EssentialTension

[quote name='NigeH' timestamp='1373572737' post='2139253'] ... have roundwound strings evolved at all? ... [/quote] I guess you mean flatwound not roundwound. Anyway, some flatwounds are pretty much as they always were (e.g. La Bellas), while others are newer because they weren't around in earlier decades (e.g. TI Jazz Flats). As for flats sounding dead, it's just not true. Listen to most bass recordings from the sixties and seventies, most of it done with flatwounds, a bass with flatwounds can be very lively. However, I wouldn't judge flatwound strings (or any other kind of string) by what came fitted to a Satellite.

I'd like to make it. I've missed the last two. Could be bad date again though.

[quote name='Mr Fretbuzz' timestamp='1373565225' post='2139149'] They are the number 1 seller Drakers with Thomann.. 3000 sets sold but I read that there is a query over tension? [/quote] I'm not sure what you mean by 'there is a query' but TI Jazz Flats are very low tension.

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1373471411' post='2138032'] I've got Fender flats on a couple of my fretlesses. I find them not as smooth as the ones on my other fretless which I bought off ebay with the strings already on. Don't know what they are but they have black silk. Anyone know what they might be (with apology for the hi-jack) [/quote] La Bella 760FS have black silk. Lakland Joe Osborns also have black silk.

[quote name='Mr Fretbuzz' timestamp='1373565693' post='2139156'] Not sure but maybe La Bella 760 Black Nylon Tapewound ?? which are suitable for Fretless apparently [/quote] They have dark purple silk.

[quote name='dmz' timestamp='1373495133' post='2138383'] Wow - there's a Bass VI as well ! [url="http://www.keymusic.com/en/product/Squier-Vintage-Modified-Bass-VI-Olympic-White"]http://www.keymusic....I-Olympic-White[/url] ....who'd have thought...... [/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/211505-2013-squier-vintage-modified-bass-vi"]basschat.co.uk/topic/211505-2013-squier-vintage-modified-bass-vi[/url]

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1373483624' post='2138202'] I like that you can see the grain through it [/quote] Was that the case with the slab 66s?

[url="http://www.bax-shop.nl/solid-body/squier-by-fender-vintage-modified-bass-vi-3-color-bariton-gitaar/product-details.html"]http://www.bax-shop.nl/solid-body/squier-by-fender-vintage-modified-bass-vi-3-color-bariton-gitaar/product-details.html[/url]

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkbeVUMA3CM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMT9zJ1o_v4

I'd say that ... [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1373200877' post='2134588'] ... pedal for eight bars! ... [/quote] ... usually beats ... [quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1373201672' post='2134600'] ... untold fretw***ery ... [/quote] ... in a kind of Top Trumps way.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1373355707' post='2136460'] Joanne Joanne (all-girl Duran Duran tribute) [/quote] Surely that should be Doreen Doreen?

[quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1373352341' post='2136426'] Also there is a guy calling himself Bon Giovi, apparently that JUST different enough to avoid the lawyers!!! [/quote] Jon Bon Jovi's real name is John Bongiovi.

Jermaine Jackson

[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1373095846' post='2133604'] [/quote] Very nice.

Too many strings.

Chris White - The Zombies

For solo practice acoustic bass guitars are fine. If you are going to play with anyone else at all, even one acoustic guitar, you will need to be amplified - upright basses are the size they are for a reason.

[quote name='Max Dread' timestamp='1369181560' post='2086104'] ... When I teach him a part to a song he can play it fine on his own. But then when i play the guitar part he either loses his way completely. or he ends up changing to the rhythm of the guitar rather than holding and playing his own rhythm .... [/quote] This says to me that he doesn't really, deep down, know the bass part. If he did know the bass part then he'd stick to playing the bass part and wouldn't start playing the guitar part. It's as if the guitar part that is actually happening now is more powerful than the memorised bass part because the memory is not as strong as it appears when there is nothing to interfere.

I rather liked the gold colour too. I had a red one of these as my very first bass. I resprayed it purple metallic.