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[quote name='Bassnut62' timestamp='1413747619' post='2581550'] Played The Approach In Nottingham last night, the place was rammed and we had them dancing from the off. Seems playing Disco and more recent dance classics goes down well every time! The night was rounded off with a fight between four women in their forties, leaving one of them out cold. Unbelievable. Do people really never learn to grow up? [/quote] No, but sounds about right for Nottingham Who's the lady in the shiny dress ?

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1416085451' post='2606807'] Following the departure of Courtney Love from Hole (due to her reading some negative feedback on her playing on Basschat), Fairport's Dave Pegg was the favourite to replace her. [/quote] He's a bit square for that.

Prince is actually a [i]real [/i]prince. Prince Roger. When Talking Heads were on tour they were granted exemption from having their trucks weighed; the bass player weighed them by suspending them from a rope connected to her mouth.

I had to Google this. What is so bad about a (much cheaper) pro setup that you need a Plek ?

I would forget about views -try one or two of each and see what works for you

different width at the nut, a slightly different shaped body and, of course, different pickups and controls. Oh and they sound different.

yes, to the former. However I strongly advise you to either write your ad in Notepad, save it and then paste it into the thread editor so you have a safe copy in case something goes wrong. or alternatively write a quick scratch version and edit it once youve paid and listed.

For my 0.02p, if you're a pro player and a fodera is what you'd call a reliable piece of kit that makes your job easier than any other bass would, then its probably worth it. To You. Personally I cant justify the outlay and I'm pretty sure Joe Punter or Jane Punter cant tell the difference either. They either want to dance, or they dont; and I think thats largely down to the player. They really cant tell one bass tone from another. My partner, for instance, doesnt like a P bass tone any more than a stingray tone. Whether a £3k Fender from 1965 does the same either is a similar question in my book. Is it really so much better than a y2k jap reissue, or a modern american standard? Probably not. And you can have it altered to feel the comfortable way an old fender does.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1415291933' post='2598895'] I don't think they are [i]that[/i] expensive in comparison to other custom build manufacturers. Bass Central have a great selection, in fact there is a very nice looking Emperor 6 there for $6,900 at the moment. Alembic, Ritter, Roscoe, Fodera or A N OTHER....it's going to be a hefty price tag whichever you choose. [/quote] Ive been to Bass Central

[quote name='kennyrodgers' timestamp='1415959304' post='2605526'] Here's mine, No124 58, Jazz neck. It's a wonderful Bass and I couldn't be any happier with it. Sadly, If my Warwick doesn't sell then this might have to go. [/quote] Awesome -perfect relic Can I ask how much ?

[quote name='billfaro' timestamp='1415886836' post='2604839'] Afternoon all. So i have joined a Guitar Club in the town. There are 10 Acoustic Guitars and me with an Electric Bass and Amp. To be honest the teacher is OK and is a big help. He is a country & western fan. And he wants us to learn[b] Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash[/b], Must say can't stand country & western music but it's not his fault. [/quote] We have both kinds , Country AND western

Very underrated player who works to the song and doesn't showboat

Most stuff is playable - whether it's confortable or not is another question

I briefly owned the bass player by the guy from morcheeba. It had a neck like a banana - took eight full turns to tame the action to something even approaching normality. He still sounded better playing it in front of me as it was than I did once I'd sorted it out. Lesson .....

You don't ask, you don't get

I have a peavey millennium av BXP 5er I was about to list

[quote name='inthedoghouse' timestamp='1414668202' post='2591978'] I'm happy with my P with the old original bit of bent metal :-) [/quote] Tried it -there are some practical / ergonomic advantages but I don't think it makes any realistic difference to sound

I didn't try it but I read notation and it doesn't look as hard as I thiught. Tracy wormworth at her finest

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1415385842' post='2599878'] In all seriousness, I found the Bass Guitar for Dummies book to be really good at helping with those light-bulb moments. It really set the foundation for me to start understanding chords, chord structures, the scales within those chords and how a bass fits in with all that. For example, if my guitarist was playing an E, then a D then an A chord, what bass notes can I play along with that? It helped answer that which meant that I only need to know the chord structure of song in order to write a bass line to it, or even jam to it, making up a bass line on the spot. Info on it here: http://eu.dummies.com/store/product/Bass-Guitar-For-Dummies-Book-Online-Video-Audio-Instruction-3rd-Edition.productCd-1118748808.html (of course you can buy it from whichever book shop you usually use, I just don't like promoting Amazon ) [/quote] One lightbulb moment for me in that book was the way it explains exactly what chord tones will work well over given chords.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415387074' post='2599889'] That'll work until some wag says something like "I'll give you £5 for it 'lol' " Programmes don't have a sense of humour. [/quote] I know:) I meant in the title only

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415288146' post='2598821'] I'm not against the idea, but there's a bit of a limitation. Something might be advertised at £549 on day one and it's perfectly reasonable to expect to see that in the header. The catch is going to come some time later when the price is reduced to £499. There's no easy way we can capture that programmatically so it's going to need the advertiser to change it manually - which kinda brings us back to where we already are. [/quote] Dead easy programmatically. See if there's a £ sign, see if anything that follows it can be parsed into a sensible number.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415287438' post='2598802'] I think I know where you're coming from here. The uneditable price field we use is a trade off needed to allow the 'free advert under £50' model. We can't edit it either. If it was editable then someone could simply value a bass at £5, get their free advert up and then edit the price up to £500 to hide what they'd done. Trying this sort of thing wouldn't occur to most of us, but we regularly identify people thinking they're smart enough to 'beat the system' in various ways and that annoying little uneditable price tag plays a big part in stopping that. [/quote] Oh sure - doesn't take a lot of effort to modify a title when you drop the price though, does it ?

[quote name='Stompbox' timestamp='1415220523' post='2598132'] Well I started something there! I'm not unghappy with the market place, just, like I said it seems to have gravitated to high price stuff......... I'm more than pleased with the site, and I paid the £20 fee with no qualms, but maybe a price box at the front end/title would be good. [/quote] But it needs to be one that can be edited ..,

I don't use an amp - I just use Jamup on my iPhone so it's totally silent plus you can play along with music and record the results. It also has a metronome and a tuner