BassTractor

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

Huh? Is something legal going on about Shadows/Cliff music?

BTW, I just realised that that neck is filled to the rim with 24-tone (and other micro-tone) markings. I'm shaving off the frets! Experimental music, here I come!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1409122836' post='2536424'] In fact I wish my English was as good as your English [/quote] Demn you! I was gonna write that! Thanks though! Allow me to abuse the situation and add a word of seriousness: I keep repeating that my English is not as good as it may seem. In one way, I have better control over writing (using expressions I'm fairly confident can be used) than over reading (people tend to not use exactly my subset of the English language - - bastards, all of them!), but still have no clue about how some stuff I write comes across, and am often not able to edit so as to sand off the edges, so to speak. I think this is a shared capacity of many who Englisch not as their first language have ( ), and feel we can sometimes come across as overtly modest, overtly insensitive or sensitive, overtly harsh, overtly melodramatic, overtly kind etc., once our English gets somewhat better than the typical learner's level. Rant over.

Welcome from a field in Norway! bert

I love the Hohner B2B as a full scale travel bass, where it sits in its very compact Steinberger case. The reach of the neck in my overweight case is reduced a lot by a shorter strap and change of angle. I now have a dedicated strap for the Hohner. Reportedly, other people are helped by the same trick. My Ashbory always stays at home. It's become a bass more for fun in my case.