pete.young

I've finally realised that the project for which I've been quietly accumulating bits is never going to happen, so I've got some bits to clear out.

Fender Licensed Jazz neck by Mighty Mite, maple with maple fingerboard and black dot markers. As new condition, still has the original label. [b]SOLD[/b]

Luxe guitars Jazz stack-knob control plate, all assembled and ready to fit - [b]SOLD[/b]

Fender US Precision pickup, screws included. - bought this from Jebo1 to fit to my BB800 and never got a round tuit - £25 shipped

Fender MIJ Jazz pickups neck + bridge + screws - also from Jebo1 - [b]SOLD[/b]

Unbranded generic Stingray-type 4-string pickup - [b]SOLD[/b]

Fender neck plate, inscribed Fender , Coronado USA including screws - £10 shipped

Fender-pattern 4-string bridge - £10 shipped

Webstrings Detroit Bass Stainless Steel Medium Roundwounds - 45-65-80-100-130 - [b]SOLD[/b]

White Fender Jazz S1 scratchplate - £15 shipped

[quote name='spinynorman' post='247043' date='Jul 24 2008, 05:00 PM']I think this is the first strings thread I've seen where 90% of the replies didn't say TI Jazz Flats.[/quote]

TI Jazz Flats are great, I've got a set on my Precision! I love them, but I can see that they're not going to be to everyone's taste.

I use Webstrings detroit nickel for cooking strings - www.webstrings.com. I bought 3 sets and they worked out about 7 quid a set, though I'd be tempted to follow that link posted earlier and try some DRs for 10 quid a go, seems like you can't go wrong at that price.

Couple of gigs coming up for the covers band I'm in, Crossover [url="http://www.crossoverband.co.uk/"]http://www.crossoverband.co.uk/[/url]

Thursday 31st July Milestone, Ipswich
Saturday 2nd August Swan, Long Melford

Wherever this thread belongs, it isn't in this forum.

[quote name='NJW' post='246291' date='Jul 23 2008, 05:58 PM']go on go on, please dont make me put this on ebay [/quote]
Is it Jazz width at the nut or Precision?

[quote name='Clarky' post='242228' date='Jul 17 2008, 10:25 PM']You could get the bass a bit cheaper by going to the Fender Ishibashi website but then you have the complications of communicating your order, dealing in Yen and paying the customs charges (c.20%) yourself. Far simpler to pay slightly more and let Guitaremporium deal with all that.[/quote]

Ishibashi no longer sell to UK customers direct, after Fender turned the thumbscrews.
[quote]One thing I will add is that MIA fenders are made of a wood (Alder) that is generally preferred to the basswood which Fender Japan use in their standard models. However I have also read that basswood varies immensely and that Fender Japan tend to use a high quality densely-grained basswood that has excellent tonal properties. Can't say that I ever noticed any tonal shortcomings with either of my CIJ Fender P's.[/quote]

There are two kinds of Japanese Fenders. The export variety have basswod bodies and hardware from i know not where. The 'Not For Export' models have alder or ash bodies and US pickups, and are generally built to a very high standard of quality. You might like to talk to John Blackman of Far East Guitars and see what he has in stock - he imports very low mileage not-for-exports and the one I have looks new. He seems to have a nice '57 with a maple board at the moment, if that's your thing.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='242408' date='Jul 18 2008, 09:39 AM']Captain Smith and Pocohontas my a***.

'Summertime' was written as light opera (Porgy and Bess) (and how you can call someone a contemporary musician when he died in 1937 is beyond me ).[/quote]

Compared to some of the stuff I like to play, he's still the new kid on the block :-)

The last couple of times I've tried to use 'Fast Reply' it comes up 404 with the following error:

The requested URL /qr_open was not found on this server.

Any ideas?

[quote name='pete.young' post='241343' date='Jul 16 2008, 10:55 PM']PM about to be sent

Pete[/quote]
PM sent last night. Garry, are you still out there??

