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21 hours ago, tauzero said:

Waterfront - Simple Minds

With or without you - U2

I will add U2 - 40 and New Years Day.

New mini combo for practising at home. It is amazing and sounds soooo good. Looks awesome as well. Plus its tiny.

Ashdown CTM-15 tube head

Ashdown Mibass 1x10

20 hours ago, police squad said:

My only real geek thing is the Police tribute. Correct outfits that match the bass of choice on the day.

But i have a picture of Sting with his natural, maple boarded Fender fretless, with a fender strap that is upside down. I make sure my strap is also upside down

I have a very similar bass minus the fretless maple board. One day I will get a fretless maple board for mine.

1 hour ago, vz7 said:

Is it still available? I am interested

Hi, sorry, this was sold earlier in the evening.

Sale fell through so still available.

NOW SOLD:

For sale is my Fender Rumble 100 V3 Combo. Only used as a practice amp at home or the occasional acoustic gig with my Kala Ukulele bass. Mint condition and everything in perfect working order. These are about £275 new so I would like £170. Based in Camberley, Surrey and collection only please. Happy to meet part way if local.

NOW SOLD

For sale is my Phil Jones Double Four BG-75 in red. Perfect working order and in excellent condition apart from a very tiny mark on one corner. Only used for one gig and with my Kala Ukulele bass and then kept at home. Great little sounding portable combo that can also be run from a laptop battery (not supplied). Comes with genuine Phil Jones carry case and power supply. I am based in Camberley, Surrey and any trial is welcome. These are £395 new so I would like £275 plus postage.

This is my CIJ 62 reissue Jazz. It was bought brand new in 89 from Nova Guitar Centre in Guildford and has seen 30 years of hard gigging including TV, tours, radio sessions etc. Pickups are changed to Barts and the pickguard has been changed from white to the black but apart from that it is all original. It is the best sounding and playing bass I have ever had and will never leave me. It has been with me for my entire music career and has been my main working bass. All the mojo is genuine wear and tear apart from the two engravements. The GB is my dads initials who bought the bass for me and who died a couple of months before I signed my record deal. The MB 4 LG is my initials and the initials of Lisa Germano, the violinist who I fancied when I was younger. 

Just as a side question, if I'd bought a fretless Fender Precision bass in the 70's, what strings would Fender have fitted to it, flats or rounds?

Post pictures 😀

Yeah, to me its like a Precision with the tone in the center. Not clanky and not thumpy, just a very rounded bass tone. Generic sounding even.

Can I just say, this thread is great. Informative, humorous and makes you contemplate. Carry on chaps.

Beautiful 

3 hours ago, Kirky said:

Limelight 202, the only fretless Limelight?

Quite possibly although my Limelight Fretless Jazz is currently in production so I might be getting no.2. I might ask Mark how many hes made.

SUNN Mustang Fretless Precision was gorgeous.

5 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

It does. I use this method a lot.

What is this method? Please explain this black magic 😁

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12 hours ago, Graham Ryall said:

Great interview which I have just discovered. really pleased Derek mentioned and sent his best wishes to the now sadly departed Mick Karn. 

 

Thanks Graham, I'd forgotten all about this interview and I can't believe it was 9 years ago, how time flies.

18 hours ago, Little Dragon said:

BAM200 now appears to be available at Thomman. Not due at Gear 4music until August.

Thank you, I shall be buying one

2 hours ago, TrevorR said:

That was about the one thing I did know about Shakespeare’s Sister. 

Never liked the band back in the day but I used to really fancy their bass player, Claire Kenny! Good bass player too. Played for quite a few pop acts back in the 80s and played a lovely Aria SB just like mine. Wonder if she’s still playing?

Oooh yes, I forgot about her. I remember Clare playing a Bass Collection.

12 minutes ago, Osiris said:

Funnily enough, I've had the exact same conversation.

My response to the idiot in question was "Well you're the one who gets excited watching men in hot pants and knee length socks chasing each other around a field" 

The idiot in question went so red with rage that I thought he was going to explode but he just ended up walking off. Just as well as I thought he was going to beach slap me 

I've found football supports have absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to their own football team. I'm more than happy for someone to take the mick out of my favourite F1 team or driver ( I support Renault and have supported Alesi, Montoya and Alonso so quite an easy target at times) but football fans seem to not be able to take with some sort of humor. I wonder if it the gang/tribe mentality.

16 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

It's always amazed me, the obsession with football...

If you put on a gig round here with 4 bands - all of them of decent quality - and charge £3 folks will say "it's too expensive" and you'll be lucky to get 50 people.

However, if someone arranges a coach to see Hereford Town playing Forest Green Rovers at £20 for the coach each plus entrance fee it will fill up in seconds. Watching 22 blokes running round a field chasing a ball is obviously much more exciting than rock'n'roll - though as anybody should know from their schooldays, the cool guys were never the jocks...

I was talking about this yesterday. I was watching the F1 which was in Spain and the commentators starting talking about Barcelona and some football match or championship that Barcelona didn't get through to or something. What bugged me was the way he was talking as if we all followed football and knew exactly what he was talking about. I had no idea and no interest and you never here then talking about Rugby or Cricket but its as if we all follow football.

I have a Fender Mike Dirnt Precision in yellow in mint condition. It's the mk1 version and I've never seen a yellow one before. It's an amazing bass but I really dont need it and I keep deciding to sell it and then changing my mind. I just know that I will never see another one again if I let it go, it sounds and plays beautifully and is in mint condition. I know sellers remource will be high if I let it go so I've hidden it under the bed, out of sight, out of mind 😂🤣

For me, I've never really been able to capture the sound I like. What I liked and what worked for me were two totally different things. I love Derek Forbes's early simple minds sound. We even spoke about it but even if I got anything close, I hated it for my own sound. Just didn't feel right for me and flanger works great for him but for me I hated it but I love his sound. I also love the whole Stingray sound but when I played my Stingray and got that sound, I hated it. Even the woody sound of Warwick's I love but for me it just didn't work. I did once get that typical Precision sound and it was glorious but generally my sound is very rounded and warm. Not thumpy like Jamerson, but full, balanced and no matter what bass I play, it always goes that way and if it doesnt then I just feel uncomfortable and awkward. 

As for technique then what I found was I was being subconsciously influenced by a lot of fretless bass players. A lot of my bass lines had slides and points where I would sustain certain notes so when I did start playing fretless, the lines came alive. The few comments I've had about my playing that have stuck are my notes are consistent in volume and I hold a note and let it sustain rather than cutting it short. I'm also a melodic player and like to keep busy which might be linked to the comment earlier about Jazz players tend to be melodic and play more in the middle of the neck.

As for basses, I love Precisions but always play Jazz, again, I always feel more comfortable with them tonally. I have never liked fancy woods like birdseye this or roasted that. Plus, no fancy colours please, just natural or pastel colours please.