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[quote name='chris_b' post='431685' date='Mar 11 2009, 05:10 PM']Thunderfunk amps and Bergantino cabs are designed and manufactured by the guys who own and run the companies. Dave Funk personally signs every amp. If you phone or email you get an answer from the main man. It’s nice to be able to talk to the guy who made your gear.[/quote] +1 Jim B is certainly not averse to picking up the phone when a customer calls. Its a good reputation to have IMO!

[quote name='Plux_the_Duck' post='431559' date='Mar 11 2009, 02:55 PM']i hate the exchange rate i want little mark but they cost so much[/quote] Dont worry son, with much saving and doing lots of work around the house you may well buy one eventually, until then get on with the washing up In the mean time quit complaining, I doubt there's many here who can honestly say their first rig is a patch on yours, lucky swine, kids today, dont know they're born (fatherly rant ensues)

Oh that just takes the biscuit. His was one of the best free learnig tools on the web. I defy those corporate @55hats to find one musician involved in any way with any one of the songs he did a play along to who was in remotely upset that he was posting. Most of the stuff he covered was pretty old and he was doing it for free. The fact that that would allow more people to cover those songs, and by dint of that get more PRS royalties from live venues to the artists in question should be enough IMO. Neveer mind the direct and indirect free advertising. They should be paying him!! Sometimes this copyright business is insane. Corporate multimedia appears to always be. Totally wrongheaded behaviour by some soulless beancounter scum. Thats ruined my day

[quote name='molan' post='423966' date='Mar 3 2009, 10:56 AM']I gigged with mine on Saturday. Vaguely amusing little story from the interval of the gig when a bass player in the audience started talking to me. He told me had a newish Fender USA Jazz. I mentioned that whilst I liked the good old J bass I'd only ever owned one Fender and that was an old '70's Musicmaster. He then proceeded to go through a long speech about how great Fenders were and took great pains to explain that if a US Standard was a bit expensive for me then I should consider the Mex basses as they were such great quality. I'm fairly sure that because I was using a tiny Benz Shuttle for amplification at the gig he thought I was a bit of a bass man on the cheap and that the MTD must have been some cheapo Korean thing. I asked what he thought of my bass and he said it looked pretty. I said that it was a USA MTD and that he should try one if he got a chance.He said he'd look out for them in a fairly offhand way and I then casually mentioned that they were excellent but quite expensive - about £3K new but if he shopped around he might be lucky enough to find a used one for somewhere around the £2K mark. . . His jaw dropped and and his mouth gaped open for ages - he then completely stuttered over his words for a minute or two and then quietly shuffled away, lol. N.B. I really do like Fender J basses & I would never normally have tried to pull any sort of 'one-upmanship' trick like this (not least because the price of something may not be a true reflection of value & it's all subjective anyway) but he was very condescending in the way he was talking to me so I couldn't resist [/quote] "Bwahahahahaaaaaaa and frickin lazer beams pop out and everything!!!" Cruel, mate - I mean he deserved it but cruel. Nice

[quote name='molan' post='429341' date='Mar 9 2009, 01:32 PM']Umm, I'll have a cup of whatever you're having. . . [/quote] Do you take sugar with your mushroom soup then?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='429254' date='Mar 9 2009, 12:21 PM']My thought exactly - something off Plantation Lullabies. Fantastic playing! Alex[/quote] Nice, I think she's quoting God Fear Money even if she didn't realise it. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY033jfPoNk&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY033jfPoNk...feature=related[/url] The tone on that is unreal, how crunchy can you get???? Probably not everybodies cup of tea but I love it...

[quote name='wombatboter' post='429183' date='Mar 9 2009, 11:28 AM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVZpak6eqzQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVZpak6eqzQ[/url] Features also her great feel and sound....[/quote] That rocks, is it me or is she quoting another of her tracks through this??? Something damned similar to one of hers any way.

Could listen to her jam on two chords all day myself. Love that kind of playing. Although its more fun to play than listen to if I'm really honest (I can attempt to play like that all week without getting in the slightest bit bored), that is absolutely dependent on a drummer who's great at working off the tiniest inflections and rhythmic pushes and what have you, a drum machine is not what you need Cheers for posting though, I'm always after little bits of Meshell to cop the feel of (oo-er), love her funkier stuff, the introspective soul searching stuff I can live without...

I dont think £50 is expensive for a half decent little mixer..... This is the Mix120, for the same price :wacko: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tapco-Mackie-Mix-120-Mixer_W0QQitemZ230328509561QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Mixers?hash=item230328509561&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tapco-Mackie-Mix-120...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url] 4 XLR inputs and 2 stereo line inputs, phantom power on XLR's.

I got a Korg DTR [b]2[/b]000 from Music King for £123 new. I only got the 2000 cos it was as cheap there as some other places were doing the dtr1000. It tracks really well. I've been running it after my compressor in line so as to use its mute functionality when tuning. Does what it says on the tin frankly....

