Roger2611

Dakota?

Mr Brightside?

17 hours ago, prowla said:

But it is so easy to put a Fender decal on anything.

I agree but 99% of "fake" Fender's will have glaring errors which is likely why we do tend to spot them pretty easily on here, although I am sure there will be some seriously good fakes that only a real expert will spot and that will slip through, even here, unnoticed.

Instruments like Fenders which are, at the end of the day just a collection of parts will always undergo changes during their lifetime, usually not for nefarious reasons, I have a 79 Olly white Precision which, as far as I am aware is 100% original with the exception of the black scratch plate which I swapped from my old 79 Precision to this bass, so mine is still a 79 Precision throughout but it is not 100% original anymore, I would mention that fact if I sold it but I doubt it would, or should, have an impact on its value?

This thread shows the value of this site in that the bass has been seen and flagged to anyone who watches the Ebay market place regularly and likes to check whether a bass is as described!

31 minutes ago, prowla said:

The whole Fender used market is a minefield. 
Ironically this site bans the sale of the easiest brand to spot fakes. 

To be fair there doesn't appear to be many fakes that make it through unreported on here, we are pretty good at spotting a dodgy Fender, I had a look at this one over Christmas and thought it looked like a bitsa bass, I had picked up on the decal being wrong for a 72 bass but hadn't gone as far as the patent numbers!

3 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Yes, as recently as NYE. Looking at the crowd , how great the stage looked with our lighting and gear knowing I'm a part of this.

I'm not the guy looking wishing he had a gig. I love the attention. I love being approached by people that want to talk to me only because I'm in the band.

However it's not easy keeping my spirit up after 50 years of gigging. Health issues and fighting to stay a live in a scene that's dieing.

It helps that we cherry pick our gigs now. We know crap gigs when we see them and will not book them.

And most of all, I play with good people. We're ego and drama free.

Gigging is still a blast for me. While chronologically I'm 66, I still have the same spirit I had when I started gigging in public at age 12.

Blue

It's great to read that Blue, at 53 it gives me hope I can get back to regular gigging, I am slowly going out of my mind sitting around weekend after weekend doing nothing yet still apparently being in 2 bands! Between the two I have one single festival in August in the diary, yet I was pressured by both bands to give up the covers band because they had too many dates which meant the originals bands couldn't gig.....something that clearly worked out well then!!

I am starting to go through the Join My Band experience again looking at hundreds of adds from dreamers, wasters and bands full of 17 year olds that want to play doom metal (whatever that is!) but hopefully "the one" I need will appear at some point

Despite working full time in a stressful job the getting on stage and all that goes with it brings a balance to life that at the moment is sadly missing.

47 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Following on from a thread about P basses all sounding the same. I believe jazz basses pretty much all sound the same. Bad!

I've never got on with any jazz bass, I've had many fenders and a couple laklands, although I like the thinner necks, the sound just leaves me underwhelmed.

I respectfully disagree, Jazz basses sound crap when I play them because their sound just doesn't work for me on stage but seem to sound fine when you are in the audience, so, in theory, the further you get from a Jazz bass the better it sounds?

I guess some unfortunate guitars and basses fall into the hands of "improvers" or so called luthiers and are sadly butchered to the point of no return.....mentioning no names!

I loved my Bass Collection's back in the 80's / 90's, I had an 801 and a 602 fretless, but I guess times change, in recent years I have managed to replace both but they are not my go to basses.

TBH I have never found the perfect bass and, as a long time sufferer of the dreaded GAS, I somehow doubt I ever will! The perfect bass is always just around the next corner!

My worst was Edwards Number 8 in Birmingham many years back, we were putting in a 20K PA for a Banghra festival, we were promised 8 burly roadies to get the gear in and down (or up) two flights of stairs, either way we had no help in or out at the end of the night, so it was down to 3 of us to man handle the entire rig in and out, that damn near killed me!

Love the colour combination, it looks fantastic

I still love Elites if I can find them

There was a battered pearl white one on last week, had it not been so battered I would have brought it to match my Thunder IIa guitar in pearl white

10 lbs max for me, I am happy with the lighter basses but if it's over 10 lbs it will just end up sitting in the rack not getting played

Can I be the voice of sanity here please?

Do you really need it?

Will not having it spoil Christmas?

Will not having it eat away at your very soul, knowing it could, no, should have been yours and now it is residing in the arms of someone who clearly doesn't deserve it?

Do you have just enough space for it (even if it means a child must sleep in the garage going forward)?

Then I think you have answered your own question!

This one still works for me, what doesn't work for me is that the generation that wrote and lived this originally are now the ones in power...wrote great protest songs...yes......learnt anything from them....sadly no!

To be fair Ceremony by New Order is pretty simple but a very effective bass line

I had a Eastcoast White Falcon bass copy, I gigged it once but it was so badly built I never felt I could rely on it, the electrics were not wired up correctly from new, one of the pots was already partly sheered and fell off during said gig and action wise it took a fair bit of work to get it to a playable, and nothing more than playable condition....apart from that it looked absolutely brilliant!

Would I recommend one....yes if you want to hang it on the wall and look at it admiringly 

How very odd, when I click the original link it takes me to a car battery jumper pack!

Friends, in all my bands both past and present we used to get together socially (and still do in some cases) to me, a band works better if the members can socialise outside the band environment?

With walk out music of "Bring Your Daughter's to the Slaughter" it could make the London stadium a place other teams fear to come, I guess if it doesn't work and they get beat "Run to the Hills" would work as the team was booed off at the end of the game  

Many years ago there was a very short lived punk band in Northampton called "Kipper Trench" who then changed their name to "By Order of the Seven Fat Pigs"

Beaver Patrol?

I have had a few where sizing becomes somewhat questionable, I have gone on stage and thought "where is my bass....ahh it's ok it's in my pocket!" gets said bass out which is now full sized, plays songs them puts bass back in pocket...it makes me smile

My favourite one was I was being chased by the old bill in this huge old American car, I couldn't shake the fuzz off so I drove behind a bush, got out the car, put the car in my pocket and waited until the fuzz had passed before putting the car back on the road and driving off....I am sure brain had been smoking something funny without telling or sharing it with me!

Please can someone answer what may be a stupid question!

I think I am going to go for a Behringer XR18 digital mixer for its sheer features and portability but also for the ability to  to have multiple aux outs to feed our in ear system we are going to start using.....I have downloaded the X-Air app for my phone and everything looks straightforward and manageable from my limited understanding of these digital mixers, so my question is....if all members of the band download the X-Air app would they be able to connect to the mixer and create and manage their own monitor mix (as long as it was agreed they don't start messing with any other screens!) or would it need to be a single phone / tablet controlling the monitoring along with any other outputs?

Cheers

Rog  

2 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

Three timeless one-hit wonders from the Sixties:

Spirit In The Sky
Eve of Destruction
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
 

Wasn't Spirit in the Sky also a one hit wonder for Doctor and the Medics? I wonder if there are others that were a one hit wonder for one band and were subsequently a one hit wonder for another band?

47 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Custom IEM quads or UE6 or above. You'll never have any problems with fitment then... and if you think the 215s sounds great, prepare to get your thoughts on "great" rebenchmarked!

Thank you, I guess sounds great bit is subjective but understandable when compared to the standard fodder that comes with a cheaper IEM system, I am sure the Quads and UE6's will sound even better but at the moment I am in the experimental stage of does it work for the band to use an IEM system, can I build one for a sensible budget that will deliver what we need (I think I am about there with the system anyway) but if I cannot get them to stay in my ears it will be a short lived project, either that or I will be on stage with a set of closed back Sennheiser DT250's on my head!