Burns-bass

8 hours ago, Misdee said:

 Why's that then? Because you want to pretend that situation didn't happen and people like that don't exist? It did, they do, and there's lots of them. I make no apologies for noticing. 

 

Don't take it out on me just because it doesn't fit with what you like to think certain people are like, or your patronising ideas of how they should be portrayed. You should bin your own self-righteous indignation and virtue signalling.

 

 

 

 

Because you’re peddling stereotypes with no evidence to support your assertions.

It’s sad, lazy and pathetic and as an adult you should know better.

It wasn’t even funny.
 

You can sit there and poke fun at the stupid impoverished Northerner, but it says a huge amount about who you are and your value system.

39 minutes ago, Misdee said:

A few years ago I was in a Tesco supermarket in a fairly typical economically deprived town up north.  Near the entrance amongst the fresh produce they had baskets of free fruit for children to help themselves to.

 

Both parents and children were walking past this generous offer, despite looking exactly like the kind of socially disadvantaged stereotypes this gesture was obviously aimed at. I don't think they knew what fruit was, or if they did it definitely wasn't something they contemplate eating except as a flavour of Haribo.

This sort of post should end up on the dustbin. You should be ashamed of stuff like this. 

7 minutes ago, BassAdder60 said:

Ten songs for an audition is a bit much when they may be seeing several candidates. 6 songs is plenty for both parties to see if it’s a good fit 

Different if you already know many of the songs but asking for 10 songs only to be told no is a bit unfair. I’m sure that won’t happen and you will get the role 👍

I’d say 2 or 3 max.

2 hours ago, TimR said:

I once played a charity gig for extensions to a local church. It was for a dinner and dance at a local 5 star hotel. We went in for £1600 and got 'knocked down' to about £400 after the organiser laying it on thick. We found out tickets for the evening were £100 each. There was an auction of promises after the meal - it went on and on and on. We had been there at 5 to set up. 

 

The Auction made £20,000.

 

We finally went on at 11:30, played for half an hour! That was about £60 each for 2 hours travel, 2 hours set up and pack down, 6 and a half hours sitting around and 30mins of playing. 

 

After that we were very careful to do our research for all gigs.  

Fundraising.

I love that people are inspired by something and want to raise cash, but in a lot of cases, the amount of money raised is simply that which would have been taken by the bands. 

That’s ok if the band gets the plaudits but it’s usually the organiser on local radio or with their picture in the paper.

I don’t do free gigs but I do give some of my spare time to charity (always have), so my conscience is clear.

Here are two fairly rare, well read and thoroughly fascinating Hendrix books. The Anthology book is part of the mid-90s they did for Hendrix. The other is a Mitch Mitchell authored insight into life with Hendrix.

both have been read, used and stored so not new. I’d say they were Good condition in the antiquarian book scale. 
 

£15 delivered for both?

Can also add a free Beatles Lyrics hardback book too if you want?

Now £25!

I work on a commercial basis with lots of the UK’s largest charities.

Work organised by the charity mostly on commercial terms with a small (and discretionary) discount. We offer 25% off for example.

There’s a big difference for fundraising events. These are typically organised by people to raise cash for a charity. These are often where you’ll be asked to work for free and organisation may not be as good.

I see them like Yamaha basses. But particularly fashionable or desirable but rock solid build quality, great sound and quite quirky looking.

5 hours ago, crazycloud said:

I was interested for a bit, even though they're an odd shape, but not at 300 Euro ea.

It’s a hand made artisan product. That’s probably a fair price. Well done got following through on something like this and doing what you. Best of luck with it!

25 minutes ago, ossyrocks said:

 

When I saw the pic of the box in your hallway, it did cross my mind that it would be hard to return it if you needed to, and here we are. 

 

Thomann often just write things off, refund or account credit, and tell you to keep it as the return is just not economically viable. Bax won't be able to resell this bass, so they ought to just refund you and leave you to do what you want with it. Otherwise it's just going to cost them more!

I assumed so, too. It honestly can’t be worth their hassle to bother with it. 
 

I have experience of small claims court and have advised I’ll be charging storage and disposal fees.

9 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Did your luthier comment on it in any other way?

He said it was likely to be structurally sound because he tuned the bass up and checked for movement, and to let them know the fault and see what they say. When I told them they advised me not to use it and return it (which was when the fun started).

