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Welcome, Lascivious Goth, and what a stellar login name! One question: are you a lascivious goth (funny, as seemingly a contradictio in terminis) or a lascivious Goth (funny, as scientifically not part of the physical world, and thus most probably impossible)?

It's complicated, but to try and give you an idea: On Wednesdays, everyone tries to practise their own parts of all the different songs, and there's little talk. Tickets are mostly state funded, so are only £45, and the band call themselves The Iannis Xenakis Music Ensemble that night. Thursdays, the atmosphere gets to be a little more relaxed. People to some degree know their parts, and we now try to play together. Tickets are largely beer revenue, cigarettes revenue and silly French hats revenue funded, and are £30. This night, we call ourselves The Jazz Messin' Jars. Fridays, we normally play well enough together, kinda, and sell £5 tickets at our local Duck&Dog as Ducks and Covers. Saturdays, everything should normally be perfect, and we set up for the possible slight finishing touches long before the happy couple arrive, and we will that night perform for a fixed £800 as Groomed and Bridled. That's £100 a piece! Brill!

[quote name='Baceface' timestamp='1409903410' post='2544388'] I wonder if it's part of why I think of Daisy Rocks as the definitive bass? [/quote] Fixed that for you (and yeah, I like that avatar too; thieved it from the web).

Hey Baceface, and welcome! best, bert

[quote name='Stompbox' timestamp='1409777540' post='2543361'] Just had my new Lamborghini Aventador delivered [/quote] Couldn't you afford the trip to Bologna to fetch it? (BTW quite a silly little car, that Aventador, as long as there is a 250 GT SWB Breadvan out there for carrying your bass!)

History. It started with the Thunderbird, which just had a reverse body. The non-reverse came later - IMS after Jeff Tracy and Lady Penelope sued Gibson as they felt THEY had the rights to both Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 4.

Sigh! Just made 20 quid five minutes ago, and they're gone again! Great news!

Me likey this, and also the fact you didn't go for that reversed V abomination (though I imagine it may hang well in its strap). Flying V = cool, but then most classic Gibsons are cool, and so is your version.

I like that. You made what could have been something anonymous into an eyecatcher. Well done! Now I know you said no moaning about the logo, but it really is an important issue which we must be able to discuss freely! The "n" in "Fender" simply is not a design stroke of genius, and I wish to express that without being hindered.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1409618801' post='2541639'] Blue [/quote] Ah! Great colour for an Altima!

Wow! Luvverly. Congrats!

[quote name='Tullfan' timestamp='1409526849' post='2540635'] ' ... and the tune ends too soon for us all !' [/quote] Good one! [quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1409568759' post='2540877'] My dad exclusively listens to Jethro Tull.... [/quote] My dad hated most of my rock music preferences, but could enter my room and say: "[i]... but this is nice![/i]", and it would normally be a Jethro Tull song. He could often be found whistling or humming "Song for Jeffrey", "Bourée" or "Living in the Past".

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1409499467' post='2540214'] my favourite creedence track, whch nobody else ever seems to have heard of. [/quote] That's weird. Half the world - well, in my circles anyway - seems to have at least both Chronicle and Volume Two, and it's on one of those.

Congrats, on all three accounts! :-)

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1409411439' post='2539480'] I'm waiting for a Classic Sabre to arrive in that spec! [/quote] Congrats, Dr. T! They're said to be awesome. Do you have any prior experience with Sabres? [quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1409411439' post='2539480'] there's a picture if a Bongo with a similarly flamed neck to that on the EBMM bass forum. [/quote] Ah! So there's where I saw that particular Bongo. I couldn't find it again, but you narrowed it down for me. Thanks for mentioning it!

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1409357698' post='2539069'] Sorry, bad humour on my part. The OP had already bought two hydrive 112's which sort of went unnoticed. [/quote] No, nice humour on your part. Also, a thread's function is not exclusively for the benefit of the OP, and an OP does not own a thread. As long as other people can benefit from added information, a thread's ongoing life is a good thing.

[url="http://jethrotull.com/glenn-cornick-290814/"]http://jethrotull.co...cornick-290814/[/url] I found him very inventive, and a great inspiration. R.I.P.

Yup. Roughly that. Or rather... satinly that. I mean: Choose, people! Choose! Not that half-baked nonsense ("onzin") of trying to find something inbetween shiny and matte! Take a stand for once, fer cryin' out loud! [/soapbox]

Hey Rebinterleave, and welcome! Here's a half-decent double bass that might take yer fancy, seeing as you already have a Fender Jazz: (sorry I couldn't find pictures of "bands to play in" on this internet thing) [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/doublejazzbass_zps82d3402a.jpg.html"][/url] Enjoy our company! best, bert

[quote name='TheSiberian' timestamp='1409324303' post='2538675'] Does it sounds better than the regular flat one? [/quote] We may never know. I'm not good enough to be able to compare, and certainly do not "deserve" this bass. My other StingRay is fretless, so comparing them would not give good results.

No. Though of course "born to be" is the wrong term, I was born to be a composer. However, I've always been drawn to bass parts (Bach as well as the pipe organ pedals certainly have had their say in this), and have always been drawn to the sounds of the bass. Whilst I'm an organist, I've never been too fond of its sound - just of its willingness to let me play all those musical parts on all those keyboards and with all those stops. I've told it before, but it is typical that I owned zero organ records and loads of bass records when I entered music college. So when I decided to drop my keyboard instruments, the bass was the obvious choice, though I must soon add drums to that. I need to beat the Hull out of something - in rhythmic fashion of course. Psychologically, the archetypal supportive role held by flegmatic, peaceful and intelligent people is mine only few days per week. The other days I'm Keith Emerson or the drummer at the wrong gig, though I hasten to add I'm never the Korean drag bass player.

How about Motorpsycho? From the riffyrocky to the proggy to the experimental, but they also had a poprock phase. http://youtu.be/qaOgLrqWBiE

I'm not a bass head! I'm a bass cab! Welcome, Siberian one, or Lëtzebuergesch one! Enjoy the site, and share your wisdom, please. best, bert

Hey Paul, and welcome! Just have a look at all the sections and their different fora. Each one has a description about its use. If you find no fitting one, then General Discussion is your path to Knowledge. Enjoy! bert

Hey, Bradwell, and welcome! Don't - do NOT - post pix that are GAS inducing! My GASometer is between 125 and 126 already. Enjoy BC! bert