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Pmd on Tuesday afternoon for his Danelectro French Toast, paypalled Tuesday night. Pedal arrived today (Thursday), with bonus patch cord and battery. Deal. Chuffed! Would buy from Geordie again. Jim D

Should give you a bit more wallop in series mode. Of course series only works with both pickups on! Take care and have fun doing it!

I can't attend sadly but was looking through my old pile of Kerrang!s last week and Jim was featured on a poster - classic! Hope the gig goes well.

Hello I have a Wal question. Watch this clip. After about a minute the left handed guitarist, who is on the left, switches to a bass. The video quality is not great, but I think he's playing a Wal. Any thoughts on whether he is? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYhTgRhKDS4&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYhTgRhKDS4...feature=related[/url] Jim D.d.d.d.d

Not sure if anyone has posted this before but this is very interesting and covers lots of techniques [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhbxw8IUT0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhbxw8IUT0[/url] JimD

[quote name='Machines' post='67233' date='Sep 29 2007, 04:07 AM']Well it's very unique ! Do you ever play it in public ?! [/quote] Well I *would* play it in public if the need had arisen. But as yet...it has not.

Well, hello groovers. Here are some shots of this "perhaps it's just me..." fretless. It began life as a black, fretted Hondo II Precision copy - my brother bought it in 1986. It originally had an ashtray bridge guard. Headstock was sawn down to the telecaster-ish shape at Xmas that year. Pickup was upgraded to a schaller in Easter '87. Bridge is a Schaller 3D (summer '87). In 1988 mon frere bought a Hohner Jack Bass and decided to rip the frets out of this one, give it various paint jobs and cut down the pickguard. Then nothing happened with it for ages, so I more or less took custody of the bass from that point on and drew in some fret markers some time in '89. For reasons unfathomable now it then lived, stringless, in the shed from 1992 for about 10 years and was eventually "refinished" by moi with this appliqued wrapping paper in 2004. The edges remain scarred from various rattlecan assaults and sanding violations. [attachment=2523:DSC06398.JPG][attachment=2524:DSC06387.JPG][attachment=2525:DSC06396.JPG] The body is plywood and weighs a ton and on more than one occasion I have considered routing out the horns from the rear to try and make it less heavy. But...I'll probably never do that really. It's nice for a bit of oobee-doobee-doo every now and then. I am intrigued as to what yer all think of this... JD

[quote name='ste_m3' post='61862' date='Sep 17 2007, 08:06 PM']With a good setup, and in extreme cases, a neck shim - Any bass can play just as good as any other. (not ignoring the neck size/dimension, but thats so subjective) /Discuss [/quote] Depends how you define "play"... Your thought makes me imagine we're discussing a mythical point where "a bass" becomes "a bass for all seasons" that suits every type of music, style of playing, and style of player. I don't think such a thing exists (though some basses do come close). A setup can make any instrument play better, and the satisfaction from tweaking something deemed-to-be-not-so-good, and making it better, is very satisfying. But "how a bass should play" is a personal thing that is more to do with how a player plays, so even if there was a set of undisputable rules that made for "perfect playing", it wouldn't suit everyone. I have a Westone Superheadless bass; headless, neck-through, with active jazz pickups. It "plays" brilliantly (very little buzz, stays in tune, intonates well) and is probably my "best" bass. But I can't play punk on it - it just doesn't work well for that at all, and I don't think I could set it up to do that either - it is just not suited to that style. I have another theory that is related and yet unrelated, and that is that what feels "right" to "play" in an instrument goes way beyond the setup and takes into account facets all of our senses. One day I'll postulate it properly and post it for 'pinions...

[quote name='kevbass' post='51845' date='Aug 28 2007, 05:19 PM']Ive seen this vintage stingray on ebay about 6 times now, all under a seller with 0 feedback, all with the exact same auction layout and description, many of you may recognise it [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-Vintage-Fender-era-1976-Musicman-Stingray-bass_W0QQitemZ110163843425QQihZ001QQcategoryZ33039QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mint-Vintage-Fender-...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url][/quote] Thanks for posting this info. Call me naïve but apart from the 0 feedback rating there's nothing shouting out to me on that ad that would give me any cause for alarm; I'm glad I'm not after a vintage Stingray at the moment!

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='51692' date='Aug 28 2007, 12:24 PM']I was watching a TOTP2 special last night about the police and I noticed in several videos Sting had a red fretless bass that was shaped like a Gibson Thunderbird but it was really ugly. Anyone know what this was as i'm a bit of an anorak when it comes to bass spotting but I couldn't make out what it was look up "de doo doo doo, de daa daa daa" on youtube and it's on there.[/quote] It's a Hamer - he and Andy Summers played various Hamers throughout the 80s. Was it an 8-string? I've seen pics of Sting with a Hamer fretless 8 string Explorer. There are also photos of him with a red fretless maple fretboard (do fretlesses have fretboards?!) black scratchplace Precision which is pretty tasty too.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='46717' date='Aug 17 2007, 07:04 AM']Hi Jim, welcome. One of my first bouts of GAS was for a Westone Super Headless many, many years ago. Has it got the dark birdseye maple finish or light? There was a refinished purple one on Ebay a couple of years ago too.[/quote] Hi CK, It has got a red see through body and a black neck. The black neck finish goes all the way to the bridge/tuners in a faintly Status-ish way. It's a jazz style with two j-type pickups - I think the dark finished ones had westone's single unit P-type pickups in them. I'll see if I can post a picture.

Hi there Joined recently. Based in Oxon, and have been playing bass and guitar for 21 years. Currently own a Westone Superheadless, a Hohner B2A and a few other goodies. Super-fan of guitars in general and lust after different models daily. Bassists I like include Mike Watt, Sting, Darryl Jennifer, Mark King, Tony Levin, Pete Way, Justin Chancellor, Colin Moulding, Flea, Geddy Lee, and loads loads more. Current favourite bands are Porcupine Tree, Hard-Fi, Frost*, Opeth. I listen to the radio (MW/FM and SW) a great deal. I mostly play unplugged, at home, with a pick, though I like to slap too. I have a behringer amp modeller pedal for recording and headphone jamming. Jim D

[quote name='ped' post='45554' date='Aug 15 2007, 12:24 AM']Phenolic is a wood impregnated with resin, making it stiff. I wouldn't say that Graphite is essentially plastic - thats like saying a painted and poly coated bass is plastic, too...[/quote] Not really - a graphite neck is a composite of graphite reinforced plastic. It really is essentially plastic. A painted wooden bass is essentially...wood. To go a step further, the composite neck couldn't exist as a playable part of the instrument without the plastic. But a wooden bass works without a finish (but isn't very durable). Phenolic is short for phenolic resin - I don't think these fingerboards have any wood anywhere near them. Bakelite is an early plastic made from phenolic resin.