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[quote name='steve-soar' post='468153' date='Apr 21 2009, 10:05 AM']From his telephone number, I can see that he only lives in Wallasey, which is quite close to me. I have a slight SUSPICion who this no Moscow no is. Don't mention the war. [/quote] Is it Lavrenti Beria? Olga Korbut? Leon Trotsky? I'm sorry, it's all too cryptic for me. I can't even do a junior crossword...

[quote name='AM1' post='468845' date='Apr 21 2009, 05:48 PM']Skank, am trying to PM you but it says you can't receive. Sort it out before the cake gets finished! [/quote] It's a commitment issues thing. But I don't know why I can't 'receive' messages. Probably the voices in my head...

[quote name='The Funk' post='468809' date='Apr 21 2009, 05:25 PM']I went on about experience for a reason. I didn't bring it up and only pointed it out to explain why there's such a bad reaction to some of AM's posts. When someone says something along the lines of "in my experience such and such is the case" and then to someone with much more experience "you are wrong" or "you don't know what you are talking about", they're bringing personal experience into the discussion. What would be helpful to the person with the actual query, ie. the guy who created this thread in the first place, is a little explanation of what that experience includes. How else are any of these opinions useful? chris_b, who probably has the most experience in this thread, was massively pro-Ampeg.[/quote] Sorry, absolutely not aimed specifically at you, more at the general turn of events and sense of witch-hunt. Huge respect for your posts and what you have to say.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='468781' date='Apr 21 2009, 05:01 PM']I was tempted by this but your "for sale" thread looks suspiciously like an auction to me, which I believe is frowned upon on this site?[/quote] [i](Clearly, the hypnosis failed). [/i] Absolutely not an auction, sorry if it seemed that way. First one to make an offer over £150 gets it held pending payment. Sorry, OP, Mods, will take this to PM's / sale thread if it carries on.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='468764' date='Apr 21 2009, 04:48 PM']I have a Masters Degree in Hearing and am working towards a Phd in Loud Noises.[/quote] Can you hear this? [size=1][i]Your eyes are tired. Very, very tired. You're falling asleep, a deep, deep sleep. Now, think about that lovely Vantage that Skank's selling over in Basses for sale. You'd like to buy it, wouldn't you? Now, I'm going to count to three and when you wake up, you're going to PM him an offer. 1,2,3![/i][/size]

I bow to no man in my admiration for the sound of a monstrous Behringer stack at full, eyeball-popping crank. Blows yer Ampegs, Sunns, Mesas (Burmans ) into the weeds. Not an opinion. Fact. Rooted in spiritual truth at the deepest levels of the cosmos. And I've been playing (without cease or even a toilet break) for 35 years straight, so I should know. [i](Edit for Burman abuse)[/i]

[quote name='alexclaber' post='468707' date='Apr 21 2009, 04:19 PM']1. My opinion on how to play jazz is far less weighty than Bilbo's. My opinion on how to play punk is less weighty than that of waynepunkdude's. My opinion on how to play funk is more weighty than either's but less weighty than some others. 2. At what point does an opinion become a statement of fact? And thus become true or false? 3. For a better cheap shot, check out AM1's other thread on ampage. Amazing what a guru she's become in a month.[/quote] In my opinion, opinions carry some, but not much, weight, because they're opinions. For a definitive opinion on 'facts', check out AM1's fine, and indeed, [i]weighty[/i] post on the subject elsewhere, which I can't be arsed to find. Some people are born 'Gurus' - time's not a factor in the equation.

BTW, while this thread's still pulling high ratings - check out my Matsumoku Vantage in Basses for Sale. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=47088"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=47088[/url] Now, back to WWF!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='468680' date='Apr 21 2009, 03:59 PM']I'm sorry but I totally disagree. If you're still at the point of asking basic tone related questions how can you justify presenting such strong opinions and arguing them to death? If I gave you advice on how to wire your house and then you found I was posting a question elsewhere like "what's the difference between radial and ring main wiring?" wouldn't you feel that my advice was unqualified?[/quote] I think AM1 has covered this. Entirely sensible and no bearing on her opinion re: Mfr signature tone [quote name='alexclaber' post='468680' date='Apr 21 2009, 03:59 PM']That isn't the case at all. It's a case of providing some perspective and weight behind all the opinions on here. Everyone's entitled to state their opinion but everyone should be open to their opinion being proved inaccurate and needing reconsideration. Despite what some may think my opinions are not fixed but those grounded in deeper understanding are less likely to change![/quote] 1. Your opinion is no more or less 'weighty' than anyone else's, however deep you may perceive your understanding to be. However I value your views on cabs and agree re variations between Ampeg Models. 2. An opinion is an opinion and cannot be proved 'inaccurate'. 3. Still a cheap shot. That's my opinion, which while not fixed, is less likely to change.

