Waddo Soqable

Unfortunately I've ended up just binning at least two cabs over the years, tho I did mostly re use the speakers for other things...

I'd suggest you offer it as free to take away on your local Freecycle type thing, there's a number of similar "stuff for free" sites too..... I've acquired good stuff like that and indeed donated unwanted things that have been of use to others.

Alternatively you could knock the front off and cut 2 or 3 shelves to fit, screw em in, and it'd be a handy tool / oddments shelf unit for utility room, shed or garage..

Ps If you did the make it into the shelves thing, you might be able to ebay ( or whatever)  the speaker alone a bit easier than a whole big cab ?

7 minutes ago, MHMSWC#03 said:

Does it depend if they are left handed bagpipes?

They'd sound horrible whichever way round...

20 minutes ago, meterman said:

 

These painkillers are unusually strong, by the way. 

 

Could you post a couple of boxes to me please...

7 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

That sort of thing, like?

Indeed....the one I tried was a headless version of a thing like that, unfortunately I can't recall what make it was, the body was in black and darkish RW or whatever fingerboards, the fretless neck was plain unlined

The op ebay one is on about 100 quid+ loose change at the mo.. be fun to see what it sells for in the end !

3 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

That’s before my dreadlocks grew 😁

Bet you can't still get into the cool stripey shirt either....

1 minute ago, SH73 said:

He was a lefty?

Dunno, but most accomplished keyboard / piano players seem to be very adept with the left hand doing complex stuff, I guess it comes with the territory... The very best I can do LH wise on the Jo-anna is go donk-dink- donk-dink in octaves.. ( on the white keys natch. ! )

On 14/04/2021 at 11:50, Reggaebass said:

I think this is the first time it’s happened, sometimes if I’m feeling flush I dish them out all day, this morning I only did a few 

I kind of imagined you'd have more hair than that....

2 minutes ago, tauzero said:

I may also go for a large swelling organ. 

Something like that would be good, but personally I've absolutely no use for a git!.....a fretted and fretless like the OP but with a body like the one above was (as I recall) the type of thing I tried and thought was cool !

4 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

Quantz wrote approx. 250 flute sonatas and 300 flute concertos whilst employed by Prussia's King Frederick II. Guess which instrument the king played 😁

Frederick was apparently a very good player ( tho you'd possibly not want to criticise his playing to his face ! )  and also was a composer in his own right.

I've pretty much covered in the other thread my 3 piece example...of course there are as many different band "sounds" as there are breakfast options, from sparse to wall of noise....but as Len Derby alludes to above, why desperately feel the need to change anything ?  

24 minutes ago, lemonstar said:

That's a refreshing change. 

I just read that he wrote 39(!) bassoon conciertos but 2 are unfinished - it's not known exactly why he wrote so many for an unusual instrument. 
https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.570798&catNum=570798&filetype=About this Recording&language=English#:~:text=These included the bassoon%2C for,of which are seemingly incomplete.

Like the blurb alludes to, a lot of composers had wealthy patrons who they'd write stuff for, these were often "amateur" players of a particular instrument, so commissioned pieces for that.

The well known Mozart K191 was I believe created for a nobleman who was an amateur bassoon player. Vivaldi was also a priest if I remember rightly, and had a pool of very accomplished young players from a girls orphanage who he wrote a lot of stuff for.

I really do like this guy's vocals...

9 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Those thumb rests are something else....

They'd be coming off for a start..

5 minutes ago, SH73 said:

This.. no place on basschat, they don't even have a bass player?

I always thought they were a bunch of bastards for that !

I tried a similar thing out ( second hand used I think) in one of the London guitar shops many years ago ( when they still existed)  it was the same configuration but had a proper "body" ...it was quite good in fact and had it been a bargain I would've been tempted....headless I don't mind at all, I had one of those "The Jack" basses and used it for gigs, it sounded decent and stayed in tune so all good.

The thing I'm not keen on with your one here is the lack of a body really, interesting find tho 👍

32 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

I’d just say “only if you buy it first” - the bass naturally as selling other humans would be illegal … unless it was Dominic Cummings and destinations in Siberia were on the table in which case an exception might be reasonable 

They'd turn him back at the border...

9 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Q: can I have a go on your bass?

A:  Only if I can have a go on your woman.

 

Does the trick.

 

That could backfire on you if they agreed and his Mrs wasn't quite as advertised...

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

There’s lots the other way round, but I’m struggling with rock bands covering reggae 

Me too !  I was wondering if any early stuff , Ska or Rocksteady might have been plundered but not really come across anything

Luckily our 3 piece didn't do guitar solos !.. It functioned very much along the lines that chris_b was talking about above, with the bass and drums being the main "thing" and the guitar selectively on top.

It was doubtless helped by the fact the guitarist was also the singer and didn't feel the need to indulge himself needlessly... Plus we all recognised the important thing in all this was that the music just worked...       I can see how it is no doubt extremely difficult to find a guitarist who can resit the urge to play absurdly loud just because they can, and know when to shut up and leave some  Space !

2 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Not sure you are wrong there, apparently chrissie wrote it , here’s what songfacts says 

• This was written by Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, as "like all the other London punks, I wanted to do reggae." It was included on The Pretenders 1980 self-titled debut album but when the singer heard Jones' version she conceded, "That's how it's supposed to be done."
• Jamaican musical legends Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare supplied the backing to this track.

Didn't realise C Hynde actually wrote it !.... Oh well we can't have that one as "was a Reggae first" then, pity ! Still, Grace's version beats it by miles !

31 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I think grace Jones covered it , and didn’t Robbie Shakespeare play the Bassline 

Sly and Robbie were on it with her I'm sure... I always thought of Grace's version as the original but probably I'm wrong there !

Did Grace Jones do Private Life before the Pretenders version ?

28 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

I play(ed - pre-Covid) in two different three piece bands. One has a guitarist on a 50s hollowbody style guitar and the other has the guitarist on a Les Paul.

If I learnt one thing from this experience, it is just as important to think about what the bass player is playing. My Jazz sits great in the mix of a 4 piece but sounds terrible in a 3 piece. The Hofner, a Precision, a Ric or a T-bird sound fine. Have confidence in the musical spaces but remember if you make a mistake it jumps out a lot more where there is less room to hide i.e. a bigger band.

I hadn't really thought about what the bass player was using in all this.. In my 3 piece malarkey I was using a Rickenbacker or a P bass at different times. I was using a fairly randomly acquired Orange guitar head and anonymous 4x12 cab at this time as I recall

2 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I never had any time for madness , if anything I preferred a few tracks from the specials or the Beat at the time 

At the time I thought Madness were just comic pop junk, though in recent times a friend got into listening to them retrospectively I guess, and having had them played at me a bit I kind of quite appreciated some of the Saxophone bits . as for The Beat how could anyone not like Rankin' Roger !