Bass Culture

I seem to remember BGM doing a fairly extensive piece on Herbie and his bass a few years back. Maybe someone can help with a back issue?

In reply to which I direct other BC-ers to Lozbass's (Lawrence's) own feedback section, where you will find many of the same sentiments. I love BC for the fact I've never had a bad deal and have met some genuinely interesting and pleasant people. Long may it continue. Loz, first Pork Dukes single was 'Bend and Flush' if memory serves. I'm sure there was some obscure label out there which you could find the first album on fairly recently. My brother brought back a few copies when it was first released. Lurid pink vinyl it was pressed up in! Urrgghh!

[quote name='joegarcia' post='901054' date='Jul 21 2010, 04:33 PM']Cool, Super Twelve sounds like the one for me then. Not into tweeters at all.[/quote] I don't like tweeters either. So, after many exchanges with Alex. I ended up with...a Super Twelve T! All I can say is that the tweeter is excellent - no tinniness or zing, just clear, defined highs. It's certainly made me reconsier my own prejudices about tweeters anyway!

Just collected Lawrence's Trace head from him. What a nice, friendly and trust worthy bloke! We stood there in the Sainsbury's car park (as I'm sure many have before!) comparing stories of playing in our younger days for half an hour or so before rain halted play. What a top guy though - he's got absolute integrity and is yet another example of what makes Bass Chat is what it is. Mark

I think the theory behind the Gramma works but I've never bought one because it won't cure my particular bugbear of having my speaker nearer to ear height. My home made solution was to buy a cheap, Stagg piano stool (one of the ones that fold down), take off the seat and swap it for an off cut of work top we had left over when the kitchen was done a while back. Hey presto - cab/amp isolated from the stage and up at a height where I can hear myself. Best £15 I've spent in recent months!

Mario, I was thinking about this the other day and was wondering if you'd contacted TC yet? Mark

Slightly smaller and (presumably!) lighter body too. I loved mine when I had it; mind you, I am a bit of a short arse...

Trigger Fingers will be playing their first gig at band central in Little Sutton this Sunday - The Olde Red Lion. Be really nice to see any Wirral/Birkenhead/Liverpool BC-ers if you're at a loose end on Sunday evening and fancy having a listen to my Roscoe / RH450 / Barefaced Super Twelve set up. We play mostly recentish chart covers and a couple of older favourites. Some we've 'reinvented' slightly - er, drastically in a couple of cases, come to think of it....

I picked up an EBS Unichorus through our very own BC. Much prefer it to the Boss CEB-3 I was using before (I'd tend to agree with the comments about that sounding a bit metallic by comparison). If you can pick up a Boss CE-2 though, do. Not bass specific and only have depth and speed controls but much 'nicer' sounding - deeper and warmer - than the CEB-3 to my ears.

We played at 50th birthday party in a back garden in Prenton last night. The whole night was spent imagining feeling drops of the rain that thankfully never came. The police were called by some neighbours who lived 300 yards away apparently but, in fairness to the boys in blue, they were cool as hell about it - said it didn't sound that loud to them and told the host to forget about it. Great bunch of people who all had a good time and we got an offer of more gigs out of it afterwards from another one of the guests. There's worse ways to spend a Saturday night!

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[quote name='PURPOLARIS' post='917063' date='Aug 6 2010, 03:31 PM']Maybe you should Use Somebody to help you [/quote] Oh, very good! I can't even erase the topic now!

I've done something wrong...

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Appreciate the response - many thanks.

Folks, Is there any 'correct' order these two pedals should go in, please? I use an EBS Unichorus and SFX-modded Digitech Bad Monkey. Any benefit in either going in front of the other? And apologies in advance if this is a dimwit question that's been covered thousands of times already! Cheers, Mark

[quote name='chris_b' post='909321' date='Jul 29 2010, 03:08 PM']A Mk1 4 string has just sold on EBay. The seller wanted £2000 but settled for £1800. Prices have levelled out in the last few years.[/quote] In fairness that one hjad been butchered around the bridge area though...

Can't disagree with anything that Scalpy's said there. I think another thing that's been slightly over looked is the musical environment McCartney operated in terms of his bass playing contribution. Remember, he started playing at a time when the first electric bass had only got into the UK about 5 or 6 years or so before! There was few people who could afford a quality electric bass at that time, let along had been in a position to record with one. Yet there are those who are lining up to criticise him for his tone! He was responsible for contributing to the creation of a new musical landscape for a new instrument, for God's sake! Of course his playing wasn't as sophisticated or technically adept as players who came after - he was, as has been accurately pointed out elsewhere, the inspiration for the players others are comparing him to and judging him against! Given all that, I still think he can play a bit.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='906733' date='Jul 27 2010, 09:59 AM']I forgot to add - the Frog Chorus? Silly Love Songs? Simply Having A wonderful Christmas Time? what utter sh*te.[/quote] That's big - pull 2 or 3 songs out of a cannon of several hundred, dozens of which are unarguably classics, to PROVE that Macca is 'utter sh*te'. Not really the most sophisticated form of argument really, is it? BC

Mine wobble a bit but I think that's just the hole being slightly wider than the button (which, of course, it needs to be!). I had the same problem as Mario with my first RH450 - one of the buttons more or less disintegrated around the LED in the centre. The others all had cracks in that ranged from hairline to more obvious. It was an irritation more than anything, and didn't actually affect the working of the amp, though I suppose it might have done if I'd let it progress to any of the buttons actually falling apart!