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    *Sold* Celinder J Classic 4 *Sold*

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    [quote name='SpinalTap' post='960056' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:58 PM']Hi Jim!

    Actually, I just played it the last couple of months. :)
    Hope to do the refinish next month, and have it back before the end of the year.

    Will keep you updated, when I have some pictures of the restoration.[/quote]

    Yes please do send the pics when it's all finished - VERY keen to see those!
    In the meantime have a little...bump!

    Herb Alpert - BBC4

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by 99ster

    BBC4 - Herb's bass player with THE black P Bass - matching headstock, [b]black painted neck[/b]. There it is - mythical & legendary. Never seen such clear footage of it before. Wow.

    edit: found it [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vp6CsgncKw"]on YouTube[/url]
    :)

    Wilco / John Stirratt @ Newcastle Academy

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='wateroftyne' post='959246' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:08 AM']Hi all

    Went to see Wilco t'other night... the Academy is sonically an awful room, but I sacrificed acoustics for atmosphere and I stood towards the front anyway.

    Bloody great... what a band. Tweedy is quite a happy chap these days.

    As ever, John Stirratt was excellent. He used pretty much his usual set-up:

    Lakland Glaub w/ Dark Star > Avalon DI > Schroeder (not that Schroeder!) tube head > into two silver-cloth Ampeg 4x10s, stood side-by-side.

    No mic on the cab, just DI, and it was PHAT AND GROWLEEEE.

    One of the best gigs ever. That is all.[/quote]



    Nice one. Wilco have to be THE best live band in the world at the moment.
    I didn't want to know that Schroeder had built Stirrat a bass head though - their guitar amps are legends. That must be incredible & will generate epic GAS!

    Hadn't seen this before

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by 99ster

    It's [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marvin-Gaye-Thing-Performance-1964-1981/dp/B000EMSJ6G/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1284643243&sr=1-3"]available on DVD[/url] ...
    :)

    What's tantalizing is...they must have filmed this complete gig!

    Thinking about giving flats a go

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    [quote name='EssentialTension' post='939053' date='Aug 28 2010, 09:51 PM']Me too. La Bellas on the fretted P and J, Thomastiks on the fretless P, and Pyramid Golds on my Decade.[/quote]

    I found LaBellas to be too high tension for me (the Jamerson ones I think they were) - are the Pyramid Golds lower tension???
    Thanks.

    I thought we were a bunch to spend a lot on gear...

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by 99ster

    [quote name='umph' post='939594' date='Aug 29 2010, 09:00 PM']matchless make bass amps to. Their amps really are the dogs bollocks though, i've done some clones that sound very nice.[/quote]

    Do you mean a 'Matchless Thunderchief' 200W head? Aren't they custom order only?
    Would love to try one of those out...! Goodness knows what one would cost to get made.
    [attachment=57720:matchles...00_front.JPG]

    And there was a flip-top B-15 copy called a Thunderman...? Also had an incredible reputation & huge price.
    [attachment=57719:130U_4870_front.jpg]
    [attachment=57721:Trio.JPG]

    Mmmmm...hand-made valve amps!
    :)

    And as for this little lot!
    [attachment=57784:eddie_du...derchief.jpg]
    I feel...dizzy!

    Kings of Leon using hand-made British Amps

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    [quote name='umph' post='924820' date='Aug 14 2010, 12:37 PM']yeah i do agree with that, and he's got an obvious eye for quality. My main gripe with doing that though is that it all comes down to marketing hype and the bassman circuit while sounding good isn't the most flexible or well designed of circuits it's essentially the best they could do on a budget.[/quote]

    And a big budget at that - he charges £3.5K for one of those bass heads + 4x10. :)

    Today I played Herbie Flower's 1959 Jazz Bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='King Tut' post='917623' date='Aug 7 2010, 01:34 AM']Let's not get hung up on the semantics of 'prototype'! It's about herbie's bass and him letting the OP play it. Herbie says it's a 'prototype' - that's enough for me![/quote]

    +1
    Herbie is a gentleman & a legend & if he says he bought it in October 1959 then that's good enough for me too.

    Inspire me please!

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='Beedster' post='910756' date='Jul 30 2010, 10:14 PM']Buy an upright, no joke, it's changed my views on bass. My electric playing has also evolved significantly as a result

    C[/quote]

    +1

    Saw Feeder earlier...

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='Doddy' post='912438' date='Aug 2 2010, 03:00 AM']I think they are custom jobs by a Japanese company called Combat.[/quote]


    Spot-on - all his basses are custom made for him by [url="http://www.combat-guitars.com/"]Combat Guitars[/url] Tokyo

    New vintage Fender bass book

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='BurritoBass' post='906516' date='Jul 26 2010, 11:54 PM']I've ordered too from that link so cheers. It said usually despatches in 24hrs but once I paid it shifted to "should despatch in 2-5 days". Fingers crossed[/quote]

    I think I ordered it on Thursday or Friday of last week & it arrived on Monday...

    New vintage Fender bass book

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I gave up trying to get this through Amazon (had to email them to request they cancel the order even though their system was still saying it's not available until October) - [url="http://www.snazal.com/buy-online-1574242547.html"]and got the book easily from here[/url] and cheaper than from Amazon. It arrived today...
    :)

    Garry Beers of INXS - selling his basses

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='Linus27' post='900037' date='Jul 20 2010, 02:00 PM']Bugger, one of my favourite bassists. Not sure I should look. I remember he had a gorgeous deep red/black sunburts precision that he played a lot around the mid 80's. I must resist looking :)[/quote]


    That sounds like the '72 P bass that's up for sale....
    :rolleyes:

    Garry Beers of INXS - selling his basses

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='AndyTravis' post='900079' date='Jul 20 2010, 02:30 PM']that Plexi Precision is mega. I'd own that in a hearbeat - Charlie Jones used one of thesewith Page and Plant, as well as Goldfrapp, think his wa a Nightingale though, rather than Fender.

    I now wan't a Plexi Precision Bass.[/quote]


    Charlie Jones' plexi P Bass was custom made for him by [url="http://www.crimsonguitars.co.uk"]Crimson Guitars[/url] - I think you can buy them as 'Signature' model from Crimson

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