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[quote name='fatback' post='1215414' date='Apr 29 2011, 11:14 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uzC5KC_260&NR=1"]Black bass[/url] suitably reverential Sorry, dunno how to embed youtube.[/quote] We've had this a few times before but always worth seeing again so here you go;

I too would like to volunteer to be banned from Off Topic.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='1212756' date='Apr 27 2011, 03:51 PM']Apart from your particular Squier model, I've only other Fender jazzes to have equal sized pickups have been early Mex ones. I reckon all recent Fenders and Squiers will have the USA type sizes where the bridge pickup will be slightly longer.[/quote] The Squier CV Jazz certainly has the two sizes - bridge slightly wider.

Wilton Felder

[quote name='iconic' post='1210624' date='Apr 25 2011, 08:46 AM']Just lately I have been getting a few tunes from sheet music (proper notation!) but rarely have I seen anything with a key signiture....unless I'm looking in the wrong place? example: I worked out that this must be F major...I say must be, it has a Bb and F maj seems to work, the tune isn't important...unless I need to purchase the actual music and then I get the key?[/quote] That's key signature of C major - no sharps or flats.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1210136' date='Apr 24 2011, 05:02 PM']The Beiber gig is just another day job. The money you earn at your day job is what allows you to do the things you really like.[/quote] I really like my day job and also it allows me to do other things I really like. If I could earn enough from playing music as a day job I'd be happy to do that too.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='1207076' date='Apr 21 2011, 01:55 PM']I know this has been done before but hasn't everything? What do you use for practising at home / playing along to music? I just bought and returned a Phil Jones Bass Buddy which I really liked and may buy another cos it'd be useful as a back up at gigs but before I do, I thought I'd just weigh up my options. I can't make my mind up whether to buy a nice combo that'll take my MP3 player or buy something like a Bass Buddy to use with headphones.[/quote] I'm considering a Bass Buddy too. At the moment I'm using a Tascam MP-BT1 but as I rarely use the effects and other facilities available so I'm thinking it would be easier to plug my computer or iPod straight into a Bass Buddy.

[quote name='JTUK' post='1206849' date='Apr 21 2011, 10:58 AM']Sure, why not? If the tune is good and along the same lines as the rest of the set, you may find a lot of people wouldn't even notice. When we pick songs the only criteria is, do we do it well, does it sit aside the rest of the set and is it a good tune? A good song is a good song is a good song.[/quote] +1

[url="http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201105_1/?pg=148&pm=2&u1=friend#pg148"]Premier Guitar review[/url]

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1206124' date='Apr 20 2011, 05:17 PM']If you answer "Other" to question 3 you can't submit the form.[/quote] Yes, I gave up because it wouldn't allow the answers I wanted.

About 40% songs written by band members and 60% written by not band members. I don't think of the latter as covers - we play our own arrangements of them. The trick, I think, is to make it all sound like one band and for all the songs to be good.

[quote name='Linus27' post='1201997' date='Apr 16 2011, 06:10 PM']Cool, thanks for the info. Is there any good books about Jamerson or the Funk Brothers?[/quote] [i][url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Motown-View-Bottom-Jack-Ashford/dp/1904408206/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302984509&sr=8-1"]Motown: The View from the Bottom[/url][/i] by Jack Ashford (vibraphone and tambourine)

Despite our bad reviews of the reviewer, for those who might be interested, according to Lakland the Skyline version is now in prototype and should available from the autumn.

Less stable with a J than with a P and no good if anyone is crashing round the stage but I've been using them for about a year with no accidents so far.

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='1200871' date='Apr 15 2011, 03:52 PM']Gotta love Paco De Lucia. It was his brother who was the bass player in his band if I remember correctly. Never liked the look of the Gibson basses myself but played a stunning fretless one once. It sounded as big as a house.[/quote] I had a fretless Ripper for a while. It did make a big sound.

[quote name='Monckyman' post='1200778' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:50 PM']Golf, A good walk ruined. Winston Churchill.[/quote] If Winston ever said that, he got it from Mark Twain. Winston said: 'Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose'.

And a very similar Gibson Ripper banana bass:

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1200746' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:33 PM']Where's the emoticon for bemused & disappointed ? [/quote] Here you go - Wish Banana bass:

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1200738' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:30 PM']I see no links and cannot watch youtube vids in my currently location, but I have an awful feeling it's going to be a disappointment when I finally see this bass - unless it's a banana shaped bass [/quote] No banana, it's a Gibson Ripper shaped bass.

[quote name='Sercet' post='1200733' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:26 PM']... I just move my fingers until the note sounds good ...[/quote] Do the rest of the band mind waiting for you?

[quote name='skej21' post='1200588' date='Apr 15 2011, 12:53 PM']I was saying that the people substituting Cadd9 for a power chord are the problem.[/quote] I've bumped into a few guitarists who always substitute a C5 whatever the required chord.

All my present instruments were bought without trying them - three on BC, one on eBay, one direct from the manufacturer in the US. No problem.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1200140' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:57 PM']and with an action measured in centimeters not millimeters...[/quote] Excellent. Proper bass.

[quote name='noelk27' post='1200132' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:52 PM']It was also available through the Bass Centre in the UK. And yea, it was a numbered run of 100.[/quote] But where are they now? Rare, very collectible and so pricey, I guess.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1200118' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:43 PM']Ooh - you're right. Forgot about that one... 'twas a very limited run.[/quote] Was it 100? Something to do with the Los Angeles Bass Centre?