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Sold Jim a Kent Armstrong 'vintage hot' P-Bass pickup. Quick payer, good comms, no nonsense transaction - top bloke

I think it's Henry Olsen's bass. He played with the Scream from Screamadelica up until Mani joined them on Vanishing Point after their break. Remember seeing him play live with them a fair few times. Always thought he looked pretty cool, in a suit, polo-neck with an old sunburst Precision. Pretty tight player too. That is a horrible monstrosity though, that he's selling.

Thanks for the heads-up - much appreciated. Off down there tomorrow

Tried an SPB-2 in my P-Bass; couldn't wait to get it out & replace it! They're overwound, way too pokey for me, not subtle at all, unreal amount of mids & not much else. I'm sure they have their fans, otherwise Seymour Duncan wouldn't sell them & they definitely have a character of their own. Very much a 'marmite' pickup IMO

[quote name='bigjohn' post='638464' date='Oct 27 2009, 08:48 PM']I got myself a CIJ '65 reissue on Saturday. I'm still giggling. Not sure when it will end. :brow:[/quote] Bought Lee650's red 62' Reissue off here few weeks ago. It's a beauty, can't put it down!

I got myself a cheap Boss CS-3 which sounded crap as stock, & did the [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/cs3modding.shtml"]Ovnilab Mod[/url] on it, which I'm led to believe is very similar to the Humphrey Mod, but bass friendly(?) . Quite like it, does everything I need, though I still think I can hear a touch of low end loss, but I'm happy with it. I still want to try out an EBS MultiComp though & would probably snap up an EHX White Finger if I found one s/h.

In one band just a P-Bass with flats, fingerstyle straight into the amp with a tuner inbetween. My other band; roundwounds through fuzzes,envelope filters,octaver,phasers.... anything! Depends on the type of music & what other sonics are going on in the band, if there's room etc. But I don't think that [i]pure[/i] sound of a bass into amp, with whatever tone coming from the fingers, can be beaten sometimes.

Wem Bass Dominator with 15" speaker.

Bought Lee's Fender 62' Reissue P-Bass. Arrived safely, well packed & in good condition as described at a fair price. Top chap, good communications & a straight forward, hassle-free deal. Thanks Lee.

In fairness, this can't really be something that's targeted at the typical bass playing market can it? I mean five grand for a Cort!? And as far as investment value is concerned; there are plenty of other better quality vintage guitars & basses around at the moment at good prices that will have a higher appreciation. Good luck to him, if someone's daft enough to pay that sort of money for what basically seems a pretty average weird shaped bass....

Looks like Derek Forbes & Simple Minds original drummer Brian McGee are getting together to do something similar to what Bruce & Rick have done with From The Jam: [url="http://rockartistmanagement.com/page/other_simple_minds"]Other Simple Minds[/url]. Good luck to em', will be looking forward to gigs.

Not mine, but exactly the same - nice looking [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ibanez-Blazer-bass-1981-Supergrass-Mick-Quinn_W0QQitemZ190340450105QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2c512cc739"]Ibby Blazer[/url].

[quote name='gnasher1993' post='624287' date='Oct 12 2009, 07:22 PM']Some of the boss line are more popular than others so it depends which ones you have.[/quote] +1. Depends what's in fashion at the moment.

Glad this thread's been resurrected. The Smiths had so many great innovative basslines, lot of funk going on sometimes

Actually met up with the seller this morning, after lots of furtive texts - he wanted to meet at a roundabout!. Wasn't prepared to do that. He's selling some pedals & I needed a CS-3 & as nobody on here wants to sell me one ....... Only a young chap, I'd guess 16 or so if that. Guess he may have seen some of the comments here, judging from his behaviour - at first he didn't want to give me his address for [i]'obvious reasons'[/i](?!) Bought the pedal, it was a good price @ £30. My final comment to him, after the usual wishing him well etc, was 'you do know that ain't a real Stingray, right?'. He didn't respond. Oh well.....

[quote name='chris_b' post='611530' date='Sep 29 2009, 12:44 AM']The A list LA session musicians were called the Wrecking Crew. You can google them but they included: [list] [*]Guitar: Glen Campbell, Barney Kessel, Tommy Tedesco, Al Casey, Carol Kaye, Billy Strange, Don Peake, Howard Roberts, James Burton, Jerry Cole, Mike Deasy [*]Saxophone: Steve Douglas, Jay Migliori, Jim Horn, Plas Johnson, Nino Tempo, Gene Cipriano [*]Trumpet: Roy Caton (contractor), Tony Terran, Ollie Mitchell [*]Trombone: Lou Blackburn, Dick Hyde [*]Keyboards: Leon Russell, Mac Rebennack (aka Dr. John), Mike Melvoin, Don Randi, Larry Knechtel, Al Delory, Mike Rubini [*]Bass: Carol Kaye, Joe Osborn, Max Bennett, Chuck Berghofer, Ray Pohlman, Larry Knechtel, Lyle Ritz, Jimmy Bond (007) [*]Drums: Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Jim Gordon [*]Percussion: Julius Wechter, Gary Coleman , Frank Capp (contractor) [*]Conductor/arranger: Jack Nitzsche [*]Harmonica: Tommy Morgan [/list][/quote] More info here [url="http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/"]LA Studio Musicians[/url] Good call - love the 'Dirty Harry' soundtrack, on my iPod constantly. Film's pretty good too, particularly Scorpio's character. I thought Chuck Rainey played the bass on this, but also seem to recall someone telling me it was Paul Jackson(?)

Spotted that too this morning! Luckily I'm not into Stingrays, but it would have been a bargain at that price - if authentic. Was meaning to email seller for more info as he's just up the road from me, but now it's gone (again).

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='615532' date='Oct 3 2009, 10:18 AM']It is covers, I could understand the need to be more creative as a group if it were originals.[/quote] Echoing a lot the other comments made, I don't think you're not at all out of order. This is one of the reasons I've just left a covers band I was in. Rehearsal time isn't free & not for working out parts IMO. All band members should at least try to do their homework beforehand.

[quote name='cm261' post='615403' date='Oct 3 2009, 12:08 AM']Well this moosapotamus looks interesting as it would open up a whole world of sinful low-end-eating guitar pedals to me, plus I now know exactly what parts I would need to buy for it, so maybe that! Ordering new stuff would also allow me to get ahold of a permanent enclosure for my mammoth as well without paying postage more times than I need to. Maybe also an A/B or an A/B/Y box as well, since it makes sense to order the parts for multiple pedals at once. I assume that an A/B box switches between 2 peadals and an A/B/Y can switch between 2 and also have both on simulataneously? On top of that I could also order the parts for the Llama while I'm at it. Basically, as long as I'm using prototyping board I'm happy [/quote] Sounds like a good plan buying all the bits in bulk, especially with the boxes included. A paralooper or any good blender is worth it's weight in gold IMO, especially for bass. Mine's out on indefinite loan at the moment, so I'm going to build another one. Might be wrong here, but an A/B or A/B/Y might be only benefitial with two amps or channels when using with two pedals/separate signal chains(?)