Me and AM1 in agreement. Who'd a thought it. Enjoy it while it lasts, peoples Waiting for the lock!

Dirty pool, Alex. Using someone's genuine query on another thread to diss 'em. AM1 and I have had our moments, too, and she can sometimes be ...err..."high maintenance" - but that's just uncalled for. Also - those of you who feel that posting an opinion about a [i]sound[/i] requires years of experience, that 'less experienced' posters should gracefully roll over when challenged by self-appointed experts and that moonlighting as a semi-pro cab builder entitles you to sneer at a genuine query - you know what you can do and where you can do it.

That's all so badly spelt, I reckon it's a cunning double-bluff by a very smart person. [i]Nobody[/i] could mis-spell 'more'. Could they?

Never smashed one onstage, but trashed a guitar at home one day in a hissy fit. Long ago, however, I was occasionally given to shoving the headstock through a speaker cone and leaving the whole thing dangling. It's all a showbiz thing, I reckon and pretty much overdone. But watching (the late) Wendy O Williams take a chainsaw to a guitar - that never got old. Don't see why people get upset, though - if you own it, you can do what you like with it.

Bought a 4x10 off Shaggy. Brilliant deal, item in great nick and he arranged a real easy meet-up. Definitely one of the good guys - let me handle his newly acquired '65 T-bird! Skank

If anyone fancies joining his band, here's the details he stuck in one of his sales [i]on Ebay in the public domain [/i](?!?) [quote]I NEED A BASS PLAYER AND A GUITARSIT WORK WAITING PLEASE NO TIME WAISTERS I NEED GUYS WHO WANT TOI PLAY NOT MESS AROUND 01516370974[/quote]

[quote name='funkypenguin' post='466489' date='Apr 19 2009, 01:48 AM']the abundance of material on the internet makes it far easier to learn an instrument so instrumentalists dont have to work as hard for their knowledge/facility.[/quote] Acquiring and assimilating knowledge with greater ease and convenience is surely a good thing. What are they suppose to do - ignore it? Walk ten miles to school everyday rather than take the bus or accept a lift? (Me, I lived in a septic tank at the bottom of a lake. Tell young people that...) [quote name='funkypenguin' post='466489' date='Apr 19 2009, 01:48 AM']Its my opinion (and ONLY an opinion) that many young musicians dont practice enough and dont push themselves.[/quote] That's a fault which is by no means exclusive to younger musicians. Even rarer in my experience is the older musician who practices enough and pushes themselves. God, I envy the energy and commitment that the young put into their music, whatever their motivation for so doing. How many of us Old Bobs strapped on a guitar to explore 'modes'? We (mostly) did it to get looked at and get laid. If anything, I see more commitment to musicality today, rather than less. [quote name='funkypenguin' post='466489' date='Apr 19 2009, 01:48 AM']as for the bit about music today not being as bad/basic as the pistols....i see/hear some bands and wonder....when they are making elementary errors such as being out of tune/not in the same key, it speaks for itself.[/quote] These errors are gigantically obviously by no means exclusive to younger musicians. They may make 'mistakes' and they may be inexperienced and they may still be learning their craft, but I'd rather they were making mistakes on a real bass than on a Guitar Hero Controller. And, given the plethora of cheap electronic tuners and better constructed instruments, I suspect more bands today are in tune at concert pitch than 20 years ago. A few months ago, I replied to a post by a young musician who was bitching about 'old guys slagging off the young' and assured them I hadn't seen much of that. Clearly I was wrong. I intend no personal disrespect or offence when I say I find certain propositions as I've read here to be unsubstantiated, anecdotal and unhelpful in that they rarely propose a solution. Beyond that, I see no benefit to our community in marginalising the players who will be making music while oldies like me are being helped off the bed-pan.

