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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1409780501' post='2543403'] [i]Only musicians with video submissions will be considered. Thank you.[/i] Sounds like code for [i]"Are you cool enough to be in our band?"[/i] There are other ways to screen for the cool factor if that's important to a band. [/quote] My interpretation of that part was that they'd like to see you playing, not that they'd necessarily be looking how "cool" you are. After all a band doing rock, pop and country aren't exactly going to be looking for a boy band member.

Worst bass I've played was a Marlin from a mail order catalogue. It was a loaner from a friend, weighed a ton, tree trunk neck, high action and rusty strings.

Worst bass I owned was a Korean(?) made Aria with pointy headstock. Eventually snapped the neck, and as I dismantled the body for the hardware I discovered it was made from chipboard with a thick plasticky coating on it.

I used to use the heaviest four strings from a Power Slinky five string set for a drop tuned C. The tension was great, and I'm sure it would handle C without the drop tuning.

Quite a nice looking Jazz copy by Avon / Rose Morris: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251603124044 Neck looks straight (I wish all eBay listings would include a good neck shot that shows the frets are parallel) and I suspect it wouldn't take much to remove the light corrosion on the metal work.

Ayse Hassan from The Savages (my current favourite band).

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1406580844' post='2512784'] Yep I totally get you and like I said im contradicting myself too as a five string player rather than drop tuning, but I can also see/hear when the flappy E sounds killer, queens of the stone age as mentioned earlier for example. [/quote] If you want to drop tune and not have the E string go flappy, then I can recommend Circle K strings. Took me a few minutes to get my head around the table of string guages on the on the Circle K website, but they make strings for all manner of tunings that maintain an even tension across the set.

The one I least regret selling is a 5 string Squier Precision. A good instrument, but I quickly realised that drop tuning a 4 string was much better for what I do. The one I regret selling is an Aria semi-acoustic. Not sure of the model, but a band I auditioned for said I should use something more "metal" so I foolishly traded it to get a Squier Jazz.

Probably "inherited" it from Glen Matlock, who was allegedly inspired to get a Rick because he was a big fan of Paul McCartney.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1406124315' post='2508554'] I have - they totally screwed my prosebass - the box looked like it had been machine gunned and they managed to smash the nut off despite it being more heavily packed then you describe Not their fault of course so no payout ... [/quote] Same experience here with Parcelforce. Sent a very well packaged bass away for some work, but it arrived at the luthier severely damaged with signs of both impact and pressure damage.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1406162326' post='2509002'] All of the above are great for identifying the bass if it does get pinched but are they a deterrent as the OP states? Are there any real deterrents for an opportunist thief? [/quote] I think Linear's stream of urine approach has the added benefit of being a deterrent.

[quote name='wotsy' timestamp='1406215593' post='2509415'] It says hac 54 on the plate, not sure what that's about. [/quote] Says "Built by Brian Eastwood". I had mistakenly assumed they were built by Chris Eccleshall, the guy responsible for Hooky's black semi-acoustic bass.

[quote name='theyellowcar' timestamp='1406114405' post='2508414'] I've use Parcelforce to ship a bass without any problems before. It cost about £20 insured. [/quote] It wasn't insured. Check the small print, and you'll find that Parcelfarce wont honour claims for musical instruments. They'll still sell you the insurance though, and wont refund it. EDIT: hadn't read on to see that ambient had already said the same thing ...

"There is no moral obligation and I haven't broken any ebay rules, I sent a 'cancel sale' request via ebay (why would they give you this option if it was against their rules??)" There's a legal obligation - you are breaking a contract. The cancel sale request is supposed to be for items that are lost or broken.

That's the [url="http://cheesyguitars.com/tonika_bass.html"]first electric bass made in the Soviet Union[/url]. A quote from elsewhere on that site describes the Tonika: [quote]What they've made is an unplayable super-heavy guitar with sick body shape, thickest neck you'll ever find and sound suitable for anything but music.[/quote] It all suggests that the best it's good for is hanging on the wall as a conversation piece.

You could make the payment via PayPal, and then insist he concludes the deal.

