steve-soar

I thought this thread was about BGM? I've sent two Swiss guides and a St Bernard to find this buried topic.

Very sad, what a terrible loss. Steve.

Hi there, still have a hate thing going on with Thatcher/Reagan, so maybe a bit of transference going. Classical, Jazz, Rock n Roll. We all have our yard stick, where we belong, but this is a bassists forum, we need to impart our knowledge, so we can become better musicians but, if we lived in a brighter world, the music that we love would become like mobile phone jingles, we need tension, to create good music.

I honestly thought jazzers were cool and didn't give a f*** until this thread, maybe it's a Reagan thing.

Spinning, whirling, still desending, liKE A SPIRAL SEA UNENDING!!!! SOUND AND FURY BREAK MY HEART, EVERY NERVE IS TORN APARTTTTTtttttt...... I'm telling you guys one last time, if you continue to be up yourselves, then the full fury of Neil Peart will be unleashed.

This holy grail of tone is an on going search, which is why I think, preamp manufacturer Avalon named their company in such a way. Good tone is a multi million pound business, we as musicians are always striving for the best but it really doesn't exist. I've been in arenas, where the bassist has had an Ampeg SVT and it has sounded divine, others have sounded like rubbish. I've been in pubs where the bassist has had a Peavey TKO and it was the most gourgeous, in your face and stomach bass sound I have ever heared. I've heared others with state of the art amps sound like somebody clicking a pen in a cellar and others, sound like the earth is splitting with the total magnitude of bass excellence. Best advice I can give is, when your singer and guitars, other instruments, are swaying from side to side and bobbing their heads up and down, then you have a good bass sound put it close to your ear and make sure it makes your pants move.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='532699' date='Jul 5 2009, 12:08 AM']Now that I have it at home and no-one can snatch it from under my nose, I can reveal why I was asking about alternative colours. Claber, can you do the Vintage in green with a white cloth? To match this: I think it should match nicely with the Vintage.[/quote]Good grief, that's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. You bastard. Cue Mr. Foxen, narrowing his eyes and grining. Bastard. The words "Matamp" and "slave" give me a hard on. Bastard.

Send it over this way, to TerryK, Ben 604 and me good self. Ed Straker and Soopercrip too.

I have memory and awaresness but I have no shape, or form, as a disembodied spirit, I am dead and yet unborn, I have passed into Olympus, as was told, in tales of old, through the city of Immortals, marbled white and purest gold. A few Rush lyrics have diffused situations in the Middle East before today.

It will be a hell of a lot easier, to put a hardwood shim under the bridge. Start with 5mm, then reduce to taste. Schaller use to do this with their bridges.

Same here, I've been an ebayer for a few years and sold nothing. I use Basschat.

[quote name='Prosebass' post='528984' date='Jun 30 2009, 07:09 PM']I can understand that , but I also feel that constantly worrying about your bass picking up a dinge or scratch can make one over-protective to the point that when you are using it the worry overtakes the enjoyment. The last thing you want when playing is to be uptight.[/quote]I totally agree. You need to let yourself go, speak in tounges and if you knock your precious bass, tough.

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+5, so, 1677.

It looks like a piece of amber, very smart.

Ask them if there is a socket for an extension pole on the bottom of the cab.

Ultra low action is for slappers and solo players, us greasy, bad boy rockers, need a mans action. Not to be confused with man action.

High gloss poly lacquers are totally fine for wood.

[quote name='nick' post='527093' date='Jun 28 2009, 09:21 PM']Difficult question there's so many! [/quote]Nice. The Tracks Of My tears, Smokey Robinson Papa Was A Rolling Stone, The Temptations God, there's hundreds.

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Hi Biggy, get a Badass, or Gotoh bridge (Gotoh copies are good too) and fit a East J Retro preamp, very easy to install, look for one secondhand, about £80-100, new £190. I have all of the above on my basses (Jazz and P bass), all are quality bits of kit.