EliasMooseblaster

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1375790152' post='2165574'] No zoom required - it's an N6- - - - - so in my book it's a USA made in '96 & looks just how a American Standard, (with a 50th anniversary badge) should look. The thing is being advertised as something it ain't, I'm pretty damn certain of that [/quote] Ah, now you mention it, yes, on the second photo you can make out the label on the parts bag, which reads "AM STD BASS," so pretty sure you're correct! Question is whether a '57 Reissue would be worth more than an American Std...have to say £260 seems like a good price either way to me, but I'll defer to your greater knowledge!

I didn't think my current band was particularly bluesy, but then a lot of reviewers said they liked our "blues-rock sound," so I relented. Now we describe ourselves as "lively, melodic rock n' roll with a hint of the blues." Maybe it doesn't help our cause that the last word in that tagline is "blues!"

I guess the only rub is you can't zoom into the headstock photo to see whether it actually says "Made in US" or something else! Otherwise looks pretty convincing - and I guess the re-issues go for a lot less than the originals!

I'm intrigued by: [b]"please don't waste my time, I like strong personalities but not ....holes[/b]" I suspect he's censored himself because he was wary of writing "arseholes" in a public advert, but it looks to me like he's just shuddering at some memory of childhood claustrophobia - "not...holes. Anything but...holes."

That's rather good, that! Is this to be a forerunner to a full album, or is it early days yet?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1375466924' post='2161935'] Maybe because you probably look like you're giving a ghost a b***j**. [/quote] Precisely!

I get a combination of funny looks, raised eyebrows and parents covering their children's eyes when I play air clarinet...

Hi all, In celebration of our album having been released a month ago today, we decided to give away a new single for free. Please have a listen and help yourself to a copy at: http://cherrywhite.bandcamp.com/track/riding-bikes-single-version Any feedback is always welcome! If you like it, share it with a friend. If you hate it, inflict it on someone you don't like. Cheers, Elias

I've been playing an Epi EB-3 myself for a few years now - it's become my main bass with my current band. I'm about 6'2 myself, so I too look a bit silly with a 30" scale bass. If anything, this is kind of the opposite, as with a relatively small body and a 34" scale, the first fret seems a lot further away than it does on my other basses! Mine has the chicken-head selector, though only two pickups (neck and bridge position), and trapezoid inlays rather than dots. Still quite the beauty. And it's in cherry red, like all good SG derivatives should be. Kind of neck-heavy though, but I'm sure you've been warned about that before. I think - though I couldn't be sure - that they've changed the neck profile on the more recent ones. Played one in a guitar shop while trying an amp and the neck seemed noticeably thinner, though it might just have needed a decent setup.

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1375012026' post='2155670'] ...a few things seems to going decimal, money, measurement and we only really have twelve notes at the moment a sort of imperial system if you want... and that is a fudge of sorts (equal temperment) I wonder what a 10 note system [i][b]would[/b][/i] sound like....I'll google that, someone must have done a video for that [/quote] I thought Holly already managed this in [i]Red Dwarf -[/i] a system of ten-note scales ([i]Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Wo To Do[/i]), with the unfortunate consequences of "pianos the width of zebra crossings, and women banned from playing the cello."

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1374578701' post='2150322'] Raygun relics are now offering a relicing service [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HEAVY-RELIC-STRATOCASTER-STRAT-ROADWORN-HUMBUCKER-AND-FULLY-COPPER-SHEILDING-/400528581706?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5d415d244a"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5d415d244a[/url] [/quote] Ha! "If you send me your favourite guitar, I can knock it around the garden with a cricket bat for half an hour, for as little as £50!"

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1374666470' post='2151482'] That's very true, but I tend to be sort of 'living the lyrics in my head' when I'm performing. [/quote] How literally? This could end very badly with a song like Longview...

