WHUFC BASS

The best guitar for the money out there that I've tried is the Washburn Idol. I own 4 of them and they are the dogs. I think I've found my perfect guitar.

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I'll pull the auction if anyone wants it on here...

Price is ridiculous. You could get a lot better for that price, even a custom job with select woods. You're just paying for the name on that thing as is the case with most of the stuff Gibson do nowadays.

Has nobody told Fender there's a recession on.

[quote name='The Funk' post='379109' date='Jan 13 2009, 03:03 PM']Does he listen to it backwards and then kill himself afterwards?

I was going to say I'm quite familiar with Rob Halford but I didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. [/quote]

LOL! Yeah, apparently if you play their music backwards you can hear the words "Do It". I don't know which is funnier, the people who claimed that this was actually a valid reason to go court over this or the courts for taking the claim seriously - only in America! LOL!

The very first proper bass I ever owned. They're great. I had the really early one without the bird logo on the headstock. Made in the Matsumoko factory. They are great - the only drawback is they eat batteries but the sound they produce compensates for this.

I was going to say, that Geezer used to use BC Rich basses. Never played one meself though.

[quote name='geilerbass' post='378636' date='Jan 13 2009, 09:13 AM']If you ain't got the balls to take it, you can leave the hall...[/quote]



I saw the UK Subs at the weekend... now that was scary!

Never owned a Tele - would never want to either...

[quote name='The Funk' post='378971' date='Jan 13 2009, 01:23 PM']It'd be a bit weird if his favourite music in the world to listen to was his own - and even if that was true, it'd come across as obnoxiously arrogant to say so in public![/quote]

You obviously haven't heard of Rob Halford of Judas Priest - he only listens to his own band's music.

If you're in East London or Essex then this bloke right here does a great job:

[url="http://www.martinsguitars.co.uk/index.html"]http://www.martinsguitars.co.uk/index.html[/url]

He's a bass player too!

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='378598' date='Jan 13 2009, 07:46 AM']and I've got the gas for a Telecaster Guitar as a result...

Picked up my daughter's Encore electric guitar over the break and I've been playing it more than my basses... I've had so much fun going back to stuff I used to do... power chords, blues licks...

It's so much easier now having been playing bass... I now know where the notes are and what I'm doing rather than just blindly repeating licks out of a guitar magazine... I can come up with my own and they sound good as well... [/quote]

Thats how I started 3 years ago. I know play guitar in two bands. Still looking for a band to play bass in !

This sounds like the bloke I bought a guitar off way back. It was a real nice PRS Copy. It was identical to the one made by Harley-Benton but the action was the lowest I'd ever seen on a guitar. Frets were all nicely stoned and dressed, and the sound was ok too. The body was mahogany but it was about a 5 piece body,this was my only gripe. The rest was great for the money.

As mentioned you can't generalise but I think the far-east come in for a lot of undeserved stick. I would put Japanese instruments up against anything coming out of the U.S. or Europe. They have been consistently good since the 70s - so much so that Gibson and Fender used their plants for manufacturing their guitars.
As for Korea, again, some very high quality instruments come out of Korea. They are well made, and yes, they do use quality parts too. From experience Washburn and Schecter make cheap quality instruments.

As for the Korean Rockbasses, they are quality. They use MEC pickups and Warwick tuners and play fantastically. I have a 5 String Corvette and I love it. It has the best neck on a 5-string I have ever played. It sounds great too. They use quality swamp as and maple on it too.
I think the Chinese models that are in production now just aren't as good.

[quote name='4000' post='378109' date='Jan 12 2009, 07:03 PM']But seriously, all I can say is "may each note I play be a black arrow of death to all those who play False Metal". Or something like that. [/quote]

I saw Manowar in the late 80s and they were a great band, shame all this false metal sh*t was lost on a British audience. It might wash with the yanks but for f***s sake, get a grip Joey.

Has this been sold?

[quote name='simon1964' post='377107' date='Jan 11 2009, 08:16 PM']LOL! As it happens, I played one of these at a local music shop a couple of weeks ago, and didn't like it at all. Got a decent review in BGM though.[/quote]

Me too, tried one at the Bass Centre. Horrible I thought. The neck was probably the worst 5string neck I've ever played.

Geezer for me all the way. I didn't play the bass properly until I started listening to Sabbath way back. Probably the biggest influence on my playing.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQrGtCxcwY"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQrGtCxcwY[/url]

Some great bass tones in there... I really like Robert Trujillo bass sound on here. probably the tone I've been trying to achieve for a while.

Geddy Lee reminds me of an anorexic Mrs Doubtfire.

Looks fine to me...

[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='376397' date='Jan 10 2009, 07:38 PM']mike watt[/quote]

Thats a really good shout, fantastic bass player...

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-VSJ0pQ9g"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-VSJ0pQ9g[/url]

Comfort Strapps - easily the best gutiar and bass straps on the market.

[quote name='lowdown' post='374947' date='Jan 9 2009, 11:51 AM']I like them...
Not sure they are underated though..
Over priced maybe...
Garry[/quote]

Not many people I know use them or have even heard of them. Most seem to be using Rotosound or Ernie Ball strings which for me just don't do it.

[quote name='Jake_M' post='298219' date='Oct 3 2008, 01:34 AM']Anyone's else's first bass line Love Song, Public Image, Peaches or Warhead?[/quote]

Warhead was for me! I love the UK Subs. They're playing this Sunday in London which I'll be going to. Other first basslines include "Wonderful World" by the 4Skins, "Tube Disasters" Flux of Pink Indians and "When ya Get Drafted" by the Dead Kennedys.

[quote name='markytbass' post='298348' date='Oct 3 2008, 08:49 AM']What about Norman Watt-Roy and Bruce Thomas?[/quote]

Two fantastic bass players, especially Bruce Thomas. I really rate his playing and his sound too. Get Happy is an absoloute milestone for new wave basslines.

As for JJ Brunel. He carried my bass amp into a rehearsal studio on the Holloway Road back in the 1980s. He's a really nice down to earth geezer.

[quote name='bremen' post='374931' date='Jan 9 2009, 11:33 AM']We rode past an establishment called the University of Artois. The Viz reader in me found that funny. -Where have you been? -ah, sorry I'm late, love. I was studying at the University of Artois.[/quote]

I was studying the university of Guinness and Vodka the other night. Had a lot of homework to do as well.


[quote]I was horrified and moved to stumble upon a field full of graves of kids from New Zealand. What the f*** did it have to do with them? It's like a Brit in 2009 getting called up to join in a scrap between Jupiter and Uranus.[/quote]

They were part of the Empire as was Canada, Australia, India, parts of Africa and Ireland - where my great uncle's were from. Both fought in World War One. I recently researched one of their army records and he served with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers. There was no historical record of the regiment in print so I decided to write one. Its available on Amazon if anyone is interested.

[quote name='bremen' post='374625' date='Jan 8 2009, 11:27 PM']I have a Gmail account. I exchanged a few emails with a friend on the subject of a cycling holiday in Belgium and sure enough I got an ad suggesting that if I wanted to buy Belgium then Ebay was the place to look...[/quote]

Buy it! That's where they make Stella! A prison sentence for assault, GBH and murder awaits!

Agree with the WWI graveyards. I'll be going again this year too.