bassbloke

excellent, but I think some more oinking is needed to compliement the squealing

The ultimate death metal vocalist award has to go to the guy from [url="http://www.myspace.com/cephalotripsy"]Cephalotripsy[/url]

A MAc G5 vs what looks to be a generic home build PC or similar. Hardly comparing apples and apples is it?

Just had a quick peek on www.amazon.co.uk and they sell Leatherman goods. Why don't you enquire about setting up a Markeplace account with them? You'd probably do much better than on ebay, which has always had the air of a dodgy market stall about it, and probably get a better class of customer.

You have a PM

This is the second time in as many weeks that a new member of the forum has been given a less than warm welcome.

Also, lecturing someone for not posting in the introduce yourself forum when you haven't done so yourself is somewhat hypocritical.

Maybe he posted both for sale topics and was about to think of a nice story to add to the introduce yourself forum. However, the trolls that frequent this forum all clambered over themselves to criticise him so he thought 'f*ck that' and hasn;t been back since.

'Home of deep discussion'? More like a village full of stranger-hating yokels.

[quote name='Stickman' post='71190' date='Oct 8 2007, 07:06 PM']Cool, thanks. Is that the one on the 9th? I have no idea what Mark is booking at the moment...[/quote]

I think it's 9th November at the Arkright Arms. The Walkabout have ditched their promoter and with it all of her bookings, hence the move.

Reminds me, I need to pester Mark about our next rehearsal.

If my mother died, it'd absolutely destroy me and the obvious person to turn to to replace the gaping hole it'd leave behind would be my wife.

If you're a proper friend, you'll sit him down and ask him straight.

A lot of bands fail to get anywhere because of personnel issues rather than ability. Fact.

Expert Village is wicked. Things are definitely funniest when comedy isn't intended.

I use a mixture of thumb, index, middle and ring with the ring finger either adding speed or different rhythmic options on fast lines (triplets, flicks and mutes) or making string crossing cleaner and quicker.

the extra fingers allow for better muting and ghost notes, which give playing more life and character.

[quote name='Beedster' post='72576' date='Oct 11 2007, 07:51 AM']USA Fenders are going for under £500 at the moment, so what the hell's going on here....?
Chris

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass-Replacement-Neck_W0QQitemZ270172989316QQihZ017QQcategoryZ42455QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass-Rep...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

In fact, I've just found the same neck new for £119.00.[/quote]

How much would the tuners, string tree, drilling and lacquering add to that though?

maybe he posts on basschat.

Why doesn't someone from this forum just drop him a line saying that you missed out on bidding on the item and haven't seen any feedback relating to it and ask if the deal fell through.

Also say you thought it went a bit cheaply - you were looking for a MM5 Sun and would be happy to pay £450 odd.

He then admits he still has bass for sale, offers to sort something out and you e-mail evidence to ebay and get his arse banned.

[quote name='fusionbassist1' post='69645' date='Oct 4 2007, 07:23 PM']I was recently refered to as a 'purist' by one of my lecturers. By this he was refering to my preference of older valve gear, passive old vintage sounding pups and exclusive use of two finger picking on stage. I've always known i was a bit retro in my goings on but now i got a tag!! I have to say i like the idea of mabye trying to keep alive perhaps what might be seen as 'the old way of playing' by hardcore dbl thumpin', slappin an' a poppin, tappin an' a shreddin bass players.

Does anyone else think of themselves as a 'purist'??? Anyone at all prod of that as I am?? Tell us why you like the ways of times long passed....come on...i can't be the only one.....[/quote]

One person's purist is another's luddite...

So if I were to get a new pickguard made I could easily return it to two lipsticks?

Sorry, I appreciate the Darkstar is probably vastly superior to the stock pickup, but I've always thought the original surfcaster was a thing of beauty.

What model is the Cambride Audio amp and Eltax DVD player?

Ta

I'm distraught at what's been done to the Surfcaster. Has fitting the darkstar involved any extensive routing to the body?

If the Lost Planet/Anchorhead gig is still on for November, you can have a look/go.

What about the [url="http://www.audereaudio.com/#"]Audere[/url]?

Hamster has a 3ZB in his Lakland with 4 bands of EQ. I have a JZ3D 3 band with a 2 band about to turn up on my doorstep. It's a very good and, most of all, very musical sounding preamp. I used to really fiddle with the tone controls on my deluxe jazz, now I just use the Z-mode switch and pickup blend and passive tone - the active EQ hardly gets touched.

I think it's a new feature of Internet Explorer - the screen goes white whilst it duplicates your post continuously.

I have nothing but trouble with recharageable batteries in my camera and would never use one in a bass, wireless or pedal.

Robert Dyas usually have deals on Duracell and Energizer batteries. Current deal is buy one get one free on twin packs of Energizer 9V for £6.99. That's £1.75 per battery. Not bad!

I'm afraid there's lot of big words in your auction

[quote]These items are used. They all have some degree of handling wear to the outer casing and as seen in the listing photograph, some are better/worse than others. The item that you purchase will have been cleaned, oiled and checked and will not have any significant defect that could affect the use of the tools in any way. Please indicate whether you would like a P4 or an S4 and the colour of your choice, you will receive one of the items shown in the listing. If you would like further pictures of one of these particular tool please feel free to contact me and I'll try my best to get back to you as soon as is possible. Please note the winning bidder of my last listing still hasn't indicated which of the above tools they would prefer so be aware that one of them will be sold. In the event they contact me in the next few days I'll amend the listing accordingly.[/quote]

Remember you're communicating with utter cretins and keep it really,really simple.

Ask him why Tony Macalpine, Virgil Donati and Billy Sheehan were so bad when they played the Camden Underworld last September. I walked out early.

[quote name='Stickman' post='69668' date='Oct 4 2007, 08:05 PM']No, they are not threaded and nor do they have an Allen key socket unfortunately.
I like the contour of the strings to match that of the fingerboard, and my Willis basses have got me accustomed to a pickup that does the same. I need to alter the pole pieces firstly for consistent string to string volume as you'd rightly guessed, and secondly because I sometimes catch my fingertip on the edge of the furthest G-string pole piece...[/quote]

Check out the Fender noiseless pickups. The pole pieces are at staggered heights to match the radius of the fingerboard. UK prices are between £80 and £110 on ebay.

[quote name='Stickman' post='69668' date='Oct 4 2007, 08:05 PM']No, they are not threaded and nor do they have an Allen key socket unfortunately.
I like the contour of the strings to match that of the fingerboard, and my Willis basses have got me accustomed to a pickup that does the same. I need to alter the pole pieces firstly for consistent string to string volume as you'd rightly guessed, and secondly because I sometimes catch my fingertip on the edge of the furthest G-string pole piece...[/quote]

Check out the Fender noiseless pickups. The pole pieces are at staggered heights to match the radius of the fingerboard. UK prices are between £80 and £110 on ebay.