Burns-bass

57 minutes ago, prowla said:

 

A lot of Italian bands used to play Dynelectrons, a copy of the original. Great if you can find one!

Will still see the remaining books for £20 delivered… come on you know you want to!

4 hours ago, Beedster said:

Sold 

Paid for the holiday this year…

11 hours ago, EssentialTension said:

 

Still has the mutes too, very unusual.

The strap on its own is worth £200.

19 minutes ago, SamIAm said:

I've seen 'How was you Gig' and 'How was your rehersal', but could not find one for Jams (Apologies if this was simply due to my poor searching!)

 

So ... I shall kick things off.

 

A few weeks ago I posted a 'I play bass, can I come along' ... the response was 'We already have a bass player' 😕 Hmmm ... where in the rules does it suggest that only one bass player is the max!?

 

Anyhoo, a week or so later I received a message ... "we need a new bass player weekly, might you be interested". Ha ...  I was on it like a rash!

 

So, last week I went along and whilst being a bit timid, I really enjoyed it.  Feedback was good and the fellow who hosts it even suggested I should turn up the volume ... I like it!!

 

This evening I went again ... OMG, WHAT a blast!

About 10 of us, playing through a bunch of leadsheets for a couple of hours ... and all really nice folks to boot!

I was not doing anything sophisticated ... root/fifth, with an octave now and then.  Some chromatic approaches, varying the beat from time to ... time, even throwing in some thirds when it seemed appropiate.

 

I really felt in the groove and it will take days for the smile to disappear from my face.

 

Now I just need to find the magical sequence of plugins on my Dwarf to get a nice upright like sound ...  

 

Sam x

 

95% of bass is about turning up on time, following the chords and doing the basics.

Finding the groove is what we live for!

A hell of a player this guy. I remember one summer  ailing all of “and out come the wolves” after an ex girlfriend gave me the CD.

Might get the Thunderbird out and have a crack this morning! 

37 minutes ago, TimR said:

Good SH basses disappear very quickly on Facebook marketplace. 

In my experience that’s usually because one of the scumbag bedroom dealers has got there first.

Prices go up over time shocker!

You can get a perfectly good, giggable bass for £50. You may not like the name on the headstock, but the Ibanez bass I got for £50 was streets ahead of anything I’d owned in the 90s.

I picked up a vintage Japanese Squier for a tad over £100 last week. You can still get good stuff without breaking the bank.

Love this. The simplest solution is almost always the right one.

20 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

One Christmas a few years back, wife bought me a ukulele as a joke; it was a Lidl central aisle purchase made by a company called Clifton, £18.00.  It's been stuck on a shelf gathering dust for years, honestly didn't even have a clue how it's tuned.  I have a couple of mates who play in a ukulele band called The Mighty Lemons, and they seem to have a beery-riot doing stuff.

 

Over Christmas, my wife is like, 'Are you ever going to play it or shall I charity-shop it?'  Went online, found out how to tune it, found a tab for 'Tonight You Belong to Me' and off I went.  I've got biggish hands (why isn't there a luthier who customises guitars for people with big hands, eh?), but am far from sausage-fingered, so chording is a struggle, but it's a lot of fun.  As an instrument, I'm finding that you can pretty much make any chord shape and it just sounds rather lovely, so much so I'm thinking a better specced one may make the experience a little better.

 

 

I have a nice solid wood Donner ukelele I have no use for if you want it? Pay postage and it’s yours.

I have one of these which I got at an incredible price from Toby.

http://www.jazzboxukes.com/emporium.htm

16 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Christ, if you fell in a cesspit you'd come out clutching a Klon Centaur!

Took it to tonight’s gig and there was an intermittent fault on the jack socket, so that needs sorting.

36 minutes ago, lozkerr said:

Aaaaarrghh... some sadist has put a Sei J5 on the marketplace. Must... resist... must... resist...

After the Thunderbird opened the floodgates I found a 1990 Jap Squier Precision for £100. I mean, I couldn’t turn that down…

Will send the 3 remaining books for £20.

