WHUFC BASS

[quote name='The_D' post='391401' date='Jan 26 2009, 07:22 AM']We worry so much about our nuances in tone and even band members sometimes dont notice [/quote] Wise words indeed and worth remembering if you get too bogged down and anal about how your bass sounds.

[quote name='Toasted' post='394190' date='Jan 28 2009, 11:23 PM']Some pretty luddite views in this thread. There seem to be a lot of members scared of change, which is kind of ironic considering that the thing that brings us all together is an instrument that was invented less than 60 years ago.[/quote] I wouldn't say Luddite views, I'd say different opinions on what we enjoy listening to. If I wanna hear someone play a piano concerto, I'd prefer to listen to it on the the piano that the bass. It just leaves me cold when I hear stuff like this. I'm not knocking the bloke's musical ability, just wondering why he chose the bass. As for scared of change, this has been done so many times before and to be honest, it hasn't really caught on. Not with me anyway.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='394012' date='Jan 28 2009, 08:18 PM']Nope. Still don't get it. If you're that determined to sound like a six-string acoustic guitar, why not go and buy a six-string acoustic guitar, instead of modifying a Bass out of all recognition, so you can show how good you are on something that sounds exactly like a six-string acoustic guitar, while telling everybody it's a Bass? [/quote] Exactly. Honestly, I'm not knocking people who do these sorts of compositions on the bass, if they enjoy it, more power to them. For me though, I wanna hear some solid grooves, tight basslines and basically players who use the bass for its designed role. I remember watching Stuart Hamm do some Beethoven piece and it was just cringworthy.

Can he groove though?

I just scored a set of DR Hi-Beams (5 string set) for £21 from the U.S. inc postage.... In the recent words of The Archbishop of Canterbury... "f***in' ave it!".

[quote name='dtc' post='392456' date='Jan 27 2009, 09:53 AM']new album, new tour, the time will be right.[/quote] ??? Bono... is that you??

Very Sid Vicious-esque

depends what style of music, 4 or 5 string, what sort of sound you going for etc. etc.

I use it all the time. It does keep rosewood fingerboards in good nick. Especially the light coloured ones which always look dried out to me. By the way, you wouldn't believe the amount of gunk and crap that can build up on fretboards over time.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='391334' date='Jan 25 2009, 11:08 PM']When I was a kid Wood Green Shopping City was a regular haunt.[/quote] Its not too bad there as it goes, its when you go past Turnpike Lane that it gets interesting..

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='389102' date='Jan 22 2009, 10:48 PM']Where abouts?[/quote] Lovely Wood Green... epicentre of violent crime and general naughtiness.

Some TV Channel should do this now... it would be a sure fire winner. You heard it here first... That's Henry Thomas' Thumb by the way, slapping the crap out of his Westone Thunder IIIA. [url="http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/01/rock-school-out-now-on-dvd.html"]http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/01/roc...now-on-dvd.html[/url]

Ah ha ha... I had two of these in the mid 1980s. A black one and a pink one... I kid you not with that terrible fake leather gig bag which seemed to be in vogue in Japan in the 80s. I got the pair for a bargain price. They are nice playable basses but the sound is slightly thin due to lack of wood on the body. £100 is a good price for it though, as I said, they are very playable basses. The necks remind me of Warwick necks - a nice comfortable "C" shape. Be aware though, these aren't double ball end stringed basses. You use a normal string, thread it through a hole at the end of the fingerboard, pull it tight with a pliers, tighten the grub nut and tune from the other end. Quite fiddley if I remember rightly.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='388753' date='Jan 22 2009, 05:09 PM']Why do I have Jazz GAS? Winchmore Hill? I went to school there.[/quote] Blimey, I live down the road from there.

I absolutely love punk. First band I ever went to see was New Model Army at the old Marquee in Wardour Street. I was like an outcast at school because I was the only one into it (although I was more in Oi! than punk at the time). Still love it to this day. I play guitar for this lot: [url="http://www.myspace.com/retaliato"]http://www.myspace.com/retaliato[/url] Favourite bands since I was kid, still love them now are Cocksparrer, SHAM69, Cockney Rejects, Blitz, The Business, UK Subs, Angelic Upstarts, Section 5, Stiff Little Fingers, GBH, Ant-Nowhere League, Last Resort, 4 Skins, The Exploited etc. As for Rancid, I prefer Lars Fredericksen's solo stuff. Much better I thought. Some class stuff here... [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vyS4Wduyux8"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vyS4Wduyux8[/url] [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OxUyx7aEPQs&feature=related"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OxUyx7aEPQs&...feature=related[/url]

I've got a Russian Blue cat and it used to sit on my Peavey 5150 guitar amp. That was until it was sick all over it one day. Dunno if it was my playing or what but that was his days on my amp at an end!

[quote name='jimijimmi' post='387960' date='Jan 21 2009, 08:28 PM']Cheers my man..these guys need to get on it. I'm not sayin anymore on the matter. You nuts obviously ain't gona bid so I don't see how your bedroom player remarks are valid.[/quote]

For me, the perfect beginners bass is one that is cheap, but will outlast that "beginners" phase. That for me has to be a Warwick Rockbass Corvette. Slightly (not a lot second-hand) dear than a cheap beginners bass but for the money its great.

[quote name='sgt-pluck' post='387947' date='Jan 21 2009, 08:08 PM']None of that has got anything to do with it. If someone is prepared to pay £28k for it today, how much will someone pay for 5, 10, 15 years time? It's a collectors/investment piece pure and simple - I don't believe that anyone seriously thinks that that bass is £27,500 better than a stock '08 Jazz. Still, I don't know where they plucked £28k from - seems a ridiculous number even for an ex-Ox instrument. Pluck[/quote] Will it get you laid in 5, 10, 15 years time? That's the main thing....

Mate, what neepheid said about Warwick Rockbasses is very true. I've got a 5 String Corvette which is an early one made form quality components which I may be selling in the very near future (still not entirely sure as its such a great bass) but I bought it for £180 and its mustard. I had a genune Warwick Corvette which I sold and kept this as it sounded better. Mine is an early one made in Korea which I reckon are 100% better than the current Chinese versions.

The fact that John Entwistle owned it will make absolutely no difference to your playing whatsoever. I guarantee it. It won't Never. Not now, not never. The fact he owned it doesn't make it a great playing guitar, he's probably owned loads of crap playing guitars and now they're being sold off. See past the bullshit. For that sort of money, you could buy a top of the range Alembic (if thats what floats your boat), take a right tasty doris out for a slap up meal, buy a small mountain of top class columbian, get your legover, hire a jag, drive her home, have brekkie at the ritz and still have change for a day out on the piss with your mates. Maybe even have enough to have a session with the Monday club at your local too...