pfretrock

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]

Headstock camera? Almost drops off at 3:17 or is it dropped tuning [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6KAFHPLx98"]https://www.youtube....h?v=C6KAFHPLx98[/url]

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1501668613' post='3346357'] That's a hell of a refurbishment- couldn't they just have swapped it for a lefty! [/quote] I believe they did swap it for a lefty. Later refurbed

[quote name='jonsmith' timestamp='1501591995' post='3345727'] I'm not convinced that the only reason Paul McCartney plays a Rick is because he was given one (although it's true he was). I suspect he has sufficient funds not to be restricted to free instruments. [/quote] Bit of an odd choice for someone who spent a lot of time on short scales. I think super-rich people like free stuff. He also had it refurbished for free at the factory. The most amusing thing is I heard Hall originally gave him a right hand model!

Do you know if the humbucker is series wired? A parallel wired mod might help, costs little if you can solder and is reversible.

Thanks. Good ol' Beeb, There's my forty pence worth today. I'll listen later. What happens after the cochlea, is what makes music worthwhile.