JohnFitzgerald

2 hours ago, Soledad said:

These earlier Mayones are so seriously underrated or overlooked. The quality of woods and craftsmanship are impeccable. Just sold a BE4 fretless on to a fan in France - I'll regret that!!

I bought mine from Koval and love it.

I can heartily recommend these basses and this seller.

i bought my fretless NTB from Koval123 and it has pride of place alongside my 6 string bolt on.
Wonderful build quality and sound.

 

You know that thing that happens when you're just browsing and you see something you don't need, but you have to buy it anyway ?

The one on the left is my self built one, the one on the right is fairly obviously a Roland PK5.



 

2 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

There was a maintainance guy where i used to work who used some kind of spray black paint on his head. He was fairly bald in the middle so that was sprayed too. From a distance it looked quite bad, close up it looked just like he had sprayed his head with a can of halfords black car spray paint.

It was hard concentrating when you were talking to him.

I worked on a building site once where the guy from the power company, in rerouting some supplies,  wore a wig.

He was climbing a set of steps, went too far and cracked his head on the concrete floor slab above, requiring a visit to hospital. Blood everywhere

When he returned the following day, the head was fully bandaged, with the wig sitting proudly atop the crepe bandage.

This isn't the normal hair dye. This is weapons grade.

9 hours ago, Skinnyman said:

I’m really tempted to get the DVD now - I’m not sure if this was the gig I was at or one of the other nights but it was certainly a great night.
 

That said, watching the excerpt posted originally I kept being distracted by Rabin’s over-generous application of Just For Men.

It’s either that or a really bad syrup.

I thought that when I saw him.
He has unusually dark hair for a gentleman of his age... 

Then again, I have a large solar panel, so I'm in no position to comment on such matters.

3 hours ago, Rich said:

The first time I saw them was on the Ladder tour, with Billy Sherwood on 2nd guitar and Igor on keys. It was the same tour that the House Of Yes DVD was recorded. It was one of those never-to-be-forgotten gigs... 'Awaken' was simply perfect, and I still have some of the confetti. I'd prefer to keep the memory of that rather than see them now.

Have you heard the Todmobile version of Awaken with JA on vocals ?

It's a life affirming performance.

1 minute ago, stewblack said:

Obviously it's pot luck if anyone is going the right way but it can't hurt to ask. 

Of course.

18 minutes ago, stewblack said:

👆 exactly that. 

It's a wonderfully reliable home made courier service entirely composed of bass players from this community. 

Just open a thread in General Discussion asking if anyone would be passing between where the bass is and where you live. 

Thank you sir.

I'll see what can be done

50 minutes ago, kodiakblair said:

John

 

You ask if anybody is heading north and could they collect the Tokai, they pass it on to somebody heading further north and it winds it's way to Cumbernauld 😀

Thanks D ;-)

I had the immense good fortune to play Loreley the same year as ARW.

Lee's sound as mighty through the PA and resonating across the hill.

Seeing the ARW setup backstage before it was all wheeled on is something I won't forget in a hurry either.
Rick's keyboard setup, complete with its own stereo PA for monitoring, all on one massive riser.

I have very dodgy video of a walk from backstage to FOH (the bass destroys the sound through my phone).

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mb6qRxUjAyQgiQBF7

4 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Could always use the Basschat Relay 

How does that work ?

Not trying to be dumb, but is there a specific thing you have to do ?

4 hours ago, theotherphiljones said:

Plenty of interest but as we speak still available 👍. Pick up only. Trying to sort a way to try it before you buy it but covid restrictions where I live is making things tricky

Should you find yourself in a position to courier the bass, please let me know. 
I'm ready to buy and would make payment without delay.

Failing that, I'll see when I could next be down in your area.

10 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I can remember these hitting the shops in Glasgow many many moons ago. Was so impressed by the build quality compared to Fenders.

Dave

I'd have this in a flash, but the thought of a 9 hour return day to Leeds doesn't fill me with enthusiasm right now.

There are one or two tunes I'm working on that could use that sound.

On 17/06/2020 at 11:10, basspirate said:

535 24  25 anniversary

Flamed English  sycamore 2 pieces body

Birth date 2020

4 kilo

No traces of use

 SALE PRICE 3950euro FIX. 

Trade price 4700euro

Trade options with ken smith elite 6 preferably BT shape body  or a nice fender  jazzbass 72 -77 (only original) + cash

 

I love the idea that Michael Tobias would choose to write Fingeboad. It shows that even top end Luthiers have a sense of humour.
(It's a reference to a misspelling many years ago that became part of internet mythology).

I like this bass even more now.

1 hour ago, Stingray5 said:

Ah yes, that man Mike; he does get around!

I must say I have to agree with @spectoremg - inventive and certainly looks the part. And the name 'Fauxrus' - just genius!

I have to admit. I was quite proud of myself there. It cost a fiver for the vinyl lettering and arrived in 2 days.

18 hours ago, Stingray5 said:

I use bass pedals in Landmarq but to be honest it's a crude set up put together by our keyboard player. Organ bass pedals midi'd through a Roland processor and sent to the PA. Still does the job required though and when they grow up they want to be a set of Taurus pedals!  

We have a mutual friend / acquaintance in Mike, your keyboard player.  We've done gigs with him in his other band.

This is a crude setup too, I guess, as it does pretty much the same thing.

3 hours ago, spectoremg said:

I think you've done a great job and IMO built exactly what's required of bass pedals instead of the over engineered and expensive Taurus III. 

It also didn't cost the £2k or upwards that Taurus would cost, used. If I could find one.

I'm maybe £100 all up. Maybe a little more. I'm still keen to do a simple internal analogue synth. It's all out there and I'll continue to look into it.

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

How about either a teensy or an axoloti?

I'll check those out, thanks for the lead !

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

CofE are doing pretty good. Big following these days John. Gigging with Pallas aint too bad. I'm quite the fan of both bands.

We used to rehearse in Cumbernauld when you guys were in and i even bought a MB combo and ext cab based on what i heard form yours in the studios.

Dave

Dave,
The MB setup works lovely, I have to say.

Yes, I'm forever grateful for that following we have and the gigs we get to do now. It's all a dream for me.

2 hours ago, spectoremg said:

Hi John, I thought this might interest you, purely as a curio, Crumar Bassman. Simple on board synth and the facility to change patches. 

It certainly does interest me. 
If I build another of these, ok when I build another, I'd like to do one with an internal synth, possibly based on Arduino or Raspberry pi. that could still have midi output to use an external module if required. 

It's a rabbit hole I didn't expect to go down...

On 15/03/2020 at 08:23, dmccombe7 said:

That's the current penalty for being in a successful band doing larger gigs. 

Dave

Aye, right !!

German gigged moved to Sept, a week before we're in NL with Pallas. It's not all bad. Franck now looking to cancel Glasgow.

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

At the moment its gigs over 500. I think Ivory's holds 150-200 max but that could change at any time John.

What that means for you is that you now need to post some sound samples on here 

Dave

I will do. I'll post soon.

Two of our three gigs are now postponed. Innit great ?

9 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Some sound samples would be good John or i could just come along to your Glasgow gig on 26th Mar. 

Dave

I hope all goes ahead there. We're living through interesting times. Our gig the following week in Germany is postponed to later in the year. Cruise to the edge is postponed too.  

21 hours ago, toneknob said:

Oh jolly well played that man *round of applause*

Thank you.

I'm very please at how it's turned out.
The strange thing is, I'm not tending towards an overtly synthy tone, very low cutoff and zero filter resonance.

Just the biggest roundest tone.