LukeFRC

might be easier to keep it fretless, and sort the fretboard out.
I recn you could do that, sell it on here and almost double the price you paid for it!

went had a looky at your myspace....

"and more recently ‘Chelmsford Park‘ wowing a crowd in excess of 30,000 at the ‘Worldjam‘ held in summer 2007."

Where the hells that 'eh? Do you mean Hylands Park, Chelmsford? Site of the spectacular, the scouts jamboree in 07, good dog walking, slopey football games and a certain festival sponsored by Mr Branson?

If you worded it

""and more recently Hylands Park, Chelmsford wowing a crowd in excess of 30,000 in summer 2007." folk would just presume you played V....


(you can tell im from Chelmsford eh?)

nice!

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='184209' date='Apr 23 2008, 11:14 PM']I 'think' I now know what I want (and it may involve stripping lacquer and stain off a certain blue bass)[/quote]

if you bought rose tinted glasses.....
it would work both as a metaphor and literally!

[url="http://glasgow.gumtree.com/glasgow/81/23069181.html"]http://glasgow.gumtree.com/glasgow/81/23069181.html[/url]

my hypothosis is that it is that photo of the 3 boys. Maybe nobody wants to buy warwicks of them?

hello from the east side

someone gave me a 6 string thing at a school music/rock elective i was nosing into rather than write the college paper we started.
He showed me where the notes were to play 7 nation army. It was great fun.
I went over a freinds and he sat his mint really really rare warwick thing on my lap and showed me to playe it elsewhere on the neck as it would be more controled. I did.
I then borrowed the worst bass ever and ad to learn to take apart and rebuild and set up a bass before learning to play.
I sat there armed with a pile of Cds, a bunch of tabs i downloaded and started trying to copy what the people were doing on the CDs.
Most the time i just muck around making noise.
I have read some books, know a bit of theory, am still very limited- but hey im an artist not a musician* so I dont care.
I have developed a habit of being able to jam with people playing really cool basslines by ear that shouldn't really work.
I enjoy listening to the drums and guitars and vocals and keys more than the bass. I actually dont really understand most thing in a technical sense, its not to bad as i can just react instinctively to what feels right. I listen to a lot of music but very rarely the basslines. (James Jamerson being my current exception) I just try and feed off other band members and hold them all together.
playing with people is the best way to learn I think.
the things that taught me the most are:
mani on i wanna be adored
whats going on,marvin gaye (james Jamerson)
guitar parts on sonic youth songs
turning up to church to play and being given a chord sheet to a song you have never heard 10 min before you play it to 150 people. Oh and at church you cant make a big mistake!
the major scale shape, in every position, again and again
that you can play what you want as long as it is in time
the bass line at the start of 'so what?'
Jimmy Cliff
Working for a major promoter up here where without fail every 'indie' band's bassest would be playing a p with a pick playing out the root notes on one string all song every song with a really twangy sound- and wanting to do better
my old band (the FRC of my name)
the gaps in basslines. take lively up yourself by bob and the wailers.Theres so much space!

* its not rhetoric i am kinda www.lfletcher.co.uk

[quote name='Chopthebass' post='181998' date='Apr 21 2008, 05:00 PM']Until she started slithering up and down me whilst I was playing and....[/quote]

as this is a normal thing to do while watching a band play. slither up and down them :S

wait a few weeks and one will pop up in the 'for sale' section not being sold for £400.....

fenders are funny. I tried a S1 p a while ago in the shop and it was nothing to write home about. The only selling points were the words on the headstock. I really think that i I had had to buy a bass that day i woul have gone for the squier over the MIA fender. For the extra price the thing had no soul.



quantifiable thing 'soul' on a bass

a wee bump fae a ace bass i wish i could afford.
good luck with the sale!

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='176958' date='Apr 15 2008, 12:23 PM']Ashdown? Wonder if the t-shirt is more reliable than the amps...


*gets coat and waits for inevitable flaming*[/quote]

both made in the peoples republic... possibly in the same factory but i have no proof of that.

i have exema on my hands and work in a coffee shp. hot soapy water and dry skin do not mix well and i quite often get it splitting open. the tape means i can play sometimes through the pain but there you go!

electric tape. (ie the tape electricians use not actual tape that can be electric) works a treat on gashed hands, keeps them together, lessens the pain and has the same feel as skin.

be yourself. everyone. in everything. be happy with yourself. however good or sh*te you turn out to be, thatsjust the way God made you(or evolved, though it's less positive that way) and the world will be a happier place.

ive sold one thing. gave away a few and spend too much time reading rubbish on here.
if i was buying/selling i think i would only buy off folk i recognised from the other forums and wanted to deal with.
it becomes very dull if it just becomes about buying and selling though.
very dull

lets not get onto where the actual wood has come from.... All that hard wood and holes in the rainforests.....

yes boycott all chinese stuff because of their awful human rights record, tibet and Sudan.

boycott all american stuff because of the injustice of the IMF and World bank screwing the developing world through trade, illegal wars in the middle east and general policy of going around the world killing folk who disagree over the last 50 years.

boycott all UK stuff for following US on the above, being a major player in the arms trade, failing to put anysort of commonwealth pressure on mugabe or china (for the above), or turkey, or israel......

don't ya just love our western-colonial cultural moral smugness?

pictures here.... and PM sent!

I have a shark i have been thinking of seeing if anyone wants to trade...
The proactive shark 2 model. Tobacco sunburst, two soapbars, 2 band active preamp.... wooden neck tho with graphite inside aparently....so not really a graphite status-graphite!

the cheap ones i can see the point off but the 430 one is daft. If you shop around you can get a good amp for that. My H&H Q600 cost me 450 new and you get the added bonus of having built in germany as well as designed there!

good luck sir.
that is an awsome bass!
*salutes*

Beedster is there anything you don't buy?

i found when i was learning playing a song but making each note staccato helped. makes you think about how you hit the note and dig into into it with your right hand and how you mute it with your left. If you have a maple fretboard this will be a bit harder as i find you get more noise off it