LukeFRC

[quote name='witterth' post='648457' date='Nov 8 2009, 12:07 AM']Where's the decimal point in that £595?
Both guitar and bass looked like some "crack converter" stuff that would have gone dusty/faded in the shop window to me!
(and, incedentally, still does, on second view)
I'm too 1985 in my tastes!! Iv'e know nowt since 1997!!
I stand corrected Mr Dragon!
Atb..
btw I KNOW its not competition, Mr mateybass..just a matter of very a (ill informed) 80s opinion. hope you get my point! I certainly agree with your'e coming from!! [/quote]

who cares? the man has his old basses and is playing on later, there must be a fair few folk on here with multiple thousand pound instruments that don't ever get played outside of the house...

[quote name='OldGit' post='629054' date='Oct 17 2009, 08:20 PM']And the promo one for my band. Actually caught me playing a Jazz and playing melodies up the dusty end...
The couple in the white shirt and green top always give me a giggle watching this, gawd knows what Craig Revel-Whorewood would make of that footwork ...

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you've a lot of your english knee slapping in amongst your scottish tunes there!

[quote name='buff' post='648348' date='Nov 7 2009, 08:27 PM']Looked to me like nate from the foo's has a shuker precision[/quote]

look at the bridge then guess again....

[quote name='iamapirate' post='647769' date='Nov 6 2009, 11:18 PM']Oh, and another one!
My cousin is a professional bassist (Carl Stanbridge anyone?) and he was playing at a wedding for another one of my cousins, and I hear that he's playing superstition which I had just recently learnt. He then lets me play it with the wedding band. p[retty neat, until i find out that the drummer is Girls aloud's drummer and all the musicians are absolutely AMAZING. And there I am rolling out a phat Eb pretending it wasn't my first ever live performance![/quote]

i liked that one

The band I was in a few years back supported Kate Nash, she stole our bands beer. Theres more to it than that but that tells you enough about her and her band

[quote name='JTUK' post='643734' date='Nov 2 2009, 07:12 PM']as with all these things, if you must, listen to his playing and general style and add it to your own arsenal...
but who wants a clone..????[/quote]


i'm self taught, i started playing rhcp, bloc party, strokes, and all sorts of indie stuff. then i listened to lots of soul and funk, and jazz and listen to world stuff. Lack of practice means that i cant really play funk bass or jazz or anything but at the same time you kind a pick up things from what you listen too don't you. quite often not the bass lines.
so my playing in a mess of styles and stuff. I know a bit of theory and a bit of technical stuff but mostly just play what sounds right to my ears.

I was playing bass for[url="http://<a%20href="http://www.myspace.com/bobdavidbell"%20target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/bobdavidbell</a>"] this guy[/url] if you have a listen the bass player is playing stuff i wouldnt know how to play, wee runs and stuff. (or want to really) So I played what sounded right to me. It was strange/nice to be complimented on this by another bass player and compared to someone like geddy lee and i am interested to find out who he is.

Been checking him/them out. Enjoying his playing, the music not as much. It does strikes me how much the way drums are used has changed over the last 20 years or so.

[quote name='Bay Splayer' post='643476' date='Nov 2 2009, 03:25 PM']perhaps he just fancied you and used that line as an [i]ice breaker[/i]






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haha no he was in his 40's and sat next to his other half, I'm possibly half his age so i doubt it.
Thanks for the replies, spotify turning on...now...

I just played a gig in a thrown together band for a friend's solo stuff. It was good, lack of practice meant I wasn't that brill, but never mind....
anyway the band before us had a pretty good bassist, and afterwards he was complimenting my playing and saying i must be influenced by geddy lee.

I must admit I don't really know him, his music or rush at all.
I have spotify and I'm not afraid to use it... where should I start?

my 91 streamer stage one is one of the lighter basses I've played in my time.

I have an old stage one. Fantastic.

It's not a fender, its not trying to sound like a fender and it doesn't really. What it does do is sound like a good warwick streamer. If I want to sound like James Jamerson I pick up the P bass.....

Nice bass, I paid 650 for my one.
Possibly more than I should have, but it is by far the best bass I've ever played, in perfect condition and has a large Fender logo.
I've played 90's CIJ, current US, current USA vintage reissue and a few other random and my JV wins hands down in terms of feel and tone. 'The' P bass tone you hear on your old records, it does that.

Don't get into too much of a rush to sell this and start with a decent starting price offer it outside basschat, be patient and see what happens.

brilliant. A good shop.

maybe add something to your first post so that the fact you solved the problem comes through to ppl reading randomly.


