Jono Bolton

What is EMA? Am I the only who doesn't know? Or is it an English thing?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='188351' date='Apr 29 2008, 07:32 PM']That was Paul_C - formerly Arrowheadguitars - and his infamous "collection" - I bought one of them. These really shouldn't be too dear - no more than £200 for the reissues like the one in the pic (that's an SBV500) and of course there are some of the original 60s & 70s ones floating about - look - there goes one now: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220226931190"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220226931190[/url] Better be quick, though - 28 minutes left, as I type this... Jon.[/quote] Are they good then Jon? The SBV500s I mean. Or are they mainly for looks? There's a red one on ebay now [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-SBV-Bass_W0QQitemZ120253535015QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]SBV500[/url]. It's a fairly optimistic listing to say the least. Does anyone go on the Music Radar forum anymore? I tend not to, it wasn't as friendly or as welcoming as Basschat is. There seemed to be a lot of snobbery, and they seemed more interested in taking the piss than being helpful.

Cheers GreeneKing! The footy's on the telly tonight and I [i]was[/i] planning to sand down the neck of my P and clean the fretboard while keeping one eye on the TV, but my Lemon Oil didn't turn up today so I'll give your suggestion a go. How thick do you reckon the card should be? I've got a bunch of old boxes kicking about at the minute. It's odd because I had a Badass II on it before and had no problems, other than it was bloody ugly.

I put a Gotoh 201 on my Jazz recently and the action seems a little high. For example, I've got the E's bridge saddle pretty much as far down as it'll go but the height of the string is not as low as I'd like it, and this is the case across all strings. Checking the relief, the neck's nice and straight, so I don't know what else could be causing it, other than the angle of the neck. Would anything go wrong if I stuck a shim in the neck? I can always take it out if it doesn't work, couldn't I?

I'm assuming it's Precision, being the most common of bass shapes. I say sonic blue, with a matching headstock, and white around the edges.

Do it. You could do it in the style of the Top Gear challenge when Clarkson had to go from London to Edinburgh and back on a single tank of fuel. Unless of course you've got some sort of aversion to near mental breakdowns?

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.