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Here's my midnight wine mex jazz with black scratch plate. not sure why my eyes are blacked out, seemed funny at the time

My old band always used to get compared to hawkwind. A lot! I'd never really heard them other than silver machine. So at the grand old age of 24 I heard Warrior on the edge of time for the first time with some mates. When Opa -Loka played and we heard the bass, everyone looked at me and said "that sounds like you playing". I played a gig at a little festival in an afro jazz kind of band and was playing just after Nik Turner, I like to tell people he supported us. Whenever I get asked to DJ at gigs, I always try to Opa Loka. I've never been to see Hawkwind live as people have told me not to bother as they aren't sounding too great live and rely too much on sequencers live. People's views on them differ so much that I don't want to take the risk and be disappointed.

[quote name='Tait' post='836421' date='May 13 2010, 05:50 PM']ooh i like that. i don't really know much about baritones, is that E-E?[/quote] I think it is E-E as its 30 inch scale.

I'm not sure if its the photo but I do like the way the control plate is kind of flush with the body

found a copy of the bass VI on rondo site [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/argustoaskbk.html"]http://www.rondomusic.com/argustoaskbk.html[/url] or even nicer in lake placid blue [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/arguslpb.html"]http://www.rondomusic.com/arguslpb.html[/url]

[quote name='daflewis' post='835160' date='May 12 2010, 11:14 AM']you're right, the ISB recommend used tea bags..... [/quote] I thought you meant Incredible String Band for a second there despite reading Bilbo's post a few seconds earlier. I bet they did use tea bags on a few recordings though.

my work headphones have limiters built in to them so couldnt hear anything from 16khz. went to 19 on the cheap headphones

worked a treat for me for about a year. wasn't so fun when I had to clean it off when I got it fixed.

here's a website looking at samples [url="http://www.whosampled.com/"]http://www.whosampled.com/[/url] The super furry animals sampled Steely Dan on "the man don't give a f***" just one line, looped it and made an awesome track line features around 3min 50 SFA track (sample can be heard from around 1min 10 When I first heard Funkadelic it felt like a De ja Vu experience- pardon the pun but it was more of a de la soul experience funkadelic de la soul So much hip hop, so many samples! (which ain't a bad thing at all)

intriguing- Is it just me who when ebay for say, that same bass and didn't really want to go above 400 quid but really wanted it, I'd have bid something like £403.76?

oh yeah, I was meant to mention that as its that furry kind of material, I do find I knock them quite a bit!

I'm sure this is a warwick stand as well.similar thing, holds 5 guitars and has spacers at the bottom but its a case. I think I paid about 35 quid for it on ebay around 5 or 6 years ago. here's an old pic of it with just offset electrics and now with a few different instruments it has velcro spacers at the bottom so you can adjust them for various size guitars like I have with my acoustic

I have gas for a bass VI, anyone seen any that have been sold or are for sale recently? I'm assuming the jap version would be the most affordable version! Also, what about the jag baritone, is that similar at all?

+1 for soundcloud as well. and you see it as a nice wav as well!

I love jags/mustangs and jazzmasters. the jagstangs an acquired taste but Ive always fancied trying one out. Personally I'd get one of those squier music masters and see if you could pimp the hell out of it! Ive seen them in the past go for not too much money [url="http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geocities.jp/bolaneclennon/inst/img/mmbass.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.geocities.jp/bolaneclennon/inst/mmbass.html&usg=__-SKp3xUbKncIBBmpHK1fPKALkpM=&h=428&w=570&sz=140&hl=en&start=3&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=1qew-VtbBgU6AM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsquier%2Bmusic%2Bmaster%2Bbass%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1"]http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h...%26tbs%3Disch:1[/url]

I think my moment was when I heard stone roses "I wanna be adored" bass intro, just remember thinking that is the coolest sound ever. It all just clicked and I started listening out for the bass on everything- Pixies "debaser", Breeders "last splash" Nevermind was up there as well, especially that cool little bass type solo on"in bloom" and the bass sound on "Lithium". that must have been around 93-94, didn't get a bass for a few years after that though (although I used to have a nasty marlin strat copy that I tried to play like a bass) It was then going to watch bands live when I knew I had found numer one.

excellent news that!!!

Ive always wanted an eb2 style bass. really looking forward to this thread!

thanks for the suggestions. I do quite like Grambo's idea and thanks for sharing the picture Bassace! I think I'm going to go for the stenton stand for now as the risk of getting the bass knocked are quite high (its already been kicked half a dozen times!)

I cant really count borrowing a bass off a friend (bc rich duff gnr lookalike with 3 pups) as my first so Ive had 4 basses and 3 rigs fender mim jazz bass Hamer cruise bass (sold onto a friend-just played it recently live and it sounds great! still hate the colour though) Prosebass fretless (sold onto another mate so as to fund the double bass) 1 double bass (chinese laminate thing, loving it at the mo) Laney dp150 combo (4x10 cab + big head with lots of dials= bloody heavy) Laney rbg combo (15 " speaker, currently on loan to a friend) SWR 350 head and triad (sold on last years due to lack of gigs/space)

borrowed a bass from my mate for about a year (a nasty bc rich) until I managed to buy a MIM jazz bass. Still my number 1 although I've upgraded the pickups . Its 10 years old this year.Other basses have come and gone but this is a keeper. first rig was bought off the guy I borrowed the bass from, a Laney dp 150 combo. christ knows why it was a combo as it weighed a tonne with all 4 speakers and head. had a graphic eq and all these other buttons. to this day I've never known what they all did. sold it for 50 quid about 3 years ago.

Ive just spent an enjoyable half hour reading this thread. Fascinating stuff! I can't believe I've missed it all this time. I wish you all the best with this project and like everyone else I'm really looking forward to the updates.