UglyDog

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1404252311' post='2490902'] Hee, hee. Just stick a hoover in a wardrobe, turn it on, and record that instead. [/quote] Good tip. Similarly, a slap bass solo can easily be replaced by simply recording a shopping trolley full of empty coke cans being pushed down a fire escape.

$799 currently works out at approx £470.

It bores my tits off, but that doesn't actually make it a 'bad' song. Just one that I would never choose to listen to in a million years.

My envy is visible from the moon. Hope you have a great evening [size=1]you lucky git.[/size]

Paid 90 for mine, although it did need a new volume pot and a fret dress.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1403820253' post='2486903'] I'm very disappointed. If I were a guitarist I'd get a PRS, I think they look and sound great. The basses look very uninspiring though [/quote] Agreed. Exactly the same as the Parker Fly instruments -- the guitars look amazing, the basses look... meh. [quote name='BassHappy' timestamp='1403704339' post='2485469'] It's $799 for the Kingfisher and $749 for the Kestrel. [/quote] And despite the healthy exchange rate, by the time they've made their way to the UK that'll translate as "£799 for the Kingfisher and £749 for the Kestrel".

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1404214282' post='2490309'] i have worked with a fe artists who used the multitrack vocal backup so I reckon I can spot it. [/quote]Some years ago I was on the same bill as A Well Known UK Vocal Group From The 70s. Their soundcheck was a jawdropping experience of the "how the f*** do they get away with this?" variety. Barely anything the punters heard was live, it was virtually all backing track. [quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1404215678' post='2490338'] As for Dolly, see [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b048t0jz/glastonbury-2014-dolly-parton"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...14-dolly-parton[/url] about About 1:18:40s in. Oops! [/quote]Blimey, that's a hell of a glitch. Not only does it cause audio & video to be out of sync, but it makes entire words appear out of nowhere. Comprehensively busted there, I think.

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1404083301' post='2489204'] Jack White was brilliant. [/quote] Compared to what??

If i wanted to put a Bloggs Bass decal on something that wasn't actually a Bloggs Bass, i'd do it. And I certainly wouldn't feel it necessary to explain or justify my reasons for doing so.

Yes, I quite liked Foster The People too. New name on me. We were treated to a nice lingering shot of the bassist's pedalboard too!

[quote name='hollywoodrox' timestamp='1403831641' post='2486961'] Cheers guys , I think the wilkinsons may be particularly huge for some reason have read of them not fitting on squier p bass, s the post I did read involved grinding some off, I will see, the hipshots are awesome though, will keep eye open for g & l ones too [/quote] They did not fit properly on the headstock of my Squier Jazz. The top corner of the G protruded by few mil'.

I've got rehearsal tonight but I'm under the weather at the mo and frankly I could do with an early night instead. Don't get me wrong, normally I'm with Fionn -- my bandmates are, well, mates and we have a laugh and make some cool sounds and I love playing with them. It's just today I'm feeling blehhhh and I'm not anticipating it with any degree of eagerness. I hate feeling crappy.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1403515700' post='2483334'] Back on topic briefly, I wonder if Limelight would be willing and able to make me a reliced "vintage" 5 string Pbass? [/quote] For the sake of my bank balance, I sincerely hope not. A mild relic "'65 Jazz" fiver would simply have to be mine. No question.

IMO: Quality cable + quality plugs + careful soldering = unbeatable.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1403613894' post='2484466'] Never heard of Parkinsons law ? [/quote] Is that the law that states: "As a chat-show host gets closer to retirement, the probability of his appearing in a life insurance/funeral plan advert on daytime telly approaches 1"..?

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1403599018' post='2484194'] couldn't you just do some screen grabs from my big fat gipsy wedding? [/quote] It sounds more like My Big Fat Vomiting Bride

Mine takes 20 minutes tops, and that's with a bigger kit than your bloke's too. If it's taking him an hour, he's doing something wrong.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1403594613' post='2484132'] Hands up everyone who's never in their life done anything they're ashamed of or would have done differently given another go.... [/quote] True. But I'd like to think that, given the opportunity to set the record straight, I'd put my hands up and admit that I'd been an absolute bellend and that I bitterly regretted what I'd said/done, that I wasn't in control at the time but that's really no excuse, and that I was truly sorry to anyone I had disappointed, disillusioned or personally offended. If I didn't do any of that, it would tend to suggest that I thought I was right to say/do it in the first place, or that I was too arrogant to admit that I have feet of clay like every other bugger.

IMO when a PA-owning band member starts charging his own band to use his PA, there'll be tears before bedtime. The logical progression to this would be that the guitarist would start charging the band for the use of his kit -- after all, if he wasnt in the band he wouldnt be using it -- and the drummer would do the same, and so on. This happened in a band I was in some years ago -- the singer owned the (mainly vocal) PA and had also got us a handful of gigs at a couple of pubs, and suddenly announced to us via email one day that he would not only be charging us, his own band, for use of his PA but he would also be expecting a "finder's fee" for every gig he arranged. The band, which had been trolling along fine up until this point, broke up not long afterwards amid the exchange of some choice anglo-saxon vernacular.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1403531053' post='2483589'] I dunno... he's still alive! [/quote] That's why he only gets an honourable mention, rather than being an actual candidate

Bargain of the year so far I reckon. You could have paid more than that for the Barts alone. Well played sir

Well, it's sold once more. Let's see if it pops up again...

This bozo should definitely get an honourable mention in this year's Darwins.

How did you do the 'W' on the headstock? Looks great BTW.

If you really need to get the rubber off, it might be worth trying to warm it up with a hairdryer to soften the sticky stuff holding it down? It's the same trick the car modifiers use to de-badge their motors without damaging the paint.