Woodinblack

I am not being aggressive, I really don't understand what you are talking about. You said "if your technique is good one bass shouldn't be more "difficult" to play than the other.", ie, you appear to be saying that the only thing that makes something easier or more difficult to play is entirely your technique, which would seem to imply the thing that you are playing has no part in how difficult it is to play. And that makes so little sense to me that I think I must be missing your point. I have two musical keyboards here, one is harder to play than the other one, its heavier. I have 3 guitars next to me, One has quite heavy strings, which makes itt much harder to play than others, although I like the sound. One has a trem which I am not good with, which makes it harder to play than the other, although easier to trem, and one is very easy to play but it is a gibson so it goes out of tune a lot. I have 7 basses next to me, they vary from really easy to play to really hard, depending on what your doing. One is next to impossible to play, as no matter how good my techinque is, the fact that the nut has broken makes it very tricky. I have two computer keyboards on my desk, one is harder to type on than the other. All of these differences may be fractional, but every single thing I own has a different level of ease of use to every other thing.

ok, so the top of the range fodera bass is no easier to play than a woolworths bass you got out of a skip with an action you can drive a truck under. Gotcha. So all that effort getting short / long scale, string spacing, weight etc is just for no reason.

That makes no sense at all. Are you saying that objectively the P is easier to play for everyone than a J, or a J is fundamentally hard to play? I find the P harder to play than the J, but I find them both harder to play than any of my ibanezes. In that I can play them all, but I can't do faster stuff on a P.

Like Nikki Sixx, he buys Nikki Sixx thunderbirds from Gibson (presumably cheap), plays them for 1 gig, signs them and sells them for a few K more.

Well, he can sell this for £15k and buy another one for a lot less!

Please check the rules, no offers for sale outside the Sales forum

Or you could get one of the others of the same sort on eBay for £80!

Ours was good, it was a village pub ½ hr from here, outside in a tent (one of those big teepee ones). Easy enough setup as there was a stage for the drum and we could park next to the tent, although I threw a bit of a strop that I get all the PA stuff out while the rest of them were messing round with the banner, but it was an easy setup and the singers son was there and helped with the setup. Sound was great - I think it is easier to do sound outside without reflections and I brought the sub. It was a short 2 hour gig and also 7-9 rather than 9-12, so it was a nice thing. A bit cold though, considering I had been in the sea on the previous day trying to cool down, it was a bit of a change. But the audience were good, a lot of dancing in the first set, which is unusual, and then the more usual, not much until half 8 then "1 more song' from 9 until we finally did finish 20 minutes later

I really don't need the money. however, I find the money important because you are providing a service, so apart from the occasional charity that I would actually give my own money to, its got to be worth doing. Plus as i don't spend any money on music stuff that I haven't earned gigging, it is a self funded hobby for me, but I still approach it as if it was a job from the point of view of practicing / turning up etc.

If you do track it down it does have a DI output, as do most modern valve amps.

They are dark, agreed, but I can see them reasonably clearly.

If that was true, they would sell it in waitrose next to the essential focaccia! It is - I spent a while in there when I was deciding to get a peerless. Sadly they couldn't get me the one I wanted to have so I had to get it elsewhere, otherwise I would.

I always look on youtube for the features etc, not necessarily the sound as you can't really get that from youtube. Bu things like inputs and ease of use etc, its very useful.

We don't go there often, but I was there last week.

At least Frome has some actual shops, unlike Glastonbury which is entirely crystals! Frome even has a guitar shop, although I see what you mean about it heading hipsterwards.

Indeed - who could miss the babycham statue, an icon of the west, like the angel of the north is to wherever that is.

Indeed. Then artists managed to break free from oppression and declare that previous stuff was ugly!

3+2 G&L headstocks are pretty good. Certainly better than any 4/1 headstock, and better than any fender headstock.

How can you call Shepton Mallet not mysti.. ok.. right, as you were. But shepton has a much better Tesco than Glastonbury!

That is the advantage of keeping the numbers down, same with rickenbacker. There will always be a market for it. If you build more, it would be easy enough to run out of market and the price plumets. Bearing in mind the market for 'non fender like basses' is reasonably small compared to the total market, it makes sense to stay well within it.

I have that too - was discussing it with a friend that went to download. The idea of going to a festival is always better than the practicallity of going for me, some with most gigs, I have a low attention threshold. I have no idea how anyone wants to see a band play for more than an hour (our sets are about 3 hours - no idea why people stay, luckily they aren't like me!) He probably couldn't remember.

Yes, it is about 5 times too long!

Same here - the 4 headstock puts me off for the same reason as the Ric headstock above, when the middle strings veer off after the bridge (same as gibson les paul headstocks) - I like the string to visually continue straight.

Happens to us all

Indeed - I think it was a later thing when BBC started to broadcast the music that the music was the main thing that people went for. It wasn't, and I doubt it is now. when I was young I went to see the sights, hang out with my friends in a field, with food, comedy tents, art tents, lots of other fringe music and events that were spontanously made by other groups of people who were there, not organised. On top of that, if you had any time or felt like it, you could wander down to the main stage and see what was playing. Now it is huge, I would imagine it is moreso like that. It was completely different to reading or donington or something like that where you went to listen to the music, or stonehenge where you went to see the hippies get stoned and the bikers get into big fights with each other.