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  1. Paul S
    I would have said that example above was masturbating, nice though it was. But not blues. This is blues.
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    One of the best bassists I have seen play live - from 70s to more recently. Nothing flashy but his fills are generally very interesting and many of them pretty bloody difficult. And, yes - he does play the occasional bit with his fingers but most of the driving stuff is done with a pick. I remember reading an interview he did where he goes into some detail about various methods he uses to change the sound, too - using the fat end to get a smoother paddling sound (along with palm muting) for the main riff on Black Night, for example. A generally unsung bass hero, IMHO.
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    Brilliant fun.
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    No misteak, I ment to I forget who, but someone on another thread a while back referred to Peavey as Pervey. Thought I'd nick the idea.
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    Count me in.
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    PMd
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    Yup, will do on both counts. Just need to work out a good day to travel from SE Essex to Rugby! Cheers.
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    Thanks all. I think what I will do is buy it, play it for a bit, then decide which I prefer - the p-bass or the Scavenger. If it is the Scavenger that goes, Cetera, I'll let you know.
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    I have the option of getting one of these to replace a decent quality FrankenFender p-bass as my 2nd bass - but would I do better keeping the p-bass? I know nothing about the Washburn other than it looks pretty cool. This one is in black and seems in great nick. Any pitfalls or known problems? Ta.
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    My first bass - a Peavey Milestone III. I bought this about 7 or 8 years ago, played it every night for a fortnight then ignored it after buying a 'better' bass to keep my interest and relegated it to the loft. I brought it down again last year and discovered that, actually, it isn't too bad after all. I considered defretting it, decided my cackhandedness would destroy it and therefore still have it here, surplus to requirements. Obvious stuff - 4 string passive bass with individual volume controls for each pickup and a master tone control. Lightweight wood, no idea what, with a rosewood fingerboard. I've probably played it for less than 50 hrs, it's been out the house 4 times, never gigged. Bodywork is still in pretty good nick - a few little dings and scratches, mainly from using a pick. The bridge pickup volume knob is a bit wobbly but works ok. Fingerboard could do with a clean, strings are ancient but still ok, other than that no major issues that I am aware of. It would come with a secondhand padded Stagg gig bag that has some spare strings in one of the pockets. £60 - I would prefer collection or meeting halfway for petrol money to hand over, rather than posting. Edit - that would be from Benfleet, near Southend, in Essex. [attachment=39310:peavey1.jpg][attachment=39311:peavey2.jpg] [attachment=39312:peavey4.jpg][attachment=39313:peavey3.jpg]
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    Wow! This must be the fastest any thread has ever degenerated into a wooly pulling contest.
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    Hi Joao - I got it from [url="http://www.auroraproject.co.uk/scratchplate.htm"]Aurora Project[/url] but I think there are several places. I sent them a tracing of the original, just to be sure. It's maybe not as stiff as I would like (ooh err, etc) but looks the business. It was 3 ply BWB. I reckon chrome would look the mutts, too.
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    [quote name='Huwberry' post='698208' date='Jan 1 2010, 06:15 PM']I do know, however, that I [i]love[/i] the way it looks, and a shallow part of my mind would never, ever allow me to buy an aesthetic disaster, no matter how amazing it is in all other aspects. I hope I'm not alone in feeling this! I'm certain 80-90% (well, a lot anyway) of an instrument's desirability is down to looks alone.[/quote] It is what swung it for me, if I am honest, in a play-off between a USA jazz and the jag. The idea that I have a good quality fender bass that looked a little different from the herd is quite appealing. Mine is black and, with a black pick guard on it, looks even cooler - my Panther! [attachment=39160:jaguarblacksp2.jpg] [attachment=39161:jaguarblacksp3.jpg] [attachment=39159:jaguarblacksp1.jpg]
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    2009's gigs

    Paul S replied to john_the_bass's topic in Gigs

    Only 4. Illnesses, holidays, personnel changes, new band.. still, it was 2 more than 2008, which is when I started. Trying to get a demo recorded is #1 on the list for was early as possible, so we can start getting ourselves out there, but sometimes it seems like getting us all free together on the same night is like trying to organise things around an eclipse of the sun. Plus the drummer has just developed some weird medical condition with lack of feeling on her legs. Not nice.
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    Passive - you get, front to back: neck pickup on/off bridge pick up on/off series/parallel on/off So you can do any combination of those. I sound better with everything off but find it doesn't cut through the mix too well like that Active, you get a 2 band EQ from the little rollers that will cut or boost. These are a little imprecise, IMHO, and the 'flat' position is difficult to guage. Two knobs - volume and tone, which work for both active and passive. When I first played it I used it active only but, now I am more used to it, use it passive only and get the sound I want from the amp. My only concerns about it are how much of the value of the beast goes into the slightly substandard electronics. Given that I now use it only passively, would I have done better spending the extra on a simple passive guitar? But that's just me. I love the looks and the way it plays and sounds, so I suppose it matters not at the end of the day.
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    My God, Trouble Funk. I saw them in the 80s too - the bassist was HUGE - looked like he was playing a ukelele not a p-bass.
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    [quote name='Mr.T' post='692110' date='Dec 23 2009, 09:46 AM']One thing that I noticed when I first played a headless Status.... If I didn't pay attention, I would naturally put my fretting hand two frets further up the neck, although the neck is in exactly the same position as my headed Status. It took a few plays to get used to not having the headstock... [/quote] +1 - I had a Hohner B2A and found that a real issue - my brain was obviously wanting that extra bit of wood at the end so moved my hand to compensate. Plus it had 2 more frets than my fender - the combination of the two did my head in, I couldn't get used it it and moved the bass on. Shame really as I thought it looked the business and the whole headless concept seems to make such good sense.
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    I think I agree - class act! What a singer!! (good bass, too...)
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    [quote name='simon1964' post='692343' date='Dec 23 2009, 02:14 PM']Depends on the Squier and the Fender![/quote] +1 Well, at least, in my limited experience of them. With no preconceptions I tried everything on the wall in a large local branch of PMT when deciding what to spend my dosh on when upgrading from my 'starter' bass. I was secretly hoping for a Squier of some sort but every single one (I tried about 6 of various sorts) fell short of the mark compared to a USA jazz or, what I ended up with, my MIJ Jaguar. Since then I have acquired a Squier VMJ fretless and it is really good... but still not as good as the Jag. But then it is a lot cheaper.
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    [quote name='simon1964' post='691733' date='Dec 22 2009, 07:13 PM']Great song, but its called "Rocks" - Our guitarist always calls it "Rocks Off", and I've become completely anal about it! Sorry [/quote] I could be completely anal and say I missed off the 9 from the other tune, too . Funny, isn't it - I get that way about some song titles.
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    Two that my band do are 'Rocks Off', Primal Scream, and 'Riot in Cell Block' a la Dr Feelgood. Love them to bits.
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    I recently bought a Squire VMJ fretless and it came with steel flatwounds on it. Sounded great. But I had some Rotosound black nylons fitted to a p-bass that I didn't particularly like the sound or feel of so swapped them around. The VMJ now sounds totally awesome, loads of 'mwahh', buckets more than with the steel flats. It also doesn't feel quite as strange, for some reason (and the p-bass sounds better too). Not a huge range of experience but, for sure, a direct comparison between two sets - one steel flats, one black nylons.
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