Mr Fudge

and dennis hopper on the drums ... nice one!

Be a busker, improvise at the drop of a hat because those grey faced chavs out there wouldn't know any better anyway. Do not repeat the same boring thing! You will not be a musician any more! Go Go Go !!! If it doesn't work, shrugg your shoulders at the guitar player because you can play the guitar better than him anyway.

shut your eyes, bang your fingers into the strings and if it sounds good your on a winner.

Nice little muso pub in bromsgrove called The Hop Pole. Very music friendly pub and I debued my new Marcus Miller Jazz. I've never played rhythm stick so well! There are lots of 50 something drummers that seem to frequent these gigs. Some have some great advice though ...

As part of a special birthday present to myself this year I have been on a quest for a holy grail of a precision.

Thought I would check out the p's in PMT Brum today, Some nice ones. Would give a good comparrison on a vintage. Then I spotted a Jap Fender Marcus Miller Jazz. I've heard about these and loving my existing jazz very much I thought whilst your here. 0.5 seconds later I already knew I was going to buy it. Simply the best bass I have ever picked up. BEAUTIFUL .... The neck was made for me and the active sound is stunning. A lot less aggressive than my JEast in my '97 Jazz.

I don't know if they are all this good but I picked up a peach today.

Seeing as my camera is dead.

It is natural ash body, black scratch plate, maple neck and board with pearl inlays. Baddass bridge. I couldn't walk away from this bass. So the p will have to be a 50th birthday present.

I had a staffordshire bull terrier called sadie who coincidentally struck a striking resemblance to sade.

small world ...

Is it a thin and wide neck, or a fat and wide 70's feel. Hope this makes sense?

cheers, would you wait for a vintage p then?

First of all I'm sorry if this is not the exact forum. Perhaps I should have done the e-bay one, but I am not buying or selling, if you know what I mean. I am a proud owner of a '90's jazz. With my 40th approaching I have promised myself a vintage fender bass. As I already have a great jazz ( and I have lusted after wateroftyne's beautiful jazz on here ) Im looking at a vintage p. Also thanks to The Beedster has supplied me with some excellent advice. However this fullerton looks a cracker. What would you do? 70's vintage or 80's renowned custom shop !!! I'm not in a hurry (I've got until November) but I don't think these things come along very often.

I'm not into antiques and at the end the day it is something I want to play every week not just look at.

cheers

A good strat for a good Jazz sounds like a match made in heaven. Im looking to increase my bass collection I have far too many guitars ....

If you get on with good fender basses you will love a strat. Not beaten ( Unless it's a custom with a humbucker in the bridge and a floyd rose)

I saw L42 at the Birmingham odeon in 1982/3. Incredible! I then saw them at the nec '86. That did nothing for me and I forgot about them until a few years ago. Then they released retroglide which is a superb album and I saw them at The symphony hall (2006). This was one of the best gigs I've ever been to. I will be seeing them in October and vow never to miss them again.

where's the floyd rose?

This is beautiful. I may be in for a vintage precision soon. I have a nineties jazz that I love but I think a p would get a look in as I get more melodic as I get older. Im not trying to be Geddy Lee or the Ox all the time anymore. ( I started out as a guitarist you see in rock bands ).

The short of it is I may be in for a p if any one is moving stuff. I dont have anything of bass interest to trade and like Beedster I dont want to get rid of anything.

Keep me in mind because I would much rather deal with BCers.

Cheers Mr Fudge.

Sorry I hijacked the thread a bit but the basses pictured are right up my street.

Home on the strange. Geddy Lee solo
Drummers Picnic. Paul h.
Dune Tune. Level 42.
Boris the Spider. The Ox.
Turn the page . Rush.
Any Danny Thompson.

meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

nice move ....

learning rhythm stick properley after all these years. Re-aquanting myself with some Geddy Lee Wal lines. Territories and turn the page being favourites at the moment.

Playing along to the new tunes on the sky menu also.

I had the pleasure of supporting Phill Jupitus and the blockheads a few weeks ago. Their set and Mr Norm on bass inspired me to get a best of Ian Dury and the Blockheads so therein lies your answer. Wonderful stuff, great music and even better lyrics.

Played with the blockheads and phil jupitus last night. Norm is a god. Also he is one of the nicest blokes you will ever meet. A true gent and an awesome bass player. His TE is older than the hills with god knows how many bits of gaffa tape. I was convinced he was playing an old jazz, but he showed me how it is a copy of an old one where they have even dug out the old hole where his thumb was. There are some pictures at

www.freewebs.com/thebusbybabes/ if any one is interested.

Geddy Lee is God. And you are allowed a blood transfusion if you worship him.

Yes it is the ME 50B. I dont understand the pedal working as volume but not an expression either. I know there are patches with the wah, but I like the ME50 as a stomp box that doesnt require much pre planning. I think I will go for the seperate wah. Thanks for the advice

Love them or hate them (I love mine) the expression pedal on my Boss ME 50 has stopped working. It only now works as a volume pedal and I relied heavily on the Wah bit for some parts of our set where everyone else is playing keyboards. The rest of the FX works perfectly.

I have tried factory reset and had a good look through the book but to no avail. Any ideas???

If it is kvackered would a guitar wah or crybaby be just as good.

Cheers.

Its a superb gig. It's a club but with a capacity of 700, smashing people run the place and sort the sound etc.... We were very lucky last year,we did our 10th anniversarry gig there and got 609 people. Yes we did count them. Apart from that I've seen some great gigs there. This year have been Spocks Beard and Richard Thompson. You will love it.

The band I play in are supporting Phill Jupitus and the blockheads at the Robin2 in Wolves next saturday. If I can find the technology to do it I will post a picture of me?us with the great norm. What a great bass player. Looking forward to meeting himand having a chat. Not about boring bloody bass guitars though.

more info on www.freewebs.com/thebusbybabes/

Im not going to insult my fender jazz by putting a picture of her here for you all to lust after her. I think you all know what she looks like and I did indulge her with a tortoise shell scratch plate recently. What worries me most is the state of decoration most of your houses are in. As the late Bernard Manning would say .... it's a f%%%%%g disgrace.

ernie ball, the purple ones. works for me.