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[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1381084406' post='2234214'] ...The doors on my first Mk2 Fiesta used to clang! ... [/quote] A band I was in had a Bedford van with sliding doors. The driver's door would sometimes fall off as we were going along. That made a clang and a clunk.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1380839825' post='2231507'] Why do American light switches operate the opposite way to UK ones? [/quote] So, I didn't realise but apparently The United States is taking over my bedroom, electrically speaking.

In this case, if I couldn't keep the groove I'd be tempted to try blaming the drummer. But either way the answer is concentrate and feel what you are doing not what someone else is doing.

I went up my loft this morning to retrieve a hard case. It felt damp as did quite a lot of other stuff up there.

I know nothing about Ibanezes or Music Men but I'd say the Precision and the Jazz and the Rickenbacker are quite capable of more than one sound. For example: Precision: James Jamerson is very different from JJ Burnel. Jazz: Joe Osborn is very different from Jaco Pastorius. Rickenbacker: Paul McCartney is very different from Chris Squire. And anyway sometimees McCartney is playing a Hofner or even a Fender Jazz but still manages to sound like McCartney. Strangely, or perhaps not so strange, when Chris Squire plays a Fender Jazz he still sounds like Chris Squire.

I heard a surf green Stylist with a TV Jones Thundertron. Sounded very nice.

If there is any difference at all, of which I'm doubtful, it's totally minimal compared to the strings, the pickup(s), fingers or pick, playing by the bridge or by the neck, eq setting etc etc etc.

Upright bass or, if there's less space, Takamine B10.

I bought a black one. It had a very poor and buzzing set up with terrible strings and very slightly misaligned bridge all of which I felt I could fix. Anyway, I replaced the strings with a set of La Bella flats, turned the bridge to face in the opposite direction (a standard Fender Jaguar trick) and got it working reasonably with no buzzing. I'll sort the truss rod and neck at the weekend. Also ordered a Staytrem Bass VI bridge, to replace the smaller Jaguar sized bridge that is factory fitted, and a black pearl pickguard. And I might just do the headstock in matching black. Wichita Lineman is a great song.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1376486462' post='2174668'] Who cares? I did qualify my original statement with "Personally...." and "but that's just me" - it wasn't a statement of absolute truth. [/quote] I thought you cared as you brought it up but it's just a conversation ... ... and it's getting more and more difficult to actually have a conversation at Basschat.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1376486000' post='2174650'] Because so many people have done it, how else? [/quote] More people have played fretted and non-acoustic so surely that's the real cliche.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1376485720' post='2174637'] If you're going to get one I'd say precision with flats & the tone rolled off. Personally I'd avoid the acoustic guitar/fretless bass thing like the plague as it's become incredibly cliched but that's just me. [/quote] How is that a cliche?

Precision with flats Jazz with flats Upright EUB Semi with flats ... any of those will work.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1376455868' post='2174123'] ... My beliefs are immaterial ... [/quote] In that case you might have put less time and effort into explaining your beliefs to us.

When I bought a Lakland bass directly from Lakland in Chicago, I was told by them that a hardcase was unnecessary and nor would they bother with insurance because damage was so rare, even on transatlantic flights. The bass, in soft case and cardboard box, arrived undamaged.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1375281356' post='2159223'] Very nice - for some reason I thought the freeman precision was white. [/quote] I think there's also white. By the way, who is Matt Freeman? Ah, hang on Google is my friend.

Is it a Matt Freeman?

[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1375189350' post='2157849'] its heavier. Badass II, Seymour Duncan SPB1 pup. I think its the blue sparkle and mirror pick guard that really make it sound unique. Its really hard to explain but it just sounds and is more P than my MIA P [/quote] Does it come with the flatwounds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1374949803' post='2155194'] Not really, just get rid of the black keys and have 11 white ones per octave [/quote] You're missing that seven white keys and five black keys is already the simplified version.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1375115438' post='2156875'] It's a mug's game to buy what [i]XYZ[/i] plays and expecting to sound anything like them. [/quote] But when I bought a Tony Franklin Fretless Precision I had no desire or expectation to sound like him because I had never even heard of him.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1375133473' post='2157191'] I thought so, I wasn't sure if it was the lighting in the photo though so I didn't want to say for definite. [/quote] You might be right, white can look any colour under the correct lighting but I had always assumed it was a red one.