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[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1509980330' post='3402993'] Possibly not if they had to pick 2 names from the 4 [/quote] 4 items, choose 2, there are 6 possible choices, so 16% of Joe Public got the right answer, assuming the 4 names were known!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1509911660' post='3402572'] . I can't think of four names that naturally roll off the tongue more than; John, Paul, George & Ringo. [/quote] Possibly the only band for which average Joe Public can name both the drummer and the bass player.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1509528679' post='3399593'] ...we could do the same with PMT, after all it's just a set of initials..... [/quote] Indeed. Having visited the website numerous times and two of their branches, I never saw the connection until posted here. I guess it is time for my pearly milk tea break. [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMT"]ClicketyClick[/url]

Huge collection of bass wiring diagrams (~500 pages) On this website: [url="http://161589.homepagemodules.de/t29f2-Cadfaels-kleine-Schaltplan-Sammlung-fuer-passive-E-Baesse.html"]http://161589.homepa...e-E-Baesse.html[/url] It is in German, so here is a Google translation of the page: [url="https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2F161589.homepagemodules.de%2Ft29f2-Cadfaels-kleine-Schaltplan-Sammlung-fuer-passive-E-Baesse.html&edit-text="]https://translate.go...html&edit-text=[/url] A link to the The 500 page PDF is at the bottom of the page. Look for a link to the PDF file Bassschaltungen.pdf

Seemed like unusual string spacing on Big Joe William's guitar. Google found this: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=2102.0

I remember the days when, if you had a skip outside your house, it would fill up with old tellies - then computers - and now P basses.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1507971476' post='3389035'] What is it with build your own guitar places? You want to build something different, well, what wood do you want your P or J bass? [/quote] Checked the custom neck options (always looking for a 32"). Any scale you like available as long as it is 34". Also the P and J necks seem to have the same nut size? Mind you, the one piece Ash looks good. In the FAQs, it says if you buy a neck and a body, you have to request that they fit (???)

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1507806669' post='3388064'] He did ok out of it, mind .................................. [/quote] Seem to remember Viv Stanshall saying he never got paid for his studio work. Think it was in a Mojo interview.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1507762644' post='3387873'] It would be interesting to know the tonewoods used in the shovel. [/quote] If you can find an ex-motorway maintenance guy's shovel, covered in tar, they make the best road worn shovel guitars. (neat use of a bolt for a nut)

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1442189530' post='2865068'] ... I don't know anyone who'd choose to drive to gigs in one these days. [/quote] John Shuttleworth?

[quote name='steantval' timestamp='1505862505' post='3374886'] It has just featured a very weird video of Yes doing Roundabout in concert featuring a load of women joining them on stage dancing to it. Yes and dancing don't normally feature in the same sentence. [/quote] Roundabout you say? Did they have fur coats on? [url="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HSoqSV16SpQC&pg=PT165&lpg=PT165&dq=roundabout+wakeman+fur+coats&source=bl&ots=y3mmQYeKDT&sig=Nf3VjBht7LSoGA-8jju-vPVMzIE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY4LCcl8DWAhXCBsAKHf4NAskQ6AEIWTAM#v=onepage&q=roundabout%20wakeman%20fur%20coats&f=false"]https://books.google...20coats&f=false[/url]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1505986647' post='3375618'] Nice intro to the instruments (which is what the site really is about), and I learnt new stuff right away. Thanks for posting! [/quote] There is a 1905 Helmholtz synthesiser up for auction soon. Google led to to this amazing site. I once built a "1899 Singing Arc" (not recommended as a first synth project, but it worked). I see there is also a 'Chamberlain', which was ripped off by Mellotron. Must be some around, Tom Waits used a Chamberlain on one of his albums. I think Rick Wakeman eventually set fire to his Mellotrons.

http://120years.net/

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1505555395' post='3372756'] 1953, as it happens. [/quote] February 1952, as it happened. (sorry )

All my basses have uneven frets and I get my drugs from Pfizer.

This may be of interest The playing of James Jamerson, broken down and analysed: [url="http://www.jamersonanalysed.co.uk/"]http://www.jamersonanalysed.co.uk/[/url]

[quote name='fftc' timestamp='1498766076' post='3326973'] If anyone was thinking of a Model D best get one now. [url="http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/06/28/moog-ends-minimoog-model-d-production/"]http://www.synthtopi...l-d-production/[/url] [/quote] Not sure if my memory is correct here.... Sometime in the mid 80's I picked up a couple of keyboard magazines (they had interviews with Keith Emerson in). It seems everyone wanted a DX7 and was re-mortgaging, or something to get one. And whoever took over Moog at the time was selling off Model D's, for a couple of hundred dollars. Nobody wanted them.

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That's too late for Keith Richards.

[quote name='MrDaveTheBass' timestamp='1503574585' post='3359284'] Did Sting nick your parking spot? [/quote] Is that a euphemism? He married a girl from my school. Euphemism or not, he did not.

[quote name='morgano' timestamp='1503489103' post='3358617'] Have Stringbusters gone bust? Their Website is still up, but I haven't received the strings I ordered in 24th July 2017. They are still marked as 'Awaiting dispatch'. I've tried phoning several times, but there's no reply. [/quote] Ordered some TI flats on 31st - arrived first class post next day or so. Never tried phoning. try email?

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1503066091' post='3355483'] It does indeed pfretrock.... well spotted - and I must have watched that clip several times! lol [/quote] The other way around, so I suppose it is a J/P rather than a P/J. Following on from post #3, it must be J P Morgan ! I think the bass made that track just as much as the vocal.

I've got the excellect Ed Frieldland walking bass book, but I prefer this one. It has some pretty challenging exercises in it and it also includes Evil TAB. Usual plaay along CD is included. [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Walking-Bass-Acoustic-Electric/dp/0793580420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503258315&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+walking+bass"]https://www.amazon.c...of+walking+bass[/url]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1503089161' post='3355695'] But only if you completely wreck your bass first, as far as I can see from that picture. [/quote] There can only be three reasons to have an instrument like that: 1. You earned it (like Rory Gallagher). 2. You are pretentious or rich or both. 3. You have a huge collection of tools including rasps, files, sandpaper and steel wool.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1503049384' post='3355289'] I don't recall seeing any PJ's looking at old footage, such as OGWT.... [/quote] Looks like a PJ Mustang (Tina Weymouth), 1978. Does that count? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxu5dKqEmZM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Kxu5dKqEmZM[/url]