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[quote name='Golchen' post='871559' date='Jun 19 2010, 10:14 AM']It's obvious what you are trying to do there, but I really disapprove of a mindlessly violent video like that on a forum like this.[/quote] ... but nice use of the recovery position.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='870496' date='Jun 18 2010, 09:01 AM']Am i right in assuming that each knob has volume and tone for each pup?[/quote] That's what the specification says.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78214&hl=l2500"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78214&hl=l2500[/url]

[quote name='bass_ennyday' post='870354' date='Jun 17 2010, 11:02 PM']a) so, that VM Jag is an active bass?[/quote] Passive, I believe. The spec certainly makes it passive.

[quote name='steantval' post='870302' date='Jun 17 2010, 10:27 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LiveMusicUK#p/u/26/85eSmtrp3dA"]http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LiveMu.../26/85eSmtrp3dA[/url] I get this but no picture like you guys.[/quote] Put this: 85eSmtrp3dA In between these: youtube (in square brackets) /youtube (in square brackets) And you get this:

[quote name='fretlessguy' post='869811' date='Jun 17 2010, 12:08 PM']Strangely, the fretless Version is not called the Zenith but the "Triumph".[/quote] Both fretted and fretless were initially called the Triumph II but there was some copyright or trademark issue over Triumph so both are now the Zenith. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59067"]This is in the other thread on this bass[/url]. The Sam Ash website just has a mistake I think. [url="http://www.epiphone.com/news.asp?NewsID=1624"]The Epiphone Zenith page has Zenith for both.[/url]

[quote name='jakesbass' post='868606' date='Jun 15 2010, 11:42 PM']Some great sites here, massive resource. Can I suggest that this is pinned? Jake[/quote] +1 on the pinning suggestion.

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='869190' date='Jun 16 2010, 04:07 PM']That is absolutely fabulous! Bill McCormack on fretless, if I'm not mistaken. Bravo![/quote] Yes it is Bill MacCormick. I really like that album - [i]801 Live[/i]: Phil Manzanera (guitars) Brian Eno (keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, vocals) Bill MacCormick (bass, vocals) Francis Monkman (piano, clavinet) Simon Phillips (drums) Lloyd Watson (slide-guitar, vocals)

There's a review of the Kala bass uke in the latest Bass Guitar Magazine.

And loads on [url="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kala+ukulele+bass&aq=f&hl=en-GB&hl=en-GB&gl=GB"]YOUTUBE[/url]

[quote name='Dash' post='869402' date='Jun 16 2010, 08:24 PM']I'm thinking I might like to learn to play bass ukulele (and then possibly join a local ukulele band). Does anyone here know anything about bass ukuleles? Good brands, etc?[/quote] Kala Bass Ukulele - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=60595&hl=ukulele"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=ukulele[/url]

[quote name='Johnston' post='868717' date='Jun 16 2010, 08:23 AM']Bleedin' 'eck is that still not out yet!!! I know they like to announce new things in advance but that must be knocking about the epiphone site 2 years now!!![/quote] It is out, they have them in stock at Thomann. Hence the review and the sound samples I linked to.

[quote name='Johnston' post='868710' date='Jun 16 2010, 08:08 AM']The Zenith is the one that was supposed to be called the triumph or something isn't it??[/quote] Yes: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59067"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59067[/url]

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='868562' date='Jun 15 2010, 10:54 PM']Did Suzi Quattro use a pick?[/quote] I think not.

... and a review here at the [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=4032.msg62341#new"]Last Bass Outpost[/url].

[quote name='squire' post='868381' date='Jun 15 2010, 08:33 PM']Need a review on this one. I really wanna play one.[/quote] Link to sound samples available [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59067&st=20"]here in post #30[/url] and post #22 has a link to a review of the prototype. And a link to a recent review here at the [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=4032.0"]Last Bass Outpost[/url].

[quote name='silddx' post='868332' date='Jun 15 2010, 07:52 PM']Exactly. Chris Squire is much better than James Jamerson and Chris uses a pick.[/quote] ... and so does Carol Kaye ... and she was a guitarist first

[quote name='silddx' post='868297' date='Jun 15 2010, 07:19 PM']Only on coated strings [/quote] Very wise, Nigel.

[quote name='silddx' post='868286' date='Jun 15 2010, 07:06 PM']I would play with a fried chicken drumstick if it sounded good to me.[/quote] Ah, but have you actually tried it?

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='868203' date='Jun 15 2010, 05:33 PM']+100 - wish I still had it - mine was the Thunderbird 30, and I have read there wasn't a lot of difference/extra volume/extra headroom with the 50. Cracking amp though. G.[/quote] Ah, now you mention it, my guitarist had the 30 watt version too - very loud.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='868118' date='Jun 15 2010, 04:08 PM']Or the rather older combo? [url="http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/selmer/amps/sel33.html"]http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/selmer/amps/sel33.html[/url][/quote] Many years ago I was in a band with a guitarist and that combo - it was absolutely cracking, especially great tremolo.

[quote name='Davetbass' post='866409' date='Jun 13 2010, 08:55 PM']You never see someone that's gone from guitar to bass play with their fingers do you? It's always a pick.[/quote] No, it's not always a pick at all. Four of the five guitarists I've played with in recent months don't use a pick even on guitar. Only one of them claims to play bass, which he does - with his fingers - very effectively. Not that it would matter one bit if someone did use a pick to play bass.

[quote name='lowdown' post='867531' date='Jun 14 2010, 10:02 PM']Who knows or cares.... But why would he have wanted to play Bass when he had Bernard Edwards? Garry[/quote] And anyway Bernard Edwards was a guitarist before he took up bass.