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  1. molan
    I can't see any changes I did notice the stock list was a bit threadbare. The first 5 brands I looked at on the basses for sale section were all empty? I heard Alex was going part time, are they slimming down stock as well?
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    [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1358788301' post='1945010'] Great post, nothing can beat a great arrangement... [/quote] I have to admit that the start point was that I kept thinking I was out of tune all the time only to discover that it was the keyboard vibrato, lol.
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    In my old 7 piece band I used to share one side of the stage with a keys player. He had an oldish keyboard amp with a 15" driver that often sat right next to my bass amp. He played some nice low bass parts, especially on some funkier stuff with a clavinet setting. He often overlapped into frequencies I was covering and the natural vibrato in the clav settings often used to make me think my bass was out of tune. Because he'd spent a lot of time working out these parts we worked together privately on each song and discovered that on some numbers I could play higher up the neck (or simply leave the bass to him), on others he'd pull out and not play the lower parts and on a few we'd really tightly synchronise and play in unison for added punch. Simply working together like this made loads of difference and we rarely had an issue again
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    [quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1358753569' post='1944359'] Oh my dear God, well I am not a GAS man in anyway.......... but........... Just had a look at your Fodera's [well not your man Fodera's] And i have say that i am hooked...!! They look stunning. Garry [/quote] My GAS seems to be cyclical - it was mostly for nice natural wood tops and now I'm drifting towards simpler plain colour pastels and the odd sunburst
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    [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1358771967' post='1944633'] Probably cos less stuff is selling? and/or folk need the money? [/quote] From personal experience I can say that high end stuff is most certainly selling - often at full asking prices too! My vague theory was that people didn't get what they wanted for Xmas so were buying themselves little presents
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    It is entirely possible that my personal stash of basses will have grown by a Roscoe SKB, another Ritter Cora and a Celinder J Update this month, distinctly likely to be an Alleva Coppolo LG4 in there as well and I'm still drooling over a couple of things in the classifieds! Better put a bit more effort into selling something. . .
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    I had a feeling the nut width was 1.625" - in between classic J and P widths. I've also remembered who it was originally built for back in Jan '09 & a little more history about it It was first made for Jazzer Jeff Andrews (played with Mike Stern plus quite a few others). I'm pretty sure it actually says this on the heel of the neck where its called a "prototype Jeff Andrews Signature" model. I'm not sure if Jeff ever actually played it before Willie Weeks got a hold of it and used it for a Clapton tour (it wasn't his main bass on this tour - hence why there's very few pics of him using it on stage). It was certainly displayed at NAMM in '09 and can be clearly seen on pics of Jimmy's stand. After it returned to Jimmy's workshop he simply labelled it as a 'Signature' model but didn't specify exactly who for. I remember speaking to Jimmy about it and he wouldn't refer to it as anything other than a Signature. I guess technically, because of the labelling on the neck, it's a Jeff Andrews Signature rather than a Willie Weeks. I have a lot a few pics of it from '09 so I've probably got the neck label shot somewhere if anyone wants to see it.
