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    [quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1366648454' post='2055451'] I got one of these as a spare...great bass when you compare it with the price. Recorded a YT clip with it. Only sold it because I got my Lefay back. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xd2394nEYs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xd2394nEYs[/url] [/quote] That was you! Your vid was one of the reasons I checked one out in the first place! Great playing man. Just goes to show you don't need to spend a fortune to sound great
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    Cheers both! When I get some more time (and money) on my hands again I would have no hesitation getting another. But for now...
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    [attachment=133186:20130421_102500.jpg][attachment=133183:20130421_102922.jpg][attachment=133182:20130421_102906.jpg] [attachment=133181:20130421_102834.jpg] Hi there. Up for sale is my Vintage Icon Jaco fretless. I bought it in September last year but it's had very little use due a new baby arriving so it has never even left the house in this time. I've actually only amped it up a couple of times as it's been mainly used as my "on the couch" bass and since New Year it has been relegated to just being hung up on the wall which makes it a very expensive ornament that I don't need really and the cash is needed elsewhere now. Anyways it is a really great bass for the money and the neck feels lovely, really fast and slim with as far as I can tell the same dimensions as a real early 60's jazz. It has a real rosewood fingerboard and the Wilkinson hardware is absolutely bombproof. it is of course finished in the relic way which is ok for an instrument in this price range. I did actually go shopping for a Squier Vintage Modified fretless when I picked this up but overall I found this Vintage Icon to be better quality all round. The tuners on the Squier felt a bit flimsy to me but they are heavy duty on the Icon. Something I knew I wouldn't have to upgrade. Also, the real rosewood fingerboard was a selling point to me rather than the ebonal on the Squier. Soundwise it is very nice with the 60's spec Wilkinson pickups doing the job well enough for me not to want to upgrade. A few things worth a mention: Upon buying this bass I immediately installed a set of Fender flats which I always use on my basses and which of course protects the fingerboard from any roundwound snail trails as the rosewood board is bare (no boat epoxy here a'la Jaco!) although I did give it a rub down with some boiled linseed oil as it was very dry and thirsty looking when I got it. It's fine now. Another thing I did was to take some very fine wet and dry paper and gently rubbed the high gloss face of the headstock as it to me just looked silly (the sides and back of the headstock/neck are reliced) and stood out next to the overall reliced appearance of the rest of the bass. looks better now I reckon. Also I did the same to the pickup covers (which were not only shiny and new but had two very stand-out chrome Wilkinson logos on them which looked naff to me) for the very same reasons. There are a couple of tiny scratches on the back of the bass body that I must have done whilst placing it down at some point but they're only on the top coat and superficial and hey it's a relic so they don't stand out of course but I thought I'd mention them. Also it will come without a case but will be packed very securely. All in all a fantastic fretless for the money. £150 for those in the Cardiff area or £160 posted anywhere in the UK (mainland) Cheers, Si. (I have a feedback thread to check out)
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    [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1366552586' post='2053865'] Good afternoon, Karl... Being something of a minimalist, myself, I think I would adopt the 'volume knob' approach, starting the set with the volume backed off by about 20%, and turning up to full for the solo spots. One could also 'dig in' a tad harder, which can be increase enough, sometimes. Hope this helps. [/quote] Here's your solution and it won't cost you a penny. He means the vol knob on your bass not the amp. Just turn your bass's vol down a bit, turn the amp up a bit to get your regular level. When your solo bits come up just turn your bass's vol knob up. Easy
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player Did somebody here order some silly? The link above sums it all up for me...
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    You say you're not desperate for the cash value of one of your basses right now, so don't sell! Take the bass you were going to sell and stash it away somewhere in the house where you won't see it everyday. Pretend it's gone and play the poo out of the remaining bass. Learn some songs you always meant to that are nothing like what you play in the covers band. Re-inspire yourself. Then after a few months or more you will rediscover your other bass and be pleasantly surprised, very glad you didn't sell it and it will feel like a NBD and it won't cost you a penny! I did this once, it works!
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    The USA Jaco artist bass was also offered as a fretted model for a very short time when they were first released. I had the pleasure of playing one in Crane's in Cardiff many years ago. The thing played itself and to this day is still the best bass I have ever played. It was up for £1650 in 2004 and had been on the shop wall for a long time even back then. I've only seen one other come up for sale and that was on the Australian ebay the following year. Very rare unfortunately as Jaco did play fretted too. Shame Fender shelved that one.
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    No worries, good luck with the sale! Cheers, Simon.
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    Hi there. Fancy trading for a never gigged Vintage V96 Icon fretless? It's the "Jaco relic" J-bass model. They usually go for the same price as you've listed your bass at. I like it but never use it as I play upright mainly and I'm after a backup P-bass right now. Cheers, Simon.
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    Don't use Nitromors! I stripped a Ric 4001 many years ago (like a nob) and all the plastic body binding came off and was too damaged to put back on. Right effin nightmare.
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    http://www.bassstringsonline.com/Medium-Scale-Flatwound-Bass-Strings_c_915.html Try Jason at Bassstringsonline. He's a top bloke and a regular on talkbass. Ok he's based in the states but he's sorted me out a few times by splitting packs and sending me single strings. Takes about 10-12 days delivery time and is no more expensive than shopping here including payment for postage, sometimes cheaper. He'll have what you want in stock and will offer great advice if you contact him directly. Again, you can shop with confidence. Edit: ps I've never had to pay any duty either. His total is THE total.
