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[quote name='S9_S12_Bass' timestamp='1340130305' post='1699715'] I didn't read all of it, but my view is that downloading music illegally is stealing, say I illegally downloaded one full album, that to me is stealing that album, walking into a cd shop and picking up the same album and walking out with it without paying is stealing. Again IMO [/quote] [i]Legally [/i]they are totally different scenarios. If I walk into the Louvre, take a really, really good photo of the Mona Lisa, and then print it out and send it to my mum then have I stolen anything? Is my mum a thief? Speaking as someone who owns a *lot* of music (all bought and paid for) and as a musician who has music out there for sale, it really pisses me off when people try and claim that all downloading is bad and completely and utterly immoral. Many moons ago, someone gave me a CDR of a band named Bis. It contained their first album. I loved it. Since then I have bought every single record they've ever released---cd and LP---and been to see them a half dozen times (again next month, hooray ). I'm probably one of the best fans they could have. But it would never have happened if someone hadn't infringed their copyright and given me a copy all those years ago.

[quote name='Ruiner' timestamp='1340129501' post='1699687'] Surely that's the bottom line though? If you're illegally downloading copyrighted material, then you're stealing, however you dress it up. That's pretty black and white to me [/quote] No, its not stealing. Its copyright infringement. Stealing and copyright infringement are not the same thing. They're both illegal but they are different. Choosing to begin their argument from a point which is demonstrably wrong just makes people look ignorant and uninformed. There are many scenarios in which illegal downloads make artists money that they would not otherwise have made. This alone makes it impossible to paint illegal downloads as purely a black/white issue.

I disagreed with a lot of it. I'm afraid that the "downloading is stealing" camp repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot by using arguments that are flawed at best and totally bogus at worst. The whole thing is a massive grey area---there are just as many positive reasons to infringe on copyright as there are negative reasons not to---and the attempts by either side to paint it as a black/white matter just piss me off.

[quote name='uke' timestamp='1340116050' post='1699328'] Think we're all missing the point "what do you think "WAS" the best punk bass?" [/quote] Punk's not dead, it just smells like it is ;-)

You can use Kisekae to put together mock ups of strats, teles, les pauls etc: http://www.yajimastringworks.com/tct/yswtct-kisekae-e.asp I guess you could see what a strat would look like with your chosen colour scheme and decide if you like it.

I like the RAT a lot. On bass I found that its best when combined with an LS-2 or similar so that you can keep some dry signal too.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1340033963' post='1697967'] Sure It's a 78P which had been stripped before I got it (originally white). I wanted a funky colour that was faithful to the year of the bass, and Skank pointed out the International Series to me. Capri Orange it was: Before: After: As you can see, I put on an off white scratchplate to be in keeping with International Series. Since these pics were taken, the pickup cover now is a P one, after someone pointed out to me that the one on there was a J one It now also has black screws, as per the International Series. Oh, and black nylon strings, which is because it's conducive to the reggae sound I'm after, but also looks great on the bass. [/quote] This bass makes me feel funny inside

There are some videos on youtube that were made for the cast to learn the guitar/bass/drum parts. There might be some stuff in some of those? Here's one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBFnhJlfdk

I played 4-string with a pick for a few years and then bought a 5-string at the same time I started to learn fingerstyle. What I've found is that I don't use the low notes on the B very often at all, but that when I go back to four string I don't know where to put my thumb on my right hand! Turns out the B string makes a great thumbrest, as well as occasionally providing more notes I'm considering getting a 4-string precision as an alternative to my 5-string yamaha but it will definitely need a thumbrest somewhere near the neck...

[quote name='Wil' timestamp='1340013523' post='1697472'] Love that colour! [/quote] Thanks! It really is a nice guitar---cost me less than £150 delivered too Can't recommend them highly enough. The guitarist in my band has one and gigs it in preference to his US strat!

I still can't make it all the way through Billie Jean without my arm/fingers/hand wanting to fall off.

I bought a pedal from Alan on Wednesday, it arrived today (Friday). Top work. Thanks

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1339697869' post='1692997'] What does "better tension" achieve? Genuine question. [/quote] I assume he means "higher tension" ie on a 5-string the B-string won't feel like an elastic band. I've always filed fanned frets under "cool technological innovations that solve problems I don't really care about"

I just spent twenty minutes trying to wrap my head round the bass solo in the middle of "Welcome To Paradise" and then attempted the crazy tremolo picking in "Panic Song"... ...Mike Dirnt can play a bit, let me tell you!

Nice one. Maybe not the wisest move to publish your ebay username in the same post as you admit lying slightly to them... Glad you got it sorted. Stuff like this is the reason why I'd never let someone else organise my sale for me. My sale, my rules, my choice of courier.

I've posted this before on the forum but it seems a sensible place to post it again. Its a blog entry by an Edinburgh promoter/record label about "reasons promoters and bands don't get along". I think its very interesting reading---especially because it comes from someone who I would class as a "good guy" when it comes to promotion and putting on gigs. http://songbytoad.com/2011/07/a-few-reasons-promoters-and-bands-dont-get-along/

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1338992544' post='1682086'] I entirely agree. But isn't a live show also the band's own product from which they hope to make a profit? So why shouldn't they be askedto take on [b]some of the financial risk[/b]? Just saying. [/quote] The problem is, that if you do the sums, at these "pay to play" gigs the bands are taking 100% of the financial risk in return for about 20% of the (potential) profits. In my experience, these kind of scams are a sure sign of a lazy promoter who won't bother to actually try and promote a gig or a regular night. Instead, they are perfectly happy to throw together some incoherent mess of four or five bands who won't appeal to each other's audiences and with pretty much zero quality control.

Hey folks Just wondering what the consensus here is regarding owning/playing multiple basses. I have two---a 4 string jazz copy and a 5-string yamaha. The Yamaha is undoubtedly the better bass, but I have a real hankering to put pickup covers on the jazz, I just love that classic look. Thing is, part of me thinks I should just stick to one bass and play the crap out of it. The necks on the two basses couldn't be more different (jazz neck vs 5 string 35" cricket bat) and I'm a bit worried that if I split my time between them I won't ever really master either...Plus part of me thinks "why play a cheap bass when you have an expensive one sitting there?". How do you guys deal with having more than one bass? I can't imagine how the guys with 3, 4, 5+ basses cope...

Did a gig once where my E-string snapped. On the very first note of the very first song. And I didn't have a backup. Or any spare strings. Thankfully a very nice man from another band saw what happened, got his bass out, and handed it to me in time for us to start the second song. *Phew*.