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[quote name='Clarky' post='858826' date='Jun 6 2010, 12:54 PM']Peddent - wot woz my 1th mistake init? [/quote] [i]coming to hazzard county in the first place[/i] aaaah, it never gets old !!!

[quote name='Clarky' post='858798' date='Jun 6 2010, 12:22 PM']"Dukes of Hazard" video for you tonight, boy![/quote] spelling "hazzard" with only one z was your second mistake...

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='858734' date='Jun 6 2010, 11:26 AM']You lot are always getting angry at the telly. Just don't watch the telly![/quote] plus the one. life really is too short for it....

i usually pull a wooden clothes peg apart and use the wedges to lift off stuck knobs (oo-er again matron)... less likely to leave any marks being wood... but the spoons is a good idea !

i shy away from coffee table basses. black's the new quilted.

i shy away from coffee table basses. black's the new quilted.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='855784' date='Jun 3 2010, 10:27 AM']Looking at your gear list, you've already got a nice setup, so I'd say be practical and get a few sets of your favourite strings in.[/quote] plus the one - a rake of new strings may not feel exciting, but a re-string and polish-up is tonic for your sound, and your soul.

wearing silk gloves worked for holger czukay...

i think it'd be worth having a look at that crack, just to be on the safe side...

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='849438' date='May 27 2010, 02:38 PM']Who is Rex ?[/quote] well, i'm glad i'm not the only one...

it was a popularist programme about music.... not wishing to sound too superior, but what the feck did you expect ? insights ? in-dpeth discussion ?

wayne popped round to pook towers yesterday to buy my acoustic bass. lovely chap - had a good old chinwag, bit of bass noodling and he [i]may[/i] have persuaded me to come to the london bash wouldn't hesitate to do a deal with him again.

just played waynepd's new bargain. naaaaaayyyyyyyce

[quote name='OldGit' post='847526' date='May 25 2010, 02:27 PM']and a kind of medium dark one too . [/quote] hmmmm....that's lovely. is that one of the CIJ's as well. i've been thinking about a p-bass recently.

why is a mouse when it spins ?

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='847659' date='May 25 2010, 04:35 PM']I always try and get on with the soundman. They know the venue and they know the PA. If you know your gear let them take care of what they do.[/quote] plus the one best way to get a sh*t sound ? rub the person doing the sound up the wrong way. best to get an OK sound by playing ball than be unheard cos you hacked the wrong person off. ymmv as per

[quote name='Bigwan' post='847598' date='May 25 2010, 03:41 PM']Oddly my wife doesn't like me selling basses.[/quote] my better half doesn't either... spesh the one she bought me

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='843881' date='May 21 2010, 09:59 AM']I think you need some Squarepusher esq drum beats on that though [/quote] plus the one ! get chopping up those breaks lovely playing btw

i always thought those corts looked a bit tasty. nicely nicely

[quote name='silddx' post='845615' date='May 23 2010, 11:41 AM']Doesn't bother me at all, I play them (and they are very well written lines I should add) with as much style and panache as possible and do little rhythmic flourishes where necessary. Anyway, stage performance is much more exciting to me than doing little extra bass fills here and there, I'd rather be dancing [i]We are bass players, we do what is right for the songs and the singers. That is where our pride should lie, not going rilly rilly ree like the guitar players.[/i][/quote] plus the feckin one. my italics for emphasis.