Jono Bolton

One day I'll own one of these, despite the protests from my girlfriend. Not cheap though. Was anyone here on the Guitarist magazine forum, before it became Music Radar? There was a guy on there who had one of these in almost every colour, plus a few rarities, then got bored and flogged them all, some mega cheap.

I saw this one yesterday, very nice indeed. Don'cha think this would look better with a Tele-style headstock though? And with no logo either?

[quote name='Danbass7' post='187505' date='Apr 28 2008, 07:36 PM']bumppp[/quote] Is that the new band name then?

F***in' 'ell! That Simpson Theme was brilliant, very well done sir!

[quote name='BassManKev' post='187388' date='Apr 28 2008, 05:21 PM']theory to play fast? who on earth suggested you did?[/quote] That's basically all that constitute Flea's basslines, speed and slap technique. He's not very melodic, so why does his lack of theory make his lines more impressive?

[quote name='BassManKev' post='186866' date='Apr 27 2008, 11:05 PM']how so? in comparisson to some of the other bassists mentioned? and ye, far as i know flea knows practically no theory, which makes some of his basslines seem even more impressive if it was done without theory, which i know for certain that all pre bssm at least stuff was[/quote] I don't think it's important to know theory to be able to play fast, or atonally for that matter. You definitely don't need to know theory to tell if a note sound "right". Looking at the tab for Around the World, many of the notes in the runs he plays aren't in the right key. Not that they need to be, but some bits are just grating. He's definitely skilled, and Soul to Squeeze has some real nice and tasteful bass playing, but not my cup of tea that's for sure.

Love the Musicmaster, especially in that colour! Never been too keen on the scratchplates though, I'd be tempted to swap it for a Mustang-style 'plate and control plate combo. Is that a neck pocket on it a little too wide too? I have a similar problem on my Jazz.

I just thought that wee extra bit sticking out on the headstock looks a bit crap. A 3+2 tuner config. would look good.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='186680' date='Apr 27 2008, 07:28 PM']very subtle [/quote] There's nothing to say it's got to be stuff you've found on ebay, folk are welcome to put their own auctions on here if they want. The purpose of this section is for bass-related stuff on the 'bay, regardless of the seller. Also, someone got a fecking bargain there. I'm sure I saw it earlier on and there was no BIN.

Are you keeping the headstock shape? IMO it'd look pretty cool if you straightened it off, but at an angle, so it was like this: /, as opposed to this: l Does that make sense?

None of these are flats are they?

Weddings been and gone, and good times were had by all! Gonna bump these up one last time before I stick em on evilbay, any interested parties? Also rohan, saw your post, I dont think I could pull off red ones, sorry.

I think it looks cool, I wouldn't mind one. The stacked knobs would look better in chrome IMO. Maybe some kind of scratchplate too.

Another listing recently was pulled for saying cash was OK for payment, apparently it encourages people to send cash through the post. You can still put 'cash on collection' as an option though.

[quote name='Final Loan' post='185148' date='Apr 25 2008, 10:34 AM']Yeah, I've seen. But he originally put a buy it now of £400 and this time he said he wanted £500 to end the auction early. You can buy 'em brand new for £400! Oooh! Not a full scale neck but you've got my attention. Do you recall what colour it was? (yes, I am that shallow...) I'm in Sheffield, by the way.[/quote] I do recall, it was a rather pretty sunburst. I'm not very good with my different types of sunburst, but I'd say it was more 'vintage' as opposed to a Fender style. If I remember correctly it was more brown towards the edge than black.

I've had a Boss TU-2 for about a year now, it's brilliant. I used to use a little Korg Chromatic tuner and it was good, but when my band was first gigging (before the Boss) I always found I was slightly out of tune, and had to try and tune myself back in to the rest of the band. Turns out I must've bumped one of the buttons on my tuner and it was at 444Hz instead of 440Hz, so I was always slightly sharp :blush:

I was looking for a forum on bass fishing, and accidentally typed basschat.co.uk instead of basschat.com.

Where abouts in the country are you? If you can get to Glasgow easily (not counting on it) there's a very nice DeArmond bass in the dreaded 'Guitar Store', a place for thieving gypos to flog on their stolen goods quickly with no questions asked. Er, allegedly. It was £250, a Starfire I think but I may be (read: probably am) wrong. I'll try and find out what it was. Edit: Checked the website, it's definitely a Starfire. Didn't get a shot on it but it sure was pretty, and that's the most important thing about semis, right?