EssentialTension

[quote name='uptonmark' post='351996' date='Dec 11 2008, 06:10 PM'][b]i want you back........ jackson 5[/b][/quote] Very nice.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='350491' date='Dec 10 2008, 11:02 AM']Sigh: Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade....[/quote] No sigh from me. I like that line. Jimmy Lea's lines are always good.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='349654' date='Dec 9 2008, 01:07 PM']I deal with Bax/Schenker all the time so if you have any problems.....[/quote] Thanks Tom but so far it looks peachy. I paid the fees and theoretically it is with me tomorrow!!!

[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='349635' date='Dec 9 2008, 12:55 PM']Is bax global hte company of an evil super villan?[/quote] Given how much I got charged, possibly yes. [quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='349635' date='Dec 9 2008, 12:55 PM']remember to let us know how the decade is.[/quote] Don't worry. There will be a full report.

[quote name='skywalker' post='349017' date='Dec 8 2008, 08:37 PM']I think you will find that it is Schenkers, but I will check tomorrow and let you know. Schenkers Heathrow is 0208 890 8899[/quote] Thanks, you're correct. it was obvious from the Bax website once I'd looked at it properly. Thanks for the phone number.

My Lakland Decade has arrived from Chicago to Heathrow via Bax Global. Who takes over from Bax in the UK or do they do it themselves? Anyone know?

I haven't used anything but flats for some years - usually TI Jazz Flats but also D'Addario Chromes. Love that thummp; hate that zzing. However, yesterday I restrung my Precision BEAD using TI Jazz Rounds - the very light .118 B string requires no nut filing. Not too bad for a round string but if I take to the BEAD tuning I'll be getting the nut filed and some flats.

Four - Lakland Skyline Decade (2008); Fender American Deluxe Precision (tuned BEAD) (2006); Fender Jazz Fretless (1999); Michael Kelly Dragonfly Acoustic (2002).

I've got a five bass/guitar version of this. Sits upstairs on the landing in it's own little corner and gets used for guitars and basses, including acoustic, semi-acoustic, solid bodies and an offset Jazz bass. Not had any problems at all with it. You do need to allow the space behind up to the wall so that the headstocks have room. I'd be less convinced about it for stage use however when people are going to be climbing over it.

That does look extremely nice. Congrats.

It all depends what is meant by 'best' I guess but I'd say Carol Kaye for the extent of her influence. [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OU4pysL_vyg"]The First Lady of Bass[/url] Let's not get into the Kaye/Jamerson debate again.

No interest from me. The ramp is solving a problem that doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. So I'm out.

Rear of the headstock is wrong too:

Left hand piano from Ray Charles [i]Hallelujah I Love Her So[/i].

[quote name='martthebass' post='344618' date='Dec 3 2008, 07:22 PM']wish my 5er was a pound (and a half) lighter. But, musn't grumble [/quote] Most of that extra weight is the two 5-string MFDs.

Very nice, congrats to you.