KevB

Didn't have time to read all of it but he comes across as a decent bloke and not immediately throwing toys out of prams. I think we've seen rather less thoughtful and considered responses from other 'high profile' bass related posters, maybe they could learn a thing or two from Jerry.

If you dissect it to the nth degree I'm probably along with BRX around the 1 per song mark, depends how regularly I'm gigging a particular song. However these will be occasional duff notes rather than, say, playing the whole thing in the wrong key or mixing up verses and choruses. There are mistakes and then there are MISTAKES. Never ceases to amaze me how often I've come off stage feeling I've had a shocker and even reasonably muso savvy mates have enjoyed the gig and are unaware of my gaffs.

I have one of the 'tesco value bass player' t shirts so maybe I should get a value bass to go along with it?

I vaguely recall having a GT6B, it's the red one right? I think i got it because all the guitarists were using multi fx units and I thought I needed one to fit in. I twiddled and fiddled with the thing for a couple of months then sold it for about what I paid so no damage done. I think it tought me that I was mistakenly buying gear and then looking for a reason to use it. What I should be doing (and have done ever since) is having a situation established where I required some specific sound and only then going out and buying what was required to fill the demand. I still have junk lurking in cupboards bought on a whim that I'll probably struggle to give away.

Bob's the singer actually. Probably Tony Clarkin you were thinking of on guitar, used to wear a hat and had a big bushy beard back in the day. Totally bald these days. Wally Lowe quit quite a while ago, Al's been on bass since they reconvened, after a 5 year hiatus, in the early 2000's. They've had Harry James on drums for several years too (he does Magnum and Thunder), excellent player.

That's just about the furthest relative distance between neck and bridge pickup you can get! nice looking basses, never tried one but was tempted on eBay several years ago, it was way beyond my budget even then though. I'll stick with my common or garden 4003.

I keep trying to persuade a local music shop to get one in for me to have a dabble on. Not nearly as muddy as I'd expect on that neck humbucker. I think they also do one in butterscotch which would fit in with my jazz and precision Are these Chinese manufacture? quality looks fine on that one in the vid. edit - having checked I think I got confused with modern player series, just black or 'vintage blonde' for these by looks of it -boo!

Popped down to Rock City last night to catch Magnum on tour. I noticed that after many years exclusively using Warwicks that their bass player Al was sporting a rather sexy looking Fender jazz five string. I'm hopeless at identifying which specific one it was as there are so many Fender variants these days. It looked pretty new and appeared to be a natural body finish with black block inlays. Hard to tell from where I was if it was strung through body or bridge. Very nice tone though! Edit, just found an online pic, looks strung through bridge, Jap reissue of some sort maybe? [IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/alb.jpg[/IMG]

Well it will do what it states. However I think to get the best from it you really need to run the additional harmony signal out to another separate rig from the one you are playing the bass through so personally I'm not sure it is worth the hassle. I was able to contribute a lot more background sound in a 3 piece by using midi pedals and a sound module through the PA than having this. The price reflects the fact it isn't in production anymore as much as the quality of the pedal.

Point them in the direction of some of this gear.... [IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/fakestack.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/fakemarshall.jpg[/IMG]

Been using a Trace combo with ext cabs (either Trace or SWR) for years. There are so many tone shaping options with the onboard graphic, preshape and compression devices available I can virtually get anything from 'mud' to 'glass'. My personal preference is to have a decent bit of top end on which doesn't seem to be your thing though. Take off some of the high end of the graphic and don't have the preshape 1 on as that also boosts top (and low) ends of the EQ. I would think the Aphex would help too but have no experience of them. I regularly use a Hartke Bass Attack pedal which helps give even more flexibility to the tone, thoroughly recommend these. As others have suggested it may be the pickups that are the root problem. If they are giving a thin weedy output it is a real job then trying to make something from what isn't there in the first place just on EQ at the amp end of things. I did have a bass with EMG's once and it always sounded a bit 'flat' and cold hi-fi sounding to me and I sold it on.

Unibass pedal up for grabs [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AKAI-UB-1-UB1-UNIBASS-OCTAVER-SYNTH-BASS-/300821358673?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item460a59a851"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AKAI-UB-1-UB1-UNIBASS-OCTAVER-SYNTH-BASS-/300821358673?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item460a59a851[/url] It's not that I want one. I have one that I never really use so if someone really does cough up £300 for it I'll be sorely tempted to shove mine on the 'bay too.

