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Three YEARS?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1376149618' post='2170273'] I stopped taking OSX updates when they started dropping features required for my 2- or 3-year-old peripherals. Very bad form. They also broke my version of ProTools with 10.7, so I'm sticking with 10.7 because I don't want anything else to stop working. [/quote] TBF, Apple give software developers plenty of warning when System APIs will be deprecated and it's up to the peripherals manufacturers to keep their drivers up to date. ProTools has been highly sensitive to system updates as long as I can remember (I'm going back to the mid 90s here).

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1376080402' post='2169620'] It's for stopping Robin Hood notes. [/quote]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1376093774' post='2169788']Is it one with the Vaccaro aluminium neck?[/quote] Do Hartke own shares in an aluminium smelting company or something; they seem to want to use it everywhere?

I'd hardly say my '79 MM Sabre is 'clanky', it's wonderfully warm - though I don't play slap, rarely use a pick and I use it most often with the neck pickup only or neck and bridge together. That said, I know other people get a much toppier sound out of a Sabre than I do.

Frank Zappa's take on the disco phenomenon from a 1978 SNL appearance (with Arthur Barrow on bass) http://youtu.be/dI0SIg4njx0

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1375818635' post='2166183'] Ive only just learnt that OLP were a company in their own right....they made budget copies of other musical instruments. [/quote] OLP stands for 'Officially Licensed Product'

I have a blue MM3 that I bought new circa 2002-3 - it's quite playable. Edit: looks like the same bridge design as mine, but a differently shaped scratch plate.

John Etheridge *and* Jim Mullen. I'm more than a little green

I've used a Marshall IBS 3520 for most of the last 20 years and it's been very reliable. The only problem I've had was that a number of the plastic knobs have fallen off.

Well, my band had been hired to provide a couple of hours entertainment outside a café in Putney for the crowds watching the cycling event that was going on in London today. 60s and 70s covers mostly, with a few of our own numbers thrown in. In between sets a guy came up from the audience and, after a little negotiation about fees, booked us to play a party he is throwing on Saturday night.

Hiya [quote name='andydye' timestamp='1375627670' post='2163586'] Welcome to g.a.s. central matey! [/quote] You should try hanging out on some photo forums

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1375639126' post='2163772'] At least it's got that chrome handle to stop anyone from actually playing it. [/quote] Meanwhile, somewhere in America, someone is having trouble opening a bathroom cabinet door...

I started on guitar in my mid teens with a Satellite Les Paul, which was about as nasty as could be imagined. Glad to be rid of it when it was replaced with an unusual Epiphone Genesis. My fist bass playing experiences a few years later were with a borrowed early 80s Squier Jazz, which was lovely. The first bass I actually owned was a 1967 Hofner Verithin, purchased from a mate for £200. I still have it; as a mid-60s semi, it doesn't have the breadth of tone or sustain of my Musicman Sabre, but it's fun to play with a great neck and very light. Not that I've had much experience of £3,000 basses, butI can't really see myself ever justifying spending that much on one.

10 Kg!? Cripes

And it's not Kim Deal, either.

Heheh. 10 Internet points for the person that guesses correctly which famous bass player my fizzog has been likened to (though I'm not sure he's ever been seen in a Ben Sherman shirt quite like that one) [Img]http://www.summerislerecords.com/davidfisher/Images/12bar16aug02/12bar04.jpg" class="ipsImage" />

[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1375448886' post='2161547']I thought it could have been the bass (Lakland 55-02) but after wasting almost two hours to drive back home to fetch my Fender J there is still no joy[/quote] rather suggests not

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1375373797' post='2160518'] You also have to remember that we, as bass players listen out for them more. Memorable bass lines to me don't necessarily jump out of the song as being the main riff. So a memorable bass line to a bass player is a lot wider than to anyone else. Its surprising how a lot of the 'joe public' do'nt know what the difference is between guitars and basses. When I have told people I play bass in band, it surprises me how many people ask me to play something they'd recognise and I have to show them 'Town called Malice'.Even then they say they didn't know that was the bass. [/quote] I've always admired the beautifully controlled bass on Tasmin Archer's 'Sleeping Satellite' - it's one of these songs I mentally reference when I want to build up from nothing at the beginning of a track. http://youtu.be/NYqh6_GLwU4 Edit: (the amazing) Danny Thompson is the only credit for bass on one track on the rest of the album, but there's no bass credit for this song http://www.discogs.com/Tasmin-Archer-Great-Expectations/release/2069272 Is that really a Fairlight? :-/

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1375274702' post='2159086'] Yes, they stopped making the Orgasmatron too ...[/quote] That's the [i]Excessive Machine [/i]from [i]Barbarella[/i]. The Orgasmatron was in Woody Allen's [i]Sleeper[/i]

It's one of those things I vaguely recall hearing about many years ago, but I've never actually seen a picture of one before.

Found a vid of one being used on a guitar [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c2hAoDePiQ[/media]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gizmo [quote][color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]The actual device, a small box which was attached to the bridge of the guitar, consisted of six small motor-driven wheels with serrated edges to match the size of each string. The continuous bowing action was activated by pressing one or all of keys located on the top of the unit. Pressing a key would allow the wheel to descend against a motor driven shaft and bow the corresponding string, while the other hand remained free to fret single notes or full chords. An extremely powerful sound could be created that changed dynamically depending on how hard or soft the wheels were pressed against the strings. The sound was also affected by the type of guitar strings (round-wound or flat-wound).[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]Two versions were planned - one for guitar and one for bass. Ultimately few Gizmotrons were made but bass versions were produced in a much larger quantity than guitar versions. Only the guitar version was used by Godley and Creme and 10cc in recordings.[/size][/font][/color][/quote]

You could always save yourself the bother of polishing it - go entirely the other way and patina the whole surface completely. Oxidised copper is pretty cool. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=oxidised+copper http://m.wikihow.com/Oxidize-Copper