EssentialTension

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='997153' date='Oct 22 2010, 03:02 PM']Yeah totally. Look how cool gaffer tape makes this Mondeo. [/quote] That tow bar is never original.

[quote name='rOB' post='999363' date='Oct 24 2010, 08:55 PM']I really like basses with corners, not sure what the right word is. Erm when the body has been cut out but not sanded down round the edges. Think the edges of a Les Paul rather than a Strat?[/quote] It's called a slab body - or at least it is on a Precision bass.

How about this one: I'd say it easily beats SMV (is that what they are called?) but doesn't beat Bottesini.

[quote name='silddx' post='999057' date='Oct 24 2010, 05:27 PM']Fack me, Stanley, Victor and Marcus, in a "bass battle"?. Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Oh Bollocks! I pressed play. And was visited upon by a display of worthless, unmusical, miserable rubbish that does every bassist with a heart a disservice of biblical proportion. The utterly bovine yelps of appreciation from the audience makes me feel like the pursuit of a life in music to be a worthless endeavour. I feel angry about that video, something music rarely makes me feel. All that BULLSHIT these f***ers say in interviews about studying, learning to be a perfectionist, learning to connect with life and humanity to better communicate your art and emotions, distilled into a pathetic display of par-boiled Dan Brown mechanical excrement that surely must excite only the most supine of intellects. I'm appalled. Thanks for posting it ET, I have learned why I trust my ears, and why I ignore those who implore me to learn to sight read and learn theory.[/quote] I shouldn't myself like to deny the possible value of reading and theory but I would like to ask 'Did you like Furtok and Stähle playing the Bottesini piece?'

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='998987' date='Oct 24 2010, 04:27 PM'].. but, please, not the multi-bass jam.[/quote] [quote name='skej21' post='998990' date='Oct 24 2010, 04:30 PM']I would rather cheesegrate my own face off (slowly!) than have to listen to a bunch of bass players playing a self-indulgent, fret-wonking jam ...[/quote] Exactly:

[quote name='silddx' post='998886' date='Oct 24 2010, 02:37 PM']... Life is all about tension ...[/quote] So nice of you to say so Nigel. Anyway, it's the JAM bit that worries me - most jams sound rubbish unless you're actually one of the players and even then it can sound fairly bad. Just having two basses playing complementary parts or even doubling a line can work. The use of tic-tac bass in country music, for instance, with likely a Fender Precision and a muted Fender Bass VI or Danelectro doubling or complementing the line. Or this: .. but, please, not the multi-bass jam.

Have you ever thought that you'd do anything for a bit of cheese?

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='996941' date='Oct 22 2010, 12:30 PM']I've spent days looking at this bass and I'm convinced it is made of cheese.[/quote] The advert says it's alder not cheese.

[quote name='Plux_the_Duck' post='996496' date='Oct 21 2010, 11:04 PM']That would be my new(ish) double bass being set up I can't recommend vincent anymore![/quote] Your new(ish) double bass looks extremely nice.

[quote name='philw' post='995968' date='Oct 21 2010, 02:16 PM']All A friend of mine in Brighton needs his old double bass fettled and valued. I'm sure I read a thread here recently that described having a new DB set up by a luthier in Brighton, but I can't find it. Did I dream it (which would be weird)? Phil[/quote] Was it this thread? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=103170"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=103170[/url]

[quote name='oldslapper' post='996256' date='Oct 21 2010, 07:08 PM']... The low end, particularly at distance was amazing. ...[/quote] When I was trying mine out in GAK before buying it, I was sat next to it playing and saying 'It's not really that loud is it?'. A bloke from the other end of the shop shouted 'Actually, it is very loud!'.

At that price an absolute bargain. I use mine mainly for home practice but I have successfully played with drummer and two amplified acoustic guitars without any problem.

[quote name='Stacker' post='993888' date='Oct 19 2010, 06:20 PM']The weight wasn't mentioned; I just happen to have had a couple of mid '70s Jazzes pass through my hands. and they were the heaviest Fender Jazzes I'd handled. i see no reason for this one to be different, given that it's ash.[/quote] The advert says it's alder not ash.

[quote name='karlfer' post='992226' date='Oct 18 2010, 02:21 PM']... Oh, JC Superstar, original recording, loved the basslines ...[/quote] Alan Spenner??

[quote name='Doddy' post='991640' date='Oct 17 2010, 09:17 PM']What???? What's this system,and why does that make them our enemy?[/quote] I don't know either. I heard Happy Jack screaming and I panicked.

[quote name='Protium' post='991716' date='Oct 17 2010, 10:18 PM']Who is Stanley Clarke?[/quote] He must be number 1. Flea is merely number 2. I am not a number ...

I ate mine with some fava beans and a bottle of chianti

My favourite is [i]Lagaan[/i]:

Branford Marsalis [i]Trio Jeepy[/i] Chet Baker [i]The Art of the Ballad[/i]

... and no need to worry because 'New strings when I got it (few years ago)'

It's a 95 by serial number and the description but 93 in the title.

[quote name='jezzaboy' post='991555' date='Oct 17 2010, 08:29 PM']I didn`t want to labour the point for the benefit of the Fender Nazi`s Jez[/quote] Fair enough.

[quote name='jezzaboy' post='991532' date='Oct 17 2010, 08:02 PM']... most of the best music up to about 1975 was made with Fender bass guitars ... Jez[/quote] ... and probably most of the best music since then too.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='991474' date='Oct 17 2010, 07:16 PM']You could buy a used fretted Alembic Epic for the price of a new jazz bass, which just goes to show how much you can get for your money if you spend it wisely and buy used![/quote] Maybe, but you could buy a used Jazz bass for even less.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='991518' date='Oct 17 2010, 07:48 PM']And then I woke up screaming.[/quote] We must resist and plan and organise for an alternative society to the dystopian Slapland.