skankdelvar

[i]JUST BEEN IN A BOX IN LOCK UP [/i] - since 1973

Welcome 6'7", eh? Bet that Cort looks like a tennis racket hanging off you.

My [i]personal[/i] taste is for a square-fronted cab that's at least the same width as your average rack or wider. Hate overhanging amps! And, for some bizarre, inexplicable reason, I also feel that 'tall' cabs (8x10's excluded) look wrong, somehow. As do 2x10 stacked on their sides for enhanced sonic dispersion... Just my 2 cents.

Why not put a 'Feeler' ad in 'Basses for Sale' and see what the market will stand?

[quote name='budget bassist' post='406932' date='Feb 11 2009, 08:35 PM']If i recall, flea actually used a pick for that'un[/quote] He's such a girl.

I like the 'commercial dreck'. (Sniffs huffily and puts on some Leanne Rimes)

[quote name='ARGH' post='406949' date='Feb 11 2009, 08:44 PM']Cheese? It depends on what you define as 'Cheese'?[/quote] From www.norwegiancheeses.com [i]Jarlsberg is the most popular Norwegian cheese in the UK. It is named after Count Wedel Jarlsberg, the owner of an estate by the Oslofjord, where the cheese was first produced back in 1815. Jarlsberg was first sold in the UK in the 1960s and since that time has developed a reputation with the British public as a delicious cheese of exceedingly high quality. Unlike A-Ha, for whom we express our sincerest apologies.[/i]

[quote name='ARGH' post='406700' date='Feb 11 2009, 05:39 PM']I wonder if anyone here can actually double a blazing kick pattern with their fingers? (Hint-hint..Can we talk techniques ,before we degenerate into mindless slanging of X bands or what band is in which genre..please)[/quote] No, I can't blaze a double knitting pattern, because I'm [i]far [/i]too busy trying to create the 'Country-Metal' genre. And all bands whose names end with a vowel are s**t. Fact. Not opinion - fact. And I've got 452 bands here who don't fit into any genre and have to be out of the warehouse by Friday. Offers welcome.

Bringing two genre threads together: It's quite easy to stick the Ace of Spades riff over the intro to 'Ghost Riders In the Sky', or, indeed, vice versa. M'mmmmm, Country Metal. There's got to be a few quid in that....

[quote name='Buzz' post='406358' date='Feb 11 2009, 02:47 PM']On the mention of Blink 182, is everyone aware they officially announced their reformation this week? Check their official website if you don't believe me, new material will be surfacing in the summer.[/quote] Well that didn't take long...bet the lawyers were up late sorting out 'issues'. Not surprising seeing as Squid-face Delonge's much-vaunted new outfit, Angels & Airwaves, produced a reeking slab of overlong, turgid pap (imo), while the abandoned rtm section annoyingly knocked out a couple of bona efforts, in between crashing planes and eating their own heads. Bit wrinkly these days for running around nekkid, though.

Country music is, on the whole, very fine, IMO. Like the old stuff, like the new stuff, like country-rock, like alt-country. 15 years ago, I'd have killed myself for thinking that; but you grow up, and your tastes get broader rather than narrower. Same as I find something to enjoy in blues, metal, reggae, dance, classical ad inf. Now, when it comes to hardcore British country music 'buffs', as they like to call themselves, that's a different story. Detest anything after Slim Whitman, build shrines to Boxcar Willie and drive around in rusty old Yank Barges with Confederate flag stickers. Weasel-featured, long greasy hair, tattoos, scars, ratty little moustaches, prosthetic limbs. And you should see their husbands.

Always used to use bass boomers, then shifted to elixirs. Boomers always sounded great for a couple of sessions, then dead real fast. But YMMV.

Good news - the BRMC song is a piece of cake.

Bought a jazz-type neck off Oli. Well-packed, quick and great value. ++++++A top B-Bayer!+++++++

[quote name='Linus27' post='405440' date='Feb 10 2009, 03:26 PM']What making babies or trying basses [/quote] I really wouldn't recommend doing that simultaneously. You won't get a proper idea of the tone, playability, etc. Priorities, please.

[quote]'Good evening Havant'[/quote] You Havant what? Don't keep me in suspense...

[quote name='Linus27' post='405413' date='Feb 10 2009, 03:02 PM']HAHAHA well, there is a problem with that idea. So she has agread that its ok to get the precision as long as it is the last one. I mean, I am running out of room as it is anyway [/quote] Sorry - now I understand. Good excuse to get out there and have some trial runs. Enjoy

Hi and welcome. As long as you enjoy yourself, that's all that matters - and I bet you're a lot better than you think you are!

Hi mate, welcome to the forum I expect you're finding North London a bit different to home. Hope you're settling in fine - well, you've got your bass and you're in a band and that's what counts. Plenty of amps for sale in the relevant forum and lots of discussion about the merits or otherwise of the various makes available in the UK. Have a good time and enjoy the forum!

Genius

The question you should be asking is - which one do I buy first? And how long do I leave it before I buy the other one?

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='405188' date='Feb 10 2009, 11:15 AM']Just a thought (and a bit of a trek) but have you tried Peter Cook's in Hanwell (near Ealing)?[/quote] +1 on the Peter Cook's. Don't be put off when you walk in and see only about 15 gtrs and 2 basses on the wall. They've got [i]hundreds [/i]stashed next door. Check their site and call first to make sure they've got what you want in stock. Good guys and open to a modest haggle last time I was there ...and check out guitar village in Farnham - it's very near you and it's effing colossal with lots of stonking basses - [url="http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk"]http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk[/url]