EssentialTension

18 Patch Leads for £7.50 posted.

This kind:



6 x 15cm (1 each of black, red, blue, green, white, yellow)

12 x 30cm (2 each of black, red, blue, green, white, yellow)

Has anyone emailed them a link to this thread?

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2 x TI Jazz Flat Low B (JF34136) £8 posted

These are usually about £10.00 each I guess.

Two for £8 posted.

Who wants them?

and bump...

I don't mean to disagree with anything that's been said really but I have had good service in Denmark Street.

My son was looking for a Gibson Firebird and, of course, nowhere had one - except for Vintage and Rare. They were happy to chat and let him play for a good 40 minutes on a 1990 custom shop Firebird which was about twice the price he was going to pay. This was even though we'd made it clear we were not going to be buying anything. And this on a Saturday afternoon when they were quite busy.

So I think it's not everywhere in Denmark Street.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='314520' date='Oct 25 2008, 02:33 PM']I think Jim Lea of Slade is a great bass player.[/quote]

+1

I've used TI Jazz Flats through-body for some time without problem but I did break an A string (at the bridge) a few weeks ago. First broken string since I gave up on plectrums over twenty years ago.

Anyway, I'm not actually convinced that the sound is much different (if at all) whether through-body or through-bridge. Even if there is a difference many other factors make much more difference, YMMV.

[quote name='yanto' post='314522' date='Oct 25 2008, 02:39 PM']I know a few classically trained musicians who are very competent in their genre but when asked to "swing it" would fall flat on their face-is this because they don't participate in a broad enough spectrum of music and it could be learned,or is it a personal thing with them,purely because everybody is different?[/quote]

I've met those people too - or even, 'oh, if it's not written down I can't play it'. But the guitarist in one of my bands was classically trained and he swings like crazy playing finger-style slide guitar. So I think it's usually that the person just doesn't get it - probably becasue they haven't learned how to by listening to your 'broad enough spectrum of music'. It's the same when some people can only play blues, or punk or whatever, and if you ask them to play some other genre they don't get how to adjust. So what you are describing in some classically trained musicians, I would say, may apply to any musician.

And does classical music never swing? (Serious question, I don't really know much about classical but didn't Chuck Berry or someone say 'we ain't doing nothing Mozart didn't already do'.)

IIRC, the bass player in 70s progressives Gentle Giant - I think he was called Ray Schulman - doubled on violin.

And the bass player of 70s French band Magma was originally a cellist, as I think was Jack Bruce.

[quote name='jono b' post='314507' date='Oct 25 2008, 02:08 PM']Have you tried [url="http://www.highlystrung.net/acatalog/Pickguards__electric_guitar.html"]Highly Strung?[/url] Those Jazz pickguards are the perfect size for an MIM Jazz, screw holes line up perfectly and everything. I've got one on my Jazz just now, and it cost me all of a fiver.[/quote]

I didn't know that site, so thanks for the link.

I'm looking for an MIA replacement though not MIM.

This is the one I'm planning to try out: [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/product/Jazz_Bass_US_Standard_-_Brown_Tortoiseshell_JBAS-305"]WD Music MIA Standard Jazz Pickguard Brown Tort[/url]

It's the only one I've seen that doesn't seem to have a problem. I guess I'll find out.

EDIT: I ordered it.

[quote name='Kirky' post='314506' date='Oct 25 2008, 02:07 PM']However I strongly disagree with Yanto's statement that reading musing deprives you of the chance to be creative.[/quote]

+1. I can't see that there is any relationship between how creative one is and whether one can read notation. You might as well say that someone who can read words would be restricted when attempting orally to tell a story of their own composition. It just doesn't follow.

Besides which, IMHO, creativity is much overrated anyway. YMMV.

Apparently, there is often confusion amongst players (but not physicists) between tension and compliance:

[url="http://liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm"]Human Perception of String Tension and Compliance in Stringed Musical Instruments[/url]

There was a long discussion about this at one of the old Dudepits - IIRC, the question was never resolved.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='314230' date='Oct 24 2008, 11:07 PM']It is a MIM but I have SD Quarter Pounders I guess that could be why, as I say I think it's something you should make sure of a lot of people forget about the pick up slot and concentrate on the screw holes.[/quote]

I think I'm just going to have to order what looks like the one most likely to fit and then see if it does.

Price drop!

And another bump - come on guys.

[quote name='johnnylager' post='312808' date='Oct 23 2008, 10:36 AM']I'll be the pissed bloke in a Hansen Brothers t-shirt down the front during Saxon, crying to & singing all the old classics, ignoring anything after 1986 and alternately shouting 'Where's Dobby?' and 'Bass solo' repeatedly 'till it all comes on top. See you there

EDIT: Fat, pissed bloke. [/quote]

Haven't decided what I'm wearing yet.

Given the people I'm going with, if the last time is anything to go by, I'll be the one stood in a small crowd at the bar even when the bands are on - except when we are outside smoking.

[quote name='johnnylager' post='312093' date='Oct 22 2008, 02:01 PM']2. Motorhead / Saxon / Danko Jones, Thurs 6th Nov, Brighton[/quote]


I'll be there.

and ... bump

Bumpo

PMs replied to and SOLD pending the usual.

Replied.

Boss OC-2 Octaver £30 posted.

The predecessor of the the OC-3, preferred by many. One octave and two octaves down. You can mix the levels of the original signal and the octaves. Good but worn condition with original box and no instructions.

Still available.

And replied.

Skoda Roomster:

Full PA with monitors, bass rig, two basses, and all associated bits and pieces, one passenger, and I can still see out of the rear window.

Did I mention the rear seats are fully removable. Family car by day, gigging van by night.

Check it out.

EDIT: And I forgot to mention the lights.