[quote name='steviedee' post='240511' date='Jul 16 2008, 12:01 AM']And Aargh who is Hobgoblin??[/quote]
These guys:

[url="http://www.hobgoblin.co.uk/"]http://www.hobgoblin.co.uk/[/url]

The last time I was in Denmark St. Macaris had a guitarron in the basement with a notice on it which said "no we dont' know how to tune it either"
Tuning is A D G C E A (top A is pitched between the C and the E).

Lone Star Guitars make decent instruments : I have a Columbian Tiple made by them and the quality is excellent, solid spruce top. Didn't cost a lot because of the exchange rate.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='240952' date='Jul 16 2008, 03:23 PM']The offending tunes are:

Fever
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Canteloupe Island
Watermelon Man
Summertime
Mac The Knife
Tenor Madness[/quote]

Uh-oh. So much for my jazz credentials: the only one on this list I could play from a standing start is Summertime, and I don't care how many abysmal renditions you might hear at the heart it's a brilliant piece of writing by one of the all-time-greats of the contemporary music scene.

I kinda see what you're driving at. Your gripe is not with the songs but the useless and deluded people who think that all it takes is bowler hats, waistcoats and jumping up and down yelling "shoot that tiger"! My grandad used to say there's no such thing as a bad tune, only bad musicians.

Anyway Bilbo, with the kind of stuff you're knocking out on a regular basis in the Mar Azul I'm surprised that you've got any time for playing jazz ;-) Say Hi to Gione for me.

[quote name='Oscar South' post='241370' date='Jul 16 2008, 11:14 PM']I occasionally sub as bassist for a local Ceilidh band (gig coming up actually), the way this band operates is that the Melodeon player just plays tunes and everyone else plays along by ear, its not too difficult and the only real challenge is making sure you play the same as the guitarist (as the tunes can often be harmonised in a few different ways). I'm not sure how the regular bassist plays really as I've not been to any of their gigs that I didn't play at. The style doesn't really invite a very 'busy' bass role, my personnel approach consists of keeping a pretty even beat most of the time without much variation, broken up occasionally with a bit of Mccartney-Mingus-esque hybrid double time style walking (if you can imagine it ) on the more 'intense' parts and sometimes joining the melody in unison/parallel octaves.

It just struck my however that apart from taking a little from Dave Pegg, I've really never looked at any reference point, what approach does anyone else who plays in the style take?[/quote]

Get yourself a copy of 20 Golden Tie-Slackeners by the Oyster Band, from www.oysterband.co.uk . This is a master-class in ceilidh bass playing by the legendary Iain Kearey, and in English ceilidh music in general. There's a lot more to it than just following the guitarist. And by god does it make you want to get up and dance! For something more current, Rick Kemp (yes, him of Steeleye fame) is currently playing with Whapweasel, who are my favourite current band. They have a number of CDs and are excellent live.

Bellowhead also have some great bass lines, played on Tuba rather than bass guitar.

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='240421' date='Jul 15 2008, 10:09 PM']Cheers



Any takers?

Garry[/quote]

PM about to be sent

Pete

My Immortal, Evanescence.

It's about time for the classic wedding story - the bride decided that she'd like to go out of the church to 'Robin Hood', thinking of the Bryan Adams number that we all know and love. No problem, says the organist.

As they walk down the aisle at the end of the service , the organ strikes up:

"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the glen.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men,
Feared by the bad, loved by the good,
Robin Hood ..."

[quote name='tauzero' post='237435' date='Jul 11 2008, 04:40 PM']Not a film, a TV series - "Edge of Darkness" by Kamen and Clapton.[/quote]
Oh yes. I still have this on very clunky video tape somewhere. Probably the best thing Clapton's ever done ;-)

Still talking TV, John Tams deserves a mention for his very authentic contributions to the Sharpe series.

