Paul S

If you are after a fretless Precision bass, keep an eye on the classifieds here as I will be putting up mine for sale over the weekend Custom built by Osprey guitars (he used to post on here a lot), black, black plate, black stained (or ebony?) unlined fretboard. Black hardware. Lightweight. Quality. I need to claw some money back after buying a fretless 5er.

Items I use. Just changed what I do, so it is now: (Dunlop 1mm nylon pick). Strings - Legacy 45-130 Bass - either my modded MM Sterling 5 or Yamaha 425 depending upon band. Line 6 G50 Mighty Sound PT-06 tuner Behringer BDI-21 Orange TB500 or Trace Elliot AH-300 Barefaced Supercompact (one or two) IEM - Cheap T Bone unit - for one band, ear plugs for the other. AKG D5 mic and K&M stand for one band. 2 gang extension reel. I take lots of spare stuff.

I haven't watched a Blue video for many years.

Bought Joe's Bolin bass in the simplest of transactions. Great comms throughout - he even turned down a higher offer as we had already agreed. Met up halfway for the pickup. A pleasure doing business!

Replied on my phone - modern broken - seems strange to use a phone - don't really understand!

If someone comes to collect it I don't care where it goes!

Proper old Trace Elliot mk V Open to offers! Has to be a bargain. [url="https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-bass-amplifiers/trace-elliot-combo-gp11-mkv-loud-bass-amp-amplifier/1218756672"]https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-bass-amplifiers/trace-elliot-combo-gp11-mkv-loud-bass-amp-amplifier/1218756672[/url]

Two Bon Jovi bass lines for me, unsurprising as my new band is a Bon Jovi tribute. First one is 'Keep The Faith'. Getting it to bounce along nicely took me a long while. Now it is 'Homebound Train'. It is the bass playing equivalent of saying 'red lorry yellow lorry'. Making my fingers very sore it is. I always get there but sometimes it takes longer. I have gained much respect for Hugh McDonald since I started scrutinising his parts (so to speak)!

I played guitar from mid teens to early 20s, largely jams and bands at school then uni. Left uni, life changed, stopped playing. Fast forward to my late 40s, mid life crisis alert. In the interim I had started to listen to music differently and decided I would learn to play bass guitar. Had my first gig at 50, nearly 10 years ago now, and it felt like a small piece of me that had been missing all those years was finally back in place. I would never have imagined finding myself in two of the most rewarding bands and count my blessings each day. After such a long hiatus I still feel enthusiastic, I still feel the hunger to go out, I still feel it is fresh. Just love it

Custom scratchplate to hide the butchery?

I am going SW first weekend in June if you can wait that long?

Bought an orange bass terror from Will in the simplest of transactions. Nice friendly guy, great comms, amp arrived promptly, superbly packaged - exactly as described. Couldn't be happier and I wouldn't hesitate to deal with him again.

I believe your white one was mine for a while. Fabulous bass. I had several, now down to just one - a Yamaha SB-35. I haven't taken a picture of it, but it looks this.

I have a tatty old Peavey TKO 80 taking up space in my 'office' (spare room with loads of junk). I've been using it as my home practice amp but time to let it go. It is tatty - one of my cats has used it as a scratching post at some point and the cover is down to the wood on one side. Also the 'high' knob is missing. But it works just fine and sounds brilliant. 15" Scorpion speaker, loud enough for rehearsals and smaller gigs. Weighs as much as a small car, of course. Looks exactly like this, only tattier. Free to anyone with the enthusiasm to come and collect from SS7 in SE Essex I forget to say - it is tatty.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1487857875' post='3243594'] Or the Yamaha BB series (424 or 424X) if you'd prefer something more "traditional" than the TRBX. [/quote] This, I reckon. I bought a BB425 as a back up 5er but use it lots.

That's confusing. Seems me all the various sub-genres of heavy metal are each based on a single Black Sabbath track. Might be wrong. What is dub-step? Like a door step but lower?

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1487794174' post='3243057'] Of the pickguard makers advertising, how can I be sure that the types they make are exact versions for the instrument required? Or, to put it another way, who can confidently say that they will do a version of say a US Precision plate where the screws are in exactly the right place? I know that said plate does fit one of my instruments and the screw holes line up. I'd be cheesed off if I bought a new plate (in say a non-standard colour) only to find that, having been advertised as a certain type, that it wasn't a correct fit for one reason or another. [/quote] Many will offer a downloadable template, which does kind of work if you set up your printer correctly.

Roger Glover for me. When the bass comes in at the start of Smoke on the Water... still love it after 45yrs.

Yamaha BB5000. Anyone wanna sell?

I think this site is fabulous - has to be one of the best behaved and well run sites on the internet (even if my addiction to the classifieds has cost me a small fortune in the past 11 years). Yes there are a tiny handful of dickheads but not many. It just that they usually make a lot of noise so make themselves known. I have the greatest respect for Ped, Kiwi and the mod team who do sterling work. About 20 years ago I stated and ran a discussion forum in what was then a fledgling internet and know exactly how difficult it is. I can only assume it is more complex to deal with trolls nowdays.

I also always take a spare - 'just in case'. At the moment a Hohner B2V which takes up very little space or on 'stage' (= in the corner of the pub) or in the car. I also pay my house insurance premiums every year, even though I have never claimed in 40 years.

I read a quote somewhere, something like - 'some bands rehearse until they get it right, we rehearse until we can't get it wrong'. That is my favoured place to be. Not always possible but if I feel under-rehearsed then I don't enjoy the gig as I am always waiting for the inevitable train wreck. And for me it is all about enjoyment so I begin to question what I am doing there.

I have a Quilter and am really impressed with it. I bought it to use as back up and for rehearsals but find increasingly I'm using it for gigs.