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[quote name='ShaunB' post='416299' date='Feb 21 2009, 06:43 PM']...not the one at Absolute... 1 3/4" nut and plays like a dream... want, want, want.[/quote] The newer candy apple red Lakland DD has a 1.5" nut. The one at Absolute will be the original limited edition Lakland DD which is no longer in production. Very nice too.

[quote name='SisterAbdullahX' post='416396' date='Feb 21 2009, 10:08 PM']I have 3 basses, one of which I use all the time, one which is half built and one which was my #1 for fifteen years but needs TLC. Like any of us, I would spend all of my disposable income (which ain't much!) on more basses/amps/cabs/effects. However, we've just booked our wedding day for next year. Even if we're really careful it'll cost us 10 grand FOR ONE DAY! And no matter how careful we start out, it won't be long before she tells me that she MUST have a chocolate fountain, cos her best mate had one at her wedding. So we need to start saving. She's just told me she will spend the 500 quid I need to finish off the half built one, then every penny after that goes to the wedding. Should I still marry her!?[/quote] Well, that's up to you but I wouldn't spend that much or in fact anything at all on a wedding. Just live together or if for some bizarre reason you must be married it's £24 I think at the register office.

All my experience of Lakland has been positive too. A pleasure to deal with them. But how is the Joe Osborn?

With Joni Mitchell fabulous, with Weather Report very good too. On his own - mostly no.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='407890' date='Feb 12 2009, 06:45 PM']+1 I think that painted basses have a huge reflection on your personality.[/quote] Is that why yours are all blue Wayne?

[quote name='rjb' post='407292' date='Feb 12 2009, 08:49 AM']The thing that draws me to Warwicks et al is the choice of exotic dark hardwoods (bubinga/wenge/ovangkol/ebony). If Fender, for example, made a US P fretless with those woods I'd happily spend a chunk of cash on one. If i'm gonna drop a wedge on a bass I want to see some nice wood action! Perhaps Fender should do an exotic wood range...[/quote] I would dislike 'wood action' even if it was on a Fender.

[quote name='Gothicontheloose' post='407043' date='Feb 11 2009, 10:20 PM']you can't play metal with Fender's, and some hard rock isn't great either -.- That's personal opinion but still...[/quote] Well, you may hold that opinion but I'd say that your opinion is not at all backed up by the facts. And that's my opinion.

[quote name='Krysbass' post='407517' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:41 PM']If a bass is going to be expensive, it shouldn't just sound good and be a joy to play - it should look good and should look worth the money you paid for it - or better still, look worth [i]more[/i] than the money you paid for it.[/quote] A pefect description of my Fenders. Thank you.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='406959' date='Feb 11 2009, 08:58 PM']I suppose some Little Feat would be classed as country, and that's amazing. I challenge anyone who hates country not to like "Willin'". It's one of my favourite tracks ever, and if you diss it, I will smash your goddam face in.[/quote] +1 on that.

[quote name='Rich' post='406304' date='Feb 11 2009, 02:04 PM']my first bass was a '64 Hofner Artist II [/quote] Me too, second hand mid-sixties Hofner Artist for £25 in 1974. That was about a week's wages if I recall correctly. I had been doing FOH sound and fixing the back line when it broke down (regularly) for a local band but also had two fairly high quality reel-to-reel tape recorders and a quality cassette deck and mikes and mixer and I would go around to people's houses and record them playing while doing loads of overdubs etc. I imagined myself as the new Joe Meek. I could play guitar a little and so on one session I played a bass line (on a guitar) while the two guys I was recording both played guitars to cut down on one extra overdub. Later, in the pub, they asked me if I would play bass for their band. Impetuously, I said yes and bought the Hofner Artist the next day. I wish I still had it.

I dep and I've been depped. If you can't make the gig that's how it is. Get over it. These guys who are insecure about being depped probably don't like other men sleeping with their wives and girlfriends either - in case the dep has a better endowment. But, hey, a band is not a marriage.

Cachaito's uncle, Cachao, only died in March last year. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachao_L%C3%B3pez"]Cachao[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_%22Cachaito%22_L%C3%B3pez"]Cachaito[/url]

I sold Etienne a EBS Microbass II. Very smooth, very fast, highly recommended, and a very cool avatar as well.

When I saw the UOGB, the bassist called his acoustic bass guitar a bass uke as a sort of joke.

[quote name='artisan' post='402076' date='Feb 6 2009, 03:23 PM']cheers for that E'T',looks like i'll have to top load them then which is a shame but never mind. i've tried TI's before on my '62 R'I' P bass & found them a bit "floppy" so i gave them to a friend who loves them--dohh. where as i've got La Bella's on my Jazz & i absolutely love 'em to bits. on the subject of TI's,whats the tension like through body ? cheers. as for these basses-bloody awesome arn't they,just a tad bright with the rounds on for me.[/quote] As you have experienced, TIs are low tension and remain low tension through the body. I'm not actually convinced that through-body really makes more difference than a psychic medium could tell. And yes I love my ADP (with flats).

[quote name='artisan' post='401926' date='Feb 6 2009, 12:27 PM']i nearly always use flats on my passive Fenders but i was wondering what my deluxe P would sound like with flats on it. yes ok i'm too tight to buy a set & try them,i am a Yorkshire man after all. also would they be ok strung throught body or would i be better top loading them, cheers.[/quote] Hey Artisan. I've the exact same American Deluxe P and I've only ever used flats on it. Started with Fender stainless steel flats but then for ages used TI Jazz Flats. Recently I've been trying D'Addario Chrome Flats but I expect to go back to TI Jazz Flats. Flats are fine on this bass. And I've strung all of them through the body without any problem. I've heard though that La Bellas do not work through the body.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='401529' date='Feb 5 2009, 09:35 PM']If you are perfectly happy to put something in your mouth that heterosexual males would not, then I think so.[/quote] Sorry, I didn't realise they were perfectly happy I thought you meant they were doing it for the money.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='400599' date='Feb 5 2009, 01:05 AM']Duff Mckagan - G n R , Velvet Wotsit. According to an interview with Steve Adler in Classic Rock Magazine, before G n R were signed, and when they were both addicts, they were rent boys who used to do things to business men for $50 a pop. So to speak.[/quote] Call me pedantic, but does providing a service actually count as being gay?

[quote name='OldGit' post='395527' date='Jan 30 2009, 04:30 PM']Steve Swallow (allegedly)[/quote] Vibraphonist Gary Burton, who has often worked with Swallow, is gay not allegedly but actually out. Not that that can necessarily tell us anything about Swallow.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='395519' date='Jan 30 2009, 04:20 PM']Would anyone care to name a notable gay bass player? I've been racking my brain but I can't think of any![/quote] [url="http://www.andyfraser.com/andy.html"]Andy Fraser[/url], formerly of Free. [url="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stefan+olsdal"]Stefan Olsdal[/url] of Placebo. [url="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05192007/gossip/pagesix/gay_and_furtive_rock_n_roller_pagesix_.htm"]Chuck Panozzo[/url] of Styx. And, I'm sure, lots more. Maybe even some on BC.

Same string, same note, but longer scale length will give higher tension than same string, same note, shorter scale length.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='399608' date='Feb 4 2009, 12:29 AM']I wouldn't use 'em even if they were free.[/quote] +1