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[quote name='alstocko' timestamp='1349732955' post='1829939'] Im thinking of putting some on my Lakland JO5, but I've always had labella 4 string sets on my old bass. Does anyone have any recommendations? [/quote] Lakland Joe Osborn flats - available here: [url="http://www.lakland.com/direct/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LD&Product_Code=JOSF5&Category_Code=5STRS"]http://www.lakland.com/direct/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LD&Product_Code=JOSF5&Category_Code=5STRS[/url]

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1349732386' post='1829929'] That's the best one yet! My birth date is 6 Nov 51, the year fender first started selling the Precision bass, how much would that set me back? [/quote] A lot of money ... but those neck date stamps only started in 1962 and the first number, i.e. 6 in your example, was not a date but a model number. 5 for Precision, 7 for Jazz and 6 was Bass VI. The letter at the end is nut width. [url="http://zeus.lunarpages.com/~jimshi2/neckstamps/fender_neck_codes_1962.htm"]http://zeus.lunarpages.com/~jimshi2/neckstamps/fender_neck_codes_1962.htm[/url]

1952 = no chance.

Well, that's a lot of fun ....

My present band play our own songs and we play songs written by other people too. Roughly 40/60 split. I don't really care who wrote the songs. I'm more interested in how we arrange them, does it sound like us when we play them, and does the audience respond well. I voted 'Other'.

[quote name='naruki' timestamp='1349277752' post='1824177'] Actually I just don't wanna pay full VAT for a used instrument... [/quote] Just pay the tax, it's the right thing to do.

If I had any money Chris, I would have bought the AI stuff from you but I'm definitely keeping my Walkabout. Good luck with your new plan.

[url="http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/09/26/gibson-unveils-midtown-standard-bass/"]http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/09/26/gibson-unveils-midtown-standard-bass/[/url]

[quote name='BassPimp66' timestamp='1349166023' post='1822493'] Everything is incredibly expensive in the UK. Consumers are getting milked. The lack of cheap land together with incredily complex planning rules do not allow for big logistics/retail structures like in the US. Smaller market... etc... "Stack them high sell them cheap" does not work here. [/quote] Ah, that must explain why Tescos, Sainsbury's, etc are so unsuccessful in the UK.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1349094577' post='1821632'] I bought some DR neon pink strings (they match my strap quite nicely) on impulse from Brighton when we had a gig down there, cost me £40 .... [/quote] Even in Brighton there is little call for pink strings.

Second hand TU2 - that's it.

[quote name='Ska Man' timestamp='1349064657' post='1821238'] How yis, Im struggling to find any info on a chinese squier i picked up. The links here show me nothing and I dont trust the info on wikipedia. Its a Squier P-Bass with a serial no. CY 081204319. Wiki thinks this is C = China Y = Yako (factory) and 081 is the year 1981?? I really dont think so as the bass is in top nick and was previously owned by a teenager (who wrecked some other guitars) Its a lovely bass with exceptionally low string action , even lower than my USA P bass and it sounds great. Any Ideas ??? [/quote] The year will be 08 i.e. 2008 (not 081 i.e. 1981).

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1335869970' post='1637148'] I've been looking to buy a set of Black tapewound/Nylon wound strings in a light gauge - lightest I could find were D'Aggios with a 0.58 - but this is far too heavy for me... [/quote] Isn't the G string in the D'Addario black nylon set a 50 and not a 58? Also, despite the gauges (50-65-85-105), the D'Addario black nylons are low tension at 141.2 lbs - comparable with low tension TI Jazz Flats (43-56-70-100) at 140.19 lbs - so if you are going to use the top four strings from a six-string set, isn't the tension going to be very very low? Or am I missing something? ... and I've never had a problem with Strings Direct or Stringbusters or Just Strings or Lord of the Strings.

I don't get why this instrument is called an 'extended range bass'. It would be better called a 'six-octave guitar'. Either way, the playing sounded amateurish and very poor.

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1348672380' post='1816769'] Apologies if this has been done before. Very rarely do I listen to a recording and think "I want to sound like that" from a tone/playing perspective. However when I do it's usually very compelling and I can't stop thinking about it. I heard this last year and play it every couple of days dreaming of having the chops and rig to recreate it (not just learn to play it like this, having the skill to do it naturally). [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/boXcU9o0v3g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boXcU9o0v3g[/url] Have you got something you aspire too/dream off? [/quote] I don't bother with the aspiration any more, I just plug in my Precision with flatwounds. However, I did see Ben L'Oncle Soul last year and they were great

Day job all day and then some household chores. Then practised for about an hour. Then my son, who's really a guitarist/banjoist but dabbles with bass at home but had done a three hour first rehearsal as bassist last night with a new band. He was showing me his blisters. I laughed.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1348501369' post='1814411'] Doesn't it depend on how you're sitting? [/quote] Not if you know how to sit properly.

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1348476512' post='1813909'] I had the great fortune to have toured with The Beach Boys in 1991 along with The Allman Brothers. Probably one of the highlights of my career... apart from an embarrassing incident with Bruce Johnston that still makes me cringe to this day. 'God only knows' gotta be one of the greatest 3 minute songs ever recorded! Great stuff! [/quote] Now you know we want the Bruce Johnston story after that teaser. ... and +1 on 'God Only Knows'.

What is your location?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1348430150' post='1813578'] Yep, that's a great watch and very interesting to listen to. Maestro Bernstein looks like something out of a Mafioso film. Garry [/quote] I also liked how it turns out Lenny is a better composer than singer.

[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1347176151' post='1797592'] Passive basses do sound fantastic through these amps. [/quote] I wouldn't argue with that but I've used an active bass too through Ashdown with lovely results. [quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1347176151' post='1797592'] If you are looking for a big trouser shaking tone then you can't go wrong with an Ashdown. [/quote] Again, I wouldn't argue but if, like me, you were looking for a non trouser shaking tone then Ashdown can do that too.

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1343080993' post='1745093'] wait 'til you start using three fingers (on the bass.. ) now that is a bitch to master. [/quote] That is never going to happen. I don't even need two most of the time.

I often use index and middle fingers but, even with my nails cut extremely short, the nail on my middle finger catches the string very slightly while the nail on my index doesn't. I don't believe anyone else has ever noticed my very slight difference in tone but I don't like it. So, whenever I can, I play with index finger only. I don't think it's that unusual.

American TV Documentary from 1967 in which Lenny Bernstein explain and illustrates why some music of the sixties pop revolution is not to be sneered at. Very poor quality but I found it fascinating - perhaps you will too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afU76JJcquI