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I bought a set of these from Stringbusters. It says on the packet to take extreme care when stringing the bass as the materials are delicate. Which makes me think they won't last five minutes with a pick? Does anyone have any experience with them?

23.2 of them prefer Whiskas.

I'm intrigued by the idea of fret buzz on a fretless. The question is how much it really bothers you. If the audience can't hear it I tend not to worry.

[quote name='algmusic' post='1104827' date='Jan 27 2011, 10:45 AM']I was just listening to someone play a cover of Weak today All the players, are deemed as 'good' players, but TBH it wasn't great because they missed the most important part of the music. The simplicity and the feel. They were funky guys who thought they could play rock. The bassist was putting in fills that wasn't quite right and couldn't play those simple driving meaty 8th's and the drummer, well just couldn't play a strong simple rock groove with tasteful fill and not many.. The top guys play the simple stuff bl**dy well, that's way they are at the top[/quote] We play Weak. Thing is, it's the same chords as All Along the Watchtower, so the temptation to throw in a bit of Noel Redding is quite strong, but it doesn't work. Our guitarist allows himself a few Hendrix licks in the solo, but I stay with the program.

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Being near Redditch, every woman of a certain age you meet round here slept with John Bonham and very bloke of a certain age played guitar with him or his brother. The women might be telling the truth for all I know. Back on topic, Jon Hiseman.

We took our daughter to see them a long time ago, she must have been 15, wife and I were 40 something. Didn't know what to expect, but they were brilliant, the sort of music that makes you smile even if you've had the worst day ever. I'm pretty sure the support band was Coldplay, so that's how long ago it was. Seen them several times since - the last time I thought they'd lost the magic somehow. For feel good tunes, I'd put them in the same league as Jeff Lynne and ELO. That's high praise in my book.

[quote name='silddx' post='1103234' date='Jan 26 2011, 09:59 AM']But I want a Jap Fender RI with a B&B neck. I can't understand why. I have wanted one for ages. I got a bonus at work and to my huge surprise and deep disappointment my normally faultless car ate it all in the MOT last month. All my cash went towards it, so the Wicks are going.[/quote] Have you considered that even YOUR CAR doesn't want you to buy a Fender?

[quote name='Markus Wilson' post='1102473' date='Jan 25 2011, 06:06 PM']You are young, you think you have to prove you are a great player (been there done it myself). The people that would be impressed by constant meanderings are not the people whos opinion matters. Flailing around the neck all the time gets just as boring as crotchet root notes, especially to the listener. Markus[/quote] Dead right. Listen to some West, Bruce & Laing sometime. What worked with Cream becomes intensely irritating when competing with Leslie West.

I did think I had a fighting chance with "Holiday", but then the guitarist and singer went for "American Idiot" instead, which I've never felt comfortable with, though we still play it and no one complains. It's not hard exactly, just I don't have that punk feel somehow. Similar problem with The Clash's version of "I Fought the Law", just didn't get it. Other failures: QOTSA "No One Knows", went wrong somewhere between me and the drummer. Pink's "Try Too Hard", same story. I can play "White Room" ok. I did think that would be hard.

In the league of busy rock players, the one that interests me is Jack Casady. I find listening to Airplane tracks exciting in the same way that watching a pack of formula one drivers hitting an oil slick is exciting. You know they individually have the skill to get through, but one twitch out of place and everyone's going to end up on the grass. No one in Airplane took responsibility for holding the band together, which typically is the job of the bass player. With more solid basslines, would Airplane have been a better band? They'd certainly have had an easier life.

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We play this. Your first chord selection is right, no idea how anyone thought Ab would work. The secret of the verse I've found is not to over play it, just underpin the beat. Otherwise even the right notes sound wrong.

I've had a set of Rotosound Jazz Flats on a Precision for about 7 years, and I daren't change them in case it alters the sound. I've had TIs on other basses and they're different - lower tension, smoother touch, but I haven't liked them so much that I'd have to have them on everything. You may have the same problem I have - I've got an MIJ Precision I got fairly cheap, which sounds great on everything the band plays, but it's not very exciting. So I've been through a succession of second basses, including other Fenders, several Epiphones and a couple of Gibsons. Latest is a Ripper. It sounds great on Cream and Nirvana songs, and on pretty much everything else sounds terrible. Lovely to play though, the neck is wonderful. Changing pickups on the JC might be a challenge, aren't the electronics a bit clever?

Never did like TB. The whole clubs and numbers thing is enough to put me off, without the rest of it.

Is it possible this isn't the guy you sold the guitar to? ie, someone hacks his eBay account, finds he bought something with a nice big ticket and tries to get a refund on it (assuming it was eBay).

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Maybe the GF is German.

[quote name='eude' post='1078261' date='Jan 5 2011, 09:18 AM']I've found the D'Addorio XL Nickels and SIT Nickels to be the closest to DR Sunbeams and Nickel Lo-Riders, they can be similar in tone, however the feel is radically different. The come close, but no cigar, unfortunately... I buy my DR's from the states via ebay, usually ends up about £25 for a 5er set and less than £30 for a 6er, including shipping, the only pain is the wait, but it's never been longer than a week. I do feel bad about not patronising a local or even British music store but bass string prices in the UK are a total joke! I used to pay over £50 for DR Hi-Beams for my 6er years back, and they're not much cheaper now over 10 years on - insane... Eude[/quote] And there's Ed Friedland complaining about $25 a set.

[quote name='icastle' post='1077447' date='Jan 4 2011, 03:55 PM']As others have already said, there's nothing technically wrong with mixing different brands of cabs provided you understand the rules regarding impedance (shout if you need help on that - we're pretty good at the 'maths' part of impedance on here!). One thing to remember though is that the cabs have to be sensibly sized if you intend stacking them on top of each other - you don't want to end up with a 'leaning tower of piezo'... [/quote] Yes, I've got a Markbass CMD121H and a Nemesis 2x10 cab. They sound good together, but the MB is narrow, so stacked it is definitely the leaning tower of pizza. I place them side by side, with the Nemesis on end, which works fine. I thought I would have problems hearing myself, but it hasn't been an issue yet.