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I've now fitted my SX P bass with the Mighty Mite neck that I bought from Nick. I'm really pleased with the results. This is how I did it. 1. I took of the old neck and tried the MM one for size. Not a bad fit but with one crew in the existing 4 holes lined up perfectly however there was a 1/8' gap at the heel. 2. So I drilled out the neck screw holes with a 6mm bit and glued wooden dowels to fill the holes last week. 3. Today I sawed the dowels off and levelled the ends with a very sharp chisel. 4. I placed the neck in the body and making sure it was butted tight into the end of the socket marked the new screw holes with a 3mm bit and hand drill. 5. I drilled the screw holes with the neck, body and back plate in place, having marked the depth on the drill bit ( measurement taken from the old neck + body holes) with masking tape. 6. Rubbed a bit of candle wax on the screws and screwed the neck on checking all was lined up; It was ! 7. Removed the Gotoh tuners from the old SX neck. Some of the screwheads had been buggered up by the person who fitted them originally so I had to cut slots with a mini hacksaw and use a flat blade screwdriver. 8. Fitted the lovely Gotoh '70s tuners. I had to re-drill the screw holes onto the MM neck. I'd have replaced the screws if I had spare but couldn't wait. 9. Restrung, adjusted the intonation, truss rod and action. !0. All done. I now have an SX body Mighty Mite neck, Wizard Thumper, pickup, CTS pots and gotoh tuners P bass and it's lovely.

I have a nathan east dvd which was given to me a couple of years ago

Great isn't it ? i wish it was on the telly.

[quote name='W11ATO' timestamp='1361912734' post='1993068'] Human - Killers Ffs.... [/quote] Agreed. Also one for the rubbish lyrics thread I'd say

Thank Nick thats the plan. i have Dan Erlwine's book

Just bought a p bass neck from Nick. Great communications, speedy delivery and a pleasure to deal with.

Ive just taken delivery of a lovely used mighty mite neck from Nick on here and the screw holes all line up with the ones in my sx body but leaving about 1/8 inch gap between the end of the neck heel and the neck pocket which is annoying. Presumably it a case of drilling and filling with dowels and drilling new holes ?

Great band name!

[quote name='WhoNeedsYou' timestamp='1361832780' post='1991805'] So true, I said this to an ex band mate and kept getting told "well you can't please everyone can you!" [/quote] The response that I got from the singer was "well it's not about you it's what the audience would enjoy". He then in the same spate of email exchanges said that he wouldn't do a particular Wham song as that would be a step too far fror him. I rest my case

Wish i was closer. What a gig! Good luck

I had a bit bit of a hissy fit when our keyboard player suggested the final countdown last year and refused to ever contemplate playing it. Life' s too short to play songs that one can't bare to listen too let alone learn and have to play.

Love everything about this song being a big fan of xtc and mr partridge.

This looks a whole bunch of fun. I wish I was nearer and free on Wednesdays !

Thanks Scott. these are really useful. I'm a subscriber too now.

I really liked them when they were on the wireless too. Especially the running Tim Finn gag.

I had a GL Tribute L2000 which I traded for an amp when I got my US Fender Jazz Standard in 2006. I liked the GL immensely and it was great value for money, I bought it new for about £400 I think. Great tone, really nice to play, and a good looking bass. I did have to replace the crappy far-Eastern pots for US ones which was not an unknown fault on these but I'm sorry that I didn't keep it. However the passive Jazz bass pips it at the post in nearly every way It just does the job better for me, without a battery to go flat. I have found this with precisions too. Both basses needed a proper set up when I bought them but the Fender would still be first grab for me with the GL as a backup if I still had it. A very nice pimped SX Precision now fulfils that role until I get a real fender one ! Never played a US GL but I bet that they're even better.

I have a worm sandwich list. ie I'd rather eat one than play..... again. It's caused quite a few heated discussions over setlist choices in most bands I've been in and includes of a lot of the usual "Classic" rock covers that I played when I was 15 : Alright Now, Brown Sugar,Sweet home Alabama, Brown Eyed Girl, Summer of '69 etc etc yawn. However absence can sometimes make the heart grow fonder, as does the money : I now rarely play them except when depping, which I love, and it can be quite comfortably familiar/nostalgic when doing them with a new band for the first time. We have a pretty good setlist in my regular band although there are a few contenders edging their way up the oh not again chart I think that songs like Sex on Fire, Valerie,I Predict a Riot and Dakota will soon become the new Mustang Sallys for a lot of bands; already there for me. Are audiences really so keen to hear another cover of Come up and See me ? Mony Mony ? not 'alf mate ?

My way love old blue eyes but hate the song

That's why I like this forum. Nice people on it it's been a laugh but time to stop now.

I'm going to stop adding to this thread now as the more I've read on his site I'm starting to find it all a little mad and sad.

We only really do paid functions these days and reckon on £100-150 each depending on distance clients budget etc

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1357583204' post='1924880'] I certainly don't agree with [i]all [/i]he's saying by any means, but the police [i]do[/i] kill without fear of prosecution (Ian Tomlinson, Mark Duggan and many others) and we [i]have [/i]invoked a 'super heavy control society' (DNA database, Draft Communications Data Bill and many other anti-privacy policies). So it's not [i]all [/i]drug-induced paranoia. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [/quote] Super heavy control certainly sounds very much like Mr Percy's bag concerning the underlings in his band.

[quote name='Simon' timestamp='1357560615' post='1924389'] Just my 2cents, but this is how I play it: [url="http://www.thebassment.info/artists/stevie_wonder.html"]http://www.thebassme...vie_wonder.html[/url] [/quote] What a great site .Thanks Simon.

Well i'm glad that I'm not worthy enough to stand in the prescence of such awsomeness. Especially as I only have a Markbass 2"x 10" and I'm partly of foreign extraction and an immigrant Father. I find myself revisiting his site from time to time and still not convinced that it's for real and not all a spoof. [i](insert conspracy theory here you other free thinkers. Ed).[/i]