BassTractor

This must be spam. This is an old thread, so I guess the honoured new member did a text search just for spamming us.

Welcome back, Shep! Our Helical Mind is still always with me and my iPod. Still love it. best, bert

Ha. I loved them, their ergonomics, their 4-band, and their colours (a.o. the original Dargie Delight and the second Dargie Delight), but the Rays had a bigger impact on me. Here's a pic of your Ray showing its wood inside the blue. Not the very bestest piece of wood ever, but I liked it in total.

Aye. It's stunning indeed, and as you say much better in person. It's also one of only two basses that I miss of the 16 that I let go - the other one being a '98 StingRay 5 fretless - that too an instrument that starts playing the moment you just look at it. Edit to add I let three or four Bongos go too, and thought it would be very, very hard. Never missed those. Strange how these things go.

It's big and heavy too. I think the BC hive mind just solved your car quest. Not a diesel either. Bliss.

Reminds me of the old adage I invented this morning: Cage was never a good composer, but he was an important composer. Oh, and he did have humour.

Yes, and very much so. Not that the lessons weren't crap or the teachers weren't extremely disparaging of music that wasn't classical music. Not that the lessons weren't boring to 99.99% of pupils. It's just that I happened to be that one weird pupil all the info was adapted to, and I sucked it in. Still hated every single music teacher though, especially the first one, the one who taught us notes and how to play a recorder. In '63 or so, my buddy Wim played two wrong notes in a row, and that teacher unceremoniously, with a flat hand, slapped him in the face. I shouted "a-hole!", and much to my surprise wasn't slapped, but only sent to the corner, to stand there with my face to the walls. At that point I knew that the teacher was afraid of the consequences of his actions. Modern times had arrived.

😂 Thanks to Officah Skiddah, we now know where the Peavey went. Well done!

Yeah, and with it came great bands like Kraut Deep Fried Fatties Freundschaft.

Yup, but I don't frequent it. My modular days were really 40 years ago, and recent plans for a modular didn't materialise. Love Gouda, much like T-Bay. Played the organ in the St Janskerk several times. Also still remember the smell from the Nederlandsche Oliefabrieken when I stayed in Delft. Peanut butter! Anyway, enjoy the stay!

Ha. I recognise that. In my case, I needed to see a vid with them, and experience the fun. Then the penny dropped. Love since.

You're kidding me. Etten-Leur is "my" municipality. Honest, guv. (Though I'd already left for Norway in '84, and only visit the place to see my mother.) Er... As you were! 🙂

Wot? Breda? I'd forgotten that bit. Near Breda is where I stem from. We're brothers! Were you the guy overtaking in the rightmost lane in March '91?

Hoi Hans. Welkom van 'n andere (modulaire) synth-speler... achtig. 't Is hier echt wel heel leukigjes. Geniet ervan, jochie. doei, bert

Nah. Me too, and I'm an organ player by birth. That said, whilst, like you, I often miss "something", this doesn't go for a singer accompanied by just an acoustic guitar. So I guess it's all about what we're used to. And that's from someone who loves bass, and loves the 32ft and 16ft stops on the organ (normally played on the pedals, and sounding two and one octaves below the 'regular' 8ft). BTW, I can't abide women's choirs most of the time, but can always abide men's choirs.

^^^^ Applause! (cheap line, I know, but even cheaper lines are available)

That's a claim about Carrot saying it in 1983, but ze innerwebz say it's apparently older than that. It's stated it was in a 1981 sketch on BBC's Radio Active, voiced by Philip Pope, and written by Geoffrey Perkins and/or Angus Deayton. My problem is I recently saw a Beatles documentary, and feel sure that one of the Beatles said it in one of those hasty and cheeky group interviews right after their plane landed somewhere - Ringo just outside the picture, so I couldn't see his response to the joke. Since the Beatles community doesn't seem to recognise it, I must have dreamt that whole interview. 😟 Anyway, back to the topic at hand: that was awesome! Thanks for posting it, and I agree with the general sentiment of "a musician".

@Swaffle88, have you narrowed it down or bought something? Any chance of you sharing your experiences and newfound insights with the community?

Mostly listening to my head these days. That head contains existing music and makes new music every day. Works for me. Love the iPod integration in the car though. Luvverly trips.

Ah. Don't be so non-inventive with yer... knowledge and.. er... stuff! The guy was being inventive. He invented the Dunning-Kruger scale! 😁

Love his work. Someone on BC called him something like "a smith of harmonic development" (though probably better worded). I liked that. RIP, Tim.

Well, Cash Generator in Rutherglen (also near Glasgow) are short of one...

When, as an old, bald, fat bloke, I enter the nail shop and ask them to do my long nails, nobody lifts an eyelid. I think my high heels and summer gown do this. Just a helpful hint.

Yup. Had two of these, and it wasn't funny in the least. Real bass players always trying my CV 50s P basses against my San Luis Obispo StingRays and Bongos and going: "WOW! I'm sooo impressed with those Squiers!", and me trying: "Hey man, I spent 3,000 quid on that lim.ed. Music Man", and they: "Yeah, but those Squiers!", and me: "Yeah, but..." 😐 IMHO: seriously secure buys, but not specifically lightweight - just average.