Doctor J

You just have

When the idea struck to play an instrument, back in 1988, it was bass and only bass I wanted to play. Over the years I took up guitar and drums too and I've played all three in bands throughout the years. In fact, I've just finished a six year stint playing guitar in a band but, all the while, bass is still the one that I enjoy the most, the one where I feel most comfortable. I can get by with not playing bass but I just don't enjoy it as much. If I go back into the live band thing it'll be on bass this time.

I picked up a mid 90's SR1300 last year pretty cheap, just love that neck, there's nothing else quite like it.

Slap bass? It's the sound of a guitarist compensating for those missing strings.

Bacchus Woodline Classic P. Tried several before, including a couple of American Standards, but the Bacchus is the one.

You'd have a .125 as your E? Seems far too heavy, to be honest, the heaviest E string I ever used was a .115 and it was seriously tight. Why not just stick to regular four string set gauges (ie 105-45, 100-40, etc) for E to G and get a .25 or thereabouts for your C, that's what I did and the tension feels natural and balanced.

And before anyone pipes up, I sold my Stingray after I picked up the Godlyke, there was just no point keeping it

[quote name='Toasted' post='1244124' date='May 25 2011, 12:20 PM']Wow, that's putting the pricing up there with Ritter / Fodera / Ken Smith / Dingwall as some of the most expensive new basses out there.[/quote] Yup, I got a quote a few months back "The current price for a Wal 4 string Mk 2 with sycamore facings is £3650 + VAT" Just a bit too much for me, I'm afraid.

That fretboard looks like it's gasping for some lemon oil

I'd recommend Viaticum by Esbjorn Svensson Trio to anyone interested in this kind of thang. Or any E.S.T. for that matter.

[quote name='pete.young' post='1237557' date='May 19 2011, 10:54 PM']Back Door. Ron Aspery, Tony Hicks, and the living legend that is Colin Hodgkinson.[/quote] This +1000

Very nice, well done. If I were in your position I would consider doing something to protect those coils from accidental damage, they seem a bit too exposed for my liking and could be very easily damaged. Even getting them taped would go a long way to protecting them and wouldn't spoil the aesthetic of the bass.

Ah but who's this with the credibility? Adios, Keanu!

[quote name='Johnston' post='1231426' date='May 14 2011, 09:44 PM']Edit FFS I hate it when the computer goes on a go slow [/quote] Ah yeah, it was the computer that was slow, course it was

Yeah, well the Hulkster's going to break her like a twig on an Autumn breeze

I played one of them in a shop just a few days ago. [b]Very[/b] nice bass. Congratulations.

[quote name='bigthumb' post='1230783' date='May 14 2011, 10:40 AM']Very nice and what lovely flame. Are you replacing the frets with the Warwick brass jobbies?[/quote] Of course, I'm not a scumbag

Picked up this heavily played but somewhat neglected 91 Streamer recently cleaned 20 years of gunk, smoke and even lemon oil coatings from it and now it looks like this and after cleaning the hardware it's looking a lot healthier and is now away getting a much needed refret. A companion for my LX

I know the feedback section is primarily for people who have sold items, but I think this is worth commending. Chris asked me to hold an item, which I was happy to do, and got back to me and bought it when he said he would and was a total gent to boot. Given that I put other things on hold for people who never got back to me at all I think it's worth highlighting. Sell with confidence to this man

I quite like it. I usually set my basses up to play clean when playing moderately but have a bit of buzz and grind on tap for when I dig in. As mentioned, there's a big difference in sound between intentional fret buzz and the sound of a string choking on a poorly set up or maintained instrument.

I'm glad that at least [i]you[/i] believe it

Have had all three just-a-nut models at one time or another. To be honest, if you get a standard nut cut right in the first place you're not missing anything.

Had the singer walk off stage and out the door halfway through a gig after an arguement with some punters while the rest of us were... well... let's say somewhat sedated and not fully capable of grasping entirely what was going on and so carried on regardless. That was pretty exciting, but it was the early 90s and we were just kids, things were different then. More recently, played a gig where not only could the drummer not hear the vocals in the monitor but the mic lead was dodgy and the singer didn't address it, just tried to hold it in position so it worked rather than utilise one of the BV mics which were already on stage. We have a song with where the vocals are the cue back in after dead stops, very powerful and dynamic when it works, utterly embarassing when the mic lead craps out during both of them and the drummer, who can't watch the singer's mouth, comes in about half a second after the bass and guitar. What was already a truly crap experience became a genuine ground-please-open-up moment.

A communal work ethic. I can handle differing abilities, I can handle music I'm not 100% into but I can't handle having to drag people along, lazy disinterested bastids who add nothing and are devoid of enthusiasm. A pox upon them, I say.