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[quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1420058587' post='2645325'] I got this Am. Std. Precision for a last new bass for my 2014 year. I really like the Tort PG on this one. [/quote] Beautiful looking bass, congratulations! Nice start to the year The tort guard does look really sweet too.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1420156844' post='2646306'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/252320-i-need-more-gigs-so-i-made-a-video"]Cheers! Here's a clip...[/url] [/quote] Excellent! Wow man that's a pretty healthy visual C.V. you have there (I love that hundred mile an hour version of The Rock Island Line!) Great footage, I hope it keeps your phone ringing - sure it will. Nice work chap! \m/

I've done it, but not as a conscious decision. It's just ended up that way. I sold my Fender American Standard Jazz to fund a custom P build, but time, funds and two babies arriving put the skids on that. Meanwhile, I made the move to 5 strings and had a nice Yamaha BB 5er for a bit last year. But I missed the classic Fender look and feel. I was gassing like hell for a Fender USA Standard Precision 5 but there was no way I could get near the funds required so I bought the Squier VM P5 to see me through for a couple of years until I could afford "the real thing". Bought the Squier new for £246 and was completely blown away by the quality of it. It really is a sweet bass to play, the neck profile is perfect, not too heavy (although I have modded it to make it lighter due to my crap old body - not the basses fault!). I've installed a USA pickup just because one came up for sale here for not much money - the bass didn't need it, I just can't help myself! Now I have a bass that I can't put down and it's so inspiring to play. It really is a brilliant P bass. I have given up gassing for the Fender P5 now as I can't justify spending a further grand on one when I just don't need to.

This: The Doors - L.A. Woman - HQ (official music video): http://youtu.be/pDlx-ZUj9qs I was noisily and very happily hacking along to this last night whilst merrily off my t!ts

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1420151785' post='2646240'] Ruby is lovely. I've been lucky enough to back her, and she's absolutely dynamite. [/quote] Wow! Good on you WOT!

I've been a fan of Ruby Turner ever since catching Jools and his R&B Orchestra at the Albert Hall a few years ago. It was a good night all round, but when Ruby let rip I had goosebumps from my cheeks to my toes! You can't argue with that, it eirher happens or it doesn't. I was astonished by her talent :)x

Revelation basses are an option. A few classic designs that come with Entwistle pickups and electronics so you know you won't need to upgrade those before you start: http://www.revelationguitars.co.uk

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1420127971' post='2645871'] 60s P? Aged white/blonde, rosewood neck, tort guard. Or washed-out sonic blue (over fiesta red), mint guard and rosewood neck (with ashtrays), Or you could go 70s and have Lake Placid Blue, rosewood neck, parchment guard (with ashtrays). Or Aged Oly White, black guard and one-piece maple neck. [/quote] +4

The Stranglers - Something Better Change Live 1977: http://youtu.be/CjRKAALxgQY This. He just always looked and sounded genuinely dangerous, it wasn't an act.

[quote name='red rooster' timestamp='1418734773' post='2632770'] well for me it was issues with my hands im 46 and used to climb indoors and out twice a week then through work i got white finger and carpel tunnel syndrome in my hands and wrists so had to stop with the climbing ,sure i do other things ive got rifles ,shotguns and do some sea fishing ive also got two girls who are learning music so weve a few guitars a piano,an accordian and various other bits and bobs lying round the house .Ive always liked the sound of the bass and seem to be able to pick it out of whatever i listen to so basically i bought one and ive been noodling on it ever since i play id daily it goes to work with me im not keen on learning songs tabs etc i enjoy learning the notes and scales and playing about with them ive been playing the major triads for a few days now and im enjoying them just messing and playing them in different orders i also go for lessons once a week with my 12 year old daughter ,she keeps me right and the best bit my hands feel better than they have in years sure its all down to the excercises and moving them about on the bass. [/quote] That's brilliant mate, keep it up! I think that sometimes the greatest payment that playing music brings can get lost with some people. That payment is the simple pleasure and "therapy from life" as I like to call it. Self inflicted life enhancement haha! Great you're getting your kids involved too. Nice one

Finding myself with no time to complete a project bass I was building, which left me with no electric bass to play, I bought on a whim from the BC classifieds (on a one in, one out basis) : In: Italia Rimini bass Yamaha BB415 Squier VM Precision 5 (bought new by me from Andertons) Out: The Italia and Yamaha. What I've learnt is that you don't need to spend a huge wedge to get a decent instrument, and that with good quality strings, a couple of mods and a very good professional setup, a reasonably inexpensive bass can be made to feel and sound like something really special. I wish I'd learnt this years ago, would have saved a small fortune!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1419311991' post='2638604'] There are a lot of great artists out there. However there's a very special something called "It" and you have to have to make it big. Joe Cocker defined what having "It" meant. I remember his historical performance at Woodstock. Amazing! RIP JC [/quote]

