tauzero

I can feel my back going from just looking at this and that Trace V8.

I use smiley face on my amp (Superfly 1000 through a Tech Soundsystems 4x10, so pretty hi-fi) but it's this and not this

If Mrs Zero buys me a Fender for my birthday, I'll know she thinks I'm getting old.

Looks like it needs relicing. It does prove one thing though - Fenders more than six months old needn't look like sh*t if you take care of them.

My experiences with interparcel.com have generally been good, but the last item I sent, I used the HDNL courier service and that was very slow - took a week for a non-guaranteed 2-day delivery. I avoid ParcelFarce - motto "We can break an anvil and lose an elephant".

[quote name='steve-soar' post='860987' date='Jun 8 2010, 01:53 PM']If the show had been done in a more schoastic manner and was screened on say, BBC4, then God know what kind of atrocity would have occurred. "And the award for The Greatest Bassist Of All Time, voted by you, BBC4 viewers goes to...." Anyone?[/quote] It wouldn't have been bassist, it would have been keyboard player (the other invisible ones), and the winner would have been Brian Cox.

I think I broke an A string once. It was so long ago, I can't remember which bass it was on - either a Hayman or a Fender P. More recently broke the F string on the 7-string tuning up when I didn't notice that the tuner was trying to tune me to C, not F. It was only there as a backup and I play the set on a 5-string, so using it for a couple of numbers as a 6-string (I brought it with me, I might as well give it an outing) was no problem.

Spalted.

I had some T-shirts done a couple of years ago by a company called GP Work & Leisure at a very reasonable price. The cost for (IIRC) 20 shirts was £20 setup, £2/shirt print, £2-50 shirt - Fruit of the Loom valueweight shirts. Website is [url="http://www.gpwl.co.uk"]here[/url] - best bet is to email them or ring them (especially as the website is rubbish).

[quote name='urbanx' post='860465' date='Jun 7 2010, 10:32 PM']...until someone runs a DC current through it...[/quote] As the input capacitor would block that, only an amp that was already broken would be broken by that.

I switched over to it, saw Woss was hosting it, and switched over to something else. On a non-bass aspect, I couldn't work out why every other member of the 'Oo got in but Daltrey, one of the finest voices of all time, was ignored, especially when that wobbly-voiced squawker Plant got in.

I put a very similar route into my old P to put a home-made active circuit in.

The Peavey range are worth looking at - I found the Grind a better neck than the Cirrus, and both of them better than the Millennium. You'd need to stretch the budget a bit for a Grind (but a second-hand one should come in under budget), and more than that for a Cirrus. Not quite Jazz-style though.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='855101' date='Jun 2 2010, 05:05 PM']Those JD Thumbs are cool, got any pictures?[/quote] Indeed I have. The Thumb twins (I prefer the one-piece bridge of the JD to the two-piece of the later Thumbs): The Tsai 5: And the Mazeti fretless 5:

1 and 2 are the Warwick twins - a Warwick JD Thumb 4-string fretted, from 1987, with a beautiful slim neck, and a Thumb from 2000 which I had defretted and reprofiled so the baseball bat neck was reduced to the same dimensions as the JD. 3 is the Antoniotsai 5-string. I've played a lot of 5-strings and this was the one with the best neck so far, until I played mcgraham's W&T. It's my main gigging bass. 4 is the Mazeti 5-string fretless that I got from Wooks a little while back. I still haven't satisfied my 5-string fretless quest though. 5 is one I no longer have - my 70s Precision went in order to finance the first Warwick. While I don't regret that, I was fond of that Fender - tatty but the second-best P I've played.

Peavey Grind 5, Schecter Stiletto Studio 5, Ibanez SR505.

My twins: They were born 13 years apart though.

KT Tunstall, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree". There's a nice relaxing song for a bassist, nothing in the verse and 15 notes (nice relaxed crotchets) in the chorus.

Everything I've got is dual pickup, almost all of them active. I use roundwounds (for a few months per set), put the bass up a bit to thicken up the bottom end and then what I do with the treble depends on how I want any particular song to sound - knock it back to get a smoother sound, bring it up to get more bite. My default sound has the treble up a bit, a sort of Roger Moore smiley face.

[quote name='witterth' post='853368' date='Jun 1 2010, 10:28 AM']it was years ago but still makes me cross to this day[/quote] You see, you have mistaken his intentions. You thought he was just making a few snidey comments, when in fact he was destroying your whole life and leaving you a crumpled, wretched shell, preyed on for years by the thought of his remarks.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='848423' date='May 26 2010, 01:01 PM']Agreed - Squier + scabby refin + Westfield neck = £60 bass.[/quote] Westfield do make exceedingly good necks.

A swift google comes up with a page where Forbes says he got sacked for womanising. [url="http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/news/n2001/rint1.htm"]http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/news/n2001/rint1.htm[/url] All sounds pretty bland in the general way of rock'n'roll. Is there some deeper, darker seekrit?

[quote name='Bilbo' post='849348' date='May 27 2010, 12:46 PM']Being a musician should actually remain more important to you than being a bass player.[/quote] What, you mean it's possible to be both? Knowing what's right for that particular song with that particular band on that particular day, having the technical ability to translate ideas into notes, and knowing which ideas are good ideas and which are bad ones. Never making the same mistake more than twice in the same performance of the same song.