I would love to, just once, come up with a bass line as simple, elegant, 'right' and catchy as the one on Walking On The Moon. Absolute class. And some of the syncopation between his singing and playing have convinced me he is in fact an alien. I have always been blown away by the Police, I was a wee nipper when I firs theard them on the Radio and even then I thought they were a cut above, although I couldn't have said why exactly.

[quote name='Cantdosleepy' post='421273' date='Feb 27 2009, 07:40 PM']The (possibly apocryphal) story behind the bassline is that someone suggested they have the two parts, and the session bassist really pushed for it, because then he'd be paid double for the session.[/quote] It's all true, bassist is Herbie Flowers, and a nicer fella I've never met. He's got about a gazillion tales from sessions and this is just one of them....

Well there you go I like the Housemartins and a lot of the Beautiful South - there I said it. You're all wrong, I'm right nah nah na nah naaaaahhh ppttthhhhhhhhhhffffffrrrpppp! Glad this hasnt descended into complete silliness then!

This looks staggering though:- [url="http://www.markbass.it/products.php?lingua=en&cat=1&vedi=95"]http://www.markbass.it/products.php?lingua...t=1&vedi=95[/url] ooooh knobs and buttons and lights and channels and I'll get me coat (its the long brown mac)

Yeah the price rise is ridiculous. They claim that its entirely related to exchange rate, and yet the American market is paying less than ever........ I'm going to stop now before I really start to rant, but its not on!!!!!!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='424995' date='Mar 4 2009, 12:57 PM']I just bought one of these in a moment of sheer extravagance! Alex[/quote] Tart I use a Comfort Strapp, but I remove the extra bit off the top end cos otherwise I find the plastic D is right on my shoulder making it really not comfortable. Mind you I wear my bass around my ears according to some

Love my gear, really really happy with it all. Wish I had about ten times as much time and energy to practice as I do (two kids, much DIY and work mean my 'free' time is about 1 evening a week from something like 9:30pm). So my playing sucks compared to where I'd love it to be (some of you guys who post Garrison technique stuff on youtube are making me feel very very lowly indeed - you know who you are ), and my theory and application thereof is way off where it once was (thats what a loooong break does for you). Still I'm going to plod on and try and get reading again as soon as I've got my head around the 5 string neck completely: its doing my brain in still, but at least its feeling far more normal than it did when I got it!

[quote name='Marky L' post='424106' date='Mar 3 2009, 01:50 PM']I get into an annoying routine of rubbing my fretting hand on the side of my trousers after every song. It started so I could wipe a bit of sweat off but is now a bit of a habit.[/quote] Might be mistaken for a one handed Reeves trouser rubbing, there are bylaws around that kind of behaviour in some counties, so watch out!

[quote name='Linus27' post='424138' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:26 PM']I would not say U2 have done virtually nothing to extend the canon of popular music. So many bands have been influenced by U2. Radiohead, Coldplay, Snow Patrol for example. u2 themselves were influenced by The Ramones, The Beatles and Joy Division.[/quote] You see once again you try and say one thing and I'm pretty sure I'm hearing a different meaning here. I [b]think[/b] you are trying to say how much U2 have done to extend the canon of popular music, and yet the list you give of influenced bands is one that corresponds exactly to my list of thoroughly overrated drivel. Wow, thats scarily accurate.... So if I liked U2 I might like Coldplay and Radiohead, or Snow Patrol? Damned glad I am where I am on this one then!

[quote name='Linus27' post='424133' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:18 PM']Who cares, rice pudding is sh*t. Treacle Tart is so much better [/quote] But what has treacle tart done for puddings as we know them that Rice pudding hasn't? I bet more rice pudding variants have been sold than treacle tarts for a start...

[quote name='Linus27' post='424132' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:17 PM']I asked what other bands/groups you liked. Your reply was one group. This gave the impression that Motown was your thing. With the limitations to the internet and expression and the ease at assuming, my assumption was Motown was the genre you liked. If for example you said Iron Maiden or Girls Aloud, then again, due to the limitations with the internet, these answers would had given a totally different impression. What you should had done is said The Funk Brothers, Iron Maiden, Girls Aloud, Cliff Richard, Bo Didley, Duran Duran and Miles Davis. That way I would had been really confused and probably jumped off a tall building .... with my U2 records [/quote] Best thing to do with those U2 records IMO mate

[quote name='P-T-P' post='424107' date='Mar 3 2009, 01:51 PM']As, to be honest, is the whole overrated argument. "One man's meat" and all that. I bet we couldn't even get 100% agreement as to what constitutes "being overrated."[/quote] overrate v overrate [əuvəˈreit] to think that something is better, stronger, more valuable etc than it really is No argument from me on that one.....