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Munurmunuh

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  1. "Early in ZZ Top's career, Billy [Gibbons] and I drove up from Houston to Dallas - this is one of those stories you always hear, but this really happened, and we went to a pawn shop called Rocky's Pawn shop and on the wall was a Fender bass guitar and this guy truly had no idea what he had, and I get Billy to make the deal because he's better at that than I am. Anyway, he worked him and worked him and I got the bass for $70. We're leaving and Billy goes 'Nope, wait a minute, no deal. You have to throw in the case.' So he actually threw the case in, and it was close to an original case, for $70" For an all original 1953 P, serial 970.
  2. The concept of an online Motley Crue fanbase is deliciously full of contradiction.
  3. Bassassin once wrote: "..... Ibanez didn't use DiMarzios. It was their own 'Super P-4' - a very good DiMarzio clone, probably made by Maxon."
  4. Mr @Bassassin will be happy to explain exactly what they are. Well, not happy exactly, but incapable of letting the educational moment pass by. I put Dimarzios onto a P just to try to make it sound like an Ibanez Blazer 🙃
  5. Does that mean the qualifying note in the small print saying something like "weights are given for entertainment purposes" has been deleted?
  6. PS two years ago I sold a 2+2 Yamaha through Bass Direct strung with a barely-played balanced tension 45-60-80-105 set of Chromes .... surely that would be too much of a coincidence? 😄
  7. Weirdly, Daddario don't do a 45-105 set of Chromes, there's only 40-100, 45-100 and 50-105. If you want 45-65-85-105 you have to make it up from singles. Strings Direct charged me £79 for that!
  8. This explains why he talks like does on this videos.
  9. Whose fault is it that Phil Collins was playing with LZ and not some other excellent drummer who had beem given time to work with the other musicians? Yeah, Jimmy Page, that's you. And this mid-80s junk is also you, too.
  10. Review/demo of this deeeply tempting bass. If my knackered left shoulder wasn't demanding only ultralight basses, I'd be trying to buy this right this second. Ahhhhh.
  11. I've a set of 760FL 43-60-82-104, which I've put on my LB-100 twice. The first time they replaced a 50-65-85-110 set of Pro Steels, which are total tension 180 lbs. They were a bit higher tension. The second time, one change of pickup later, they replaced a 45-65-85-105 set of Chromes, which are total tension 196 lbs. They were a bit lower tension. So they're somewhere in the middle between 180 and 196lbs. Some other sets around there: 45-65-80-105 Swing Bass 182 lbs 45-105 GHS Boomers 184 lbs 45-105 Roto Bass 185 lbs 45-65-85-105 GHS Precision Flats 185 lbs I found that under my fingers, the 760FL sounded a bit boring — the Chromes are far more responsive to my gentle tickling. I've also previously tried the 49-69-89-109 760FM. They sounded even more boring played by me. I guesstimated them to be a bit over 200 lbs I once gave the 40-100 set of Rotosound Monel Flats a go. Total tension is only 179 lbs, but the strings felt much stiffer than steel strings, and my dainty fingers said enough after only half a hour. I did like their consistency of character from one string to the next. The 45-105 set of Monel Flats is much higher tension. In demos they sound great, but I would never dare try them! Even the double bassist sounding wonderful in this clip says the tension is a bit too much.
  12. They're not perfect at sounding like they've got a Dimarzio pickup, which is why I replaced the stock pickup with a Dimarzio. Someone else whose MF was missing its stock pickup was very glad to be sold mine.
  13. I think it would be impossible for that shop to make money, given the location, the size, and the fact that it's a musical instruments shop, so I'm certain you're right, it's part of their overall marketing strategy, a cost rather than an income stream. I bought a bass from them online in 2020, a very pleasant experience.
  14. My TRBX604 taught me that I don't like humbuckers, D'Addario XL Nickels, 38mm nuts, shallow neck profiles or active electronics. I cant decide if that means I should regret buying it, or quite the opposite — all four of the basses which followed it have made me very content, so I guess it was a useful lesson worth paying for?
  15. Are you sure you weren't accidentally watching the Jesus and Mary Chain's Old Grey Whistle Test performance? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9f3oRzz8lbk
  16. In 2021–2023, I sold three basses in the £350–500 range through Bass Direct. An straightforward painless process all three times. I sent them via Parcelforce, which was under £15 iirc, and BD took a 20% cut from what were good prices. I was happy all three times.
  17. Those were a sealed pack from Bass Direct. I ordered them as soon as I heard that in the US La Bellas were appearing with coloured ballends — I presumed (correctly) that Bass Direct would still have sets with the older brass ballends. I rather liked them, but had put them on very much the wrong bass.
  18. The Crow Road, I really must reread that, I enjoyed it so much back in the day.
  19. G&L say, "MFD technology places a single bar magnet entirely beneath each pickup coil, and proprietary machined bushings house height-adjustable pole pieces to fine-tune the magnetic response to each string. Central to the electromagnetic formula, broad, potent magnets radiate a single polarity upward through the coil. The result is a stronger, smoother magnetic field right where the strings interact, for a fuller, warmer sound with less noise." I've a SB-1 and an LB-100. For a while I had a Dimarzio Model P on the LB-100. You would think the two pickups would be pretty similar, but when I transferred the same set of strings from one bass to the other, I learnt just how much the MFD has a "fuller, warmer sound". It just seems to be thick everywhere. I tend to use the volume knob as if it goes to 12 - I start at 10, with extra punch at 11, and all-out intensity at 12. Lot of change of character in that final bit.
  20. Strings Direct shipping might be cheap, but generally their prices aren't as competitive as they were just a couple of years ago.
  21. That pickup can lowered a bit, and will still give a very strong sound, but warm and rounded. I use Pro Steels with mine. I was very pleasantly surprised at the tonal range that that combination can do. Much more versatile than I expected. The inner ring of the pole pieces can be raised with an allen key, which seems to bring out a little more definition, useful for the E+G. My SB-1 is packaged up ready to have its neck sorted out, and I'm missing the pickup already.
  22. Posted 2½ years ago...... In 1985, there were several recently released albums which I could have bought, had I understood what I would like, but which I overlooked, only coming to know and love later on: Powerslave - Iron Maiden (Sep 84) Ride The Lightning - Metallica (Jul 84) Killing Is My Business - Megadeth (Jun 85) Cyclone - Vow Wow (sometime 85) Head on the Door - The Cure (Aug 85) First and Last and Always - The Sisters of Mercy (Mar 85) Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain (Nov 85) Meat Is Murder - The Smiths (Feb 85) But, in 1985, this is what I actually spent my money on: Dream Into Action - Howard Jones
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