Update on this. Took it to my friend (who is a luthier) and he noticed a crack in the neck. Not a small crack, a monster one. It’s under the finish so it existed before the bass was painted (i.e. I didn’t cause it!)
 

Bax admitted this was a fault and agreed to a return. However, they refuse to pick it up.

So I’m stuck!

They suggested I took it to a pickup point but couldn’t tell me of one that would accept it. After a week of discussion, we’re nowhere further forward. 

Thankfully, I enjoy these interactions to some extent and will be filing a Moneyclaim with the court on Monday if they fail to provide a solution. I’m charging storage (at £15 per day).

Will update in the fullness of time.

1 hour ago, wateroftyne said:

Just for clarity I doubt DG is comping 5 solos because of mistakes, or any shred of sloppiness. He'll be playing a different thing each time and comping the best bits.

I know. Appreciate the clarification.

26 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Having worked with David Gilmour, I can tell you that he does 5 passes of a solo and creates the final version from those 5.

 

All 5 are amazing of course. 

I’ve heard this before so good to have it confirmed. If it’s good enough for one of the greatest guitarists in the world, it’s probably ok.

I’d also point people to videos of all the greats. I’ve seen enough Jaco clips to see he’s not always super smooth and there are mistakes in his live playing, same as all of us.

This is an interesting one. I’ve worked with several producers of big bands who’ve told me stories of musicians whose tracks are all composites of takes because they literally can’t play it all the way through. In the 60s they’d smuggle studio musicians in to redo parts etc.

Stitching together takes isn’t the same as plagiarism.

Danny is making cash and we’re all contributing to it, so he’s currently winning. 

6 hours ago, TimR said:

 

You should have given it a full minute. It gets much better. 

Two guys who’ve done nothing in music not talking about much music while holding basses. And Danny Sapko has a truly terrible feel. Scott can play, obvs, but it’s typically the same show-offy modal

licks you get taught in the latter part of a jazz course. 

8 hours ago, Paddy Morris said:

I have a fully carved Eastman Strings bass.  A VB200 with violin corners and a single Yamahiko pickup.  It was very well set-up by Neal Hepplestone with spiro weichs on it, and it sounds absolutely luscious.  It sounds like a bass 5 times what I paid for it and the action is like butter.

 

It has a lovely dark thump to it and plenty of sustain for jazz.  But it's not particularly loud compared with my plywood slapper. It's not really viable unamplified at anything beyond a small acoustic set. But give it a few watts of amp and it's incredible.

Good set up is the key to unlocking most basses. 

1 hour ago, TimR said:

 

 

Crikey I watched 38 seconds and that must be one of the worst things I’ve seen. 

11 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

It's always a pleasure when people are grateful...

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43 minutes ago, bassace said:

Yes, our sixth and last one. But I put it up here to show the benefit of the Renault Master front wheel drive chassis. Not needing to accommodate a prop shaft the load floor is much lower than your average Luton. Removal guys run these so it may be possible to find something similar. Our headroom was 2.4m

Very, very smart!

My dad used to run a fleet of Lutons and Sprinters but I never got to drive one of these beautiful things. 

3 minutes ago, Beer of the Bass said:

Not many jazz players use an extension - Ron Carter is a rare exception. I've not spent time with one myself, but some players feel they change the pizzicato feel and response on the E string in ways they don't like. They're very widely used by orchestral players where pizzicato is a lower priority, and even required by some orchestras.

I'm guessing that pic of McKibbon is some years later than Birth Of The Cool, since he appears to have a pickup wire coming from his bridge too. 

May be a borrowed bass.

Horsebox. 

This looks fab. If I wasn’t 250 miles away I’d take it!

I think these vintage reissues are better than genuine vintage ones as playing instruments for gigging musicians. I spent 20 years playing my 66 jazz bass, but for the last 5 years have been playing one of the FSR USA  models. Just beautifully made instruments.

3 minutes ago, Maude said:

Holy cow! Well done 👌

It wouldn't let me check out when I tried, got to a certain point and nothing to click to progress. 

I'm keen to hear what you think of it. 

 

 

I’ve got an account there through my business and they messaged me and pushed it through. Guy told me it was because RM won’t take parcels over 2m.