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    Barefaced Bassface 2009

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    My Entry?




    Lost in the moment, sucking my lip hoping my slide up the neck actually lands on E. The only ironic thing about this photo other than my white glasses is the fact me and the guitarist are facing our drummer and not the crowd and neither of us realised! doh! completely lost.

    Squier Vintage Modified Jazz

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    [quote name='Mr.T' post='435852' date='Mar 16 2009, 11:09 AM']I recently bought one of these VM Jazz basses.

    Excellent bass for not a lot of money.... BUY IT![/quote]


    I second that, I paid £175 for mine second hand too and i don't regret the purchase for a second, the bass is incredibly fun to play. Well recommended.

    Jaco Pastorius. Ultimate minus one book + CD £10 inc P+P

    in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale

    Posted · Edited by spacecowboy

    Hey guys,

    Bought this to learn Teen Town, and its done its job! i don't have the time to fully commit myself to learn anymore in this book so i'd like to pass it on, comes with a full backing track CD to groove *perspire* along to,

    Tracks to learn are;

    Birdland
    Black Market
    Cannonball
    Mercy Mercy Mercy
    Slang
    Teen Town *hoorah*
    Three View Of a Secret

    Tab and standard notation.


    cost me £18 at christmas, yours in crease free nick for £10 including postage.

    Cheers, Ben.

    Freshly Waxed and Oiled Up.

    in Gear Gallery

    Posted

    [quote name='benwhiteuk' post='408767' date='Feb 13 2009, 04:28 PM']Sexy :brow:[/quote]

    Haha you know it! I need to see better pics of your 'wicks actually! hit me up?

    [quote name='cetera' post='409061' date='Feb 13 2009, 09:20 PM']Now that's a CLASSIC Warwick! One of the few I'd be seriously interested in owning.... :P[/quote]

    Good luck finding one mate! I got real lucky with mine and got it from a fellow basschatter about a year ago, however my mate can't find one for love nor money! Right place right time kinda thing.

    [quote name='Al Heeley' post='409140' date='Feb 13 2009, 11:08 PM']loverly curvey buttery honey wood, i want to bite it. One day I will add such a warwick to my collection. Nice ying-yang dot inlays. I love that smooth organic curvey way the body and neck merge into eachother. Nice bass. Very nice.[/quote]

    Yeah its a work of art. Good luck to you in finding a nice one too!


    [quote name='7string' post='409149' date='Feb 13 2009, 11:27 PM']Oooo. A proper Warwick. ;)

    Those older Streamers really are something special.[/quote]

    Yes indeed! Love mine to bits.... as i think people are starting to tell.....

    MTD Kingston Heir 5

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    Without taking the mick in anyway, i have wanted one of these for soooo long, *i think i may have winged on to Mike about this at one point so he should be able to back me up* but he'd probably also back me up on the fact i can't stand sunburst finishes.... but god damn that maple board *drool* ..... if i can convince the guys at work to spray paint the body white you may be on

    The Dilemma

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='ped' post='391077' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:31 PM']I know exactly what you are saying. I found my 'Wife (!)' bass a while ago (didn't know it then) and had always owned at least two fretted basses at the time. The beauty of this is that you can spend some time with both and sell the least fave for another top end bass (careful baying/selling will not lose you any cash) and over time it became clear that my 'Wife' bass was beating the competition hands down. All the while I had been playing it live, recording with it, making bumps and scratches on it and generally living with it and loving it.

    Somewhere along the line (about 6 or 7 basses into my 'comparison') I became bored of selling/buying and the hassle of it. I sold the competition and settled down with my wife (and her fretless sister ;) ) and couldn't be happier. I am totally comfortable with the bass in any situation due to the time I have had it and have managed to compare it against every other bas I have fancied. That, mixed with the rarity and uniqueness of my instrument, meant that it became 'me' and 'my sound'.

    So - if the '88 is comfortable, works for you and feels like the one, keep it and start comparing it to other basses when you have the money/time. You might find something else, you might realise that it is 'you' - there is no way of telling until you have a try. That way, a few years down the line, you can sit back with your '88 happy in the knowledge that it is part of you and your sound, in the same way you wouldn't want someone else's eyes or summink'

    Cheers
    ped[/quote]

    That absolutely sums it all up to be fair! I think i can find peace with that!

    There is some part of me every time i listen to Meshell Ndegeocello that really wants to pick up a fender jazz that just works, my Marcus Miller and the Reissue i had really let me down!

    But like yourself i record with this bass, play this bass live, everyone who hears it can't say enough about it......

    Out of interest what bass is it?

    The Dilemma

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have been wanting to post this for a while,

    I'm in a bit of a dilemma, when i started playing bass some 8 years ago, i found periodically i was never thoroughly happy with the bass i then owned and played, thus resulting in the very pleasurable task of buying, playing, and selling basses until i found "the one", what i liked about that phase was there was always the Honeymoon period to enjoy, the very second you get a new bass in your hands and have no worries about throwing the money at whoever was selling it, take it home, nail those tracks that you never were able to before on the previous bass because "it made you a bad player" but then! like always, sort of similar to having a nagging girlfriend you slowly develop a dislike to her tone and then eventually comes a break up as you suddenly have enough pennies to see what else is out there and no longer have to put up with it all.... sorry love, playing the field is fun...

    was fun...

    The point of this is, 2 years ago i found on this very forum my 1988' Warwick Streamer Stage II, and now the hunger for new basses has gone, i have sold every other bass i have owned and i have been a one bass man for sometime now, 2 years.... which isn't as good as it sounds, its like I'm scared to try anything new, for two reasons,

    [list=1]
    [*]The new bass will be better than the Warwick
    [*]The new bass will be worse than the Warwick
    [/list]
    Its like cheating.... do i try something new and just hope for the best, if its worse ditch it, but what if its better? I'd never want to ditch the Stage II,

    What makes it worse is this, i haven't found another bass that i want to own.... anything over 5 strings i don't want to know, even 5 stringers at push can be awkward, Fenders? no deal, i had a terrible one and like a bad meal at a restaurant its put me off for life, New Warwicks have necks i can't play & i really don't want another Warwick except maybe Lex's Casper, Musicman basses just aren't for me either... I'm stuck.....nothing has touched this Warwick.

    and now the hunger is building up, i think i can except the fact that the Stage II is THE bass for me, my numero uno, and bass for life, but at 23 i can't be tied down like that, i need something to make me want to deviate even just for a little while..... or should i just be happy with it? Perhaps its the buying and selling i miss?

    anybody else got what i suppose you could call a [b][/b]wife[b][/b] bass? did you have the one and then let another in? How did it go? and are you still with her?

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