Jono Bolton

[quote name='paul h' post='106960' date='Dec 20 2007, 11:04 AM']I don't really find delays like that acceptable to be honest. And yes, I know I'm anal about this kind of thing but if I'm selling something it will be packed and ready to go before it's sold and will be sent the same day or next working day once it is sold.[/quote] +1. This is why I f***ing hate eBay. Especially people registered as sellers. They know they're selling things, and so they know people'll be buying their stuff. I bought a bag last week to help with carting stuff home for Christmas and it's still not been posted yet, with no response from the seller after 3 messages (mainly about my anger at them not letting me know whats going on). And I paid for 1st class recorded delivery to make sure it was here on time, so that a waste of a fiver. It's totally rude, and shows that they don't give 2 shits about their customers. Looking at their feedback, about 30 odd are neutral or negative. There should be a limit as to how much bad feedback someone gets before their account gets canceled. It takes 2 minutes to check if stuffs been sold, and sellers should make an effort to get to the post office if they know they have someone else's money. Sorry, rant over

The first one I ever played was a Jim Deacon P-Bass copy that my primary school bought. I was the only one who kept playing longer than a week. I spent pretty much every chance I got practicing on it til I finished primary. First I ever owned was a second (or third) hand Peavey Foundation, similar to a precision, with 2 soap bar pickups. And a nice maple neck if I remember rightly. I had that for about 3 years before selling it on. My first guitar was a pink Danelectro U2. I [i]wish[/i] I still had that.

Me brushing my teeth: Me playing a gig in Mordor: Me playing in Bannerman's in Edinburgh, post haircut: I've still to get a new scratchplate for my Jazz

Mine is playing in Germany in May. The second night, in what was once an old milk factory. It'd been converted so there was a venue, with flats surrounding it. Great fun, we played well, met some awesome people, got as much free beer as we could drink, did 2 encores and just generally had a blast. Cos the people that stayed in the flats helped run the gig, they all stayed afterwards so we had about 50 people in the "backstage area" til 4 in the morning. Good times!

+2 [b]860[/b]

Rock Around the Clock for me. That was back in primary school. I got taught the Beverly Hills Cop theme tune and an Ace of Bass song after that.

Theres a P-P pickup combo on this one! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1978-Fender-Precision-Bass_W0QQitemZ230201942648QQihZ013QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1978-Fender-Precisio...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

There's one going cheap here too: [url="http://musical-instruments.search.ebay.co.uk/fender-precision_Musical-Instruments_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQcatrefZC11QQfromZR40QQsacatZ619"]http://musical-instruments.search.ebay.co....ZR40QQsacatZ619[/url] I like the sunburst, not the scratchplate

I've also got a friend that used to work at his dads junk yard and used to pull out all kinds of weird guitars/synths/drum pieces and take them home to fix them and use them again. There must be loads of old gear taking up a big section of the UKs dumps.

I've got 2 MIM Fender basses just now. In the years I've been playing I managed to pretty much destroy on of the original Peavey Foundation basses which I then sold on to a "mate" for about £50, which then went on a Washburn XB, a real cheap one, but it was sparkly blue and had just 1 p-bass style pickup and 2 knobs. That was traded in for the Jazz when i got it about 3 years ago. I know that "mate" has had at least 3 other cheapo basses that have been repainted (badly) orhe's attempted to mod and ballsed it up and ended up in a skip. I think its kids like that that can account for a good few budget basses

I'd be lost without my Leo Quan bridges! I've got them on both my basses and they make a massive difference to the sound, compared to the flimsy stock Fender bridges the clarity and sustain is amazing. I know the black bridges are getting harder and harder to find. But if they do discontinue them for whatever reason, I'll be straight on eBay buying up as many as I can.

[quote name='lonestar' post='103980' date='Dec 13 2007, 05:49 PM']Go for it. is that with Musicguard?[/quote] Yep. No where near as bad as I thought it was going to be. And even if I do it via monthly direct debit with the extra interest, its under £100. At less than a tenner a month I'd be stupid not too.

Just went to get a quote, £81 for a year, includes breakdown cover, in vehicle cover, covered if I'm away from the insured location, EU cover for when my band goes away, no £250 excess AND public liability too. Not bad, methinks

Good stuff. I have a new laptop too, will any of them be able to cover that as well?

