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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1454011202' post='2965458'] Lignum vitae is crazy stuff - feels halfway between wood and stone, and so heavy. There's a reason you never see a Lignum vitae bass [/quote] I did find this neck-through Lignum vitae guitar [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oke6kgvQUrA[/media]

[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1453728504' post='2962150'] The rule of thumb seems to be that cranes prices are about double that of a anywhere else. [/quote] Not much has changed since I was a student in Cardiff in the late 80s, then [Edit: I spent far more of my limited cash in [i]G M Music[/i] round the corner on Wharton Street]

[quote name='ians' timestamp='1453199500' post='2957246'] The R&R lifestyle....guess it catches up in the end....and sadly so it seems sooner than later. [/quote] Dale begged to differ in an interview about his Alzheimers in 2010 http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/190765/Despite-dementia-I-m-still-the-same-person-inside [quote]Not that he is likely to be recalling any wild and hedonistic antics. He and almost all of his fellow band members were articulate, clued-up ex-grammar school boys from the Welsh borders, committed musicians and none of them were ever interested in getting stoned or wrecking hotel rooms. Nor was Dale the hellraising extrovert many imagine anyone in a hit band in the decadent Seventies must have been. He was always the thinker of the group, the one who wrote long erudite articles for New Musical Express and contributed to the band’s fanzine. “I was never a drinker or did any of that other stuff. People who do that kind of thing tend not to live very long,” he says, displaying a touch of the bone-dry sense of humour that made him firm friends with the late DJ John Peel. Both he and Jean feel it is important to get this part of their experience straight because it particularly angers Jean when assumptions are made about Dale’s lifestyle in his early years on the road with his various bands. “We’ve even had a health professional suggest it’s no great surprise that a man who spent his early adulthood in a rock band has developed Alzheimer’s disease and you would really expect someone like that to know better,” she says. “There is such a lot of ignorance surrounding the subject. He’s always been in good health and there is nothing in Dale’s early life that would have made Alzheimer’s any more inevitable for him than it is for any other sufferer. We both want to do what we can to dispel these kinds of myths.” “Tea,” adds Dale with a shy smile. “We drank a lot of tea.”[/quote]

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1453159512' post='2957084']Wyman's bass must have been a stock L2 with the end of the neck cut off- there were no short scale moulds.[/quote] Apparently something like that - from [i]Guitar Player[/i] mag 1983 http://www.steinbergerworld.com/mktng.htm

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1451404626' post='2940212'] For a multi FX unit I don't think anything can match its value. I pretty much use mine as an overly complex tuner and EQ unit with occasional looping. The only thing it lacks is an AUX in for playing along to things. [/quote] Hook it up to the computer and use it as a USB audio output - plug headphones into the B3, play song on computer and play along on the bass. Works for me :-)

One of my reference albums for good production and arrangements is Rickie Lee Jones' [i]Pirates [/i]from 1980. I borrowed it from my local library (along with Zappa's [i]Hot Rats[/i]) not long after it was released on the strength of liking the cover images and was completely bowled over by both albums - I don't think I've quite recovered since Most of Steely Dan present, including Steve Gadd drumming and Chuck Rainey on bass. Sublime [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl6YWgumUBc[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhBgGwr_Ktg[/media]

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1343829775' post='1755911'] And him! So tasteful. Shame he's given up on music. [/quote] There is some hope. Colin seems to have softened on the being [i]completely uninterested in music[/i] line. Last year he made an appearance as guest vocalist on [url=http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/06/26/one-track-mind-days-between-stations-with-xtcs-colin-moulding-the-man-who-died-two-times-2014/]The Man Who Died Two Times[/url] by [color=#211F1F]Days Between Stations (with Tony Levin playing bass) and this year he seems to have been playing bass on the soundtrack of a musical named Paper Hearts[/color] https://www.flickr.com/photos/134151756@N08/21038080801/in/dateposted/d and singing on a concept album about Galileo http://www.melodicrock.com/articles/news-feed/2015/10/14/billy-sherwood-“just-galileo-and-me”-feat-colin-moulding-xtc

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1449236821' post='2921843'] Good afternoon, Rob I use Chrome on a PC. On the left of any topic, there's a dot which takes me to the next unread post (see below...) Does this help..? Not sure about other OS or browsers. [/quote] Yes, that does the trick nicely. Thanks.

On the mobile version of the site, when I open a thread that I've already looked at, in common with most other forums I use, it takes me to the oldest post that I've [i]not [/i]seen yet. This doesn't happen on the desktop version of the site; the thread is always opened on the first page. So if I happen to open a multi-page thread, I have to page my way forward until I can find some stuff I think I've not seen, or go to the last page and work my way backward. Is there something I've missed in the settings or is this just unavoidable behaviour? Seems a bit odd that it works brilliantly when I'm using my phone, but not at all on my desktop or laptop computers. Tried with both Safari 9 and Google Chrome on Mac OS X 10.10 FWIW (and I use mobile Safari on my iPhone with iOS 9.1) cheerz Rob

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1449153399' post='2921147'] OR if you need it to apply to anything... Gear Acquisition Syndrome. [/quote] Precisely - from first hand experience, the TLA is still [i]GAS[/i] in photography circles.

