Clarky

Fantastic! My first gig on DB was a total blast too, will never forget it

Try asking bassbod and pantherairsoft http://basschat.co.uk/topic/153834-sold-mo-clifton-downright-4/page__p__1367958__hl__clifton%20downright__fromsearch__1#entry1367958

[quote name='fatback' timestamp='1326054560' post='1491728'] Interesting. Can't think why it should be different though. [/quote] Its part cos I'm still a bit rubbish on DB and part cos I'm used to 'on the fly' fingering! But seriously, what fingering do you use for playing say G sharp, A, F, E sharp on the G/D strings - is that all sliding your first/fore finger up and down the board or does your second/middle finger come into play at any point - its the semi-tone shifts I am not sure about

After a brief try out, I find Rabbath very simple for linear (ie, up or down) lines but if you are string crossing back and forth I end up in a right pickle, as my old Grandad would say

Buy an Aria Sinsonido travel bass and headphones - about £340, tiny space taken up, and you can feed your habit [url="http://www.reidys.com/index.pl?submit=View_PLU&PLU=7476&utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=PriceComparison"]http://www.reidys.co...PriceComparison[/url] Edit: probably useful for when you are on your ship too

[attachment=96722:P1040192.JPG] My re-finned 1963 (year of birth) Precision. Was sourced from US by BC'er Si Clifton and had been I think stripped (like so many) to natural. Si arranged for it to be nitro coated in an aged oly white. Has a lovely worn-in neck with no varnish at all left on the back. This pic shows it with the badly cracked and warped tort guard which I have replaced with a period-correct nitrocellulose tort guard (I have kept the original of course but its unusable).

I never saw that beautiful "2011" Fender Custom Shop Precision Pro (a P/J with Jazz neck) on sale anywhere. The latest Fender CS catalogue for 2012 http://fendercustomshop.com/# shows this model in Olympic White (the 2011 was in sunburst) but who knows if you'll ever see one in the shops, given the seeming non-appearance of the 2011 version?

Here's Cliff with his (modified with a humbucker at the neck) [attachment=96711:3918.jpg]

Looks great in that colour - very Cliff Burton

Does he not realise that he has already stymied most potential buyers of his bass? Dork

Awful - where's the energy and raw power of the original? Elevator music

[quote name='MarkBassChat' timestamp='1325948767' post='1490238'] Is it similar to this one: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/abm_3710g_p_single_bass_piezo_g.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...ass_piezo_g.htm[/url] ? Mark [/quote] Good spot, they come in black and chrome too. Only problem is the housing is a different shape to that used by Parker so it wouldn't match, unless you could transplant the piezo 'saddle'

I would be interested in the answer as I have toyed with buying an Ibanez Affirma and the piezo bridge, as I understand it, is often a bit rubbish. So if the piezo units could be replaced with modern equivalents it could sort the problem. Sorry if its a bit OT!

Alan Cringean at ACG basses uses a lot of piezo pickups in his basses - maybe he could help out here?

Nice WoT and incredible condition

I play them in a jazz way, mixing 7th, 9th and 23rd notes in PS, one opportunity I was glad to have missed: there is a dwarf who is a regular member of the London 'alternative' metal and punk scene and - after a gig with my old death metal band back in 2006 - he approached me and asked if I wanted to join his putative band, "C*ntslurp". I had to decline

I once bought Noel Gallagher a pint just after the first bass player (Guigsy I think) left and foolishly didn't offer my services. I would have been bloody good at 16th root notes by now ...