Good shops are great. I went into my local shop, red dog music, to buy a top e string for a guitar. It cost a pound.
Before hand I wandered around the bass section, I said I was just having a nosy. The guy showed me this little ampeg amp (like tiny), got me to have a we lift then started plugging a new US jazz in so I could hear it. When I told him what amp I used he turns round and plugs into a SVT (6 i think) and lets me play the jazz. This was on a saturday and I was after one string! Impressive.

or don't admit defeat and try and score a second hand p bass body, then a neck of some kind....

The pick guard is for MIA, you have a different bass. It's your mistake not theirs. Now being a nice shop ( i guess) they probably would have taken it back except for the fact you had been at it with solvent and polish.
The solvent and polish was to solve another problem with glue stuff, on finding this problem you could have returned it as faulty and they would have exchanged it.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='630294' date='Oct 19 2009, 12:52 PM']This one's ok.

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that was really good!
Funky dancey stuff, they sounded like they are having fun.

Music is like contempory visual art. When it pushes boundaries of what is possible it is interesting, when it communicates well to people it is interesting, when it conects and asks good questions it is interesting.
But I find when it just seems to be answering academic questions or understandable to people who know the theory it is less interesting. That's not to say that it's not brilliant provided you understand the theory you may be able to understand the artists intelligence and vision. Even then after time spent understanding and framing the context (I have a degree in contemporary art) it can seem vapid and soulless.
If art (and music) doesn't move people in some way, what is it's worth?
If art exists for arts sake, or for the sake of artists, is it worthwhile?

yeah, it's lovely, i still cannae play it!

i know a music teacher who specializes in jazz and teaches bass.... ill aks him if he's taking anyone on if you want?

I bought something with 6 six strings off of guzzibass and whilst at his saw the G&L can vouch for the fact that it is amazing, amazing tone, I imagine Leo set out to better the P bass, and did.
In fact I imagine if you turned up at guzzibass's house wanting to buy a fender jazz you would soon be running for a cash point for the extra £100....

point taken alex, but then if you are at the top of the game like most of these guys are I guess you get to have a different relationship with manufacturers. plus your 'name' can be used by the manufacturer to sell basses

I still think there are two types of bass player on here.
Firstly the 'pros' those that make money and their living from being a musician.
and secondly the non-pro's. The folk who play bass as a hobby, for fun, or whatever reason.

I don't want folk to put value judgements on these labels, both are good. Theres nothing wrong with being a pro musisian and nout wrong with just playing for yourself in your bedroom.

I would guess the 'pros' would er towards more 'of the shelf' designs. Even if more high end off the shelf designs. The bass is a tool for a job. The focus is on the result of the process of playing bass.
The 'non-pros' would be more likely to start modding stock basses and then getting custom built basses I think. As the result and reason of playing is less defined then the focus becomes more about the process. Tone woods, super transparent cabs, top of the range pre's and so on.
Two other reasons for this I can think of are....
'non-pros' by definition will have a source of income. I guess if bass playing is your hobby and love and you earn £xx,000 a year and can afford to indulge in your interest, then why not?
Also I think part of the drive to get 'better' gear is down to the limits of the players ability. You compensate for your weaknesses by having top of the range everything. I would guess a 'pro' is more likely to have been brought up to practice rather than sit on internet forums developing needs for a new pre-amp that uses exotic tonewood hand built valve power to make you sound.....well like a slightly different sounding bass guitar....

[quote name='bigthumb' post='624141' date='Oct 12 2009, 04:25 PM']I like it but why dont they put the old reverse type tuners on it?

My Lakland Skyline DD is one belting Precision, if I do say so myself! Maybe slightly heavier than I would like but certainly not an issue.

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i don't doubt that it's a brilliant bass as laklands suposedly are, and most of them look good, but that's odd looking, like a cartoon version of a '57 fender

wow the spector twin of my old blue warwick!

Sold me a Danelectro bass, I never met him and he put up with the random arrangements of friends picking it up and who knows what.... great guy to put up with all sort of random sellingness. Brilliant and other positive noises.

[quote name='davidmpires' post='618730' date='Oct 6 2009, 04:19 PM']I haven't thought about the strings issue, I'll give it ago if the trim pot doesn't work, the bass is very comfortable as it is.[/quote]


I think ebs_freak meant lower the pups, rather than change the string hight.


Also checking- you say
spector --- mark bass F1 --- barefaced compact = bad sound
spector --- mark bass f1 --- warwick cab = good sound

is it maybe the cab? (or a difference in impedance of the cabs changing the power output of the amp...)

hmm, yes my reply appears a bit harsh and sarcastic. I appolagise.

however a shop lives and dies by it's reputation. This thread is about an amp being repaired at at [i]another[/i] shop in Glasgow, guitarguitar were used as an example of good customer service.
I see little need for your comment referring to someone elses past problem with the shop in this thread. It's not relevent to the discussion and just hurts the reputation of a perfectly good local business. I think if you want to talk about whatever problems you personally have with them, it belongs in a different thread.