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[quote name='MrTaff' timestamp='1356982644' post='1916124']
Attitudes like that are why people don't like bassist that play 5 & 6 strings, more strings doesn't make you better,
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If you read the post you will actually notice that I didnt say it made you better; I just asked that you dont give others grief if they choose to be different. If you have your own insecurities I am sorry if you feel bothered by my suggestion but please dont put words in that weren't there.
It's a tongue in cheek comment. Ironic in how it works the other way around.

In other words as a five string player I don't criticise the four stringers or their choice of bass. Come to think of it, in 25 years I don't think I have ever once complained about someone's gear or refused to play with them or told them to go buy a different piece of kit.
Kinda bad manners. What works for you, works for you. 4 isnt better than 5 or 6 or anything else for that matter.

How did we ever make it out of the leo fender p bass years. What happened to baving fun and giving people satisfaction.
Do sportsmen get the same grief about football boots they wear? I think not cuz they all do the same job. Why dont the 4 string army wise up and embrace the future. Just because you cant play a five string dont give other folk grief about it. Lets be honest if you are playing in a pub half the audience will be too oiled to care by the time you are on stage after ten oclock. All that matters to me is that i do my job accurately and consistently. If you are more interested in looks over sound then trythe x factor show cuz theyll have space for you im sure. They will love u bass barbie.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1356930132' post='1915262']


I wouldn't like to be in a band with a guitarist that has one of those pointy BC Rich's. To me, that's making a fairly firm statement about what image you like. Let's face it, somebody who likes a pointy guitar isn't really going to want to play nice slow melodic pieces.

Although, having said that, i know there is a sh*t storm coming now.
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Not quite a storm. Just wonderin if a gibson flyin V wud get the same response.
;-)

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1356807163' post='1913890']


Presumably in light of that adage , women in wheel chairs ( tits [i]and[/i] wheels ) are considered to be particulaly troublesome ?
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Mmmm.
Tally ho the women drivers.

Be sure to try before u buy. It aint evryones cuppa tea.
I love them but cant get comfortable playin them and tried three before admitting it. Also cost a fortune.

U can buy a new one on evilbay for about £1499.00
Start ther and work down i think. With push pull vintage option i think it makes it post 2006. Someone correct me if im wrong. If its fireglo it may be more. Some variables, but 1499 is a new one.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1356783950' post='1913522']
Funny you should say that, as one of the factors that went through my head recently when deciding to buy a Sandberg Cali VM4 rather than lay out a considerable extra wedge on a Dingwall AB1 5-er was: How can I turn up at a country gig with this weird-looking fanned-fret 5-string? So it was partly down to my own conservatism, partly down to my perception of the audience's conservatism.
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I play a DIngwall ABZII at the minute and my feeling is if you don't like it find someone else.
Most people generally spend the first 5 minutes asking about how does that fretboard work; then the next 5 mins working up to asking for a play on it. Then generally agree it's the mutts nutts afterwards.

Are we all bowing to the image of a Leo inspired wooden slab with the bare bass-ics. . .

Guitar players get to play weird and wonderful shapes and sounds. Drummers percuss on whatever they find. Why do bass players have to conform to someone's (probably the gear slave guitarist) idea of how it should be. With expression / technique / effects / plucking and picking / accent are we not there or thereabouts with most sounds if you have a decent quality passive / active bass and amp. If it is the case - then we are image driven.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1356783472' post='1913513']
Not so sure about this. I have come across drum snobbery - a jam night where the guy that ran it (a drummer) once brought just kick, snare and hi-hat with the comment "that'll sort the men out from the boys"!
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Maybe he just drove a Reliant Robin. How is Rodney these days?

If it's got wheels it will give you trouble.. . .. not if. When.

[quote name='Angel' timestamp='1356778698' post='1913443']
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.

I seem to recall that Oasis told the bass player to lose the 5 string if he wanted the gig.
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Shame they hadn't told the singer to get a personality and a voice . . . . .

Some people , just put them in front of a microphone and they think they can sing and that they are important or something.

Brotherly love and a sympathetic co-operative bassist clearly made the band a success. Did the bass player not eventually leave ? I never really followed every move or bought many CDs but you couldn't avoid the strangled cat with mancunian twang on the radio andTV.

MMMMM


What about a BC RICH ex Blackie Lawless Black Widow with stage blood and raw meat (and other dubious substances) caked around the pickups and frets.

Or the bloke from GWAR and his ..........thing, appendage, bass , whatever he calls it.


