mr4stringz

Off topic (and I may well be alone in this), but a run of Electromatic Billy Bo basses would make me happy.

I bought a Revelation Bass VI not too long before Covid first hit. 
 

Have played it loads at home and LOVE IT, but haven’t yet used it much in my band. I do plan on doing so though as we’re only a two piece (bass&drums), so it’ll definitely get a ‘proper’ airing at some point.

And yeah, I know what you mean about the Hagstroms!

It can be an absolute minefield. What sounds good in demos on the web can sound derrière through your own rig. What sounds great through your rig then can sound derrière in a band mix etc. etc.

Purely my opinion but based on your second post I’d say try a Green Russian Big Muff or a Z-Vex Mastotron as a starting point. They’re both great pedals, aren’t stupidly lofty boutique prices and I expect you’ll likely find something filthy you like in at least one of them. But yours, and any and everyone else’s mileage will very much vary!

Think the bodies on these are basswood, and if memory serves the original Betsy is a ‘64, so 60s pu spacing I’d have thought.

Also Shaw Taylor. 

I’ll get my coat.

PS - enjoy the gig!

5 hours ago, bartelby said:

Mark asked me what bass it was for, when I told him a Fender Steve Harris P he scoffingly told me I should buy a proper bass.

Well, he was being ‘bass direct.’

4 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Newtone Strings do a set. Only used their acoustic guitar strings, but their service and range are excellent.

A plus 1 for Newtone. Their Bass VI set is great.

12 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

Funnily enough I was Googling a banjo topic this evening and ended up at a thread in a place called 'Banjo Hangout'

The thread was marked as archived/locked and had a note on it saying you can start a new thread if you want and link it.

 

 

(and yes, I am thinking of building a mountain banjo 🙂!)

42 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

Fair enough... but it's not so much you, but on any forum replying to an old post seems to get a negative comment and was wondering if there was any practical reason.

Get that totally. I guess it’s perhaps that I’m really used to a forum here where it doesn’t seem to happen that much that when it does it seems kind of odd (I’m not really active on any others tbh), especially as a fair few lately seem to be a decade plus old, rather than ones that have had content in the last…even couple of years or so.

As has been mentioned above, thought maybe there was some level of bot activity for whatever reason. 

20 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

Banjo Hangout'

An ideal name for a C&W bar!

1 hour ago, Nail Soup said:

I don’t understand the problem with so called zombie threads - anyone care to explain?

Don’t know that there is a problem really. Just commenting as I’ve never seen so many in a similar period in here as there have been in the last couple or three months.

I don’t mean clothes for the undead, but honestly…what is it with all of the zombie threads lately?!?

P.S. I have only posted this so someone can resurrect the thread in 11 or 12 years to ask the same question…

Love the visuals, but not yet tried one to see if I could get along with one. There was a DeArmond one on eBay a couple of days back that had such a stupidly low BIN I nearly bit, but was sensible for once. Looks to have gone now.

I neither need one, or even realistically have much of a use for one, but I really fancy the look of the new Hofner Ignition SE Clubs. Hofner decal on the body and teacup knobs…

Struggling to not bite and stick some flats on just for around the house. 
 

An artist Ive kept coming back to over and over again over the last few years.

Looks ace. While I certainly can’t justify it just now I think I’m going to have to get a Limelight P at some point.

First proper close up in the wild I’ve seen of one of these. Fingerboard has a nice look to it. 

I don’t really get offended by any of it, personally. At the end of the day, whether I think it’s ace or dreadful (very much mostly the latter FWIW) it’s music to one degree or another and so ‘valid’, for wont of a better word.

What I’ve always taken exception to though is people who love the more outrageous taboo stuff because it reinforces their actual views. And there will be some artists where that’s always the case too, unfortunately.

2 hours ago, Grassie said:

Obviously the London/Liverpool/Manchester contingents are going to be strong

As are the Birmingham ones…

5 hours ago, shoulderpet said:

Ok, so looking for a replacement short scale has kind of made me wonder if I should start looking at longscales too but being a short derrière with small hands I am not sure how I would get on with long scale (I have only short and medium scale basses)

I love the look of the short scale Schecter Banshee bass but it is slightly out of my price range, am looking around the £500 range and actually seems quite difficult to find a decent short scale with a contoured body

Might be a case of waiting for one to come up given they weren’t made for long, but seem to remember the last Fender Modern Player Jazz shortie that was for sale on here was up for about £500. PJ config plus contours…just a thought.

A few thoughts -

1) Take into account the short attention span/immediate results expectations that many have now online . That’s why there are loads of vids that will move you to playing songs at a gallop rather than a canter. If it feels to fast to do that then yes, take a step back.

2) What’s your playing position? Assuming you’re playing seated at present look at where your bass is positioned and where the neck is compared to players in seated positions you see elsewhere. It’ll help as a guide to ensure you’re nice and level and not playing with the neck loads further down (or up from) the body for example, and that you’re not getting j to bad posture habits early on, which all can make quite the difference. 

3) How long are you playing for in a stretch? As has been suggested above, shorter sprints might be better for you than settling in for marathons.

4) No one set formula is going to work well for one person to the next. But listen to your body above all else. 

Wowzer. Love these.
 

All I’ve ever had left behind in houses I’ve bought are dodgy wiring and glossed woodchip!

Tell him I’ll have it for 50p and a pickled egg.

2 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

Quite. Majestic front to back (as was most of NY’s 70s output). This one will always get me.

Overarching reactions are -

1) It’s largely unnecessary

2) Also, there are no rules. If it works better for you, either by ear, technically, physically otherwise, use a fiver.

For me, back when I was I was doing stuff that worked around the borders and couldn’t gel with fivers, a P-bass with EB Beefy Slinky, set up and with a nut cut appropriately, felt ‘right’. A 5 string didn’t.

1 hour ago, Vin Venal said:

whatever section they get put in at the record shop.

And that, frankly, is that. 
 

It all ended up in ‘Rock & Pop’ way back when. Anything over and above is prejorative. 
 

Except STP. They weren’t (and aren’t) grunge. 🤣

That’s left my feline a little queasy.

13 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

Huuuuge fan of the grunge era me. I watch a lot of RB vids. He did overlook Stone Temple Pilots for this one which is a tad odd as he's put up a couple of their tunes for his 'why this song is great' series.

I may be reading way too much into STP’s omission, but while very close in time, they were after the fact. All of those ‘classic grunge bands’ had albums released a good year before Core as an absolute minimum, plenty of them well before that. They also weren’t from, or congregated in, Seattle or Washington. And as I seem to remember, copped a fair amount of flak and suspicion at the time.

But anyway, that’s only actually one grunge band, isn’t there…