Frank Blank

Sorry, Newtones here too, they are that good.

Cor, that's a corker!

This is dependent on how sharp your nails are.

a) sorry to be flippant b) really enjoying this thread even though it's all way beyond me c) carry on

Could we then program Super Trampa to play Dreamer?

I am very lucky to live just under three miles from Strings Direct, whenever I've dropped in the service has been top notch.

This is very true. A friend of mine bought a cheap Washburn semi-acoustic years ago, about £200 worth (at least I think it was a Washburn?) We dropped in on the rehearsals of a reasonably well known band at the time and the guitarist wanted a look at the guitar. It was quite odd to see him swap his beautiful antique Gibson ES-295 for the little Washburn and plug the it into his rig, "It'll sound much the same" he said as a monstrous sound almost lifted the roof off. Funny how when my mate got it home and plugged it into his Marshall it sounded much like any other guitar played in any other bedroom.

It was one of the very few times I was happily (and luckily) tongue tied by L'esprit de l'escalier. Vicars looking for beverages can jog on.

About 35 years ago I was informed by an 'acquaintance', about 15 minutes before a gig, that I was "A s*** player with a s*** bass". He was absolutely right on both counts. Rather than chinning him I consoled myself with the fact that I'd been banging his Mrs for the past year and had indeed been doing just that, in his house, in his bed, that very afternoon.

The whole album is a masterpiece...

Christ, 00:17 and I've got effing Eloise by The Damned running round my head and I despise that song!

Page 5 of this thread was like the knob Forsyte Saga wasn't it? Or The Knobsyte Saga even.

From my bath chair parked in the orangery, I would just like to take this opportunity to raise a glass and say thank Bog for these technically-minded artisans working all this stuff out with slide-rules and such and crafting beautiful instruments so know-nothing drunkards like me don't have to dirty our hands in a workshop or wherever you can-do building types do your stuff. So cheers *waves a brandy in the air*

OP - original post IMO - in my opinion

Absolutely. Now once each knob has my name written on it, in Latin, in mother of pearl that lights up every Michaelmas we'll be getting near the brief.

This is all my fault...

As does the body of the bass on the left, used to be in my fireplace with a Buddha sitting on top of it!

As one or two of you may already know @Jabba_the_gut is currently building me a matching pair of basses (build diary here), a fretted and a fretless, which already means they don't match, but frets aside, they will otherwise be the same. Anyway, before I bog myself down in semantics, I was eager to acquire a Jabba bass essentially to see me through until my two were built. Luckily Jabba had one very similar (in shape at least) to the two he's building for me already finished, so I bought it from him back in September last year at the Midlands Bass Bash. Incredibly rudely I bowled into the Bash as soon as it opened, bought the bass, shook Jabba's hand and left! I barely had time to laugh at @Stub Mandrel's (actually excellent) rig. Like the impetuous idiot that I clearly am, I invariably acquire a bass, play it for ten minutes, rush on to Basschat and in a gushing eulogy tell anyone who cares to read that I've found the 'gas-killer bass' and that I am totally satisfied only to then sell it on again within a fortnight after I've had a word with myself. However, I've now been the owner of a @Jabba_the_gut bass for ten months and I can, in a far more sober, thoughtful and considered manner, tell you that I think the Jabba bass actually does fit the bill, or certainly my bill, to a tee. The other basses in the rack now have a layer of dust over them, that's the one or two I haven't yet sold. I have a lovely ACG Recurve SS 4 that I was lucky enough to buy from @Clarky (thanks Sir) and then stupidly sold but, thank Bog, was able to buy back. That's a definite keeper as it fills the electric solid-body roundwound bass corners that the Jabba bass doesn't, but then the Jabba bass is semi-hollow with flatwounds, it isn't supposed to twang and clank, it has too much class. Anyway, I'm wittering. I play in an acoustic duo and I've been through a gazillion basses trying to get just the right balance of sounds as we play quite a variety of songs, from kind of mellow jazz to much more angular abrasive stuff. The Jabba bass sits in the middle of that brief coping easily with the demands I make of it. If I were a technically minded man I'd tell you technical things about it but I'm not so I can't but it is an incredibly beautifully built bass and it sounds amazing. Whenever anyone sees it, be it musician or civilian, they always admire it, usually with the words "It's a work of art..." which it most definitely is. Blimey, I'm still at wittering, I best get off the train otherwise I'll end up in prattling and no one wants that. In summary. @Jabba_the_gut makes exceedingly good basses and my aim is to own several and play them exclusively. The tone is gorgeous, the build is exquisite... extraordinary. If you get the chance to own one then jump on it, you won't regret it.

Awful news RIP Kelly Joe Phelps…

Is this a misplaced DOI post?

This thread in summary… Horses for courses.

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Pleasure I’m far to busy drifting about on Laputa.