Jean-Luc Pickguard

Years ago the (now late) bloke in the Bass Cellar told me when I enquired about availablity of the MIJ Fender Duck Bass, that Duck wasn't a very good player and Lewis Steinberg played on all the hits I didn't take much notice of him though as Duck was and (indeed still is) a well respected and sucessful recording artist with impeccible taste who has been inducted into the Rock n Roll hall of fame and Mr Baldy was a cloth-eared miserable little cnut in a shtty bass shop.

[quote name='TheDarkReaver' post='290324' date='Sep 23 2008, 09:02 PM']That's because you seem to have bought an amp.[/quote] You'll probably suffer bad neck dive if you screw that to the headstock.

lacquering the cat seems a bit drastic to me. Shave him instead.

I used to have a pair of their tennis shoes. They were OK but the soles wore out rather fast.

Ha! the listing has now been changed. I'm off to carve the word "funk" in the neck heel of a squier so I can put it on ebay with the caption "Jamerson?" & pretend to know nothing about anything.

Oh, the humanity

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Bass-Scratchplate-ex-Sid-Vicious_W0QQitemZ380064660841QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item380064660841&_trkparms=72%3A12|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Fender ? Bass Scratchplate ex Sid Vicious ?[/url] Oh dear what a load of nonsense in his listing. I wonder if he'll acknowledge my msg I sent: [quote]Hi, I can clear up the mystery of the Sid Vicious connection for you. This is definitely NOT a scratchplate from a 70s or earlier bass. All Precision bass pickguards before 1982 had extra holes for the chrome pickup cover and thumbrest. These holes are not present in yours. It looks single-ply rather than three ply of a genuine fender and there is at least one other screw hole missing as well as no half-moon cutout at the neck butt. I suggest you edit your listing - unless it is your intention to mislead. This is not a Fender Pickguard and when it was made Sid Vicious had already been dead several years. Hope this helps.[/quote]

Smoke on the water

[quote name='EccentricRichard' post='288488' date='Sep 21 2008, 12:45 PM']Not being rude, merely making objective criticism...[/quote] Yeah right - ask people about their dream basses and slag them off. That's just bad manners.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='288233' date='Sep 20 2008, 09:04 PM']That whole Daisy Rock is cool![/quote] My 13 yr old thinks so and so does her 11 year-old sister who has the geetar version also in magenta-burst pearl-top.

New Order live in Glasgow on TFM - I used to love New Order in the 80s, but its still all fcuking drum machines & sequencers. What a load of soulless tosh. Bernard still can't sing & I can't hear his guitar & Hooky's "bass" playing is still just the old three note riffs. Oh dear

The offset 'piano-key' pearloid block markers on daughter's daisyrock elite are cool

Don't care on a fretted bg - they're only dots if I'm looking at dots when playing it'll be the edge dots, however the cascading dots on my NS CR-5M are a work of genius.

I have ritter gigbag for my thunderbird - perhaps an RD would fit in one of those? RockBass have a range of oversize bass gigbags as well.

[quote name='BigBadBassman' post='287943' date='Sep 20 2008, 12:33 PM']Thanks JLP for pointing me in the direction of the Injury Management book - next stop Amazon.[/quote] Glad to be of assistance. I think you can only get the book from Randy's site - I ordered my copy direct and he signed it for me

I though the one string fretless upright I made was original - its not much more than a length of timber with a machinehead a keyhole plate for tailpiece, pieces of chopstick for bridge & nut and a cheapo piezo. However it turns out there are others like it. Oh well. btw - its rather crap so I usually keep it hidden away and don't talk about it.

I used to get pains in both hands towards the end of gigs. I was able to prevent this from happening again by letting the amp do more of the work and play with a much lighter touch. I use very floppy strings on my BGs - Thomastik TI324.on the mustang and TI344 on the jazz/precisions. My EUB is an NS CR5M with the stock strings. I have no problem with it cutting through the drums & two loud guitarists by using a blend of the piezo & magnetic pickup. There's a great book by Dr Randy Kertz who is also a bass player: [url="http://www.drkertz.com/bassistguide.html"]The Bassist's Guide to Injury Management, Prevention and Better Health[/url]

I'm very happy with my Schroeder 1212L & Markbass LittleMarkII

[quote name='EccentricRichard' post='287304' date='Sep 19 2008, 02:13 PM']Eurgh. That sounds HORRIBLE. Can't understand why anyone would want to make a bass out of any Fender guitar - except maybe the Jazzmaster.[/quote] Are you this rude in real life or only on the internet?

I'd be happy if I had one just like this lucky bloke's bass: 1966 mustang with original daphne blue finish with pearl guard and lollypop tuners. or maybe a modern CIJ one in california blue an aged pearl guard instead of the bright stock one. Also in my dreams hipshot will make a set of mustang tuners with lollypop paddles and a D-tuner.

I though this thread was going to be a retelling of the joke about the vicar & the bass player: A vicar was chatting to a bass player at a cocktail party. The vicar asks the bass player why he plays bass. The bass player replies that he had always wanted to play an instrument but could never decide which instrument to learn until one day he was in his local music shop and saw a wonderful thunderbird bass which he bought and has since enabled bass playing to become a central part of his life. Ah said the vicar - "that must have been a wonderful epiphany" to which the bass player replied... "No its a proper Gibson!"

I made a fretless precision using Brandoni neck & body. I bought a finished body in 3t sunburst and I'm hard pressed to find any difference between it and the one on my 62RI MIJ precsion. If you can get to Wembley you can pick out the exact body & neck you want.

I'm not allowed to play - I'd have gone for limiter, valve-sounding distortion & eq - ie like a posh version of the Behringer green limiter pedal & silver bass preamp pedal in a decent box with decent pots & sockets.

I paid £100 for a stripped 1970 musicmaster about eight years ago - its now my daughter's pride & joy and is a lovely shade of lilac. The 90s Squier vista series musicmasters are very decent and go for much cheaper prices than the US ones. I have one I'm thinking of selling, unfortunately its shell pink.

My Japanese '62 reissue Precision was made in 1990 (I think) MIJ so it probably isn't the same as the current models. It is definitely alder. Its as good as any precision I've played but there are differences in the finish (thicker than nitro) and hardware - the tuners are unbranded 70s style rather than reverse klusons.