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    [quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1364775530' post='2030838'] Blimey this thread takes me back! Forgot to update that after a couple of weeks of tweaking with polepiece heights I got a really nice sound out of them, it's been my main gigging bass since! Had no idea about the pot swap thing though, cheers for the heads up, will grab some off ebay now -even more bite/growl ain't something I'm going to turn down! [/quote] Cool! Hey, another thing to consider if you're gonna upgrade the pots (I recommend CTS pots as they are really good quality) is that if you change the cap from .047uf to .1uf you will be able to roll off that bite if needed to make your bass even more versatile (think phat and massively dubby - Not completely neccesary but Dimarzio suggests experimenting with this too). Have fun!
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    Just been searching for info on pickup height and came across this thread. Thought I might add that the Dimarzio model P does sound a bit muddy and dark if you just drop the pup in. You need to change the vol and tone pots to 500k's from the stock 250k pots to get the growl and bite that they are capable of. Brightens things up. Dimarzio actually recommends this. Just saying incase someone finds this thread in a search and gets put off. Dimarzios rock!
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    I thought this was going to be about some classic kinky bassline from a Frankie Howerd film.
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    [quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1362857427' post='2005477'] From Ms. Kaye's website: [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#804000"]"Beginning in 1969, she wrote her first of many bass tutoring books, "How To Play The Electric Bass" [b]effectively changing the name of Fender Bass to Electric Bass [/b]and began teaching 100s of Electric Bass students, many of them now famous themselves."[/color][/size][/font] [size=4][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Funny that - I bought an Electric Bass in Germany in 1963, at least that's what I asked for in the shop and I came out with a Hofner Bass. [/font][/size] [/quote] Paul? Is that you?
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    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nBGQ1xVroqk Yes I agree wholeheartedly regarding Scott Thunes musical brilliance. Amazing improviser. Have either of you read Thomas Wictor's book, "In Cold Sweat - Interviews with really Scary Musicians"? Scott Thunes (whose interview gets nearly half the book) basically opens up his heart regarding what transpired on Frank's ill-fated '88 tour. I feel after reading it that he was quite hard done by considering that musically he did the job exactly as he was employed to do - ie not to be the traditional 'bass player' (this is explained in the book as one of the reasons people didn't like him as in he didn't support the band in their expected way but hey, Frank was the boss right?) Yes I can imagine his abrupt personality did him no favours but I did really warm to his suffer no fools outlook. I mean, why should any of us? His interview is a great read and I found it to be very insightful and inspiring about music in general. It really is a great shame Frank never toured again after his experience in '88 but I think they (his band that is) all played a part in it's demise. I don't feel Scott Thunes deserves to take the rap for it on his own. Check out the book if you can. Anyhoo, Thunes is the reason I now play a P-bass - incredible tone, attack, note choices...a genius in his own right in my opinion, so perfect for Frank's music (who I love for his entire musical output) Check out the link at the top of this post to see the band of '88 before it all went tits up... Frank's really pushing the compositional boundaries here. Amazing stuff!
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    Good show chaps! I am soon going to have an attic clear-out. If I find anything basschattable I fancy doing the same. Great idea!
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    If you can't decide and are open to buying something new, how about a *insert manufacturer of choice* 5 string P-bass? Job done.
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    [quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1363945870' post='2019829'] Em, John was on doing hard drugs, Flea was smoking some dope, the others were clean. This is pretty much the end of their drug fuelled era. apart from John, he went really mad with drugs after this. I have this on DVD. It's pretty cool. [/quote] Soz to be a geek but I've read different interviews by both John and Flea about this time and they say they were both hitting the bong hard with just weed at the time and they were really tight together as friends at this point. The tightness of the grooving on the album says the same I reckon. It was after John quit the band that he took a nose-dive into the heavy stuff. I've watched Funky Monks at least once a year since it was first released. If ever I find myself down in a rut creatively, this never fails to get the ju-ju flowing again
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    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkSsapYYsA Check this vid out. I was playing for 22 years and getting probs like have been mentioned here. Saw this and it's helped me out no end. No cramps anymore! It's only 8 minutes of your time...
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    Try the Bass Centre or the Bass Gallery I say.
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    I stopped buying it a while back because there was always annoying bits missing from articles or sometimes I would be reading an article, turn the page and boom! it's gone. The last one I bought was the Stanley Clarke interview issue. Great reading his opinions on everything music, then Jaco's name comes up and Stanley is just about to elaborate further about his time spent with him that I start leaning forward, interest completely piqued to see what this giant of bass guitar innovation thinks about the other when all it reads is "Jaco was..." then nothing! A whole juicy paragraph missing! Probably one of the most exclusive pieces of info that magazine will ever have, and it totally goes unoticed that someone forgot to bloody put it in! Don't they have anybody read the mag cover to cover before it goes to print? It's such a shame as I love to sit down with a good mag and chill (Mojo for instance is always inspiring) but these days when you're up against the internet, you gotta be bang on. I felt BGM was a frustrating read for a while but that Stanley cover issue took the biscuit and I won't spend my hard-earned on it again.
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    I love Andy Rouke, met him once at a Smiths convention in Manchester in '89. Very nice bloke indeed. I was a bit afraid to approach him at first as I was only 17 but he was ace and signed a The Boy With A Thorn In His Side poster for me (wish I knew where it was these days!) He formed the short lived "Freebass" with Mani and Peter Hook about 3 years ago before moving to New York to be a DJ last I heard.
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