Actually, upon closer inspection, the scratch plate is more like a Burns TR2, but with fewer controls [url="http://guitarz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/1962-burns-of-london-tr2-bass.html"]http://guitarz.blogs...n-tr2-bass.html[/url]

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1448979226' post='2919744'] Mike Wilsh was seen playing other Burns basses, so I think you're right with that, though the headstock is more like this example [url="https://reverb.com/item/1032760-baldwin-vibraslim"]https://reverb.com/i...ldwin-vibraslim[/url] [/quote] [quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1448929809' post='2919409'] Burns baldwin Vibraslim? [/quote] Mike Wilsh was seen playing other Burns basses, so I think you're right with that, though the headstock is more like this example [url="https://reverb.com/item/1032760-baldwin-vibraslim"]https://reverb.com/i...ldwin-vibraslim[/url]

Ive been spending the last few days' commutes listening to Joni Mitchell's mid 70s albums, and each of the first three LPs by Steely Dan, The Stranglers and Japan respectively.

I became familiar with Roger Scruton from his championing of Quinlan Terry and other neo-classicist architects in the 1980s. Let's just say I have fundamental problems with his positions on aesthetics and politics in general.

Chromes are usually my first choice for flats, though I have just been experimenting with Ernie Ball Cobalt Slinky flats and I'm rather liking them.

I wonder if that will work with Marshall as well. I had constant problems with the knobs coming off my old 200W head.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1446551747' post='2900197'] Depends on where you're starting from, I guess. If you were considering signing up to the Market specifically to sell a £150 bass, then the flat fee for both you and Foderas Are Us seems out of kilter. But if you're already signed up with that flat fee paid, it hardly makes a difference whether you list a £5k Fodera that probably won't sell anyway, or you list 10 cheap basses that people might actually buy. Marginal cost, old boy, marginal cost. [/quote] Maybe there are people who sell 10 cheap basses a year. I'm not one of them. I certainly don't buy that many just out of curiosity to see what they play like before selling them on, nor do I operate as a small business flipping cheap basses. Quite recently I sold a VM Jazz for £180. At my current average turnover of selling one bass every 17 years and at that price point, it certainly wasn't worth my while paying a flat fee to advertise on the forum, so I put it on Gumtree. TBH, from the standpoint of basic economics, a rise in higher value basses and a dearth of cheaper instruments is exactly what I'd expect after the sellers' fee was introduced.

I'll join in if I may My 1967 Verithin, which I bought in 1988. It was the first bass I ever owned and I doubt I'll ever part with it, since it's exactly as old as I am. [attachment=204201:20151101_0020-Edit.jpg] [attachment=204202:20151101_0011.jpg] [attachment=204203:20151101_0017.jpg]

Probably that, but take your pick from the responses here, which leads to it being mostly in his fingers http://basschat.co.uk/topic/230553-the-chicbernard-edwards-sound/

From another current thread, it seems the Edifier H850s are the same headphones http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272288-phil-jones-h-850-headphones-and-edifier-h850-the-same/page__pid__2898740#entry2898740 The H10 is their 1.2m replacement cable, which might give you another option https://m.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/28p2tj/the_removable_audio_p2_cables_from_edifier_h850/

Interesting It's actually mentioned in the review of the Edifiers on Head-Fi http://www.head-fi.org/products/edifier-h850/reviews/10633 [quote]The H850 is tuned by Phil Jones of Phil Jones Pure Sound and founder of Acoustic Energy (plus a few other well-known speaker companies too). In fact, Phil Jones has been working with Edifier on several speaker products so far and even offered H850 rebadged and sold as part of Pure Sound’s line-up for bass guitarist. [/quote]

Tidy job and much improved

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1445351707' post='2890808']I discovered the difference that cables make circa 1966, when high capacitance coiled cords (telephone handset type wire) came along and very nearly took over the market. At the time I knew nothing about capacitance, or why it could cause high frequency roll-off bordering on extreme with passive pickups, but the difference in tone was obvious and undeniable. With straight cords capacitance tends to be less of an issue, but high capacitance tone killing straight cords do exist, the Monster Bass being one example.[/quote] Here's some actual testing data, that suggests there is no practical difference in the frequency response between Monster or any other cables (whatever claims they may make) [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/cables.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.c...es/cables.shtml[/url]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1445268665' post='2890083'] The list of Muppet/Seasame Street appearances is legendary[/quote] As it happens, Cleo Laine has been a guest on both the Muppets and Zingzillas (with her husband John Dankworth in his last TV appearance before he died in 2010).