Count Bassy

Purrfect. ... well someone had to start the terrible puns.

Fascinating video although I think I need to listen to it via headphones. Much more fun that reading a book!

Aprt from the playing in a function band bit (I never have), you summarise my position better than I could. Live performance (in a rock band at least) should have a bit of spark to it.

Am I the first to mention Pick Up The Pieces?

To be fair to them it wasn't my sort of stuff - a lot of disco medleys & the like. Don't want to say too muchto identify them in case the bass player is on here.

I was at my cousin's wedding last weekend and they had a function band on in the evening. Very polished, everything arranged to the nth degree, obviously some very talented musicians. But,........... ........................ my God was it dull! And you felt that if you saw them again it would be exaclty the same again.

Hardly controversial.

Jaco Pastorious? Ok when playing a proper bass line, but all that noodling, harmonics & stuff? Meh.

Exactly. Mustang Sally is a good song. I wish I could write a song that was still being played 57 years later on, and will probably still be doing the rounds in another 57 years (Nuclear holocaust allowing)

Paul Weller? Meh!

Was the test with the friend's rig in the same room as you tried yours? If not that could explain the difference, iether your mains earth is not very good, or your room is electrically noisy (dimmer switches?), (or it's something else). First thing I'd do would be to do more tests to narrow it down, and only look at your bsses' screening/earthing if that is indicated.

For me it comes down to what I'd rather see: A band, or one clever person with a clever bit of hardware? (Hint: It's the band)

If that is a comment on "Looping" then I totally agree with you.

And don't do drugs.

Slim Chance - April 18th

Garry Twigg. Jerome Rimson.

Basstardised, surely?

Ah, but that is a chord rather than a note. Does it still count?

This hits the nail on the head. I would tend to agree that these are upgrades but, for example, if someone else has no interest in Drop D, then that is not an upgrade, and it's possible that someone prefers the original Squier pickups to the SDs. The idea of modifications is that it tailors the bass to your preferences, but it's important to recognise that this might be different other peoples preferences.

In the old days of the Test Card on Telly the tone that accompanied it was, I belive, a "B".

Am I the only one who finds this a bit "double entendre"-ish?

Hardly, They still used "Tapes" on the USS Enterprise, which I believe is the 23rd century.

What ever method you use to turn it, it may be worth sticking a soldering iron on it first to expand it a bit, and then let it cool down again. This can help break the 'seal' between the screw and the wood. Alternatively, once to have a dimple in the end put a centre punch in it and wack it with a hammer. - again only enough to break the seal, you'll still need to turn it. A word of warning ion the scree extractors, thay are hard and can snap - leaving you with a piece of hardened steel in the end of the screw.

I was reading this thread and thought "I've got a cracking Idea". But you beat me to it you bugger (in the nicest possible sense of the word) - by two hours.

Mick Karn ruined fretless for me. However good I am (and I'm not) I can never sound like Mick Karn.