spinynorman

Does a cease and desist email have any legal force? Shouldn't it be on company headed paper? With a real signature?

EB3? You've got two volume controls, right, one for each pickup? If either volume control is at 0, neither pickup will work, even if the other one's volume is on 10. If you bring the control that's on 0 to 1, the pickup that is on 10 comes in full volume. So that would give you the effect you're describing. I'm not 100% certain this is how the long scale Epis work, but I'd have another play with the controls before swapping pots.

Great for White Room covers

Wasn't he in The Spinners?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1187307' date='Apr 4 2011, 12:25 AM']Personally I'm amazed that apart from the cords that need repacing, and its overall resonable condition, it appears to be neither accoustic nor a guiter. Or indeed an acustic gitar. Jon.[/quote] The strain of spelling acoustic guitar right was too much, after that he went to pieces. At least it's listed under Other Guitar, not Bass, or Lawn Mower. Nice anyway, probably a stradivarious.

We need a new category for this endless discussion of the merits of covers and originals bands. Lucklily for you all, I have a name for it - "Derivatives" bands. These are bands who write their own material, think they are breathtakingly original, but have "influences" even an old fogey like me can spot 10 seconds into the first song. Usually they have very little in the way of equipment, other than guitars and huge trays of effects. They never have more than 30 minutes of material, so have to roam in packs of 3 or 4, or do support slots for covers bands, who can fill the rest of 90 mins and provide backline and PA. They don't like to do covers, not because it compromises their integrity, but because they've seen other bands who do get to the end of their set, ask the audience what they'd like for an encore, and get screaming demands to repeat the cover. Obviously no one on Basschat would be in a derivatives band.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1184962' date='Apr 1 2011, 04:23 PM']God forbid! I am not querying whether an originals band, tribute band or covers band pull a crowd or whcih pulls the biggest, just whether or not cover band A can pull a bigger crowd than cover band B or vice versa. Most of the bands I see or hear about in Suffolk tend to play before the same audiences as everyone else. If the venue is full because there is a band in, it is pretty much full whether it is cover band A or B or C or D. The prime determinates on audience size are things like 'is there an international football game on tv tonight'? 'is the X Factor final on tonight'? 'is it a bank holiday tomorrow (our Sunday residency is always busier if there is no work tomorow - nothing to do with us!!)? I am sure there are exceptions but I haven't seen them. The Latin band I play in always pulls a massive audience at one local venue. That'll be because the audience are all Portuguese and we are the only band in the area with a Portuguese speaking singer singing the hits of the Portuguese diaspora!![/quote] I think what you're seeing is a test of the venues, rather than the bands. As has been said already, a venue that has regular music and a landlord/manager that books good bands and promotes them to the punters, will keep up similar levels of audience week after week, with variations for the reasons you describe. A better test would be to hire a venue that doesn't have regular music and put on Band A, B, C etc, on the same night of the week, at irregular intervals. I know if you did that round here Band A and B would fill it. That's because they are well known (locally) party bands who play "Your Socks is on Fire" and 40 other covers that sound exactly the same. This keeps large numbers of young to middle-aged ladies very happy all night and an equally large number of tied or hopeful males go where they go. They also have reasonably charismatic lead singers who network extensively, drink in all the right pubs, turn up for open mic nights and spend time on Facebook, which helps develop the following. Band C (that's us) would bring in a handful of people who don't drink or dance and have to get the bus at 9:30. That's because we play Nirvana and White Stripes covers, the bass player's a miserable git who never smiles and really we can't be bothered with all that networking stuff. We go down reasonably well in a few pubs where crusty old blokes reminisce about seeing Muddy Waters in 1965. That's show business.

Does he think all the details about how crap it was and what he had to do to make it playable makes it more desirable? My first thought is, how long before it goes back banana shaped? Anyway, if I've bought it (unlikely admittedly) I'll do anything with the truss rod I damn well please. So there.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1181962' date='Mar 30 2011, 10:49 AM']This is more accurate, although the sunburst is more desirable than the natural one. Stuck it on eBay with a start bid of £600 and didn't get a single bid. Sold it later for about £500.[/quote] Starting bids at that level don't often sell. Putting it in at £9.99 no reserve takes nerve, but something like an RD should make £800 unless it's shot to bits. The other auction killer is UK only shipping, and worse, pickup only.

