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All I can say is "Peavey Watts" - I don't know what the conversion rate is to regular Watts, but it's more than 1

This thread shouldn't be on page 2, so have the newest addition to my Gibson stable - the 1979 Gibson RD Artist:

Reported.

Unless there's some specific reason why he needs an acoustic I would say that a cheap acoustic bass will probably put him off bass for life.

Stick with what you know seems to be the order of the day. Look at Gibson with their Les Paul and SG - fifteen million variants of the same 2 models. People keep buying 'em, so they keep making 'em. Gibson tried to be diverse and even sometimes a bit wacky in their bass department and look where it got them

Even if the stack was completely blocking my way in a corridor I would rather move it carefully or find an alternative route around it rather than clamber over the top of it. There is absolutely zero excuse for the kind of shenanigans highlighted, namely using other people's stuff as a lauchpad for on stage stupidity (sorry, I meant hyper cool flagrant disregard for equipment or personal safety of both perpetrator and those nearby) and throwing water around on stage.

The higher the horse, the more it hurts when you fall off it.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1319191621' post='1410969'] [b]Seems to me you don't really rate the product [/b]so therefore you have be upfront about it and say it isn't you playing... end of. [/quote] Oh no, that isn't what I'm saying at all - I've said all along in this thread that I like the album and the songs. I wouldn't be in a band whose music I wouldn't naturally listen to anyway. Distancing myself from the playing on the album is merely an integrity thing, I won't take credit for something I didn't do. I don't think I'm putting my point across very well here. I think I'll shut up now and just focus on playing the songs and playing a more active role in the creation of subsequent music. I'm probably making a big fuss about nothing. It's just because it's a new situation to me.

I like the songs, I think it's a good album, I enjoy playing it live, and I'm enjoying putting my own stamp on them where I can and feel it is appropriate. This is an opportunity to pick up the ball and run, and I am ready to run with it. I guess my main (only?) beef is the promoting of the album. I want the band to be a success so feel I should help but it feels a bit false bugging people about an album which I don't appear on. Particularly on here, where the whole focus is on the bass. I feel squirmy enough putting a link in my sig. If I put up a thread about it then I'm going to have to deal with anyone making a comment on the bass playing with some sort of disclaimer at the beginning (which no-one will read) and me having to say that it isn't me to avoid both positive and negative comments being associated with my playing, as I will have earned neither. I don't even see the relevance of mentioning it here, other than to say "this is what I'm playing live nowadays". Perhaps some live footage (with decent sound) might help mitigate that - this is the album, I'm not on it but I am in this vid and this is how I think it should go Having said all that, the drummer's in the same boat.

I should point out that I like the songs and I enjoy playing them! I wouldn't be in a band whose songs I didn't like or enjoy. It's just a bit weird pushing and promoting an album I don't appear on. Live, I have put my own stamp on the songs I felt I could, but kept it pretty much the same on others when I reckon the bass line as it stands complements the song.

Have any of you ever joined a band which was in the throes of finishing (mixing/mastering/artwork etc.) an album? Did you find it weird that it wasn't you that was playing the bass on the album despite you now playing the songs live and promoting said album? It feels a bit weird to me. I wish it was me. Oh well, it'll be me on the next one I suppose. I hope!

I've had my Hartke HA3500 head ever since I started playing "properly" (3.5 years now). I recently changed my cab to lose some weight when lugging stuff around, but I've never taken much interest in amps. I just want something that works. The Hartke HA works well for me and I like how it sounds. Am I happy? For now I am. Requirements evolve and tastes change though

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1318980768' post='1408662'] The body is quite nice however the neck does look a tad overdone. However the guy is trying to produce something individual and unique and having read his comment in the previous post I must say I support him. It's his bass he can do whatever he likes with it, and if someone likes it and wants to buy it then that too is their business. There isn't any mis-description or fraud going on here. The only injustice I can see is the slating that this guy is getting on BC. There is a Market for relicd basses and I wish the guy good luck. That said I wouldn't buy it, but someone will and all the best to them. [/quote] I slated no-one, I simply aired my opinion on the matter in general (which I am quite within my rights to do) and I agree with what you wrote.

My wife is amazingly tolerant of my hobby. She has one simple rule when it comes to basses (and instruments in general) - instruments are to be played - so no collecting. The only basses she will not tolerate are pointy ones (Flying V, Explorer etc. - we joke and call them "divorce basses" but joking aside, she has said she will divorce me if I take home one of them). To top it all off, she (well, her alter ego "the bass fairy") bought me a Gibson RD Artist. That's got to be all my birthdays for the next 10 years I'd say

Why anyone would buy one of these "reliced" monstrosities when you can have your fill of old school tele headstocked, not split P shenanigans with any one of these... ...is completely beyond me.

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1318843641' post='1406645'] Moffat bash is the first weekend in February. This now the date it will be every year. We will be starting the ball rolling for the next one just shortly. [/quote] Sweet!

Some manufacturers do not allow their US retailers to export from the US.

I've got one of these: Is that amazing? It's certainly odd

Definitely not Hagstrom - wrong headstock shape, wrong tuners, although some of them have a bar string retainer it is screwed in from the front, not bolted at the back, not a Hagstrom logo

I don't understand the relevance of the second question in the title of your thread, specifically in its targeting of basses. Gibson do make other things out of the disputed wood after all.

There's been one in Moffat for a few years now, February.