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Sort out my damn live rig properly for once. Find a replacement Rock drummer I am really comfortable working with. Do at least 3 small tours. Develop fingerstyle more. Buy another Status.

Fantastic late NWOBHM feel there, good stuff, but the drummer needs a lot of work, especially on his fills and double kick. Classic intermediate player trying to cram too much in, running out of time, then having to get back on the groove. Having said that, I'd definitely go and see this band if they played locally.

Hahahahahahahahaha! bless 'em

My all time fave: "Like a handful of gravel hitting a tin bath" Often used to describe Rickenbackers in the early 70s.

[quote name='12stringbassist' post='697170' date='Dec 31 2009, 01:33 PM']Music Ground[/quote] Scum, through and through. Mention them not!

[quote name='bassatnight' post='695445' date='Dec 29 2009, 10:46 AM'][i]Hey, I live near you can you call me?[/i] Steve.[/quote] Whats wrong with that one? Anything that can be done to get round the monopolistic stranglehold ebay have over pretty much the entire used market is a good thing in my book, and if someone comes over tonight and pays me 400 quid for the bass/amp/whatever thats on ebastard for 450, I'll take it, as cash in hand face to face is safer than any amount of ebay "seller protection" especially if the buyer lives within comfortable driving distance, and I don't have to pay ebay and paypal for the privilege of being systematically ripped off when their "seller protection" is a total farce to begin with. I loathe and detest the way ebay treat honest sellers, and avoid them wherever possible. Call me old fashioned, but don't we all prefer the good old "service station with bundles of cash" method on this here forum?

I'd try at least 3 used Ricks before committing your money, they are very variable. Its rare to get a "bad" one, but they all feel and sound different, and as others have pointed out, they are somewhat odd to play if you are used to P-Basses etc, the scale length and ultra low actions make for lots of uncomfortable noises until you are used to how Ricks like to be played. Either that, or hoik the action up and lose some of the character. If you find the right one, you WILL fall in love. I have owned around 20 of them in the past, and I still have 2 favourites I would have to be desperate to want to sell, and one I have kicked myself for selling ever since that fateful day in 1987.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='696653' date='Dec 30 2009, 07:46 PM']Question from me to ebay seller: Hi. Do you know if this bass was made in the Matsumoku factory in Japan? Answer from ebay seller: Hi Mate, on the back of the bass it has made in Corea, so the answer to your qwuestion is probably yes[/quote] Hahaha, email him back and say something like: "WOW! Thats not an ordinary one, its the Chick Corea signature model then, they stamped the nameplates like that to avoid legal action because he is (officially) sponsored by a piano company, I'd advise you to stop the auction and relist it for at least £899, hope this helps..." And see if he does Or is that mean?

I concur, wood is a bastad to refinish without proper compressor, gun and EXPERIENCE. I have done maybe 12 guitars now using carpaint and hours (and hours and hours) of cutting back, reapplying, cutting back, reapplying, top laquer, cutback, reapply, T-Cut til you have RSI.... and I am still not comfortable with it. I am not in a position where I have the time, money and workload to bother buying a decent compressor and gun, then learning how to use it properly, so I am stuck with my own tedious work, or paying someone 200 quid for a proper job from someone who does it for a living. If you know any good bike people, get them to quote a minimum 6 coat cellulose finish with cutbacks inbetween each coat, then final cut/polish. Add another 4 coats if you want a clear coat over the colour to give it more depth. If they offer you change from 150, its up to you if you wanna chance it, or go to a pro who's done GUITARS before. If its a bolt-on neck cheap-mid value bass, you have nothing to lose, as you can just strip it back to wood if they mess it up. [quote name='Bloodaxe' post='687666' date='Dec 17 2009, 07:46 PM']Fair enough, but metal ain't wood. Pete.[/quote]

My quintuplets, as was a few years back, but I still own 3 of them, so I am in fact, missing "twins" from this picture [attachment=38415:5ricks_shed.jpg]

MH this time round was crap. Sound wasnt great, Damned were poor, Motorhead weren't trying, and the number of fights and scuffles in the crowd (in the gig, the bar, and outside) was more than I have ever seen before. Packed full of arseholes basically, and the Missus has said thats her last MH gig now. Shame, it was going great while Girlschool were on, then it all started to get ugly. Having said that, Lemmy coming on and doing "Please Don't Touch" with Girlschool sort of made up for it a bit.

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='654953' date='Nov 15 2009, 01:31 AM']This is werrry nice, and for a fifty year old Fender none too shabby. I like it. Luckily. £9k short.[/quote] Its been relisted again. New Kings Rd vintage are always way OTT on their asking prices. Walk in there with 6k and haggle if you really want it.

Correct, the PSU can theoretically be any rating over whats needed. You should take some headroom into account, but also dont buy anything too powerful, or it will be a waste of money and won't be working to full potential. Add up the total draw of all your pedals, double it and find the nearest rating of PSU, so if it comes to (say) 280mA total for your pedals, then buy a 500mA PSU and that should be fine for all eventualities, and give you some extra power if you chucked another pedal on there, as you are unliklely to be running all of them at the same time anyway. 5000mA is overkill, and also probably "switch-mode" design, these are to be avoided unless they are of *exceptional* quality, as they can be very noisy (chucking nasty buzzing sounds round your pedal rig), and they are very difficult for your average Joe to repair if they pop. Get a normal transformer design, somewhere between 300mA and 1000mA (1A). The doubling is just a precaution, but you don't want to run the PSU to full capacity because if anything goes wrong and a pedal momentarily grabs loads of power, you will knock the whole lot out. A resettable fuse on the 9v line is a great addition if you are building your own power distro, no messing about with little glass fuses in the dark mid-gig, just hit the reset button. [quote name='Phaedrus' post='668054' date='Nov 28 2009, 10:14 AM']My understanding of leccy is basic at best, so can someone tell me if I've got this right: My FX pedals will each need 9volts, at their stated supply rate of whatever amperes. I get it that a 9v multi-output PSU can supply the 9v to each pedal, but these PSUs seem to "have" much higher ampere ratings than most pedals, yeah? Do the pedals just "take" the 9v at whatever rate they need, and the ampere rating of the multi-PSU is just what's available to the pedals? So no matter how high the ampere rating of the PSU is, there's no risk of damaging the pedals? If that's the case, then whether I choose a stand-alone PSU, or something like the GigRig with a separate PSU, is it the case that so long as the PSU ampere rating is the same as or higher than the sum of all my pedal's ampere ratings, things'll be fine? If that is the case, should I be looking at the PSU with the highest ampere rating I can find, to ensure plenty of capacity for expansion? Or is a PSU rated at 5000 milliamps (yes, there is one!) OTT or potentially a risk? Thanks, Mark[/quote]

An old band of mine were paid off from a fairly major gig once even before we had soundchecked, because the singer of the headline band (well known 80s alternative outfit) was an old teenage enemy of our singer, didn't want us on the bill, and apparently "didn't know we were playing", despite the gig having been advertised for nearly a month. Well I say "paid off", they threatened to have us beaten up and our gear taken if we didn't leave, but the promoter stepped in, and they just gave us our fee. We got our own back as the FOH engineer was a mate of ours, and 20 quid we slipped him was well spent