miles'tone

[quote name='anzoid' timestamp='1486119794' post='3229354'] Don't know much about the BC Blockhead but if you're looking for a cheap Jazz then check out the Squier CV in Inca Silver - http://www.kennysmusic.co.uk/squier-classic-vibe-60s-jazz-bass-inca-silver - that is the best price I've seen it at in the UK. I paid nearly £80 more for mine and love it to bits, awesome quality for the money and sounds very very good. [/quote] The Inca silver CV Jazz really is a thing of beauty. To my eyes it's the coolest looking Jazz right now.

[quote name='Johnny Wishbone' timestamp='1485987459' post='3228387'] Found this on YouTube a while back. I pretty much learned to play bass by working my way through this album, so all these years later it's great to hear Flea's masterpiece in isolation, and also interesting to pick out some things I'd never noticed. The octaver on "If You Have To Ask" was a particular surprise! [/quote] Isn't it. It sounds surprisingly to me like there's a bit of fretless on the 'middle 8' of Mellowship Slinky in B Major too! Ahh kids today.. They don't know how lucky they are with all this YouTube/online learning malarkey. In 1992 I was trying to learn all this off a vinyl record on a crap Dixons midi player! 🙇

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1485987381' post='3228386'] I can't thank you enough for this! [/quote] My pleasure! 🤘

http://youtu.be/MYqxHtAEIUA Forgive me if this has been posted before (I'd be surprised if it hasn't tbh). In the "album you know inside out.."thread, many people cited BSSM as that album. Thought many would be interested in this then. I've been playing Breaking The Girl for many years in a band and a bit incorrect as it turns out! Enjoy!

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1485966761' post='3228110'] Harharharharharhar. Who do you think I am? Jack Horner? [/quote] Jack Hohner? Not a tug bar in sight anyway! 😋

Maybe a trainee at well known luthier carried out your refret. Maybe the work done wasn't seen by the luthier before you received it back this time for some reason. Don't name and shame before you at least try and talk to the company yourself. You have your present luthier to maybe have a friendly chat with well known luthier about it also if it comes to it. Stay civil and give people a chance. Things happen and it may be resolved easily.

[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.