Cato

Have you explored modding gas?

I'm getting quite excited about a project I'm planning to soup up a jazz next year.

Preamps, pickups, knobs, bridges, tuners it's a whole new sphere of items to lust after.

And, not sure it counts as a song, but

The soundtrack to my teenage years.

Cheers for the good times Malcolm.

I heard somewhere (probably on here) that Mr King saw Thundercat at Glastonbury and got inspired.

Edit:he mentions it briefly here.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/mark-king-you-just-need-to-remember-to-not-be-precious-and-to-go-with-it

I'm not generally a fan of fancy tops, but there's an absolutely spectacular example by Andyjr in the Build Diaries forum.

5 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Who's Nigel Farrage?

Blue

Not a very nice guy. I'd say more, but threads have been locked for less.

You look nothing like him anyway .Well maybe if I squint and try to add 40 years...

Have you ever listened to Drugstore?

Or Belly?

I don't know if they qualify as grunge or riot grrrls, but it was definately an influence on them, plus they're two of my favourite bands from that era.

I'll give that a go.

When I was a kid I didn't rate John at all, probably because he was the least flash/openly virtuoso member of the band.

These days of course, 25 years in to my bass playing journey, I recognise him for the quiet, restrained genius he is.

Just now, Bluewine said:

My German crafted Hofner Club Bass can't weigh more than 1 pound.

Blue

Cancel the BassChat expedition to Milwaukee, he's back.

1 minute ago, discreet said:

They're a right dodgy bunch of bastards!

 

I resemble that remark.

2 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

I think he's popped up on another thread under the name "Bluewine." Not sure what's prompted him to set up a new account, but he still signs off as "Blue" on his posts, so we know it's him!

Ah.

The place wouldn't be the same without him.

The Nanyo factory built Bass Collections are famously light and come up for sale on here fairly regularly.

Edit.

Bassbisscuits beat me to it.

9 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Does the gunfight involve railguns? There seems to be a lot of that going around at the mo.

The rail gun error is a badge of hounour.

5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

It's quite a nadir I admit.

Who knows, maybe Blue has been involved in a gunfight during Freebird?

Blue hasn't posted since just before the site went down for the upgrade.

I fear we may have to send out a search party.

Or maybe he's been busy with that gunfight.

1 hour ago, Chiliwailer said:

I went with a “set and forget’ approach as I too don’t want to be messing around more than playing. I spent about 5 mins adjusting the trims, but actually found the setting I liked within 2 mins. I know the bass well so it wasn’t hard for me to find it (whilst having the treble and bass slightly boosted). 

The mid point on the internal trims  is at 12 o clock according to the manual, both dials came set at 10 o clock, I’m not sure if that’s deliberate. John was a great guy to email, I had some questions, so I’m sure he’ll answer the factory preset question for you. 

Now I just use minor tweaks to the bass and treble control, they are very reactive, 

And the passive tone knob works during active mode too - so you can still get some old school ‘muffled’ bass, if you know what I mean?!

That's useful cheers.

Funnily enough I was looking at east preamps the other day for a project I might do next year, nothing fancy, just turning a standard, passive mex jazz into an active 'super jazz'.

Did you mess about with the internal pots much, specifically the bass and treble voicing controls, or were you happy with the 'factory' presets?

I'm not sure I can be trusted with too many variables to play with.

And then there's Michael Jackson, involved in some of the greatest music of the 70s and 80s.

Never convicted of anything, but the accusations were so serious that they slightly tarnished his music for me.

But not enough to stop 'I want you back' being one of mynall time favourite songs and play along basslines

4 minutes ago, Les said:

Cato, sent you a sticky note, not sure what it is, assuming it's kinda like a pm

Read and hopefully replied.

A post it thingy appears at the top of the page.

Oh yes.

Eff me, 

Finally I can embed pictures. Fantastic job.

16 minutes ago, discreet said:

Just got this when replying, in case it's of any use to a nerd.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::language() in /home/basschat/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Standard.php on line 137

I think it means that you're going to fall down the stairs.

Eff me,

So that's what cold turkey feels like.

The site looks great , I appreciate the hard work you guys put in.

He gets paid per click for the 'free' videos he puts out on YouTube, hence the clickbait.

Once you get past whatever gimmick is the title of the clip, there's usually (although not always) something useful in there.

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Dilemma:

If you point out the Spaniel image to the friend who commissioned the build, he'll never be able to unsee it.

It will always be the 'Spaniel Guitar'.

Personally I'm not sure I'd be able to resist.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1510262382' post='3405206']


I know, that's what I thought too.

Weren't The Beatles already internationally famous at this time?

Blue
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My mum saw them a couple of times at the height of Beatlemania,from what she's told me , at that point in their career, I think they usually played for less than half an hour at the top of a four or five band line up.

They also sometimes did two gigs a day in the same city,a matinée and an evening performance.