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What's to stop spammers using any of the current forums though? I'm sure your average spambot isn't too concerned if their porn site has anything to do with basses. Considering the site is clearly bass related I doubt many people will join just to sell junk, especially with site like Trade It and Ad Trader etc. It just wouldn't be worth their time. I'm a member of several forums with open for sale sections that don't seem to have any problems like that.

Hydrocortizone/steroid cremes are great as a short term fix, but of course arent intended for long term use as they thin the skin and can make things worse in the long run. I've had to resort to Betnovate, Fucibet etc many times though and they do get rid of flare up quite quickly. E45 creme and lots of it seems to help things a lot though - my doctor said you can never use too much E45, and I agree, its great stuff.

[quote name='noelk27' post='338619' date='Nov 27 2008, 04:37 PM']If it were to be such a high level of postings then maybe it could be made number of postings or length of membership. I've been a member here since the site moved from its previous two locations, but if you took all my posts in one block I still don't think I've made 200.[/quote] 3 more posts and you have! I've nearly matched my miserly Bassworld post count on here now. I'd better slow down.

I played Cello for a while too during the period my hands were at their worst, and most Cello string sets are nickel. I had to shell out.. wait for it... £120 for a set of 4 tungsten strings! I thought Elixers were expensive, but that really took the biscuit.

Enabling members to flog things they no longer want to other members, regardless of the item, makes sense to me. It's not like our only interests and hobbies are all bass related, after all.

I have quite a severe nickel allergy that at one point stopped me playing entirely. My hands would be reduced to a bloody, flaking mess if I played for any length of time. It was worse with some basses than others - a Warwick Rockbass I had was the worst offender. As an experiement I had a MIM Presicion bass refretted with Stainless Steel fretwire, but the frets added a harshness to the tone I didn't like so I sold it on. It did seem to help, but even stainless steel can cause a reaction depending on the free nickel content. I have a surgical grade steel cartalidge piercing that has given me no problems, though. The strings are a big factor - I've exclusively used Elixers for a few years now and they have vastly reduced the problems I had. Frets can still cause a reaction depending on my contact with the fingerboard edges, so depends on what position I'm playing in, but its certainly not the crippling thing it was when I was using rotosound and elites stainless strings. I converted to flats for a while as well, mainly because steroid cream had thinned the skin on my hands so much that rounds would rip them to pieces. Flats helped a bit, but Elixer rounds get my vote. Convert to fretless maybe? I played fretless exclusively for a while but didn't get on with the lack of attack, but horses for courses and all that.

I actually really like that. Even if you could hang your pants to dry on it. Very interesting concept isolating the string tension from the neck, although I wonder what effect that has on sustain?

It's a special glue made from gold-dust and cocaine.

Amazing how they've mananged to laquer the vomit to the body so smoothly. That's craftsmenship alright!

[quote name='Protium' post='331153' date='Nov 17 2008, 11:18 PM']A 6mm and a hammer [/quote] Yep! This saved my bacon when I rounded a silly small sized allen bolt that was impossible to cut a slot into due to its location. Bang bang, job done.

Get one with a head and it wont look quite so 80s. I used to have one and it was brilliant. Build quality was out of this world, it played itself and sounded great. Shame I couldn't justify keeping something so expensive, as it was a killer bass.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='330452' date='Nov 17 2008, 09:40 AM']That's not an argument, its sarcasm, which is the lowest form of wit. [/quote] I tend to think of wit as the highest form of sarcasm myself. Did you know that the bun is the lowest form of wheat?

[quote name='BassManKev' post='318840' date='Oct 31 2008, 10:06 AM']iv not seen the dvd, but i dont believe flea would ever give that kind of impression whatever he does. iv seen snippets of it and he's casual as f***, and he doesnt try to make out at all that he is a good player, quite the opposite, most times iv seen him interviewed he says his lines are piss easy. look at interviews with tw*ts like wooten, then you see a self indulgent individual[/quote] But you haven't seen the DVD?

[quote name='Jebo1' post='326756' date='Nov 11 2008, 02:02 PM']That's true, but it was research for his book called 'Down and out in London and Paris'. He was a very well off man, and never struggled for money. As for this discussion I'm going to substitute my minor 5th of interest for a major 7th of drinking and see you later.[/quote] Yeah, I don't think he was ever truely down and out. I think he did sleep in a "spike" in England and work as a dishwasher in Paris due to changing circustances, though. Coincidently, Down and Out in Paris and London is my favourite book of all time

This is the only jazz I can live with. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5vlT01JNc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5vlT01JNc[/url]

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='326098' date='Nov 10 2008, 05:25 PM']The reason I asked is that I don't want to spend 3 years learning the language of Jazz to find out that I was right all along and that it was utter sh1te.[/quote] I know what you mean. It'd be like spending 3 years in prison, then getting a kick in the balls instead of parole.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='326094' date='Nov 10 2008, 05:18 PM']Are you allowed to "get" Jazz but just not like it?[/quote] Impossible. You clearly don't get it, or you wouldn't ask such a question!

Basically, what it boils down to is, if you don't appriciate jazz there is something wrong with you, you'll never be a great musician and you'll spend your life a mere shadow of your potential.

Here we go again.

I wouldn't mind an Axestar. Would be nice to have around the house.