

Well spotted! Now revised, cheers mate. You still have the other mock then? That was a cool bass... even if I never touched those switches, they were good to look at!

As far as I knew Manifest Destiny was played with a fretless Alembic. It's certainly not on Travelling Without Moving, that's for sure, it's on Return of the Space Cowboy. Bit of schoolboy error considering it's an auction for one of Zender's basses, eh?

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