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[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1326818045' post='1502370'] Possibly worth mentioning at this point that I am looking for a Westone Pantera Deluxe X790 bass. Just in case there actually is someone out there with one going spare who just so happens to be reading this... [/quote] There's one here but it'll cost yer AND you have to get it shipped from the 'States. Looks pretty good though, I only wish Westone had made a 5-string Thunder or even a Superheadless 5-er..*sigh* EDIT: I should put the link in shouldn't I! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/circa-1987-Westone-Pantera-Pro-Bass-X-750-guitar-X750-MATSUMOKU-Japan-MIJ-/380374739531?pt=Guitar&hash=item589019ea4b"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/circa-1987-Westone-Pantera-Pro-Bass-X-750-guitar-X750-MATSUMOKU-Japan-MIJ-/380374739531?pt=Guitar&hash=item589019ea4b[/url]

I was talking to someone I hadn't met before at a friend's party when he mentioned that he's like to be a Mayor one day. At this point I noticed that his hands were shaking. I GENUINELY thought that he was doing a Michael J.Fox impression and told him I thought it was in poor taste. ..Whereupon he informed me (and the 7 other people standing round us) that the shaking was due to the medication he had to take for a serious illness. Scheiser! Another time, while working on the door of a club I told a guy I wouldn't let him in as he'd obviously had enough already, being unable to take the change from me easily and wobbling a bit. That was when he told me he was registered blind, so it was tricky for him to see me offering the change in the dark corridor. I should've spotted the clues as I work supporting people with disabilities! D'oh!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1326755361' post='1501687'] friends are more important than music. [/quote] In which case he'll understand that you need to replace him and remailn friends with you both. ...Unless he's a prima donna idiot who'll get massively offended and not speak to you for the next 6 months EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T YOU WHO WANTED HIM OUT AND YOU ARGUED HIS CASE. Move along now, nothing to see here.

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1326700865' post='1500525'] Ugh, pure cheese. I don't get the James Taylor thing. Americans love that brand of mush. Makes for a very dull song, IMO [/quote] Ooooh someone's cranky! You know what you need? A lovely big hug!

What's the best technique for getting a hard, short, pull-off (as heard in Luther Vandross's 'Never Too Much? I can't seem to deaden the note enough. And you, Jones, at the back there - stop sniggering boy! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNj9bXKGOiI&ob=av2e[/media] EDIT: And after all the innuendo, what I actually meant was the hammer-on pop towards the end of the phrase in the verse.

[url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/wesley-jazz-bass-copy-great-condition/94425712"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/wesley-jazz-bass-copy-great-condition/94425712[/url] No that interested in the bass but.... There's a place called Vogue Gyratory? In Brighton? No wonder it's so bloody camp!

Beautiful headstock on this Thunder...... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170761558147&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123"]http://www.ebay.co.u...ME:B:SS:GB:1123[/url]

I don't normally dig big bass solos but Bootsy's off the hook on this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZECQCQjP38

Loving this by The Brothers Johnson which no doubt has been posted some pages back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxUtFDKz8k Rather annoying that it's in Gminor and the tape has been sped up so it sits somewhere between G and Ab though....

Westones are beautiful and amazing to play! I would really like a Thunder IIa, the version with 2 precision style pups and the xlr output if anyone has one to sell...........

I think it's Vintage One who put up the ad.

[quote name='jackduran' timestamp='1325540493' post='1484258'] There's any number I could have picked, but plumped for this seeing as it kicks off with the bass. Great playing/tone. Allen McGrier, I believe? http://youtu.be/FEFw_EnCuNE [/quote] So good! There's too much good funk in this thread - I'm getting a funk overdose!

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1325430231' post='1483047'] [size=3][b] Sultans Of Ping FC - Give Him A Ball (And A Yard Of Grass)[/b][/size] [/quote] Great song and great band! Used to play 'Where's Me Jumper?' and 'S-t-u-p-i-d Kid' many years ago.

Loving Quincy's version of Superstition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3teWjVPNmQ

Found this lurking on my iPod when I went for a run earlier. What. A. Groove! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUD0_LDf6QY[/media] Ps. The voice sounds a lot like Tracy Chapman-Stick to me!

First, seperate body and neck (only for bolt-ons!) Wrap body in bubble wrap and a layer or high density foam (bought as off-cuts from my local haberdashers - 50p for all you can carry!) [attachment=95885:P1011666.JPG] Place neck in cardbard tube also from haberdashers for the price of 0p [attachment=95884:P1011669.JPG] Wrap head in bubble wrap and more foam and place in shoe box. Gaffa the shoe box to the tube. [attachment=95886:P1011670.JPG] Place tube inside box you've now put the body in and gaffa the lot together. Stick on address and draw on moustache, smile and eyes with Tipp-ex and voila! One very well packaged bass at a total cost of some bubble-wrap and a roll of Gaffa. [attachment=95887:P1011675.JPG]

[quote]the body of the guitar was made by [b]now non existent luthier[/b] in Poland and I replaced the neck with a fretless one last year. The whole guitar was given a respray at the same time.[/quote] He made the bass and then simply ceased to exist??

After reading this topic I booked tickets to see Vintage Trouble in Cardiff last night. And........ they had a few good numbers but waaaaaaay too much filler material. It sounded like a lot of the songs were written for Middle America and I was blanded out by halfway into the gig. It wasn't helped by the fact that me and Mrs pup were told to f*ck off by some nice respectable-looking chaps who obviously don't like dancing at gigs!

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1324059028' post='1470486'] Absolutely no flexibility with my employer whatsoever. A real pain working saturdays as well. If I were to work through my break all that would happen is I'd get knabbed to still work to the end of my shift. Booking days off is a real nightmare, last week I had to book my leave for next year, up until April 2013, and there is talk of limiting availability. [/quote] Limiting availabilty to take your holidays that are stated in your contract? Tell them to pi$$ off!

This place is supposed to be quite good - [url="http://www.cardiffguitars.co.uk/"]http://www.cardiffguitars.co.uk/[/url]