All Ry Cooder's scores have something going for them, Southern Comfort, Long Riders, Johnnie Handsome, Across the Border, Paris Texas, and Buena Vista Social Club.

Our older readers might recall The Battle Of Britain, a classic classic march Aces High and some of William Walton's finest work.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='239392' date='Jul 14 2008, 06:31 PM']Jakebass isn't a pro. He just likes to claim he is.

I've seem him down Tonbridge Market flogging lighters: 3 for a pound.

I wouldn't mind but their faulty and leak as soon as you get them home.[/quote]
Sheer class. BBC, don't ever change.

The trouble is that it's all very well having principles, but the market will decide, and the people running the venues are in an amazingly strong position.

I think the decline is gradual. My grandfather was a pro musician in the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and those dudes made good money because they were in demand. Now everything's a commodity, people expect to get their music for nothing and it's filtering down to the live music scene. Ultimately we're all going to end up as folk musicians, playing what we want to play. After all, if there's no money, what incentive is there to compromise on what you want to play?

[quote name='pete.young' post='237825' date='Jul 12 2008, 10:22 AM']Bump. Still available.[/quote]
No it isn't! Traded. Thanks for all the interest.

Bump. Still available.

[quote name='Mr Bassman' post='229428' date='Jun 30 2008, 01:38 AM'][attachment=10131:moped.jpg]

Who needs a car?
unless of course youre two tyred![/quote]

Ye Gods! An NSU Quickly. I had one just like that in 1975. No worry about air resistance, it didn't go fast enough to generate any!

My upright fits in the back of my A6 Avant if I fold half the back seat down, and doesn't stick inbetween the front seat backs.

Pete

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='229726' date='Jun 30 2008, 02:13 PM'][b]I WILL SURVIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!![/b][/quote]
ROFL!

No doubt you will. Was there something in particular that prompted this outburst, or was it just a general comment on Live, the Universe etc?

[quote name='OldGit' post='232476' date='Jul 4 2008, 09:36 AM']If it hangs to the left like the T'birds that would help I guess ...
Where are you, Pete [/quote]
Ipswich, unfortunately.

[quote name='OldGit' post='231688' date='Jul 2 2008, 11:48 PM']Anyone owned played or seen a Gibson / Epiphone flying V bass in the flesh ??

Do they neck dive and roll away from one's body as the T'birds do?
Any other points ? I've never played a Gibson bass that sounded nice to my ears, or "fitted", especially Thunderbirds ... but I have a very long held gas yearning for a Flying V ever since I saw Jim Lea in Slade playing one in the 1970s ....


Just wondered ..[/quote]

I've got an Epiphone. Or rather, my son has, but since he never plays it ...

It doesn't suffer from any noticeable neck dive. It makes a good thumpy sound and works quite well with my all-valve Burman. It's a 32" scale so good for smaller hands.

It just fits in the big Tribal Planet gig bag.

[quote name='BigBeatNut' post='228719' date='Jun 28 2008, 09:10 PM']Or, how small do YOU go ?[/quote]

It used to fit quite comfortably in my 1955 Austin A30, with the front passenger seat folded up. There was even room for a drumkit in the boot and a drummer in the back seat!

The Triumph Spitfire was somewhat less successful.

[quote name='Moose' post='219221' date='Jun 15 2008, 02:32 PM']Bring me to Life by Evanescence. [/quote]

Yes, we have that one in our set. We also have My Immortal nailed, mainly thanks to have a brilliant keyboard player. What an extraordinary song.

I've been working on 'It's my life' by No Doubt. Prolly a synth line originally but it falls nicely under the old fingers.

I'd be inclined to do as much cab swapping as you can without switching it off. You'll probably also need to make sure you don't have a combination of cabs that gives you less than 4 Ohms total load - I'm not familiar with the SVT-II but it would be surprising if it did run down to 2 ohms.

I'd also back the gain off to zero before swapping any cables round.