Greg.Bassman

*PRICE DROP* Now £25

Like a charm! 🙂

*PRICE DROP* Now £25

Like a charm! 🙂

*PRICE DROP* Now £90

Awesome looking keyboard! 🙂

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Move your audiences… literally! 🙂

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Thing of beauty! 🙂

I used to own a ABM 500 head and ABM 410 cabinet. Very durable gear that would get my trousers wobbling for sure! 😆

In the end, my back did not appreciate how heavy they were though, so I switched to mark bass gear instead. GLWT 👍

5 hours ago, flippyfloop said:

Where are you based ?

 

Birmingham.

Hi Petey.

Indeed! Great pedals. I believe DOD found 3000 original chips. So the reissue is the same. But it is also better because the controls are easier to understand, the casing is smaller and it can match the originals sound… and some more! 😁

I have always wanted to make music that moves people… in this case, literally! 😆

2 hours ago, Vin Venal said:

It wasn't until the 60s that Jazz necks showed up full stop. The Jazz bass only existed from 1960 on.

 

That is sort of my point 😉

11 hours ago, thebrig said:

That seems to be the general consensus of opinion so far, but I have four P basses and they all have J width nuts, and some late 60's and early 70's P basses had J width nuts.

 

I'm still confused, lol. 🤔

As I mentioned before, this is perhaps less of a deal for some, but a consideration for me. I suppose the larger nut width is ‘traditionally’ speaking, as the first version and split coil update had this. It was not until the 60s when jazz necks started to show up on them, like you said 🙂👍.

1 hour ago, Maude said:

Those weapons we've been sending to Ukraine have made us popular. 

If America were participating they'd win for sure. 

I was about to say the same thing! After years of coming last, I was so surprised. But given the current politics of the world, one could assume this to be the case 🤔

War, huh, yeah, What is it good for?, Absolutely noth…[vinyl scratch]… coming second in the Eurovision! I do not mean to make light of war of course. All the best to Ukraine 👍.

On 16/04/2022 at 14:17, thebrig said:

but what makes a Precision bass a Precision bass

For me, a single coil pickup [original or split] and body shape are the most obvious. But there are other details such as a larger nut width, that is perhaps less of a deal for some, but a consideration for me 🙂.

41 minutes ago, Maude said:

Put whoever you like on bass in Metallica, no one will be able to hear it. 

Sad but true [like what I did there!] 😉. Especially on the ‘...And Justice for All’ album. We all know how obscured the bass was on that album 🙁.

Spinal Tap trying to get their heads around streaming! 😆

43 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

I'm watching it again right now. Favourite bit do far: "he choked on vomit, it wasn't his own though. They don't know who's, you can't dust for vomit"

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

Can Spinal Tap II be any more ridiculous than Metallica's Some Kind Of Monster film?

SKOM was close, but spinal tap II might just do it 😆

4 hours ago, TheLowDown said:

Bad timing that the drummer passed away a few weeks ago though.

I do not mean to make light of the dead, but this is incredibly apt, given that a running theme within the band is that their drummers keep dying! 😆

Yes. It could be a great chance to poke fun at modern [band] cliches as well as the current industry and such. No old material. Although it could be funny if they referenced the original here and there. There is still a lot of cliches from the original that are still relevant and hold up today 😀

OR

They could do the whole ‘old men out of touch’ approach to the film. Which could give way to lots of new material. Music via the internet these days and such 😀

7 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Metallica have always had bassists who were far more talented than the rest of the band and who could play the music in their sleep.

Agreed. Cliff, Jason and Robert are all exceptional players. I have always enjoyed Roberts ‘Infectious grooves’ period too. Some great funk coming from him during this time 😁

13 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

maybe he could have even got the job in Metallica. 

Metallica! lol. I would actually be curious to see that. Out the way trujillo, here comes ‘the hook’! 😆 

Metallica! lol. I would actually be curious to see that. Out the way trujillo, here comes ‘the hook’! 😆

On 10/01/2020 at 22:09, Reggaebass said:

this was one of the first tunes I played ,  

 

Toots for me! ’54-46…’ was the first song that I learned. Never gets old 🙂

On 29/04/2022 at 14:07, SteveXFR said:

...the old strings were around 30 years old so according to some they were nearly at their peak tone.

James Jameson would be proud! 😆

On 29/04/2022 at 10:59, lownote said:

Just went to String Direct to price new Dunlop flats to replace the Chromes on my JB40FL. £68!!! Squawk!

Mrs Lownote and I rarely spend money so much of this talk of inflation has passed us by.  But it's a diferrent matter if it's going to affect bass essentials. 

I know what you mean. The price of bass strings is getting mental. I might have to start boiling my strings instead! lol 😆

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Give this room-shaker a home! 🙂