£410 is a fair price for one in good nick. Unplugged volume isn't that much more than a solid body, where it comes into its own is you get the acoustic tone plugged in without the huge body of a full acoustic. And although it's short scale, it doesn't feel like one. Really nice neck. I've also heard that Hammon has disappeared, and there's really nothing wrong with the stock pickups, unless you're desperate to be a Jefferson Airplane tribute. I did find with mine the tone controls don't do much, but there's plenty of other ways round that.

When we had a keyboard, I used to keep as far away from that as possible.

It's probably better all round that he did copy some of it. "Its happened during a concert in Islington after one [b]fun[/b] jump on stage and fall on it " His minor ding looks like extensive buckle rash.

[quote name='watchman' post='1179042' date='Mar 28 2011, 01:48 AM']As a recent convert to flats, I completely agree. They're great in a band context, but can seem a little dull when practicing or playing solo. Love 'em in the band, and my poor old fingers do too, far less wear and tear.[/quote] Although, Rotosound flats are quite rough and can be hard on your fingers if you slide around a lot. As I discovered on Friday when we played Teen Spirit for the first time in ages.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1177263' date='Mar 26 2011, 03:22 PM']Ostentatious.[/quote] I had one of those. or was it a Morris Marina. Ok, Ok, I'm going.

[quote name='PaulWarning' post='1173583' date='Mar 23 2011, 05:40 PM']this question crops up a lot, then you find some quite difficult songs suggested, the implication being "well I find them easy so I must be an ace player", nobody's going to accuse me of that, anything off the first few Ramones albums [/quote] For me it's "If I can play it anywhere near right, it must be easy". For a lot of songs, getting it near enough so no one laughs can be easy, getting it dead right is much harder. I'd put All Right Now and Paranoid in that category. And what is easy for the bass may not be so simple for guitar, drums or vocals. It helps if its a song everyone in the band knows well, as in has listened to a lot, even if they don't know how to play it. That overcomes a lot of problems caused by not knowing the structure.

It's not exactly a compelling sales pitch, is it? One dull photo and a severe shortage of punctuation.

Somewhere I've got a load of discarded thick triangles and other hard picks which I used when I started. As I got more comfortable with it I went thinner and now use .73 Dunlops. No problems with speed, control or technique, or not that I wouldn't have anyway. Where do they go? I used to have dozens but last time I looked there were only 5 left.

[quote name='TommyK' post='1173467' date='Mar 23 2011, 04:11 PM']Anything by the Kinks[/quote] I found "Sunny Afternoon" quite hard. "All Day and All of the Night" is easier, although there's plenty of room for "how many times do I play this riff, and then what happens?" moments.

[quote name='icastle' post='1172010' date='Mar 22 2011, 12:48 PM']I'm sure there are other body parts that it will stick reliably. [/quote] I'll leave you to do the research

[quote name='Slipperydick' post='1168645' date='Mar 19 2011, 07:09 PM']On my Precision bitza I have a Mighty Mite Jazz neck with a maple board, its OK but the frets are a bit thin for my liking, around 2mm wide, maybe a bit less. I am thinking of ripping them off and trying to fit wider ones, around 3mm wide, like the ones on my old Bass Collection. But I’m a bit worried partly cos I’ve never attempted it before. Presumably its just a matter of making sure theyre all the way into the slots then lightly stoning and polishing them…or is it ? Is it really really difficult to get them to fit, or to get the old ones out, will wider frets fit into the same size slot ? Any advice would be really appreciated.[/quote] Based on my own experience, I wouldn't try to do this for the first time on a bass I was likely to want to play anytime soon. I pulled the frets on an SX maple neck in order to sand out the finish, then attempted to put the same frets back. About 70% went in ok, the rest popped up at the edges. In the end I sold it to Rich (ou7shined) and he managed to make something of it. At the least, I'd get a cheap neck off here or ebay and experiment first, before trying it on a bass I was bothered about.

[quote name='icastle' post='1171390' date='Mar 21 2011, 09:46 PM']I'm pretty sure I read something about consumer orientated SG manufacturers reducing the potency of their glues because of safety concerns quite a long time ago.[/quote] Ironic that. I think the only thing super glue will stick reliably now is my fingers.