Jazz Bass 65

Way back Andy Fraser of Free played some very mature Bass lines for one so young, Jack Bruce although gifted was a little to busy for me having said that John Entwistle made being busy very musical.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1342635371' post='1738459'] If anyone still doubts the massive impact of The Beatles as cultural icon then prepare to be convinced: [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-18886223"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...eyside-18886223[/url] [/quote] Agree 100% There will never be anything to equal the effect/impact that they had and not just for there music, the cultural shock that they created is still being felt today.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1342629905' post='1738292'] Not suggesting we should forget they exiisted. I've seen 50 years of Beatle fanatics, and judging by the title of this thread, theres still hype. Still people who think of them as some sort of prophets. Some people bought anything they did, or said. Some even bought the white album and Yellow Submarine. They were just 4 (slightly upper) working class kids from Liverpool. Time to let go and move on. [/quote] If you weren't playing in the time before the Beatles you couldn't feel the full impact they made, I did my first gig late summer 62, 6 months later the whole Uk (soon to be world) music scene was turned upside down, we were carried along on the fantastic ride they created and although I still gig regularly I'll never foreget the debt that we owe to the Beatles, they freed the popular music scene for a while.

[quote name='Protium' timestamp='1342630529' post='1738310'] A "Beatles Experience" that involves music of The Beatles? What did you expect? Felt like they were "cashing in on the memory of the Beatles", this has got to be a wind up surely? [/quote]I didn't expect to be subjected to One Man and an Electro Accoustic in the advertised 'Home of the Beatles' neither did many others, the whole area is hyped up as The Beatles Experience, the band on Sunday night were good, live and authentic.

As I said Sunday in the Cavern was great, but on Monday nearly all of the venues that had been belting out music the previous evening were closed although there were plenty of visitors including many from overseas including a high percentage from the far east. if you go on the Beatles Experience you only get one night in your hotel, I felt very sorry for those who'd arrived on Monday expecting to hear the 'Liverpool Sound' only to be subjected to self penned (rule of the house no covers) Suicide notes at the open mic night in the Cavern Bar and busking in the Cavern Club. We payed to stay another night as we'd enjoyed the Sunday sessions to say that it was a bit of a letdown would be an understatement. Go to Nashville and there we found umpteen bands all over town most nights during our two visits

Went to the 'Beatle Experience' staying at The Hard days Night Hotel on Sunday 15th July. The Hotel was great and only a couple of minutes from the Cavern Club and Cavern Bar. There were visitors from all round the world who like us enjoyed the live band music on Sunday evening. Unfortunately this did not carry through on Monday evening where we were subjected to solo singer guitarists churning out Beatles songs like street buskers. Like us a couple from Norway were very dissapointed to find and absence of live bands on Monday evening anywhere in the vicinity of the 'Cavern', which, as on Sunday evening, was packed out again, we had paid to stay an extra night expecting to see and hear more live bands. It felt like they were just cashing in on the memory of the Beatles. To travel from the far side of the world as many of the visitors had and only to be entertained by nothing more than busking must be a letdown.

Why oh why won't Ashdown make available a power amp version of their Little Giant?

I build my own cabs and quite few for other people, these two were for a fellow bassist who used a Markbass amp, at the time they were £175 each but with Neos reaching silly prices these days they'd cost more. The cabs are 1/2" ply braced and amzingly light, the tuning ports are 4" fall pipe the 15" (3" in the 2x10) is loaded with an Eminence Kappalite 3015, the 2x10" isloaded with Eminence Beta 10s. I gig the same type of cabs myself so I know how well they work and how much sound they kick out In the past complex cabs were needed due to the limtations of the speakers of the day, if they'd handle 100 watts you were lucky, today i make a simple tuned. box

Played one when they were first issued in the early 60s. Eric Haydock of the Hollies played one on their early hits.

eBay customer support have been rubbish and most annoying, you get replies to 1% of what you've written and loads of replies to nothing you've written. eBay have even claimed that the seller has refunded the original carriage cost when all the seller has refunded the cost of the item. You never get a direct reply to what you have written. It is a policy that they employ to wear you down.

I bought a Fender Jazz Bass V on Ebay, there was serious undisclosed damage to the headstock that could not be repaired. Although the seller refunded the cost of the item he would not refund carriage/delivery cost. Ebay have been no help whatsoever despit all the claims of secure buying. I am £60 out of pocket over carriage/delivery costs which Ebay have failed to to tackle the seller over as he deliberately mis-sold the item. So beware Ebay/Paypal are not as safe as they imply

Bought a MM Stingray 5 in Nashville on a holiday in 2009 £806 (£1300 in the UK at that time) went back to motel put neck in one case body in another caught the plane home.