Put that in your pipe and smoke it Motown fun . . . ..He he he,

or in spirit of the season Ho ho ho,

[indent=1]My experience of this I have to say is pretty limited to one particularly funny incident personally speaking although I have heard of the guitar player in some other setups having a girly hissy-fit because the bass players kit looked better than his boring axe did. What a proper little drama monkey I was thinking.[/indent]

[indent=1]I have had an instance where the guitar player yells at me to stop playing the wrong note cuz he sees me playing G on the "wrong string" as far as his little 6 string from E and up world is concerned. As we all know G is on the second string down on a 5-er. I took the time to explain the applied advanced rocket chemical science knowledge required and he carried on. Then the drama started again when playing low D on the fifth fret as I was tuned to low A. Oh my goodness - what a complete plonker. Safe to say I haven't been back to that. Shame as the drummer was excellent, but under the thumb of the primadonna on the tele.[/indent]

[indent=1]May I hazard a suggestion that the guitar genius is afraid of being upstage by the expected to be hamfisted single note boring bass player and image is nothing to do with it ? Just that he wants the lions share of fills and someone on a four string is more likely to be Cliff Williams than John Myung.[/indent]

[indent=1]PS before the AC/DC fan club assassinate me - I aint sayin Cliff is bad as his (knowing his place) bass provides the foundation for the Young brothers to dance their magic all over the place. Basic drumming dominated all early AC/DC too but thats for another forum Im sure. [/indent]
[indent=1]Point I'm making is, Cliff and Myung are different spec models of a famous bass player.[/indent]

Ditto

Maybe some day.
Perhaps when I retire I will have the money.

Until then I will always wonder. I will also be very happy with whatever I am playing at the time. . . . . .

Congratulations on your order.
Hope it's all you are expecting.

That's good news about GAK being so helpful... . .. . .

How much?

[quote name='Gully35' timestamp='1356542513' post='1910979']
@ Bassman. Matchetts are a rip off. They priced a tort pickguard for my P-bass at £95 plus VAT. I ordered one through the fender dealer in Lisburn for £50!
I will try Dawsons though, definately. And well I'll try matchetts for a laugh to hear their price. Cheers!

Yeah I think I'll also phone the GAK shop, it appears to be better than the website.
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Id agree. Dawsons wud be first try.
Then belfast guitar centre. Then bairds. Then matchetts.
I think the price you were quoted for the pickguard was their way of saying "we cant be annoyed ordering this for you so we will just be so stupid expensive you will go somwer else cuz we r busy"
I sympathise with your dilemna bcuz over her we r kinda cut off from real quality bass shops like the mainland have. Its pantz but thats life. I bought my first usa fender p bass in matchetts 17 yrs ago and they wer the cheapest back then.
Keep us posted on progress. Try on the forum here for a good secondhand one . . . . Before u order. I wud.

I live in northern ireland too and id reccomend a trip to dawsons or matchetts in belfast and if what u want isnt on the wall they will order u one. U can then try before you buy.
Try belfast guitar centre too as its a really good shop. Also in belfast.
Its a buyers market so dont let some mainland online giant stuff you with one they dont want hoping you cant be botherd to return it. I learnt the hard way.
Just remembered bairds on york road beside yorkgate too in belfast. Great bunch of guys in there.

After all that coke. Maybe santa needs a good burp and he wud be skinny.

Trades ?

Any bassist would love to get a grip on a top, top end bass.
But when you set your prices so high that only the very flush will get to buy one new it just makes a big gap in class. The haves. And the have nots.
One thing is for sure though. Owning a mad money bass doesn`t mean you can play it.
Bein serious if i was given an alembic new id probably sell it and buy 2 or 3 of somethin else.

This thread is getting as cheesy as last years Stilton.

Between Sledge basses and no sanity clauses, whats next ?

Good King Wenceslas sat down,
To play some bass this evenin;
Laid the notes out all around
Deep and crisp and even.

Years ago I spotted an old battered and chipped but beautifully real McCoy Sting signature Fender model in a branch of cash converters for £50.00. The shop attendant said that they couldn't wait to get rid of it as it was making the shop look bad. I wryly smiled and played it and it was a beauty; but here the story goes bad.
I didn't notice the sneaky sweaty geek who was watching from behind the DVD stand and as I set it down to go to the autobank next door he swooped and plucked the deal from below my nose.
Lesson learnt - if it seems good, at least put a deposit down before you release it from your mucky paws and don't fall for the disinterested passer by who hangs around like a stale smell pretending to be ignoring you but is about to gazzump your booty.

If Lemmy played an Alembic he would do it with a brown paper bag over his head so nobody would recognise him. Probably shake it to pieces in three songs.

As for Geddy Lee, I recently consulted a CD cover and the photo in the inside of one of their hits albums shows him playing a Jetglo Ric 4003 and guess what I've just noticed - the U bend has gone......!!! I wasn't the only one who had an issue with it. I'm not Geddy Lee, not even worthy to tune his bass but if this is one thing I have in common with him I will go now and happily leave that thing alone.

Funny as we look around. Geddy now plays a Fender J

[quote name='fender73' timestamp='1356385607' post='1909889']
Surely he's a Fender P Bass player. He'd like to play other makes too but he endorses Fender, and there is a Claus in his contract.....



ahem.
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He's Damned. "There ain't no sanity clause"

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