NancyJohnson

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1458920811' post='3012149'] Just reviewed Spector's Legend Classic 8 - that's a nice bass that should be on your shopping list! [/quote] I didn't know Spector did an eight string. Looks pretty. Where's the review? Any idea of UK price/availability?

A long time ago I read a thread about a guy who converted an OLP Stingray 5 to a 12-string; it looked pretty good, so would work for an eight string. The main work was plugging the machine head holes/redrilling and cutting a new nut. The bridge was a stock Schaller thing. *Edit. Search Adam Fogo 12 string bass on Google. You'll find the details easily. Edit#2: He also did something very clever with the pickups. He offset the bridge pickup so that the poles were over fundamental strings. The neck pickup poles are over the octaves. It should, in theory, phatten up the octaves a bit and make them less ringy.

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1457916414' post='3003060'] Why, do you have perfect pitch? You'd usually need reference for at least one of the strings to be in tune with everyone else. Plus have you tried tuning a bass in a sweaty rehearsal room full of musicians setting up and getting ready to play? Good luck hearing yourself amongst that car crash. [/quote] I went decades without owning a tuner and in defence of the OP what has perfect pitch got to do with it? If it's just guitars, you tune to each other, you're probably all going to be in the general pitch ballpark anyway, so being slightly off isn't going to be an issue. If you have a fixed tuned instrument (keys), tune to that. Insofar as being in a noisy room, you set aside a few minutes to tune to each other. Band discipline.

I guess it's feasible that you could skew the Precision plate so it fits the Jazz body.

It might also be of interest to some people that Steve 'Dude' Barr, drug and money issues aside, was behind a couple of Lakland special editions that are now highly collectable. The 'Dudepit' models were pretty much the precursor to what happened with the Lakland Owners Group editions.

Jarl was the guy who posted links to music that he'd written/recorded. It was horrific stuff.

A quick bit of Photoshopping...lining up the bridge etc. says no, but then I think you probably knew this... P

[quote name='cetera' timestamp='1457994099' post='3003834'] Cheers mate! Just picked up a fab pointy headstock old Fernandes Thunderbird as well - not unlike your Hamer one! [/quote] The Hamer is still with me! I still search regularly for one of those Fernandes MV65s...I think you had two or three at one stage.

I posted elsewhere that of the Spector headstock works great with the Thunderbird body.

I used to post to it and came across the archives by mistake earlier today. It was weird reading some of those exchanges and some of the drivel posted by one guy who kept on posting under different usernames.

Back in the olden days, before talkbass, bassworld and basschat, did anyone here use or post to alt.guitar.bass newsgroup?

That headstock has to go!

[quote name='sharkboy' timestamp='1457556691' post='2999696'] Me, I like the headstock - the 2+2 will reduce the neckdiving [/quote] Pray do tell how Dingwall have defeated the force of gravity

Well that sucks.

Any updates?

I've been (un)fortunate enough to spend hours in the car schelpping to Cambridge and back for work. Decided to create a playlist of everything by XTC on Spotify and let it play in chronological order. I wasn't a fan of XTC at all, it's been a recent thing, sure I knew the singles, but that was about it. I'll tell you, listening to Colin Mouldings progress through the albums has been enlightening. From the quirky/angular stuff at the start to the smooth (and in parts Mick Karn-esque) stuff in the mid-section. The only damning endictment for me was that while musicianship got better and better, it was to the detriment of the songs. To my ears they peaked with Drums and Wires. Don't really know how to wind up this post, but I suppose if you've never given XTC a listen, do it! P

There's a Charvel version too. Gary has too many good basses.

I had a Bongo 5HH in burnt orange. It was like a piece of art, played fantastically. Part of me wishes I still had it, but I had a Thunderbird incoming and well, you know where that story goes. Generally sounded great when a rehearsal started, but as the session wore on, I just tended to keep tweaking the actives up and up and up. In isolation at the end of the night it sounded horrific. Just pley the thing and keep your hands of the knobs. Hang onto it. P