Jean-Luc Pickguard

I have a set of weedwackers on my bass. Much lower tension than the original strings or Thomastics. I love the sound of them except the E which sounds more like like a bucket of jelly being slapped with a haddock.

It struck me that on a vintage-style bass, such as a 62 RI precsion the riveted reverse tuners look right, but I avoid them because they turn the wrong way. My MIJ 62 RI has 'CBS era' style tuners, so loses some brownie points on authenticity, but at lease they turn the right way. Wouldn't it be nice if a company (hipshot?) made authenic looking tuners which turned the same way as all other tuners.

Also on my list would be a set of hipshot 'lollypop' tuners for a CIJ mustang bass (inc D-tuner) which look like the original 1966 fender ones.

Any other bass stuff not available to buy, but you think it should be?

That looks blummin' stupid, but as a fan of ashtrays on precisions I've never liked a jazz bridge cover even on a jazz.

She's going to be upset when she sees what the zips on her jacket have done to the back of the bass.

[quote name='Ross' post='1203770' date='Apr 18 2011, 04:29 PM']Anyone know anything about them fretless precision kits for £60 on ebay?[/quote]
The ones you can use to make a bass worth £40?

Have a look at [url="http://brandoniguitars.co.uk/kits.asp"]brandoniguitars.co.uk[/url]

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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1188182' date='Apr 4 2011, 07:32 PM']Isn't 'Van Morrison and smile' in the same sentence an oxymoron?[/quote]
Reminds me of a story a friend told me. One of his friends was in Soho square and spotted Van Morrison on a bench reading a newspaper. Not knowing any better, he went up to him & told Van how much he enjoyed his music and would he mind signing an autograph for him. Vans's response was to lower his newspaper, look the poor chap in the eye and snarl "F**k Off" then raise the newspaper

I've lost count of the number of times I've played that song at a Jam night as its a favourites of one of the singers who regularly turns up and puts together an impromptu band.

I always preferred Sugarpie DeSanto; Low Heel Slip in Mules

According to the label in my M&S underpants I'm a medium, so I've just held a seance and Keith Moon has just told me that John is not happy about his new nickname up there "Spinning Johnny"

IS IT A WASTE OF TM?

[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1196289' date='Apr 11 2011, 10:05 PM']It looks like someone has used the ashtray as an ashtray![/quote]
That'll be the weatherstrip used for the mute giving off gasses as it disintegrates causing a reaction in the nitro.

Good luck to John's family who are making money off these, but anyone who buys ones of these for the Entwhistle name is a fuggin' idiot. Unless they are nice basses which fill a requirement. I can see bass players in low budget Who tribute acts falling over themselves to get one of each model.

Wipe the new string with the grease from a McDonalds Quarter Pounder - that will help kill the zing a bit

It sounds like Saturday afternoon in the local music shop.

Dave bought a set of double bass strings from me. It was a a pleasure to deal with him. Very easy transaction with fast payment & quick answering of PMs.

Sold

I love the old Framus ones with the cutaway - they just say 'Rock n Roll' to me.

That brings back memories of my first amp - the head was an Ohm very similar to this, but for some reason it had a [s]spaceship takeoff emulator[/s] flanger instead of the much more sensible compressor. I used it with a big 1x 15" cab with Fat Freddies cat painted on the grille.

These have been on my Stentor Student 1950 (standard 3/4) bass for a while, but as I hardly play it, the strings have not been used much and are in very good condition. They've been put on & taken off just once and the red and purple silks at both ends are still neat & not at all frazzled.

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Since I had the j-retro fitted at the same time and I can go from Marcus kicking over a bucket of spoons to bowel opening dub without touching my amp eq its hard to say how much is actually due to the pickups, but they seem to have a wide frequency reponse - I have a passive danelectro and the low-tech "bung a load of coiled wire into lipstick tube" method of construction does seem to give an extended frequency response at both ends of the spectrum.

If it has the EMG pickups its a CR5M rather than CR5 - a lovely bass at a very good price.

I have one and I don't think I'd ever sell it.

I do a fair bit of rockabilly and what some might call country. I use flatwounds thomastiks and usually take a my mustang or Epi thunderbird pro-v, although I have been known to use a precision, ns upright or ashbory depending on the gig.

I ownder whether they use focus groups or ask informed gigging bass players what they want?

It looks like it has the typical useless Ashdown 'deep' switch and the eq looks confusing and clunky. I'm sure more people would prefer a compressor/limiter built in, perhaps even a knob to add sansamp-style valve-sounding grind and maybe something [s]ripping off[/s] inspired by the MarkBass magic EQ knobs - the VPL & the STD or whatever they're called.

I can't get my head around the point of the custom control panel - is it like apple engraving iPods to prevent people returning them if they change their mind after hearing it

I have them in a highway1 Jazz - I'm not too good at describing how pickups sound, but I like the sound and they work well with the j-retro in the bass to give a wide range of tones.