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Mine would be: 1. Fender P bass (an older one, but I'm no expert!) 2. 60s Jazz bass, absolute beauties! 3. A Wal, again, to see about the fuss 4. Fodera, because a custom made bass feels like a tailored suit, perfect! (wish I could afford one) 5. YOUR favourite bass. You should find THE bass for you before you go, it is a beautiful feeling! And the 5 I don't want to play again: 1. Ricky (let's not argue about this now, I just don't get along with them) 2. Ibanez SR series is it? (a friend has one, really didn't like the neck, and for a small body, it was super heavy!) 3. MM Ray '09 (never liked the several that I tried, I could probably find a Ray that I like if I looked for long enough) Yet to meet 4 and 5...

I don't like that flats can cost much more than your standard rounds, but it's about production like has been said before. As much as it may appear on this forum that they are very popular, in the wide world, there is a larger ratio of round players to flats. While I'm here, I've been using labellas on a jazz for a while, but I got rid of it, and I've almost finished my PJ build. Anybody got any flats that they swear by on PJs?

At least once a day. Most of the time more than two or three times, but then again, I am a music student without a classic "day job"

I am, hugely. Funk is my life and what I get paid to do

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1347912465' post='1806628'] Bingo! http://basschat.co.uk/topic/172489-parting-out/ [/quote] YOU'RE A LEGEND!!! Now I can try and get my sanity back...

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1347868215' post='1805808'] GHS Black Nylons of course [/quote] I don't like nylons though...

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1347472255' post='1801365'] TI Jazz Flats for a Jazz bass - GHS Precision Flats for a Precision, simple, can't be beat IMHO of course [/quote] What should I put on my new PJ project then? :/

Hi, there was a bass on here a while back, and I'm trying to identify it, as I liked the look of it and would like to base a project on a similar premise. I have a pretty sketchy description so bare with me. I believe it was a one off fender custom shop model, I can't remember which artist but it was a maple mighty mite neck, with a blue jazz body with white stripes (created with a masking tape effect). It had a wilkinson p pickup in it, and a musician style pickup, which was just decorative. Just a volume pot, no tone. Part of the description on the page read a bit like this: "*bassist* has held the low end of *band names* for years, none of which Adam Clayton has heard of. The only fender bit was the bridge, and I think it had a pickup cover over the P... Can anybody help me please?

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1347472108' post='1801363'] For me the most important uses of music notation are: 1. Playing someone else's ideas when you haven't heard them before and/or don't need or want to commit them to memory. PINO: Would (I think) exclusively be engaged to create his own bassline so this wouldn't apply. 2. Helping you study and work out how to play a chunk of someone else's music, if you can't do it totally by ear. PINO: Would probably subconsciously incorporate other people's ideas without thinking about it and would most likely have a good enough ear to reproduce most other things he chose to. So this wouldn't apply either. 3. Recording your own creations so you can reproduce them consistently. PINO: Would most likely use his own shorthand technique to jot down pivotal points in his songs and remember the intervening phrases he has created. NOtation not needed here either. Probably a load of crap - but that's the way I think about it. CB [/quote] Nice man, but Pino doesn't write all his own bass lines (unfortunately!) All the D'Angelo bass lines were written by D himself, they're still awesome!

A great tribute to the first bassist I saw live, the guy who inspired me to take up the instrument and my favourite player. I was born too late to experience this period of his playing, so I'm used to seeing him with a precision, but the playing on this album is sublime.

[quote name='derrenleepoole' timestamp='1345729666' post='1780988'] Didn't Trijullo have something to do with Jaco's bass of doom being return when it was stolen? [/quote] Yeah, a lot of people got confused and thought he was trying to keep the bass, but he located it and I think cover some legal fees to return it to the family. He is a HUGE Jaco fan, challenges Feraud for pro with biggest obsession with Jaco...

[quote name='derrenleepoole' timestamp='1345729666' post='1780988'] Didn't Trijullo have something to do with Jaco's bass of doom being return when it was stolen? [/quote]