Clarky

Thanks gents! In the lounge at Gatwick waiting for my flight, more excited than an excited thing! Middlie-aged man gets to tour overseas, something he has dreamed of since being a teenager,. Will report back Sunday evening or Monday. Smiely face emoticons galore!

Lovely photos. Don't think you'd like to see a pic of my surly Slipknot-obssessed 13 year-old with his all-black (what else?) ESP lefty bass. Would not convey the same warm feelings! Especially if wearing his favourite T-shirt ("My other ride is your sister")

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[quote name='chris_b' post='1165434' date='Mar 17 2011, 09:38 AM']What are the differences between this and a £600 Fender?[/quote] You can't get stack knobs on a MIM Fender, nitro finish, (hopefully!) superior QC etc

If you strip out the 'who gives a damn' votes, 24% (so far) hate slap, while 76% either love it or like it when used tastefully. Thats 3:1 in favour of slapping in some form. So I'm not sure why the pro-slappers appear to feel so backs-against-the-wall!

[quote name='Sibob' post='1165382' date='Mar 17 2011, 08:51 AM']stacks do look cool [/quote] Isn't that enough?

[quote name='bh2' post='1165332' date='Mar 17 2011, 07:48 AM']I love those stacks... Guitar Village... [url="http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk/product-detail.asp?id=10555&catid=8&manid=29&quantity=1&product=Fender+Custom+Shop+1960+Relic+Jazz+Bass%2C+Faded+3+Colour+Sunburst%2C+New%2C+Inc%2E+Case+%26+COA"]http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk/product-det...2E+Case+%26+COA[/url] £2325 Skint.[/quote] Gosh thats a nice looking beast. Very classy sunburst (sorry Wayne)

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='1164548' date='Mar 16 2011, 03:49 PM']and you said the argument was finished off in the other thread..... [/quote] Yep, I'm f.o.s As soon as people, rather than simply voting, started giving their reasons for voting it inevitably started going down the tried-and-tested BassChat route of Harry Hill-style "FIGHT"

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='1164525' date='Mar 16 2011, 03:30 PM']From my perspective, this is the crux of the matter: There are ONLY two types of bass player. Those who can slap, and those who can't. It doesn't matter if you can slap but choose not to. It doesn't matter if you have decades of experience with the greatest names in music, or if you're 12 years old and have just picked up a bass for the very first time. It doesn't matter if you play with fingers or a pick, play jazz or rock, old classics, modern, pop, prog, rap, whatever, IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT MATTER. You can either slap, or you can't. This automatically creates a division, "us and them", those who can and those who can't. And with any division comes elitism. And with elitism comes envy, jealousy, derision, intimidation, superiority, inferiority, frustration, fear, anger, etc. Those who can slap look down on and demean and patronise and condescend those who can't. Like, "Is that it? Is that all you can do? Come back when you've grown up and learned to slap like a real bass player." Those who cannot slap are afraid of and intimidated by those who can. "I have absolutely got to learn this technique. I have no use for it, and no interest in it, but no one's gonna take me seriously as a bass player unless I'm good at slapping." I believe this is why slap bass generates so much strong feeling.[/quote] I disagree. I can slap adequately (I'm no Marcus Miller, but who is .... err apart from Marcus Miller, and I'm certainly no Cluetterbuck ) but I choose not to as I don't much like the sound and it doesn't suit the bands I have played in. I can appreciate it when it suits the context of certain songs (Ashes to Ashes, Forget me nots, RATM stuff etc), hence my view being in line with the majority in the poll.

I would like to think the arguments on the other thread have pretty much exhausted this topic. Was interested to see if the ultra pro- and anti-slap community would be in the minority and thus far they are - most seem to think its cool if used to suit the context of a song (my view)

No comment on the combo's abilities just letting you know that the guys on the Orange stand said at the Bass Show they weren't going to go with the smaller 300W version (a 2x10), just the 500W (2x12). Sounded like a combination of financial and likely demand reasons. They didn't have one on display either which I thought odd given its supposed imminence.

12 pages of arguing! Well, off you go peeps ...

Sorry Ad, can't be there after all - as will be joining a Rattlin Bone mini-tour of Portugal [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=127448"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=127448[/url]

Rattlin Bone have a 5 date tour of Portugal this week which I couldn't initially go on for work reasons (a slimmed down version of the band was going to play to backing tapes without me). However, I thought 'stuff it, life's too short' and have booked my flights so I can be there for the Friday and Saturday gigs in Porto and Figueira. My first ever non-UK dates. Will bring along my Eminence EUB (has a removable neck and fits into a hard golf bag case). Very excited!!!! [attachment=74913:Port_2.jpg]

Can't be there for proximity reasons but best of luck! I saw Pigbag live in Oxford (I'm 99% certain) in the very early 80s around the time of 'Papa's Got a brand new Pigbag' and it was a great gig

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='1163326' date='Mar 15 2011, 04:59 PM']Does this mean my Level 1-4 cock up measurement scale is now an industry standard. Excellent. [/quote] I presume you didn't notice the Level 1 cock-up at our gig on Friday where the drummer played the right time but completely the wrong drum pattern (he had two songs confused)? Threw me a bit but I just got on with it and strangely it worked, not that I want him to do that again Yep, the new industry standard, Adam

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SITE FOR BASS ENTHUSIASTS, EXPENSIVE BASSES, CHEAP BASSES, WHATEVER , ALL I CAN SEE IS GUYS LOOKING AT PICS AND MAKING COMMENTS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ABOUT SLAPPING, ITS A WASTE OF TIM AND HIS ROTOSOUND STAND AS FAR AS I CAN SEE. IS THERE REALLY ANY POINT IN LEARNING TO READ?????? CHEERS CLARKY

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='1162763' date='Mar 15 2011, 09:33 AM']Aren't we all [/quote] good point, well made

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='1162744' date='Mar 15 2011, 09:14 AM']Hope it went well. I'd be up for shared London gigs too. Rattlin Bone + Dick Venom & the Terrortones + the Jetsonics would be a top night out I reckon. If you're all up for it and if I have a date to work to I'll try and arrange something. In my experience most promoters are just venue bookers and I can do that. I have a few venues and contacts in mind that would be good.[/quote] Sounds great Ad, would be a fab line-up - my only word of caution is that, although I'm happy to play for beer money, Rattlin Bone's band leader is very keen on guaranteed paying gigs as we have a lot of travel expenses to cover (given that band are from all over the UK) The 12 Bar was a bit of an anomaly as we only took £60-odd home between the 12 of us (fortunately the Scottish guitarist didn't come)! We did it more for exposure and as a warm-up ahead of the much bigger gig next month (500+ people) in Brixton But yeah sounds like a brilliant idea, let us know when you have a venue/date in mind. Much appreciated mate, Clarky