11 hours ago, TimR said:

I spent £25 on lottery tickets last year. I'm sure £1.50 on an odd bass raffle when a nice one pops up isn't going to turn me into an uncontrolled addict. 

It’s a slippery slope. You could find yourself covered in that weird foil from scratchcards, unable to play bass as your hand is permanently grasping an imaginary coin ready to scrape your way to untold riches.

50 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

I reckon it’d be resold for £25-30k but not so sure it’d be sold at auction for that much considering the added fees. I reckon the upper side of the estimate is probably in the right ball park, so under £20k.

Star connection does crazy things. I assume there’s an in-person component to this auction as well?

I once saw a men dressed head to toe as a cowboy punch the air after securing a BB King signed 335 for £5000 (before fees).

Made the auction memorable!

2 hours ago, Sparky Mark said:

Estimate says £12,000 to £18,000.

I reckon £25,000

Tasty looking 64 jazz ready to land at ATB Guitars as well…

10 hours ago, acidbass said:

This whole debacle is very disappointing.  A shim is really just to supplement a poor manufactured instrument.  I'd have expected better from Fender's flagship line to be honest.  I hope you find a solution

It’s a used instrument. Fender can’t be responsible for what happens when a bass is in the wild.

It’s disappointing that you took this to a professional who wasn’t able to do this to your satisfaction. 

Setting up and instrument is pretty easy, they’ve been designed in a way that makes this possible using some standard tools. I set the action, intonation, and pickup height while my wife cooked some pasta.

Pickups can become stuck sometimes and difficult to move, so worth getting the screwdriver, loosening them off, and then they’re having a wiggle.

2 hours ago, jrixn1 said:

 

Have a look at EBS Stanley Clarke pedal or MicroBass 3.  They are not cheap - but once you add up the cost of a variable HPF, two EQ pedals, a Boss LS-2, a DI box, etc, it is not unreasonable.

This. 
 

I read a few posts about your experiences with this pedal and subsequently bought one and it’s been fantastic.

Its a line selected, DI, HPF and superb EQ.

Still here…

I’m out and possibly shouldn’t be contributing, but I’ve had two deals I couldn’t refuse. It’s weird but there seem to be so many bargains about at the moment, it’s mad. 

These competitions are legit and are regulated too. They’re also hugely profitable for the companies who operate them. It’s gambling so I’m instantly out but it’s a small enough amount that it wouldn’t destroy your life.

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Anyone who is remotely successful always gets hate. Especially on BC. 

 

Bass is fugly but that's just my opinion. 

Hate is too strong an emotion. I’m indifferent which is the worst thing.

36 minutes ago, Killerfridge said:

Fair, I've probably read into the comments a bit much and hate is totally the wrong word; I think I'm conflating the dislike of EBMM charging £2k for a shortscale simple P bass (which I think is the correct opinion) with the dislike of Vulf as a band (also a reasonable opinion, just not one I hold). I think the "The result is jazz funk with a raised eyebrow played by music college kids." comment hit a nerve, despite the fact it is demonstrably true!

 

I retract my statement, but leave the comment there for posterity; carry on!

I guess my issue is with authenticity (or the lack of it).

Everything is played for laughs. It's the same reason why I don't get on with Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, or any of those "zany" US bands and artists. The whole is so inauthentic and the whole aesthetic they have grates on me.

Instrumentally, they're absolutely on point, but what are they trying to say or achieve with any of it? It all seems as hollow and empty as the kind of lift muzak you used to here while shopping. 

But, it's their journey, and they're selling out stadiums to audiences who adore it, so good for them.

35 minutes ago, Killerfridge said:

Oh yeah, it sold out within the hour. I understand collectors getting them, but I think anyone buying it to sound like JD should listen to Vulfmon's poem about tools and creativity:

 

 

Non sequiturs does not a poem make.

I’ve never got the whole Vulf thing. Its irony turned up to 1000 and then compressed to hell. The result is jazz funk with a raised eyebrow played by music college kids.