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  1. Frank Blank
    See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! by Bow Wow Wow - Leigh Gorman, yes... Empires & Dance by Simple Minds - Derek Forbes, yes...
  2. Frank Blank
    Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum by Japan... Mick Karn, what a dude.
  3. Frank Blank
    I saw Motörhead at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 12th of April 1982. They were so loud they caused the building structural damage... proper. The second loudest band I've ever seen.
  4. Frank Blank
    I had a feeling someone would kindly point me in the direction of an excellent and huge thread! Thanks. Your comment confirms what I was thinking, tuners, bridge, J pup but I hadn’t considered the strings so that’s cool advice. Did you change tuners?
  5. Frank Blank
    As I clicked into this article I somehow knew that scene from Spinal Tap would be depicted somewhere, class.
  6. Frank Blank
    I have had a scoot around the site and can't seem to find a definitive thread on this, please feel free to disabuse me of this notion and direct me if incorrect. I am selling up all my full scale basses in order to completely move over to short scale. Initially I was considering a Chowny but I am leaning towards getting a Squier Jaguar and modifying it, if, indeed, it needs any mods. Any opinions on this, any people out there who have modified a Squier Jaguar, if so what mods have been good/bad, any people who think it unnecessary? Any opinions, thoughts welcome...
  7. Frank Blank
    You may have saved me a post here. I am thinking about modifying a short scale Squier Jaguar, after the mods, how did the bass compare with your other basses?
  8. Frank Blank
    I think this is absolutely right.
  9. Frank Blank
    Venn Crossover, a short-lived offshoot from Grand Funk Railroad, Mel Schacher playing for both, sometimes simultaneously.
  10. Frank Blank
    As I tend to bifurcate people into two groups over almost any topic or action, I.e. those who don’t look where they are going and those who get out of their way, people who enjoy football and those who don’t, glass half full/empty people etc. There are also two groups with no Venn crossover, those who like The Cult and those who like Killing Joke, I’m afraid I’m in the latter group,so I can, grudgingly, only go as far as ‘good’ when it comes to SSS.
  11. Frank Blank
    I think this is it, sustain seems to be a general indication of the overall quality of the bass.
  12. Frank Blank
    It would certainly be enough for me.
  13. Frank Blank
    Very true, it's more why sustain appears to be one of the characteristics sought after by bass players when selecting a bass that I'm trying to get at?
  14. Frank Blank
    She Sells Sanctuary - great song btw, well, not great, good. I realise it is the length of time a note sounds for, what I'm trying to ascertain is (which is not adequately, or possibly at all) addressed in my initial post is why sustain appears to be one of the characteristics sought after by bass players when selecting a bass?
  15. Frank Blank
    As an offshoot from this post, can anyone explain to me why a bass player would desire their bass, or perhaps more accurately the material their bass is made from, to have ‘sustain’? In my many years of bass playing it is not a quality I have sought from a bass nor heard in music to my knowledge. Again, am I missing out on something or am I simply a philistine with no nuance to my hearing? Could someone point out a bass line or piece of music where the bass is employing sustain? I discussed this briefly on Saturday with the chap who works on my guitars and he was as baffled by the concept as me.
  16. Frank Blank
    *NOW SOLD* Price drop - Fender Aerodyne, mint condition, unplayed £500 Here are the circumstances. This bass was bought on 17th November 2017. It went straight from the Fender carton into a gig bag and on the 18th Nov. it was taken to Guitar Technical Services for a Pro Set Up. As GTS had a backlog the work was not finished until just prior to Xmas when I was unable to pick it up (full documentation of set up with pics). I picked it up today. The reason for the sale is that just a week after the purchase, on the 25th November to be precise, I had my short scale bass revelation and realised that short scale is the way to go, I haven't played any of my standard scale basses since. So yes, I am taking a huge hit on this one but such is the search for our ideal instruments!
  17. Frank Blank
    I am selling a lot of my gear to completely change to short scale. Chowny make beautiful ss basses, I’m going for a fretted SWB Pro and a fretless SWB-1.
  18. Frank Blank
    I’m not far behind at 36 years playing. After years of attempting to have my basses set up by inexperienced bass techs who talked the talk without the requisite walk or staff in music shops who weren’t much better, I finally found Guitar Technical Services and after my first bass was set up there I realised not only that I had never had a guitar or bass set up correctly by anyone before but also that I had never even played a correctly set up bass. Eye opener indeed.
  19. Frank Blank
    I agree. I suppose the modern construction techniques even the basses out into a plateau of quality whereas the hand assembly, as you say, turns out dogs, middle ground and gems. Do you really think that the lesser or middling ones really get destroyed or do they make it through history in the hands of less discering players until they are past the line and become vintage and valuable regardless of tone and playability?
  20. Frank Blank
    I wondered why I could only find the one story about it online. Excellent, thanks for letting us know. Whether or not that info was a relief or not to him remains a mystery I suppose.
  21. Frank Blank
    Ha ha, that's so cool. Oddly I've just bought an Aerodyne, just a week before I realised I should be playing short scale, that will be the quickest I've ever bought and then sold on a bass. They are beautiful basses though.
  22. Frank Blank
    Me too, I think the vast majority of players would agree (even some who wouldn't admit it) that aesthetics come first. I would also be very conscious of the fact that I was playing a bass I disliked the look of.
  23. Frank Blank
    I totally agree.
  24. Frank Blank
    I am heading up to Warwick on Saturday to take up a new bass for set up and pick up one that's just been done. I was thinking of dropping in there to do just that. Oddly there is something about those Jaguars that leaves me cold, purely a look thing.
  25. Frank Blank
    Man, I'm pretty sold on the Chowny SWB Pro, the looks alone slay me.
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