Would be an interesting experiement to do a range of 'blind' listening tests to see how easy we could spot the robot from a human player as an insight to the 'it's all in the fingers' school of thought. Obviously some styles would be more obvious than others - how's that thing going to slap or tackle fretless for instance?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1353675077' post='1877241'] Pervert. [/quote] Nah, that was the bloke that did Moon[i]walk[/i] Allegedly

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1353677337' post='1877289'] IMO, not quite as silly as the rest of the bunch of no hope, tattooed, beardy, droning wannabe's. [/quote] Nah, the rest don't have the imagination to go for 'silly'. I think 'dreary' might be the adjective you were after

Moondance

Anything popularised by Clutterbuck at a convention/trade show.

Probably told this before but my fave 'flakey member' moment was a project that i was asked to get involved in by a guitarist who I'd previously been in a band with and got on OK with. He'd started rehearsing with a a guitar/vox man and a drum machine and was looking for bass/extra vox. Everything seemed OK apart from the ridiculous amount of time we spent getting intros right to the nanosecond with the drum machine. It had been made clear to me that once we had got a half decent set together then a drummer would be found and we'd work it up with them. It didn't go down well when I suggested the drummer probably wouldn't reproduce the drum machine to the precision we'd been rehearsing so it was a bit pointess going over it in such detail when it would change again when the 'real' drummer came onboard. However I kept at it and always knew whatever the 'new' track was to learn that week, usually far better than the guitar/vox man who'd suggested it. Then one week I came in and before I played a note I got a tirade from the guitar/vox man criticsing everything from my style of playing to the tone of my rig and suggesting I was the one keeping them back from gigging by that stage and they would be gigging if they had taken on a different bass player. We had been at it about 8 weeks and in that time had rehearsed maybe 6 songs (mostly doing the same one over and over quite pointlessly). I always knew the songs better than the guy having a go at me so i couldn't see how i was the 'bottle neck' in process. I looked over at my mate who was utterly dumbstruck. Quietly packed my gear up, wished them all the best finding the player that would get them magically on the road and walked out. Got a call a few days later from my mate saying he'd quit too. Never seen the guitarist/vox guy in a band or doing a solo spot anywhere to this day. He'd apparently been a regular gigging player years ago, quit for 12 years and the new project was supposedly to get him back into it.

Isn't Ellie Goulding's brother a basschat member? maybe I've got the wrong artist.

I'm having some difficulty finding the Hartke strings in stock online, can anyone point me somewhere in the UK that is currently stocking them?

Russ, I didn't know you were a Bass Attack user. I thought you were a dyed in the wool SansAmp man? How you getting on with the Hartke? I haven't gigged without mine for 5 years at least. Think they make pretty much any rig sound better 'defined' somehow.

Probably not the done thing but I always put my tuner in first in the chain so I can use it to mute everything when I'm not playing. Not using effects at present so it's Behringer tuner -> Hartke Bass attack -> amp. The only time I don't have tuner first is if I'm going wireless then obviously the receiver goes in front of the tuner. If I really need an effect, eg if I'm in a band doing Lizzy's 'Moonlight' and I want to shove a flanger in I'd put that in after the Harke. Got a power brick type thing from Maplins so all pedals have their own power lead. Wish Hartke had put the power socket on the other side of the bass attack pedal, it always seems to be on the wrong side for my chain!

Used all sorts over the years, Rotos, Fender's own brand, obscure non-name sets, Elites, Rickenbacker. Whatever i use I still sound like [i]me. [/i]Recently I've found the Hartkes to be excellent value for money (those with the different colour ferrule at the end of each string so even people like me can't get them mixed up ), I'm sure both my Fenders currently have these strings on. Not had a dead set yet and when I bought them they were doing boxes with three sets in for under £20 or something daft. Not bought any for a couple of years though, don't get throug them that fast. Not had a duff set of Hartkes yet.

This week has been an odd assortment of Black Country Communion, Europe, Mostly Atumn, Vangelis, Green Day, Dandy Warhols and Mott the Hoople. Lined up next is the latest Stones compilation, all 3 discs of it!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1352991697' post='1870257'] He's had those gooseneck mics going on for ages. Apparently he breaks them all the time. [/quote] I assumed it was some sort of 'trademark' look he's adopted but he doesn't play stuff I'm particularly interested in so haven't seen much footage.