Roger2611

You can get the Nitro to check very quickly, the trouble is I am not exactly sure how or why it happened so quickly! I have just done a Candy Apple Red Precision body, the gold undercoat was done in standard Halfords aerosol cans with a Nitro red tint and Lacquer over the top, the gold had been on for a good six months or more as I had been using the bass in gold for quite a while. I did the red tint outside on a chilly but dry day and once touch dry moved the body on to the window sill upstairs in direct sunlight, then about 3 days later I did exactly the same with the lacquer coat, I then left it for a couple of weeks before assembling and noticed the finish had checked beautifully. I did another Precision body in a vintage yellow but used Nitro from start to finish, that has not checked at all, so I am wondering if it was some kind of reaction between the Halfords Gold and the Nitro top coats

How much It looks like something you might find in your local "Crack Converters" Tastefully butchered by a five year old

Unless I am looking at the picture wrong, it looks to be for a left handed bass? Quite an important omission from the description if that is the case!

Lady, you rocked!

This seems to be turning into a thread of describe the decades in a few words with maximum impact! here go's 60's birth to 4 years, great pedal car, Jimmy Young on the radio, my sister wasn't born...life was good 70's 4 to 14, She came along and spoilt everything, one hot summer and Nottingham Forest won in Europe....life was ok 80's 14 to 24 discovered punk, girls, punk girls, soft drugs, cars and playing bass...life was good...oh yeah, had child! 90's 24 to 34, music went downhill, got job, paid rent, started to have to accept responsibility....life was ok 00's 34 to 44 music and technology start passing me by, working longer, responsibility greater, mortgage payments increase....I loved the 80's 10's 44 to date, scared of technology now, everything hurts more and for longer. hoping decline doesn't continue at current rate otherwise 20's may be of no interest to me! Life don't talk to me about life

yes you will but, taking into account postage and import taxes can you get it cheaper over here? If the answer is yes then buy it over here, if the answer is no buy it from Japan and pay the taxes. I brought some pickups from the US earlier in the year, after shipping and import taxes they were still £18.00 cheaper than the cheapest price I could get in the UK, so I imported and saved myself a little cash.....then didn't use the pickups so have them sitting in a box awaiting a future project!

I also liked the Georgia entry

Might watch it tonight, we have avidly watched it every other year but I am fed up with the political voting

Now sold, back breakingly beautiful cab. I would buy another in an instant if I had roadies to move it for me!

I gave it a go, I have no formal musical knowledge so some of the scales I probably can do but I wouldn't know what they were if they smacked me in the face, same with some of the accenting questions, I quite probably know more than I think I do and can certainly play more than my musical knowledge suggests interesting survey, thanks

We used to find Mr Brightside was a great floor filler, other than that Sex on Fire, Chelsea Dagger or I predict a Riot tended to get a great response

They may be worth a go on my fretless, I love the sound of rounds on a fretless but not the damage they do to the fret board, I will give some a go

No idea but clearly good for metal!

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1462823181' post='3046074'] Ha ha it would be the least of my worries.I wonder what it sounds like [/quote] You would welcome a Hernia? Are you a crazy man

I started with an unlined fretless, it will really help you listen to what you are playing, as others have said a fretless gives you a lot more freedom than a fretted bass but with that freedom comes a trade off of it being a lot easier to sound horrible if you are not concentrating

I was fired for not liking Guns and Roses enough, not sure how much was enough but only owning their first album was clearly not enough....by the way this wasn't a Guns and Roses tribute band or even a band that covered GnR songs!

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1462901123' post='3046842'] Blow him out.... It's outrageous that he expects you to lift a finger. You pay for him for his services, his PA and his expertise. Unless his contract states you will be roadies for him, sit back and let him get on with it. He will let you do it all day long and think you are the best thing since sliced bread, untill you drop something, or cause an injury to yourself or someone around you....then your on your own... I think this bloke is another one thinks that he is doing the band a favour, and you can't do without him.. [/quote] I have to agree, I would not want the band to touch the PA, that way if anything gets damaged it was down to me, good PA guys are anal about their gear, everything has a place and there is a place for everything, leads coiled a certain way, mic's cased in certain orders etc. If you are paying him to put the PA in and do your sound that includes setting it up and breaking it down, if he can't do it as a one man outfit then he needs to come to you and negotiate a price increase to allow him to bring along an assistant, that doesn't have to be expensive as he can probably find a youngster who would jump at the chance to do some PA work and learn the ropes. I remember as an 18 year old banging on TourTech's door and begging to work for nothing so as to learn from a reputable touring PA company, even then I couldn't get in, it was only after working with SSC a few times that I managed to get a foot in the door

Not too far from me in Northampton....Oi wallet...brace yourself!

I like to collect many shiny things

I used to own a Mesa Boogie 1516E cab, that was on castors, I don't think it made much, if any, difference to the sound, if you left it in one place for long enough the castors would sink into the floor under the weight of the cab anyway!

Pleasingly my old covers band would have only scored 2, then trading those against The Wild Hearts "Sick of Drugs" and the Chameleons "Nostalgia" I think we came out cheese neutral

I agree with the above, with pretty much every bass I have sold the first question has always been "is the neck straight?" When I have replied "no it has a little bit of relief so as to make it playable" most buyers lose interest immediately, I guess most potential buyers especially on Ebay are not experienced in the physics of a set up so run a mile fearing being left with an unplayable bass.

I can happily switch between both pick and fingers but I mainly use a pick, in the covers band 90% of the songs were originally recorded with a pick so that is the way I played them. In Yodaclub I only play one song finger style as I don't want the aggressive attack that a pick gives for that song, for all the other songs the aggressive attack and the way it cuts through a guitar / keyboard heavy mix is exactly what I want (also it has to be with a passive bass as the active basses seem to have a very different sound when played with a pick)

I had one whilst playing guitar in a covers band, I didn't find it very inspiring at all, as a booster pedal it coloured the sound and the idea that it could make a single coil pickup sound like a humbucker and visa versa just didn't seem to do anything at all. I sold it on quite quickly and brought an MXR Micro Amp instead which has one knob and just does what you want it to, I have used it on bass and it works fine

[quote name='razze06' timestamp='1461857677' post='3038279'] None. I am not sentimental about my kit. I have basses I like and love more than others, but they are all fair game if the needs come along, as long as I still have one to play. [/quote] I agree entirely, I am less likely to part with the basses I have put together myself purely because because they wouldn't sell for the price they cost to build, so it's a case of keep um and play um I guess