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[quote name='casapete' post='454600' date='Apr 5 2009, 12:25 PM']Anyway, why do most bands play covers so much faster than the original versions? Okay, I know that live most of the original bands probably increase the tempos a tad, but cover bands always seem to be off like f**k!! IMHO the majority of great rock songs are written with specific tempos/keys in mind, and altering them just ruins it! Classic example is the Stones 'Honky Tonk Woman' - grooves like hell at the original speed,turns into crap when played too fast.[/quote] I have constantly griped about this in several bands (and sometimes get support from others). Over and over again I say 'It's too fast, it's got no dance, it's just running off, no feel'. Sometimes, if I'm copying the original bassline which for a standard tune I might well do, I have to say 'I can't play this line that fast' and then before I'm accused of being not good enough to play it 'that fast' I have to point out that the line was not written to be played that fast and if the song was going to be that fast it would have had a different bassline. If you are going to play a song at a faster (or slower) tempo you won't necessarily use the same line at that altered tempo, it may need a different line. Am I right?

I have one and it's very good but it won't power everything. For example I have an Electro-Harmonix Black Finger compressor which has it's own 12volt AC adaptor. If you've got pedals with their own adaptors just look to see what power they are giving and if it's AC or DC - it will be on the adaptor somewhere. The Brick has seven 9v DC outputs and three 18v DC outputs and can deliver up to 1000 milliamps. Most pedals use about 30 milliamps.

[quote name='BassMunkee' post='445964' date='Mar 26 2009, 01:30 PM']TED PARSONS - Swans, Prong, Killing Joke, Godflesh, Jesu, etc... If you want metronomic timing, this man is your man. He's a fekkin machine. [/quote] I read somewhere that Duck Dunn was asked if he ever played with a drum machine and he said 'Yeah, Al Jackson'.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='444493' date='Mar 24 2009, 11:15 PM']BTW, I don't have a problem with shifts in tempo - as long as it's planned and deliberate, rather than accidental or alcohol / adrenaline induced.[/quote] +1 on that. I play with one drummer whose timekeeping is extremely good. However, there are times when he'll speed up (i.e. speed the band up) if in his estimate the tempo is too slow (or slow it down is he thinks it's too fast). In other words he can keep a strict tempo but he takes control of the tempo and makes sure it's the correct tempo - usually when the singer or guitarist have started too slow or too fast. So, he sometimes speeds up but when does he's in control. He's extremely easy and reliable to play with. Most other drummers I play with have a tendency to speed up with excitement at least sometimes. As a bassist, the question I always ask myself about a drummer is 'does he (or she) know where the 'one' is at least as well as I do?'. The answer ought to be 'yes'.

Steve sold me a Radial Bassbone on behalf of a friend of his. All was neat, tidy, smooth and fast. Highly recommended.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='434700' date='Mar 14 2009, 04:57 PM']alls well that ends well...well?[/quote] Pot now replaced and all is perfect.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='440602' date='Mar 20 2009, 08:13 PM']You named your bass 'Weymouth'? By an amazing coincidence, one of mine is called 'Bognor Regis'. Any other basses named after popular English seaside towns? (But TW is, indeed, a fox, a fine player and, one assumes, in part, laudably responsible for the growing trend towards Lay-dee low-enders)[/quote] I've always been partial to a Lay-dee's low end.

[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='438619' date='Mar 18 2009, 08:12 PM']What's the neck dive like on an upside down Thunderbird??[/quote] No idea, but probably less than on a correct way up Thunderbird.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='438603' date='Mar 18 2009, 08:01 PM']Hendrix didn't have a damn great long neck attempting to nosedive - that upper horn is really rather useful. Alex[/quote] You could play a righty reverse Gibson Thunderbird lefty and then you'd have an upper horn.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='437556' date='Mar 17 2009, 05:06 PM']I'm still in shock that Bob Babbitt was drafted in the replace the bass tracks on the first Talking Heads album... Alex[/quote] I never knew that either.

[quote name='Pookus' post='437494' date='Mar 17 2009, 04:34 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM[/url] I prefer this track - really early on[/quote] I saw Talking Heads that year at, I think, Barbarella's club in Birmingham. If I remember correctly the support act were called Dire Straits.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='437273' date='Mar 17 2009, 01:56 PM']Is it just me who thinks it looks tacky?[/quote] No, it's awful.

Lee sold me his NS WAV 4 EUB. Absolutely smooth deal. Great packing. A pleasure in every way. Top man.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='434690' date='Mar 14 2009, 04:39 PM']how about some verdict on these 'industry standard' strings i just got a bass with them on it and i usually use TI nickel..or anyones nickel they are breaking my heart and making me use all kinds of eq to tame them even through my sansamp bddi they are new so i am loathe to just ditch them....perhaps just give them away any thoughts or flames [/quote] I hate those Rotos (and I'm not keen on any stainless). Nickel flats all the way for me. TI Flats or D'Addario Chromes.

There are people to whom I might lend gear and there are situations in which I might lend gear. This is definitely not one of them. I'd buy her a cheap Squier before I'd lend the J or the P. IMO, you need to sort this out straightaway before her (possible) expectations become even greater.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='434027' date='Mar 13 2009, 06:42 PM']what i think is .....the signal goes into a pot...specifically designed to do a job of work the signal can be any signal so long as the pot is capable of handling it and not attenuating it so who makes these pots...in the uk..must be somebody and it aint fender but there we go...and there you go good luck...and i hope it does the job too!! ps you could have contacted a uk luthier for 'a pot' to do the job..[/quote] You're probably correct about a UK luthier having something to 'do the job' but...anyway. Price turned out not too bad because I ordered two (just in case) and got a major Paypal refund on the shipping due to it costing much less than advertised on the website. And they are already in USPS post this morning. So my recommendation goes to [url="http://www.darrenriley.com/main.html"]Darren Riley Guitar & Amp Shop[/url] of Raleigh, North Carolina.

[quote name='yanto' post='432993' date='Mar 12 2009, 10:54 PM']The same happened to my new P deluxe-I bent a few bits in the pot and it's been fine ever since[/quote] Hmmm... maybe I'll try that but my mid pot has always felt slightly strange and sort of floppy (compared to the treble and bass and blend) even when it worked. On my searches I've come across half a dozen people who have had problems with this pot on the American Deluxe.

Bit the bullet and ordered from US. It better work.

Hang on! Slovenia loses because I can't figure out how to buy anything from the site. Looks like US has pulled into the lead. Does no one sell these in UK?

It looks like Slovenia wins it.

And it seems this is a common ailment. Even a thread on Talkbass.

Got one in the US now, shipping is three times the price of the pot!!

[quote name='mrcrow' post='432764' date='Mar 12 2009, 06:59 PM'] you are a lot more resourceful than me!! i met a guy in london last weekend from slovenia...its a country with high wages and levels of living...so he told me i guess you have your supplier no results for the uk?[/quote] No UK result so far - maybe I'm doing the wrong search. Thanks for your help.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='432738' date='Mar 12 2009, 06:39 PM']its probably just a simple industrial pot with detent...i am checking out a supplier[/quote] Thanks. The Fender parts list describes it as 100KB CNTR DTNT (part #0049443000) - if I have understood correctly. And I found a place in Slovenia that has them!!