...and Tait scores yet again. As for The Pistols (who I love) - "as good as they need(ed) to be to get a record deal" sums them up perfectly.

Sold me his combo. Exceptional value, and in excellent nick. Really good bloke too. (Let me test the amp with his Jap P-bass - and that's a killer axe!) Buy with confidence. Skank

You have my fullest sympathy - but Old Git's right. The starving artist just starves. Then he or she is a dead artist. If you've got an alternative source of income, then fine - be as original as you like - the audience is almost irrelevant. But if you want to build an audience and make a living off them, you have to give them what they want - it's a transaction which any professional artist accepts. So you need to find an audience that will like your stuff. Which means finding a promoter or a venue that does that stuff. And if there isn't one locally, you either have to travel or start your own event - which isn't that difficult.

[quote name='mike257' post='464879' date='Apr 17 2009, 12:11 PM']... the music industry wants bands that people - ordinary non musician people off the street - can connect with.[/quote] ...and so they sign ordinary non musician people off the street. (All this is nothing new - the Monkees were a totally manufactured band and that was 40 years ago).

[quote name='mathewsanchez' post='465143' date='Apr 17 2009, 03:31 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kool-The-Gang-1981-Authentic-American-Music-Award_W0QQitemZ260393893557QQihZ016QQcategoryZ108764QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kool-The-Gang-1981-A...4QQcmdZViewItem[/url] I have to say that's pretty cool, in my opinion anyway.[/quote] I wouldn't want to Get Down on [i]that[/i] item. Ooooh, me Emmas...

It's not about distorting the higher frequencies (which you could achieve by splitting your T-Bird signal through an A-B box and running some output through a graphic or a high-pass filter, then through a fuzz, then re-integrating) - fuzzing the high freqs fuzzed will just give you a very tinny sound. It's about the actual notes you're playing . Quick way to make your T-Bird sound like a Baritone is stick a capo on it. Or run it through a pitchshifter with 100% wet output. Or just buy a baritone.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='463673' date='Apr 16 2009, 09:40 AM']PS - I saw Mungo Jerry at The Cartoon in Croydon in 1988. They rocked.[/quote] No offence intended to Ray Dorset and his unfeasibly large sideburns - and that "In the Summertime" is "sh*te" is just my addled opinion. But taking 1970 as an example of "pop is always crap" is kind of interesting; some classics and some not so. Number at end of each line is 'weeks at no:1' 31 Jan 1970 Edison Lighthouse Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 5 7 Mar 1970 Lee Marvin Wandrin' Star 3 28 Mar 1970 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water 3 18 Apr 1970 Dana All Kinds Of Everything 2 2 May 1970 Norman Greenbaum Spirit In The Sky 2 16 May 1970 England World Cup Squad Back Home 3 6 Jun 1970 Christie Yellow River 1 13 Jun 1970 Mungo Jerry In The Summertime 7 01 Aug 1970 Elvis Presley The Wonder Of You 6 12 Sep 1970 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Tears Of A Clown 1 19 Sep 1970 Freda Payne Band Of Gold 6 31 Oct 1970 Matthew's Southern Comfort Woodstock 3 21 Nov 1970 Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile 1 28/11/1970 Xmas No 1 Dave Edmunds I Hear you knocking 6 [quote]QUOTE (wombatboter @ Apr 16 2009, 11:30 AM) I am confronted now with ... P. Diddy featuring his landlord who used to know the butcher of Tupac...[/quote] My landlord used to know the greengrocer of Biggie Smalls. Liked a nice Conference Pear, did our Biggie.

Short thoughts: * Mainstream media plays 99% pap. X-factor nonsense sells because LCD achieves best sales among people who don't actually like music. * Mainstream 'Popular' music has always been crap. Look at what was big in the singles charts during 70's heyday of classic rock. Mungo Jerry? Englebert? All sh*te. * Web now full of good gear. But too difficult to find. Need uber-site * Too many bands everywhere, mostly derivative. Cull required. * Radio 2 has two country shows but no proper 'rock' show. * Big 5 Record companies playing it safer than ever, rely on under-funded indies to develop talent * 'Rock' has lost it's danger. Used to be about 'rebelling' - sex, drugs, alternative lifestyle etc. Now it's an HND career option. Neutered, toothless. Gareth Gates. * We've run out of chords / melodies - all been done. Jazz only answer, all hail King Bilbo