nige1968

I don't think it's the end of the world, but ... wasn't the IT revolution supposed to free us all from sh*t work so we could spend more time on rewarding stuff. So how comes they're trying to solve the problem of interesting work, while robot garbage collections seem as far away as ever?

I don't have much call for P basses, but everyone needs one, right? So this was my lockdown panic present, of which the body, knobs and scratchplate are original. Pickup is a Seymour Duncan housed in a cheap cream housing. Loom is Kiogon, neck and tuners are Fender 70s-style and bridge is one of them chunky Fender Mexico jobs.

Am I right to think there's one two-knob pre and one with three knobs?

(You probably have to have been forced to sit through Disney princess movies by your kids to get this)

Low F♯?!  Is that so pigeons can enjoy it too?

Bit O/T, soz, but someone really needs to invent one of these with an attached platform for a separate amp head.

Anyway, your thing looks lovely, for what it's worth coming from a secondary school woodwork failure such as wot I is.

I've found Ashdown helpful in the past for enquiries about speakers for TE combos.

On 30/03/2024 at 15:00, kodiakblair said:

I thought all things 'Authentic' were Gibson trade marked.

 

 

Wow, hadn't seen that before. He looks like he's on the verge of righteous tears.

Finish seems to have a faded look compared to the greyer NOS Mexican ones they did a few years back.

Hate Marmite. Love Antigua. Give us a Jazz with a dark fretboard and pale blocks/binding and I'll be, as they say, all over it.

This is only my opinion, of course; but then, it is the right one.

The folk rock band who tolerate my bass services were starting to get festival bookings before Covid. Usually the headline acts kept themselves to themselves, but for bizarre reasons to do with extreme weather we found ourselves doing the whole drunken 'we are not worthy' thing backstage with Stanley Jordan, poor lad. He had nowhere to hide. My friend "persuaded" him to participate in a selfie -- as Mr Jordan was changing out of his stage clobber at the time, the crop of the photo makes it look like he's naked and sitting with a clothed man.

Brighton has its share of pop illuminati. We were next to Fatboy and Zoe in a queue for a kids' ride once and I used to occasionally see the late Gary Moore in places like WHSmith. But my favourite star spot was Nick Cave, standing patiently in a queue outside the fancy dress shop one Halloween.

Cream sits better with the upside-down headstock. It screams "funk" in every sense.

Have you considered splitting the signal and running clean and dirty in parallel?

Ah right, sorry my bad. Is it feasible to split the signal and send an input to each?

If your speakers can’t handle the bass anyway, what’s the rationale for adding an amp into the chain? I can’t see an extra gain stage making things any clearer.

Not sure I belong within 100m of any kind of spray paint, but good to know

4 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

Yeah the value range Warwick's are still good basses but they don't have the visual appeal of the German made ones. Nice job with the stickers. Have you sealed it somehow to stop them peeling and scuffing?

Nah I’m going for the Road worn look. Also I couldn’t work out how.

As featured on the front of the first bass book I ever bought, Teach Yourself Rock Bass. The book was really not that helpful to me, but to this day I consider these basses the epitome of cool. Sadly I'm skint.

4 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

Is that a Warwick under there?

A Chinese Warwick in featureless high-gloss alder, with a big square maple décolletage at the neck joint.

Hated the original natural alder so I stickerbombed it

This

Also this

Root notes are going to be your bread’n’spread for jam nights (hey, get me with the mixed metaphor), but you can probably help flag the changes to keep folk together. So little chromatic runs up/down and ending phrases on the fourth or fifth of the next root (whichever sounds righter).

To go beyond, and apologies if this is stuff you’ve been doing since childhood: learn to harmonise the major scale, and maybe the modes too. Both much easier than they sound and can help you find new places to go.

21 hours ago, Rib13Bass said:

Evertime you go Steve Harris and point the bass neck at the crowd, your leg will knock it out of tune

No good for metal, then? That's a first for BC, I think.

On 30/05/2023 at 18:57, Guest said:

When I first heard this on the radio I thought the chorus was “How’s about a date?”

 

 

Did nobody else hear “Ars* About Face”? One of my dad’s catchphrases so maybe just me, then.

FMII rather than FMIC?

4 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

No idea nige, it’s not correct for a 65 and it’s one I’ve never seen on anything ever before, very strange 

No me neither, but even if they did you'd think they'd get the company name right.

I claim no expertise but I'm not sure there ever was a 'Fender Musical Instruments Inc'.

The rest of it looks OK for a Fender reissue but that red tint to the board doesn't look like the original dark rosewood, even allowing for the rest having been refinished.