Has BC ever considered compiling a book of some of the best stories about daft gigs that its members have ended up playing / not playing / narrowly snatching from the gaping maw of disaster? Because this would be prime fodder for it. 10/10 on initiative, I have to say!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1374702927' post='2152286'] They are both treated insensitively, all about marketability, I don't like either. Here's one that has been tret much more carefully but retaining some punch and yet much air, not got the guitars like yours though .. [/quote] I rather enjoyed that! (Would have been even better with a nice guitar solo somewhere along the way!) But yes, thanks for everyone's sonic input on those JST tracks - I have been wondering if this is symptomatic of the fact that they were recorded and produced in the US. At the risk of getting a bit anecdotal, I have heard tell that a lot of American producers follow a formula for the way things "should" sound, and so the drums are far too loud and bass far too buried, completely ignoring the fact that she's a blues artist. Throughout [i]Almost Always Never, [/i]the louder songs seem to have been mixed with about the same attention to detail, and that harsh, dry vocal sound. Which is odd, because they still managed to give the mix space and air on her first two albums, complete with a nice warm vocal sound.

I've just gone back to Joanne Shaw Taylor's most recent album and I'm left with the same nagging doubt that I had when I first put it on. I like the songs, and her guitar playing is still excellent, but there's something about the overall production that doesn't sit right with me. I'm increasingly convinced that this album has become a victim of an overly zealous compressor in the "loudness war," but I just wonder whether somebody with better ears can verify this for me. Exhibit A is the first track from the most recent album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SMZA5fMVI Is it just me, or does it sound like somebody just pushed all the faders up to full on this one, and the mastering engineer just compressed it to buggery? Exhibit B is the first track from her debut album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxsr2do0Wrk I of course realise that the instrumentation's a little different on this one, but this one just seems to have a lot more space for the mix to breathe. It's not just me, is it?

Agree with Bilbo, there's a definite Sabbath vibe going on with is - and hints of Iron Maiden and even Soundgarden here and there. I like these. There is a lot to like about them.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1374167607' post='2146081'] However, I still resent someone's tele holding sway over someone else's musical practice. [/quote] Whilst I take all the above points about their telly not exactly being loud enough to disturb you in return...I agree, your sons' music practice is more constructive and potentially important to their future development (career, even?) than the angry neighbours' being able to vegetate in front of Eastenders. Not that this is a line of argument you should try with any neighbours!

Oh, and we seem to have managed two pages of this without any mention of The Nice (first LP excepted), or even Emerson, Lake and Palmer! Now I think about it, I seem to remember the Crazy World of Arthur Brown managed without a guitarist as well. Maybe it's not such a new thing after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxgY9eEFiYM For those in a hurry to get to the point, skip to about 2.00. Worth listening through the build-up to it, though.

[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1374147194' post='2145742'] Keane did a lot to help that [/quote] Oh god, I'd forgotten about those whinging dullards...which kind of proves JTUK's point!

No guitar...no bass either! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKUgpDVPRHE

My one.

He's not strictly a bass luthier, but I do know a chap in London who makes beautiful acoustic guitars: http://alexbishopguitars.com/ He certainly did a great job setting up some of my instruments, and was a great help when I was building my Frankenbass. I know he also finished off an acoustic bass guitar for a mutual friend, so could probably do you a bespoke bass if you were prepared to pay for one!

Funnily enough, I used these on Cherry White's most recent album - Mr Ball was kind enough to send us some free sets, so I put them on my Epiphone and my Schecter. It probably wasn't the fairest comparison as the studio had a beautiful, early '60s Fender Bassman for me to play through instead of my solid-state Laney, pleased though I am the latter. (The results are (surprisingly audible) at http://cherrywhite.bandcamp.com/ if anyone wants to hear them!) Longevity wasn't great, though. I have come to expect this of Ernies, and this is why I rarely buy them. They lasted better than the sets of guitar Slinkies I've tried, but I decided it was time to go back to my usual Rotos for our last gig.

A few years ago I had the perfect solution: my friends and I shared a house on the end of a street looking out onto a main road. South London's Bricklayer's Arms Roundabout, no less - anyone who's lived down that way will be familiar with the "Walworth Lullaby" of periodic sirens and ceaseless traffic. But this basically meant there were certain rooms which were as good as sonically insulated from our neighbours. I could play bass without fear of disturbing, or we could recline in the living room with some fine beers at our feet and Hawkwind blasting through my friend's none-too-powerful stereo. I do kind of miss that place...