miles'tone

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1485889842' post='3227559'] Is the pickup size the same as other stock P pickups as in no mods needed to get them to fit? Also, what strings are people putting on their Shorty? I fancied flats for mine if I get one. [/quote] Yes, regular size P pickup. Not changed strings yet but if I do I'll be going for a set of TI flats myself.

[quote name='fftc' timestamp='1485858517' post='3227184'] Still, if I were looking to buy a new bass for Fender MIA money I'd be looking at a Cutlass or an LB-100. [/quote] Same here. Fender - very limited options. G&L - choice of colours, body wood /therefore weight, neck profile.. LB-100 all the way!

I've got a HB Shorty P and it's really really good. I've had it a couple of years and it's the only bass that I've ever had that I've never modded. I haven't even had to adjust the neck or intonation! It still wears the strings that it came with. I daren't change a thing as it plays and sounds so good. The stock pickups are punchy as hell by the way. Best £70 I've ever spent.

I'm quite fond of Landrover green. On Landrovers.

I think it's ace. Glad to hear something different from JK. The hat's great, the beats and noises are wonky cool and I love that it sounds like he's saying "I'm a tomato" 🍅

http://youtu.be/BiRqWZECR7k

I've played one in a shop a while ago and I was impressed. I gigged an American Standard Jazz for a decade and that MIM 70s J was, to me, much nicer to play and sounded brilliant. It was a bit lighter too and much more resonant. It had "it". I'm a Precision guy now but I did feel sad not being able to take that J home. As always, try before you buy.

Holy s***...

http://youtu.be/SEuOoMprDqg Rush - Xanadu. The Exit Stage Left version in particular, but I can't finds a vid of it. This'll do though!

There's a good blues jam night at Clwb Y Bont in Pontypridd tomorrow night. Every last Wednesday of the month. Near the train station. I won't be there but I will be at Febs jam. Some really good players there and a welcoming bunch too.

1976 Rickenbacker 4001. Sold it for 500 quid in '99. 😱

Love at first sight may only ever happen once. Regret will eventually cost you more.

Are you doing anything new in your life outside of music? I wonder if some new activity is affecting you somehow and is indirectly making your bass playing painful as a result. Seek medical advice of course..

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1484837258' post='3218944'] I would imagine that they don't care in the slightest. [/quote] That's the point I was making. Not very well probably. ✌

I can't help wondering what all the artists mentioned in this thread would make of the music made by the (mostly) hobbyist basschatters? 😜 I do include myself here btw.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1484646160' post='3217053'] oh god... I'm in love. THAT is just perfect. If it sounds and feels maybe 10% of how it looks, it would be a superb instrument... wow. [/quote] I second that emotion 😘

I once launched Tal Wilkenfeld's debut album out of the window of a truck I was driving. It was technically amazing but said absolutely nothing. Heard it all before. It's hopefully still there, embedded in an embankment on the M4.

Radiohead - Okey dokey Karaoke or whatever it's called.

Modern Squier headstocks are shorter than a Fender's. They look a little 'snub nosed' to me. A Fender decal won't change that. I like my headstocks blank personally. My mate's got custom decals on his basses with his kids names on. Nice personal touch for himself.

I've never heard any of the albums he's played on but I have seen some solos on YouTube. Always meant to check him out further, thanks for reminding me! Good timing actually as I'm working hard trying to get my pick playing chops together. Any suggestions which albums to hear first? It's disappointing that Squier discontinued his sig P bass. Really fancied one in the cream..

All of the above, but my fave is this live sesh in Bremen, Germany 1974. Paul Jackson in particular is killin it here.. http://youtu.be/GAlejqkd-gg

[quote name='timhiggins' timestamp='1484036762' post='3212040'] I think this is one of the funkiest things ever cut only trouble is its the Headhunters without Herbie ! http://youtu.be/mzifRDyPtd0 [/quote] He did produce it though!

Well done! Nice you got to a/b it to be sure too. 👍