I was under the impression that Pino was already well known and admired as a session player at this point, although the Paul Young stuff is what projected him into the big time. Would love to have heard Mick Karn playing on Music For Chameleons, as I always find his playing to be more "liquid" sounding than anyone else in that style. I'm not actually a fan of fretless playing in general, but absolutely love both Japan and Karn's collaboration with Pete Murphy of Bauhaus (Dali's Car).

Numan rates this as one of two low points in his career (the other being the Machine + Soul era). He subsequently stated that he wanted to compensate for his lack of confidence in his own technical abilities by getting in great session players, but that the result wasn't very satisfying. Personally, I love the "Music For Chameleons" single from this era, but find the rest of the "I Assassin" album to be a turgid mess.

His music is not something that's normally my cup of tea, but the OGWT performance of Jumpin Jack Flash is phenomenal. Great musicianship and showmanship.

I was going to suggest Loop until I scrolled down. They're back together again and gigging. Got absolutely hooked on them around the time of the Collision single, which came out while I was at sixth form college, and by coincidence our local heroes were Mega City Four.

Sounds a bit like Trigger's broom. Jaco's bass. Apart from the neck. And the tuners. And the bridge.

[quote name='ash' timestamp='1404382451' post='2492052'] I'm having the same problem, my speaker cab is an earlier Vox 18" from '64 - the amp is a very loud AC50 and they are an original set. The 18" sounds great at low volumes but is underpowered for the amp ( I suspect it was used in a pair) I believe the original Celestion speaker is only rated at 50 watts. Been looking at the Fane Sovereign range which cost around £125 for the 18" and state they are suitable for bass guitar in small enclosures. If anyone has a 100 watt Celestion 18" knocking around I'd be interested though. Added a picture of my Vox stack and the type of Celestion. There's a good site about Vox Foundation cabs here - [url="http://www.voxac50.org.uk/index_07.htm"]http://www.voxac50.org.uk/index_07.htm[/url] Very interesting thread by the way. [/quote] Hi Ash, There was a mint condition Celestion 18" speaker up on eBay a couple of weeks ago. It didn't sell for the original BIN of £80, so the seller then put it back on at £100 and surprisingly it sold. I'd held off buying it as the seller had some negative feedback that looked a bit worrying. However, there is a guy on eBay that's selling Peavey cabs pimped to look like old Vox ones and he had a 2x15" last time I looked.

My office is directly opposite the main stage at the Hyde Park Summer festival site and we had Arcade Fire on yesterday as this years first headline act. The attendance looked poor, no more than half full by 8pm, and the sound was just a dull rumble even with all the windows open although the wind was maybe in the wrong direction. Today it's the turn of the metallers. Despite clashing with Sonisphere the festival site looks rammed and judging by the T-shirts you'd think Motorhead were headlining rather than Sabbath. Hordes of fans wandering around by mid morning, with many of the usual Oxford St tourists looking terrified and giving them a wide berth. Anyway, just before 3pm a distinctive distorted bass sound could be clearly heard. Looking out the window the first thing I see is Lemmy's LK Rick bass on the big projection screens, then the man himself looking surprisingly well. A friend was on a flight back from LA to London with him recently, and said he was walking with a stick which was quite worrying (he also saw Lemmy's hat box going around on the luggage carousel which made me laugh). Faith No More and Soundgarden have been on since, and they are nowhere near as loud as Motorhead.

Blimey, eye of the beholder and all that but the body it looks like a bit of chipboard with a damp patch in the middle.

Just noticed this thread, but I thought I'd comment based on my own experiences of running synths and drum machines through guitar effect pedals. I've put them through various Boss, Electro Harmonix and MXR pedals without issues and I'm aware of many bands both professional and amateur that do the same. It's particularly popular in the "power electronics" sub-genre of industrial music, where they use some pretty harsh and distorted sounds without seeming to cause damage to their pedals. As to Basstractor's curiosity about using a fuzz on a synth, a lot of people use fuzz pedals on "squelchy" acid synth sounds - Novation's rack mounted recreation of Roland's TB-303 even came with an overdrive and distortion effect built in.