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Stopped using PMT years ago. I used to live close by to the original in Southend when Simon and Terry used to actually serve in the shop. Me and my mates had spent over £12,000 in the shop up until then. I bought a new Fender USA jazz 5 and was told that I had to pay an extra £90 for the Fender hard case. When I checked the Fender website. It was listed as an "outfit" including the hard case. I raised the point and they agreed, after a row, that maybe they'd been hasty in asking for the extra and offered me a non Fender case FOC. I declined and never went back. (Nor did my mates)

Looks great, well done and, what a coincidence, Travis Perkins are just putting the finishing touches on my first signature bass.

Don't buy it. They're absolute sh*te. I don't really know that, I'm just trying to help.

[quote name='William James Easton' post='432876' date='Mar 12 2009, 09:01 PM']i cant find anyone else. bassists are easy to find coz basses are easy to play! [/quote] Hmm, easy to play? That's alright then. For a moment, there I thought it was hard when trying to nail that Stanley Clarke number. Don't give up, just look for others to play with. Your two mates aren't the only two other musicians in the country and if your thinking of packing it in just because of that, then maybe it wasn't that much of a passion in the first place. Playing in a pub band can still be fullfilling. 75% of it for me was the crack with the other guys in the band NOT, just the songs. You can always stick the odd original in the set if it's good enough. That's the real acid test in a pub normally associated with covers bands.

Fwee Wodderwick

Had this problem myself and it took a while to get out of bad habits. Now I keep my fore-arm and wrist on the same plane and the pain has gone.

Check out MarloweDK on Youtube. Ignore the smug look like he's thinking about what he's going to buy at Tescos that afternoon.

In the current climate, there is no need to put up with bad service or product quality and, as an "ex" employer of staff, I would want to know which of my staff are f***ing up my business. I fugure that you'd be helping out the owner by telling him what's happened and why it's cost him a sale. However, if you then accept the bass or cab at a discount, it's sort of going back on your principles as you obviously wanted "unmarked brand new" gear in the first place.

Just play it in 10ths.

Apart from bypassing the system, I'd take a compressor if your head doesn't have one to even out the loud bits. Oh bugger, just read the posting date so the gigs over!!

Mail him any Thin Lizzie MP3 and call him a pillock. Nice to be able to use all methods if you can but surely it's what works best for you and the song.

No need to slap, leave tons of space and move in to the drummer's house. That's the team. Forget the rest of the band.

I can drive a tractor too. Welcome.

Look for a Status energy 4 stringer. (it'll have a headstock) Classy, cheap slapper heaven.

Welcome to Basschat from France (ex Billericay, Loughton, Woodford Green and Shenfield)

I want you back. The Jackson 5 and Animal by Toto

I should have one, that way I'd get it for nothing.

It's a very fine line between "genius" and lost the plot.

[quote name='Telebass' post='405776' date='Feb 10 2009, 10:44 PM']The ultimate bass is simply the one you like playing the best, through the amp that you like the sound of best. The 'ultimate' bass is like the 'perfect' tone - a myth.[/quote] I agree 100%

I used Ground-wounds on my Jazz. Very comfortable and they didn't mark the board.

Best of luck for Friday. Go for it.

Never had a problem with it. However, just as an exercise, I thought I'd have a go at 7 days (Sting) Impossible for me. Bass, no probs, vox, no probs, together, NO CHANCE

I'd ban people from covering their basses with stickers that don't peel off and make it illegal to wear a bass lower than the knee.

Interesting thread this. I could not get the link to work so I have not viewed the guy on You Tube. But it seems that the original question of "Does anyone know who he is?" immediately got ignored and an indepth discussion ensued about whether the guy is a bassist or not as apparrently, he uses higher register tuning. Without having seen this, my opinion is, music is music no matter what you play it on. If you're also good at it as well, that makes you a musician. I trust some/most of you will have heard of Brian Bromberg. Love him or hate him, he is a well respected world class upright and electric bass player and composer. His album "You know that feeling" has no "guitars" on it whatsoever. All guitar parts are played on the bass or variations of such. ie, piccolos etc using effects. I don't know many guitarists who could play those parts on guitars as well as he can let alone on a bass. It's purely an extension of the musical instrument preconceived idea that we have in our heads as to who should play what, on what and what it should sound like. It's all relevent in the world of music as far as I'm concerned and is no different from a bass player using a distortion pedal because that's not what a bass sounds like really is it? I wonder if all the upright bass players of the 50's slagged off the first guy they saw with a Precision and said it's not really a bass but an electrified plank of wood. Probably not. If the guy is good, plays his stuff on a bass of some kind, then he's probably a good bass player.

And Synth is short for Synthisizer