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    Problematic creators and their music

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    22 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

     

    According to the stories he healed the sick, fed the hungry and helped the poor so basically another socialist woke lunatic. Apparently rewrote the rules of the old testament as well WHICH IS YET MORE CANCEL CULTURE, WHY DO THE WOKES EDIT AND ERASE ARE HISTORY?!!?!?!!

    I thought he was the one they tried to cancel. Kind of backfired on them though if I recall 😄

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    Confused noob in need of some reason. (Or help with setup.)

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    Hello! You just need to turn the trussrod nut a quarter turn anti clockwise with an Allen key. Make sure you de-tune your strings until they're quite slack first though, to take the tension off the neck (not so slack that they are completely undone though).

    Once you've loosened the trussrod by that quarter turn, tune your bass back up to pitch. You will now have a  little relief in your neck and the buzzing will hopefully be taken care of. Leave it for a day or so before you're tempted to do anymore adjusting as it may take that long to settle in fully. Hopefully you'll be good to go just by following the above.

     

    Take it one day at a time, don't beat yourself up and enjoy the ride. It's a bloody fun one! 👊

    You have £300 and you HAVE to buy a new bass today…..

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    2 hours ago, ezbass said:

    £300 doesn’t get much from a physical store, otherwise Thomann and an HB of some sort would be in play. It would need to playable and reliable straight out of the box and that shouts Yamaha to me, so a TRBX of some description, probably this one…

     

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    At £259 I reckon that’d do very nicely.

    This exactly the bass that came to mind!

    I played one in a shop and it was a good bass. The mango wood looks nicer again in real life.

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    How old were you when you did your first gig?

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    11 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

    Now that I'd like to see pics / footage of... 

    Me too. Unfortunately it was 1993 so no smart phones and everyone was too poor to own a camera. 

    Also it was in the roughest pub in Rhyl that was full of all the types that were barred from everywhere else. I remember thinking at the time that we could actually die tonight!

    We opened with a fast cocktail jazz rendition of the Star Wars theme and everyone rushed towards the stage. I was actually shocked that they didn't attack us but instead, everyone stated cheering and freaky dancing with huge grins and laughter. They got it.

    It was right there that the power of music and spectacle was revealed to me.

    We quickly followed with our turbo flamenco number,

    El Gringo - Master Of The Bingo.

     

    I also realise that some things are best remembered simply in our memories! 😂

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    How old were you when you did your first gig?

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    21. 2 years after I first started learning.

    The Magnificent Flying Sorcerers - original band playing Welsh flamenco cocktail jazz with a reggae twist. Dressed as little grey aliens in boiler suits. Except we were all tall and painted blue. With halved ping pong ball eyes held on with elastic that slowly tried to suck out our eyeballs as the set progressed.

     

    I still can't fathom why we didn't make it.

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    GASsed but skint

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    15 minutes ago, Rayman said:

    Just a little heads up really for the skint among us, and maybe some younger players who can't afford the expensive gear, but still suffer from THE FEVER that curses us all..... the need for more stuff.

     

    You don't have to have a healthy bank account, all you need is a healthy love for the bass and the music.

     

    I've spent the weekend playing my basses, doing some tweaking and just basically having time with them.

     

    As much as I adore my Reverend for its perfect tone and playability and my Warwick for how comfortable it is, I would still argue that my two Sunn Mustangs are still my favourite basses. One of them was 50 quid, the other, I really pushed the boat out and spent a ton, Admittedly, I dropped a new loom into each at an additional cost of about £30 each, but other than that they're stock.... tuners, bridge, pickup etc are absolutely fine as they are, and these were budget basses when they were new. In my experience, of having many P basses, you won't find better ones at any price IMO. The "cheap" pickups in these (the original cream coloured ones) are really awesome, especially with a decent loom in there. Don't waste your hard earned on "upgrades" (schmupgrades)

     

    My point..... you can have GAS, and you can find great and very competent instruments for affordable prices. Your Squiers, Yamahas, Ibanez' etc that cost a hundred quid on Ebay are absolutely awesome as they are. Make them your own, set them up (or get it set up) to how you like them and get going. Don't get depressed dreaming about that Dingwall, the funk's in the fingers not the lump of wood they're holding. Don't get depressed watching Scott Devine teaching his students on silly expensive instruments that many of us can't afford, just love the gear you can afford, and have fun. 

     

     

     

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    Vintage Fenders

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    4 hours ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

     

     

    Maybe it's a quality control stamp, that they'd like to have tracable after the instrument had been finished. Funny that none seems to know for sure..

     

     

    Only Eduardo Sanchez knew what he was thinking at the time 🤔 🤷‍♂️

    Vintage Fenders

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    1 minute ago, Belka said:

    Those tuners are normal for a '66. Lollipops started appearing on Jazz basses in 1965 and were standard for '66-67, but they showed up on P basses later, '67-68. I have no idea about the seller but that bass looks like a genuine '66 P bass in all respects. Nothing looks dodgy/fake at all.

    The bass looks fabulous and legit to me. Not sure I trust the seller though. As always, I could be completely wrong!

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