EssentialTension

I felt it wasn't as poor and indeed was much better than I feared.

I enjoyed it more when hearing it with the video.

It might not have made the cut for any actual Beatles LP ... except the Anthology, perhaps its true home ... but for the completist it was surely necessary.

I guess the technology used here and on Peter Jackson's Get Back film, will be digging up many other goodies from way beyond The Beatles catalogue.

5 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Vincent are clearly not aware of the rhyming slang, ‘pony & trap’  . I can see why they used it, but maverick might have been a better choice.

A 'pony' would have been more exciting as the price and not the name.

That's £25 for our cousins across the water.

17 minutes ago, Obrienp said:

Good question. Marketing hype to justify the price? 
 

Looking at the photos, the ball ends do seem to be hidden under the bridge bass plate, rather than being anchored on the end of the plate. Perhaps there is a cut out underneath the bridge to accommodate the ball ends. I’m not sure how that improves vibration transfer to the body. Seems a bit gimmicky but maybe there is some science behind it.

I'm unconvinced by string-through, let alone semi-through.

11 hours ago, bassist_lewis said:

These just arrived at Bass Direct. Obviously inspired by the Mustang, this one by the JMJ in particular (I imagine).

 

https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/vincent-pony-marrakesch/

 

£2k still feels like a lot for a Fender copy... but if I had it spare 😅

What is a 'semi-through bridge'?

One.

Two if really necessary.

Three? Nah.

14 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

............. old lags who've been around here a few aeons 😉

It seems longer.

On 30/10/2023 at 17:47, Paul S said:

I'm 66 and feel every bit as energised about a forthcoming gig and, on the night, playing as I ever have.  Next day is another matter...  

 

I have a low-level neurological condition called 'essential tremor' that makes my hands shake.  It's getting worse - a full mug of tea rarely stays full for long  - and I guess this will ultimately decide for me when to pull the plug once I can't play accurately any more.  Given that I don't play anything complicated that day is most likely a long way off  

1 hour ago, steantval said:

I was also diagnosed with ET a few years back, paid privately to see a neurologist as I thought it may have been the start of Parkinson’s, my mother was also diagnosed with ET and then Parkinson’s in her later life, it’s definitely a genetic condition.

The ET started in my left (fretting) hand, which is getting progressively worse, but it’s now also started in my right hand, my playing ability has been slightly affected and I definitely cannot play some stuff I played years ago.

1 hour ago, Paul S said:

 

It's a nuisance, for sure.  Left hand is worse but right hand also not great.  My job was designing gardens and I drew the plans by hand but unfortunately I haven't been able to do that for some while.  One reason I retired early.  A good mate of mine is a GP and he is keeping tabs on it, thankfully.

I have Parkinson's disease but I wasn't formally diagnosed until late 2019 when I was approaching sixty-eight. Once I had a formal diagnosis, I gave up gigging (which happened to coincide with the Covid lockdowns). Of course, many of my Parkinson's symptoms predated any formal diagnosis by many years and included coordination of left and right hands and coordination of fingers, particularly on left hand. The difficulties were more noticeable on double bass which I had only taken up playing aged fifty-eight. The song where I first noticed difficulties happened to be Tami Lynn's 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You'; not a difficult song which I had been playing for some years. I do still play at home once a week with a guitarist friend, but I am too unreliable for gigging.

On the issue of genetics, my understanding is that while Parkinson's can have a genetic basis it is not necessarily so.

I appreciate that Basschatters have to post about something .... but really .... when should threads such as this old topic just call it a day?? It's embarrassing when everything has already been said and yet we get the same old topic, on tour again, every few months, or every year at the least .... Please .... It's had its time .... enough is enough. No?

😜

6 hours ago, Muzz said:

 

OK, let's put the cutoff at 55...anyone on here still going to be gigging? Yeah, I didn't think many...

 

I expect it's lots of people.

1 hour ago, Barking Spiders said:

Ch***t almighty but now we know who's to blame. Bowie and Ferry were/are terrible singers but this bloke is even worse 

I rather like him and it's clear he was a big influence on Bowie's singing style.

Obviously YMMV.

11 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

 

BTW who was the first to sing in that very affected way of Bowie, Ferry, Jim Kerr?

 

If you don't like it then don't go to the gigs ... because, after all, they probably aren't going to your gigs.

3 hours ago, bassist_lewis said:

Pretty cool take on a Mustang/Musicmaster:

 

https://www.kitharaguitars.com/samson

 

Though £2k for essentially a Musicmaster 😅

Expensive but looks great.

Fretless is fine. Almost everyone won't notice, including the band.

As long as you're roughly in tune.

1 hour ago, onehandclapping said:

 

Beautiful ... I smiled the whole way through.

8 hours ago, BassAgent said:

Added a second short scale to the collection, next to the Mustang. I've always wanted a Höfner Club and finally pulled the trigger on an Ignition SE. I have considered the Contemporary but I wanted a full hollow Club  I'm really really surprised by the quality, actually. The finish is immaculate, the frets are really good and it sounds great. I did put some Labella flats on it.

I have a Hofner Club Ignition strung with Pyramid Flats which sounds great. I'd call  it very good value for money.

But it doesn't have the teacup knobs or the Hofner logo on the upper horn. Are they additions?

https://www.daddario.com/upload/tension_chart_13934.pdf

35 minutes ago, wintoid said:

 

Sorry if I'm being really dim here, but if I know the mass of the whole string, and I know the length of the whole string, then can't I calculate the mass per unit length?  Admittedly with the string that goes beyond the nut and the bridge, it's an approximation.

Yes, an approximation.

5 hours ago, wintoid said:

 

But wouldn't the scale length and pitch be the same for any string you wanted to put on your bass?

 

Yes, but it's not the weight of the whole string that matters, it's the mass per unit length.