Count Bassy
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How do I test a p bass pickup with a multimeter?
Count Bassy replied to Geek99's topic in General Discussion
Exactly that. A continuity tester is normally used to test connections of a nominal Zero Ohms. -
How do I test a p bass pickup with a multimeter?
Count Bassy replied to Geek99's topic in General Discussion
To most continuiyty testers R20K will register as an open circuit! -
Never knew him personally, but remeber his contributions here very well, so condolences to everyone. Strangely enough I was thinking about him a few weeks ago because we now have a member called just "Old Horse", and I was wondering if that was him, and if not where "Old Horse Murphy" was.
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Don't you just hate being flannelled
Count Bassy replied to police squad's topic in General Discussion
Singer sounds like a bit of a w**ker. Sees a potentially successful band and wants to get his mates in. Perhaps you should turn the tables and get another singer in.- 32 replies
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Note that Lead, especially lead shot (if loose) will damp vibrations, and might alter the tone.
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And TIM of course (not related to any any current member called Tim (or was he?)).
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you can tune a bass?????
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For the instrument perhaps, but everyone bringing their own amps would be chaos. And, surely, part of being the house bassist is to provide the backline.
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Two possible answers to that: A: That's absoluetly fine, everyone has different tastes. Jaco was also an incredible player, but musically never hit the spot for me, whereas Mick Karn did. I could listen to Mick Karn all day. Jaco about 3 minutes. B: That's absoluetly fine, your are perfectly entitled to be wrong!😄
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Totally agre with the chap, except that Mick Karn should be rated, not "up with Jaco", but "well above Jaco".
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Two Jazz pickups and a P pickup on the American version, just the two jazz pickups on the Mexican version.
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The Fender Stu Hamm Urge Mk1s were a 32 inch scale, available as us version or a simplified Mexican version. Lovely basses. They also had small bodies, about the size of a strat body, which you might or might not like. The MK2s went to a 34" scale.
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Well, who saw a Stylophone Theremin coming?
Count Bassy replied to Woodinblack's topic in Other Instruments
Rolf would be proud. -
What to buy a bass player for his 18th
Count Bassy replied to GrimUpNorth's topic in General Discussion
Be sensible. He's a bass player. -
The thing with advertising is that when all of them (e.g, supermarkets) do it, the overall balance of customers between them will stay pretty much the same, but all the them will have that extra expense to cover. However none of them dare not to advertise. The real winners are the ad agencies. As for Micheal buble: To me, he typifies all that I dislike about certain singing styles.
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What to buy a bass player for his 18th
Count Bassy replied to GrimUpNorth's topic in General Discussion
You mentioned a case as a possibiliy. If he doesn't have one than this will become a must have if he continues playing. Hard case or a good bag. I prefer a hard case as you can put it in the car and stack stuff on top of it. If I amusing a bag then I always make sure that it's the last thing in. -
Just to make it clear that I don't listen to Rolf. I only mentioned him because he seemed an obvious ommission from your list. To be honest he used to be a bit of a hero of mine for appearing to be a nice unassuming person who was very talented in many fields. Not anymore though, for the obvious reasons.
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Rolfy boy still OK then?
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Bands….. when should they just call it a day?
Count Bassy replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
Not arguing with you as such, but as a general point it is hard to make a diagnosis on the basis of one concert. Anyone can have an off day or be ill. Possibly he should have cancelled the gig if that was the case. I have no axe to grind here, David Coverdale could bump into me and I wouldn't have a clue who he was. -
It's there on the end of the neck (provided you haven't dropped it!)
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I had no idea you could buy a bass guitar in 1936!
Count Bassy replied to spencer.b's topic in General Discussion
Trigger's broom? -
Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better
Count Bassy replied to Leonard Smalls's topic in General Discussion
I guess you must be too young to remember the Faces and his early solo albums etc. These are what his career is built on (Suggest you have a listen). The reason he could do the stuff you mention (where I tend to agree with your opinion) is because he already had a career as a serious, distinctive and talented rock singer. Personally I'd say that the low point of his career was the" Baby Jane"/"Do you think I'm sexy" era. and I think he tends to agree.