[quote name='Misdee' timestamp='1419795782' post='2642780'] Actually, AJ played and recorded primarily with a Fender Precision Bass right from the beginning of his career as a session musician in the early 1970's up until the late 1970's. All those tracks he did for Gamble and Huff such as the O'Jays were done with a P. He started using the Jazz Bass as his main instrument much later in the 70's. I've certainly never heard of him using a Stingray ever, so that is a new one on me! But I think that the answer to this riddle may well be that for some reason AJ is playing Hamish Stuart's Stingray. Hamish is playing guitar in Chaka's band and I recall seeing him playing an identical Stingray with AWB around 1979. I remember watching AJ play his Jazz Bass with Chaka Khan and it was very noticeable that he played right over the neck pickup and got a very P-like tone. He started using a six string on the Al Di Meola stuff in the very early 80's, but dissatisfied with the recorded tone of his Smith Bass he re-recorded most of Electric Rendezvous with his downtuned Jazz Bass. [/quote] Thanks for the info and helping to clear that up! Makes sense now, cheers

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1419806959' post='2642922'] This is what I've done [/quote] Ditto \m/

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1419782611' post='2642659'] I've seen exactly that problem on a USA Fender. It needed a coach screw and Araldite. [/quote] Yep same happened to me. Some cuts of alder can be really soft too.

Affinity is the entry level, then Vintage Modified and the Deluxe Actives are in the middle. Top is the Classic Vibe range. The prices reflect this I think.

Sex on a stick right there. Oof!

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1419720828' post='2642272'] I'm now thinking of selling my Cort and buying the Squire (Mmmmm - Olly white, dark brown tort guard and maple board). What do you make of the VM P5 then? [/quote] With the mods I made to personalise it, I can honestly say It's the best bass I've ever owned. Among others I've owned a Stingray, vintage Ric and gigged an American Standard jazz for a decade and I really do love this Squier more than all those others. Crazy huh?! It's just totally "me". It balances perfectly and is so resonant (even before the routing out of the wood under the pickguard - more so now). I restrung it with DR Lowriders nickels and that took the string to string balance and the B string response to another level. Highly recommended! Really interested in the HB P5 though, nice it's a P/J too. Again, it would make a great fretless.How DO they manage to sell them so cheaply though? Mind boggling really isn't it..

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1419718565' post='2642249'] Thanks again for the positive comments and I'm glad people can see the difference between doing this with my own bass with no intention to sell (if anything I suspect I've actually devalued it slightly) and doing it on a commercial scale. The replica kit car analogy sums it up pretty well for me. Again thanks. I trained as a draughtsman (old school - none of this newfangled CAD malarkey) so was quite comfortable drawing the outline of where to cut free hand. After that I just had to grit my teeth and go for it. The scary part is that I have next to no tools so this was all by hand using nothing more than a junior hacksaw, a coping saw, sandpaper and would you believe, a metal file! The weight question is one that always makes me smile. When people are complaining that their 8 1/2 lb bass is too heavy to play a whole gig with i think they should walk a mile in my shoes. My bubinga Corvette weighs in at a little over 14 lbs and my Cort A6 is probably not a million miles off that figure either! Personally I like the solid feel of a good weighty bass. Anyway, I just weighed it and whilst it feels feather light to me compared with my other basses, I suspect most would find it a bit heavy at 9lb 11oz. [/quote] 14lbs!! Blimey! Yes weights a factor for me due to back disc probs but 9lb 11 oz is pretty respectable for the design really. I've got a Squier VM P5 that weighed 9lb 8oz and with some lightweight tuners, bridge and routing out under the pickguard I got it down to 8lb 6oz and it feels and sounds good. I want a P5 fretless really so for the price these HBs are going for, it really is a great contender for a project. The pickups sound great as stock from what I can make out on YouTube. I have also weighed up going for a HB B-550f and save myself some work, which I may end up doing, but I do love fretless P basses! (Hmmm the plot thickens! ) Thanks for taking the time to weigh it painy, much appreciated. \m/ Enjoy your bass man

Very brave reshaping the headstock like that. Nice job! The pickguard looks much better now. I'm quite interested in getting a HB fiver, any ideas what it's weight is at all?

I am going to concentrate on writing and recording with a good old mate who used to play in a band with me a few years ago. He just bought the house right opposite mine so that bodes well! He's plays trumpet, piano, guitar and sings. Plus he's keen as mustard to get going and just for fun too, so I'm really looking forward to it! Other than that, I'm going to be digitizing a load of my "greatest hits" from bands I've been in over the last 20-odd years. Going to put the audio up on YouTube just so the music lives on before all those old tapes die! Been meaning to do this for a long time. Was going to put it on soundcloud but I've got so much it will cost me alot. Will be pleased when it's all done and up there. All the best for 2015 and everything you do y'all. Boomshanka!!

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[quote name='Ben Jamin' timestamp='1419466344' post='2640365'] Roy Mitchell Cardenas of 'Mutemath' I think these guys deserve a lot more recognition - lots of energy, so much so that the drummer has to gaffa-tape his headphones to his head. They're all a bit crazy but he somehow manages to hold the thing together. Can't go wrong with a P-bass! Here's one of their craziest live ones. Try their albums - there are some really great grooves. Darren King's an amazing drummer too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHHRBsTc7I [/quote] +1 for Mutemath! I was turned on to this vid via a thread about fretless Precisions. Love it: MUTEMATH - Obsolete - ROY upclose on fretless bass: http://youtu.be/9XpDOzDNLtc

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1419518383' post='2640610'] Ho, ho, ho - that mrs geoham is a one!! [/quote]