SpondonBassed

"a Texas honky tonk for Chicken-stinky poo Bingo," PS; Hahahahaha! That's a score for the profanity filter.

I'm guessing that there isn't much TAB in it. (Runs away from the smoking blue touchpaper)

That explains his Teddy Boy dress tendencies then. I only see him as a Film critic on early morning BBC News at the weekends but I will see him differently from now on. Cheers!

I can say with a fair degree of certainty that it isn't. If it had been made for me it would have a proper, old-fashioned kill switch and not just a pathetic standby button. It galls me that with modern kit, I have to wait for a bootup cycle AND I have to wait for the shutdown to be certain that some new fangled bit of tat has actually responded to the soft switch. With lots of these processor dependant devices it seems to be that the one time you think "oh it'll be off in a moment I'll leave it to shut down", you come back much later to find that the darned thing is hung in some sort of digital sulk and is heating up an empty room because it is in loopy land. With valve tech, you only had to wait for the warm up. You could walk away immediately upon switching the set off. Confounded flummery! What a bunch of technophobes we are all becoming, eh? Sod it. I am happy to retire to my bath chair and shout at squirrels whilst waving a stick vaguely in their direction.

I quite often do that even when I intend to watch one the day of broadcast. I take my time to get some tea and finish off whatever chores remain from the evening meal. Often it happens that I build in a ten minute lag that lets me leapfrog all of the commercials and finish watching at the start time for the next hour. The hard disk equipped decoder is a marvellous bit of kit.

It does. If they all went out and got bladdered instead they'd be commercial proof for the rest of the week on account of being skint now that Wonga has gone.

Quite but I am far too refined in my upbringing to mention it on a family friendly forum. Heeheehee - not

It's nice to know the pros do this as well. That's going to be a beaut!

Are you sure that they could? LB has a vast repertoire of guitar faces.

I won't listen to them willingly either. The mute button is used every time. BBC claim not to advertise yet they use advertising tactics to promote their own stuff. The promotions are just as disruptive as commercials. There are no winners.

Perhaps. No matter what the neck is like, my walking bassline always limps.

I seem to recall on one of the endurneck video clips that a thicker neck was, dare I say it, good for metal. Joking aside, it seems to suit the more technical players because of the flats on the back of the neck. Anyone looking for a Jazz neck will be disappointed. This bass will inspire a LOT of original thinking and some new ideas.

She's great. She puts some real grit into the mix.

A whole note up from standard bass tuning then. Does that fit better with your background in brass then?

Not a tip for the bar staff then? Hahahahahaha. Proof that weed makes you stoopid.

Cool. You are right about the DIY thing. I used to enjoy being able to avoid garage charges and c o c k ups. Doing my own maintenance was not an issue as a time served aircraft mechanic. Once ABS and software became commonplace I lost much of the interest that had kept me at it full time.

Pioneering stuff! Love it.

It's getting exiting now. Newtone are local to me. He's done me a set of five DBEs that I could get nowhere else. Yay!

An anglophile eh? They can't hang you for it these days can they? Re; Triumph 'bikes. They have changed a lot with John Bloor taking on the brand back in the eighties and opening the first new generation factory in Hinckley in the early nineties. They aren't the sort of 'bikes you'd fix by the kerbside with a screwdriver and a packet of cigarette papers any more. Have you tried one of the Hinckley Triumphs yet? That's a lovely replica. Have you any clips of it being played?

Welcome Zapdady. You needn't worry. We all know the answer to that one... GAS. Some of the great bassists have started out in the horn section too. Have fun. PS: Do you tune down to E flat?

That's a huge inside view of your development process. Thanks. Multi course individually adjustable saddles must be basic to how well the bass plays above the twelfth. Nice metalwork. I especially like the test bed body. I suppose you will make a newer body derived from the findings above? PS; in the UK you'd risk an arrest for indecent behaviour if you were seen playing with your whanger in public.

I'm tending that way myself.

Right on. If I ever find myself living in a place by myself, I won't miss it. Internet telly won't be missed because I have never nor will I ever chase that dragon.

Thanks for that. I larfed. (Mainly because it worries me to think I may never be able to buy a "dumb" telly ever again.)

I'm too young to remember those but thanks for filling a gap in my knowledge.