Has any here insured their gear? I'm looking to insure both basses and my Ashdown once I've got it, but I don't know any decent insurers musical gubbins. Does anyone know a good place to go?

Hi I pretty much fired in on the regular forum and didn't do this. My name's Jono, 20, and I stay in Ayr. I play in a prog/indie/heavy(ish) rock band, and we're taking a break over Christmas while our gun-for-hire guitarist lends his talents to some Christmas musical shows. My rig consists of 2 Fender basses (MIM), a Jazz and a Precision, both with Badass bridges and Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickups. These go through a Boss ODB-3 bass overdrive and TU-2 stage pedal tuner, and into a Peavey TNT 115, which is soon to be replaced with probably an Ashdown ABM EVO II C210T combo and then a 410 cab when money allows. Thats about it really.

I know people have already mentioned this but: [url="http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0194060720"]http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0194060720[/url] I'm not sure I'm a fan

I can't remember when I started playing bass. It was late in primary school, I'll say I was 10 as a safe bet, which was 10 years ago I didn't start my first band til I was about 15/16, and we were appualing. That lasted about a year or so, just playing covers. I didn't start my first "real" band until last December. I took over from another of my friends on bass because he was already in two other bands It's been pretty good so far, just gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh, although we did get to go to Germany earlier this year. Hopefully we're going back next May, and then Spain later in the summer

[quote name='alexclaber' post='103522' date='Dec 12 2007, 07:47 PM']If I were you I'd either mark your EQ on the amp (stickers, tippex, marker pen, masking tape) or write it down, and expect everyone to screw around with the EQ and to have to reset it when it's your turn... The classic situation I regularly encounter is someone applying the EQ they normally use with their rig to my rig and then expecting it to sound the same - duh! It'll be interesting watching other bassist's expressions when they encounter my rig at future gigs, since my rack now looks like this: Alex[/quote] I set the EQ pretty flat, and have a a rough idea of how it sits so it's not usually much of a problem, as long as I get a couple of minutes to try and re-adjust it.

[quote name='BeLow' post='103544' date='Dec 12 2007, 08:35 PM']In between the provocative posts there is a debate on Ashdown going on here. I think it was suggested by some one that those wanted to have an argument could b****r off and do it somewhere else. Seems like reasonable suggestion to me. Celestion speaker manufacture is now off shore as far as I am aware - China I think. In a weird twist the last UK manufactured stock got sold off as job lots at prices that that no off shore manufacturer could match. I have an 'Ashdown speaker' manufactured in Essex, it was part of the pre-production run which was not used so the manufacturer sold off a few that he had left. I am pretty impressed with how it is put together. Once a company earns a bad reputation it is very hard to throw it off even if their products are much improved. I would be interested to hear the experience of the 'lightweight' amp range (digital amps?) and if there have been 'issues' with these.[/quote] At the gig where I first tried an Ashdown (I used a MAG head) I had the option of using one of the lightweight heads, but opted out for ease of gear swap over. I did sound pretty good but I think setting up the EQ's a bit of a fanny about and didn't sound as good. But it's made for ease of transport, the guy carried it one hand with his cab in the other.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='103455' date='Dec 12 2007, 05:56 PM']I've been letting people use my rig for years and it hasn't blown up yet. I do tend to point out that the amp is very powerful whilst the cabs are only small and that much less bass boost (if any) is required compared to typical rigs. Despite that it's had a lot of abuse from some LOUD bands and has yet to to throw in the towel. I always volunteer my amp as the backline because despite forums giving the impression that GAS is rife and the world is full of fancy bass rigs the amp I most often encounter is the ubiquitous Peavey TNT 115, which does what it does very well for the money but rather pins you into a certain tonal corner, to say the least... Alex[/quote] I've been using a TNT I've shared it a few times, sounds alright, but I hate having people mess with the EQ. At the same time, I know that my tone doesn't suit every bassist, I tend to have a fairly flat EQ, with a slight "frown" shape if that makes sense, but a lot of promoters I've worked with are pretty lazy and'll just chuck together 4 bands to fill a bill regardless of their style. We're prog/indie/heavy rock but we've played with emo, metal, cock rock, and an RATM/Muse rip off so not everyone's gonna fancy my sound.

I've had to borrow amps before, but I've also had to let other people use mine, so I always make sure I take really good care of it. I don't want my stuff wrecked so I'm not gonna trash other people's hard-earned gear.