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[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

Can't say I've ever noticed any difference in tone with different cables. That said, cheap cables are a false economy IME. I went through any number of cheapies when I was in my teens and then splashed out on some Whirlwinds at the end of the 80s. I'm still using them now.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1375097151' post='2156575'] I think he is asking about some kind of joinmyVIRTUALband.com rather than where to publish it ? [/quote] If you're after that kind of thing, I found a rundown of services offering actual live online jamming (published June 2012) http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-jam-with-your-band-online/ I've not tried any of them, BTW, so YMMV.

It might not be a manufacturer's brand name - I wonder if it's a Christian thing if it's been stamped on? The icthus (fish) was used as a symbol by the early church and is still used today.

Probably shouldn't let this thread pass without a reference to the first incarnation of the band, with Jim McCarty and Keith Relf of the Yardbirds on drums and guitar/vocals, together with Relf's sister, Jane, providing additional vocals. Louis Cennamo played bass. http://youtu.be/Y0Kb7AAW8_8

I think the question is further from learning to read a book and closer in spirit to storytellers learning stories or poems in oral traditions like the Norse sagas or Grek myths. It's a question of internalising the narrative well enough to be able to perform it to others, perhaps adding your own interpretations and changing it along the way. 'How do you learn to read a book' would better equate to learning to read music notation of some kind. Get good enough at it (if the words/notation are capable of describing the piece accurately) and you barely have to be familiar with the original before you can translate it from the written to the aural form.

I should put in a good word for Donald Fagen's first solo album, 'The Nightfly'. Tracks like 'IGY' and 'Walk between the raindrops' never fail to put a huge grin on my face. It's wonderfully produced, too. One of my reference albums when trying new audio gear.

Maybe not the whisky for much longer... :-/