Count Bassy

An exact snap here. Used to love the Last Waltz but then read 'This Wheel's On Fire', which is great, but could never see "the last waltz" in the same way again. What a twunt Robbie Robinson was. On the plus side, the book made the political/a-r-s-e-h-o-l-e problems in my then band look fairly minor.

I would like to second this. I once made the mistake of reading a date code (7812 - i.e. December 1978) as the part ID and replaced a power transistor with a 12v voltage regulator (same package type). Remarkeably it actually worked for about 4 hours. Unfortunately this meant that my mistake was found by someone on the night shift rather than by myself.

There are also other 'fundamental' intervals that work very nicely, but these get modified in equal temperament so that they but work equally well in all keys - but are less than perfect in any key.

Because they're successful?

I had a minor affair with an Aeolian

I don't have one of these, but I do have a Quantum. (Bought for it's 32" scale and its compactness). I love the sound, but have moved on to 5 strings.

Did you miss the link out?

Cheesism!

But surely that can only work in one key at a time? A note that needs to be slightly flat in one key might need to be slightly sharp in another key. When instruments were tuned to a natural temperament then different scales would sound different (Eg C# would sound different to C natural, not just a semitone higher)?

So why do they call it "Temperament" when they mean "Intonation".

I think you overestimate the typical audience.

Only been sacked once: I was told that I wasn't keeping up with the rate of new material (covers band). To be fair it was stretching me , but I suspected at the time that it was more to do with the fact that I expressed my opinion on stuff (politely) rather than just accept what the guitarist and drummer (original band members) said. I later found out that the previous bass player had moved back into the area and was playing with them again, so I suspect that that was a lot to do with it as well. Or perhaps I'm just stinky poo.

But there's only three of them!

Saw both this documentary AND the one on Mick Ronson on the plane coming back from India a couple of weeks ago. I would normally be asleep on a plane, but it was stuffed so no chance of that. I enjoyed them both.

I was sort of joking! If he'd split them between sides he could have shortened the machine head considerably.

Like a Fender bass then.

Oooh Matron !!!!!!

To be fair to the cows: He was slapping. Enough to make anyone run away, surely?

No, but possibly the other way round!

Curse my clumsy fingers (or is it my brain?)

When I first started playing music (Melodeon) I bought a metronome(mechanical in those days) to practice keeping a steady time (playing for dancing so fairly important). To start with I was, in all seriousness, totally convinced that the metronome was slowing down. I'd stop mid tune to wind it up (I know that that doesn't actually affect the speed), and more than once considered taking tack to the shop for a refund.

To be fair one could argue that a "Through neck" is a subset of "Set neck".

Not sure if it is being misused here. To me at least custom means something that is done specifically for one item/application etc. Nothing in the word 'custom' infers anything about the quality. In this case however it does appear to have been butchered in the process of customising.

Obvious potential problem is that you loose the ability to play without speeding up.