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    Not sure about wooly - more like wading through a thick layer of mud Used to rehearse somewhere that had all Ashdown gear. Had to use my little Sadowsky pre-amp to bypass the pre-amp. Helped quite a lot but the cabs were still all about low thud and no definition or clarity
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    I bought this over to the UK. It was previously owned by Ryan Owens (a fine player) when he was playing with the Robbie Seay Band. Here's a vid of him playing it [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlJl7xT-zI[/url] It's not my favourite song from these sessions (in fact I think it's my least favourite!) but it's the only one I know that's still online. It does show how cool the bass looks strapped on though
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    I hadn't played a G&L either until one came in as a PX at BassGear where I help out one or two days a week. It's the 1500 model with the single large humbucker in a similar position to a MusicMan. Sounds reallly nice and seems very well made. I'd like to try a twin humbucker model if such a thing exists
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    Really nice looking piece of rosewood for the board as well
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    Only looking at the pics on an old iPhone but the checking in the finish looks really nice. Much better than a lot of CS basses I've seen
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    Isn't some of this due to songs being fractionally sped up or slowed down? I played with Carol Decker once on China in Your Hands and she told me to use the album version to learn because the single had been increased in speed and it was fractionally out of tune if you tried to use concert pitch tuning
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    [quote name='funkle' timestamp='1358623875' post='1942493'] Mine! lol. Payment sent. [/quote] Excellent - such great basses. Chris C knows how to put a really good instrument together. Nothing flash or overly 'clever', just very classy
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    [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1358612416' post='1942203'] Good point, I retract the Nazi. [/quote] I was awarded one of these at work:
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    [quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1358611739' post='1942188'] Hm. I've spent some time in Virginia too. Found no other people there at the same time though. Sure you did everything right? [/quote] Maybe they saw you on that huge tractor and had all run away
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    I've spent some time in Virginia touring on a big old Harley - lovely state and nice people
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    Looks nice - seems the seller has travelled all over the world preparing research on it as "the best 64 ever". . .
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    I roadied for U2 at the Marquee in 1979. I was assigned to Edge to help set up his equipment but got to watch the whole show. Watching Adam Clayton made me think "I can do that, I could be in a band like this". I couldn't and, needless to say, I wasn't It did make me buy a rather nice P bass and start learning to play though
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    Eggle Basses

    molan replied to BetaFunk's topic in Bass Guitars

    Slightly off topic but I have a first series Eggle LA Pro 6 string. Beautifully made, some very clever design features and sounds great!
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    Is it me or are the pickup covers larger than standard on the two P Basses? On the tugbar question - I have a '63 original J and I love the way the tort pick guard has shrunk and shows indentations for the tugbar. The original tugbar has also gone out of shape and kinda bent inwards from the screw holes. The indentation in the guard perfectly matches this and shows how these have aged over nearly 50 years I have a '65 as well and, although there's some shrinkage, it's nowhere near as much as the '63. I'd never take these off though!
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    [quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1358500473' post='1940190'] I'm surprised no-one said "'ere, Barney, can you do the vocals again, they're a bit, er , flat" Hooky is free to do his thing because the bulk of the "bassline" is sequenced. You could do the same thing on the bottom couple of strings on a guitar, but it wouldn't have anywhere near the same visual impact. That's the clever bit. [/quote] I think his vocals drifting are all part of the 'charm' of NO. I really like them on this song There is a fair bit more going from Hooky on this song than just the high end core riff as well - although I do really like that riff & he looks great playing it, lol.
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    [quote name='bremen' timestamp='1358510388' post='1940475'] According to my f***ing annoying Nannywall, the whole site is pornography. [/quote] Found it on YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjolqpKR4g
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    [quote name='bremen' timestamp='1358508956' post='1940418'] What's the link? My Nanny Firewall blocks it as 'pornography' [/quote] Lol, it's simply the official video version of Perfect Kiss. For some reason the original video seems to be locked by YouTube and shown as not available in the UK. DailyMotion is a pretty big online video site (just like YT). Maybe it's blocked because your firewall doesn't like the combination of 'online video' and 'kiss' Maybe just try going to Daily Motion as a site & see if that works. If so you can search for New Order & Perfect & it should come up.
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    [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358505263' post='1940321'] But they are very useful to the less experienced among us, or those buying their first serious bass. It shows them what to look out for, and what sort of set up specs they should expect, that's if BGM can actually be bothered to measure nut width, string spacing, action, neck thickness etc. [/quote] I totally agree - it's just that they'd have to potentially print this in every issue as new buyers come into the market. I think the US mags publish a compendium of reviews once a year & have all this sort of stuff in for new players. The better newsagents used to carry a few copies & keep them on-shelf all year for reference. Probably not practical these days
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