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The Ramones.

I downloaded an app like this a couple of years ago. It was easy enough to get a tune out of it but it sounded nothing like slap bass. There's an instict to putting in ghost notes and percussive slaps on a bass that just didn't translate to programming them in the right place on the app, not for me anyway. Without them it just doesn't sound like slap.

I think 'bell end' gets through. Edit. OK, I'll stop testing the swear filter now.

Interesting. I've only watched the first part, but he's already fallen for the fallacy of judging foreign 'low' wages by western standards. Someone working in one of these factories may only earn $50 a month, but what's actually important is what that $50 can buy in their home country. If for that $50 they can feed, cloth and shelter themselves and their families for a month, then in real terms it's actually the equivalent of a western wage with a much higher nominal value. I'm not saying that there is no exploitation in these countries, but assesing the real extent of the problem is a lot more complex than just stating that Indonesian factory workers only earn x$ a day.

Cheers, Im thinking of getting a V7 fretless, but i 'm a bit of a tinkerer so might try swapping out the pickups.

Off topic, are pickups on the Sire standard fender size and easy to replace, or did you have rout the bridge cavity for the new pickup?

Didn't Gibson and Fender buy up a load of rival guitar and amp manufacturers in the late 90s/early 2000s, then let pretty much all of them go to the wall?

In many cases I reckon passion beats ability. There are a lot of very successful bands who, when they started out at least, were not exactly virtuosos. Edit: That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

14/15 To be fair I guessed the double bassist and I wouldn't have got Tina Weymouth if I hadn't already read the answer on here. I might not have got Steve Harris just by that particular bass, but his stance is a dead give away.

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.

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.

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

I resemble that remark.

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.

The rail gun error is a badge of hounour.

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.

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.