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No lynching? Damn. Can we do a stoning instead? Break a finger? Break a fingernail? Pull a few nose hairs maybe? An outraged wedgie? No? Can I at least flick an ear?! Come on! I have no life out here. I demand the right to pick on members weaker and with lower status than me. They don't come up very often.

[quote name='ARGH' post='319962' date='Nov 2 2008, 09:02 AM']The 'Best' basses are made by Jim Fleeting in Ripon,thats not subjective opinion,its pure fact..the others are just amateurs trying.[/quote] No way, Yamaha's are much better. That's a fact.

a wish bass is

[quote name='jerseytrev' post='334865' date='Nov 23 2008, 01:38 PM']mag 200 no fan hartke 3500 has a fan , yes i do know what a fan is what is your problem , being a mechanical tech for jersey water i need to [/quote] Thats a magnificent come back!

i can't up my mind about Wals. They're growly and warm like Mark King's on the Princes Trust and then sometimes they sound boxy too. I guess it must be that filter eq.

[quote name='Protium' post='334626' date='Nov 22 2008, 09:58 PM']My ABM has a fan. My MAG had a fan. Do you know what a fan looks like? What do they put in the water in Jersey?[/quote] Ice?

[quote name='bassjamm' post='326357' date='Nov 10 2008, 10:29 PM']Hello guys and girls, I'm thinking about getting a good old 4 string Jazz bass but want to have some rude bass soundage going on. ... Any thoughts?[/quote] Putting a nearly spent 9v battery in should give you some decent farty sounds.

In the study, I like to regail all in attendance with witty anecdotes and musings on all the greats I've played with over the years, usually over a modest fingerful of 32,000 year old Glencampbell with canapes (also 32,000 years old, usually reconstituted from a defrosted mammoth leg of some description. Tastes bloody awful but it's a talking point). Then, once the laughter has finally died down, the nausea has worn off and we're feeling suitably superior, we'll make our way to the main dining room for dinner, where chef will have prepared an appropriate offering. Normally this will featured a minimum of 5 courses but more typically including an entree, port, salmon, more port, a fillet beef course, port, dessert, port, port, more port, some tawny port, cheese, port, more port, some madiera, more port, some port and a vintage cognac to finish off. Usually this is accompanied by champagne and sherry for the ladies. The conversation must, at this point, be respectable, light and witty or Nursey will get cross. Then the gentlemen adjourn to the library for more port and cigars in order to talk about suitably big sounding things like politics and flagellation. The ladies will go to the parlour with their sherries and embroidery to talk about recipes and kittens. Sometimes recipes involving kittens, often boiled in port. Nursey likes that bit best. Then while the night is still young, we shall all once again reassemble in the library for some light entertainment. Michael Barrymore often drops by and entertains us with his Pool Death Scene reinactment, which is NICE. Often during this he will invite one of the chaps to passively participate. This is to much hilarity and thigh slapping I can tell you as we join in with the hand movements and singing. One of the ladies will then charm us with a captivating ditty to do with something about larks and then another of the chaps will thrill everyone with intrepid tales of peasant shooting in the Hertfordshire countryside. Then as the candles grow dim, we'll all retire to each others beds before Nursey catches us and wants to join in. All in all a jolly decent wheeze. Haw haw haw *SNORK*

[quote name='wombatboter' post='316896' date='Oct 28 2008, 05:40 PM']Tourist traps ? I went to the bass shops over there twice in my life when I visited London and everytime it struck me that it's not an advantage to be a Belgian bassplayer. I'm sorry to say but most of the time I was treated like some foreign disease they had to endure. I had the money in my pocket but I wasn't very eager to take it out when I saw the reactions whenever I asked something. I think I'm a rather polite easy going person but I want to be treated with respect and that was hard to find. I'm sorry to say but also in the Bass Centre in Wapping I wasn't taken serious and no one showed any intrest in helping me out...[/quote] Hey mate, its not just London who are like that. I've had it in New York and Bangkok as well.

[quote name='marcus bell' post='316972' date='Oct 28 2008, 06:43 PM']haha, the fait accompli video thats on the internet (youtube), is the one which was broadcast on t.v. however the video is longer and has more better footage [/quote] the jokes are still bad though.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='316960' date='Oct 28 2008, 06:31 PM']Gotta say that has pushed Mr King way up in my estimation... It's not often you hear that kind of objectivity and common sense.[/quote] Most of that video is on You Tube IIRC. In the same video he talks about how he decided to stop drinking because he was getting too obnoxious when pissed!

Looks like quite a few people here own these basses! The wood tops look lush.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='316947' date='Oct 28 2008, 06:20 PM']One went for £488 the other day on ebay[/quote] Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! *looks protectively at his SR5*

is the jack socket fully sealed? Sounds like you might either have to drill it out or get in there with a pair of forceps... ...NURSE!

wow, thats a tasty jazz bass!

Pino huh? Did anyone outside the band give you a hard time? Seems similar to when Pino took over from John Entwhistle!

Ask Bassmankev, he's got an opinion on the price of everything advertised in the classifieds. The rest of us aren't young enough to know everything.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='256943' date='Aug 7 2008, 09:32 AM']It seems very hard and tough now it's well cured. Certainly a lot tougher than tolex. Alex[/quote] bit like my nipples after reading this thread.

some of those people are getting a bit carried away in their excitement. for all they know the bass could have 1 string, a broom handle and a tea chest. and then I'd bet they'd still send themselves off into raptures of ecstacy over it.

Do I Do - Stevie Wonder Hard Time For The City - Stevie Wonder As - Stevie Wonder I think I need to get out of this rut.