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[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1381423369' post='2238975'] The trouble with all these sorts of discussions is that people tend to confuse 'good' with 'like', i.e. people tend to think a musician is really good if they really like them (or rather their music). I can't see any connection or correlation myself. [/quote] Nope, I didn't like but I also thought it was badly executed. It was not good in every sense of the word.

[quote name='2pods' timestamp='1381421018' post='2238903'] You could have a look for old Aria Pro II TSB and CSB basses. They're well made and sound good. [/quote] I had an Aria TSB550 for a long time. The 32" scale was good.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1381413901' post='2238726'] Well, he is really really good. lol. BUT... he doesn't really do it for me. No disrespect. That's just my taste. His tricks are terrific but his playing with a band isn't particularly interesting. TO ME. His slapping is good but so is the slapping of thousands of blokes. So it comes down to his two handed tap/chord melody playing. That's where he's the master, right? Well, check this out. I believe what this guy is doing is so far beyond what Wooton has ever done. He's stupidly great. Never heard of him. [/quote] Out of the goodness of my heart, I lasted 31 seconds before I couldn't bear it anymore. I'd rather listen to Victor Wooten and I have never ever said that before.

Having looked at it again I'm thinking it's not cherryburst and I still like it.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1381303190' post='2237063'] I've discovered what the vibrating is. It's on the trapeze tail piece as the E string passes through the ferrule. If you push the tail down slightly it disappears. This did not happen with the original strings, just the La Bellas, and all are 45/105's. [/quote] A little blue tack in the right place under the tail piece might fix that.

I don't usually go for cherryburst but that's rather nice.

I would if I had a spare set but I'm not keen to cough up £100+ as spares only.

[quote name='Mog' timestamp='1381169544' post='2235361'] ... Try using a mix of vinegar and bicarb. [/quote] I had a blocked sink due to son's gf throwing up. Nothing would move it including chemicals with labels saying 'stand well back and wear gloves'. But then I tried vinegar and bicarb. Easy.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1381167465' post='2235309'] They sound exactly the same. [/quote] Yes but the plastic one doesn't cut your tongue or lips.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1381166810' post='2235297'] I think I'll take up the harmonica. [/quote] Plastic or wooden?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1381085329' post='2234237'] Yes! Makes you wonder why anyone would buy anything more expensive than a Squier CV, really. *Hides in wardrobe* [/quote] Because if we only bought what we need instead of what we want then that could be the collapse of capitalism.

[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.