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Just watched the Blu ray... Amazing. They're having so much fun, and young Bonham is a star. Yep, the bass is a bit lost - all subby lows and roundwound zing with no mids. The fretless P fares a bit better. He plays it like a demon though.

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1353654118' post='1876956'] I'm currently learning Alannah Myles - Black Velvet.... And am grateful I have a 5 string The original starts on a D# so on a 4 string the recommendation is to drop tune ALL strings by a semitone!!!!! On my 5 string.... Not an issue It's a curious song...... As about 70% of it it banging out loud root notes.... The other 30% is challenging little flurries, lots of 8th notes.... We are trying it in next weeks band practice, so I have the weekend to either nail the hard bits or dumb it down!! [/quote] ...originally played on a synth bass. Truth is, if you play it at the octave on a 4-string, no-one but anoraks will notice....

If you delete an app, it goes from the iPad but you still 'own' it, so you can download it again any time you please.

Due to receiving an offer faaaar too good to refuse, I've just learned: Barry White - I Love You Just The Way You Are (Good fun.) Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red (Hateful. Like musical vomit.)

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1353574068' post='1876107'] Ped, on the 'forums' home page it used to indicate the date/time of the last post against each forum. Now it just indicates the number of topics and replies. The last post date was useful as a quick way of scanning which forums had been updated since you last looked. Any chance of resurrecting this? Or maybe I'm the only person who found it useful, in which case please ignore! [/quote] The 'View new content' button is the way... hit that, and you're presented with all the new posts on a shiny plate. :-)

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1353573231' post='1876101'] it does, but a lot of it was 'bull': 'wish I had the money'... 'if I hadn't just just bought a Porche I'd 've had this' etc etc [/quote] And now there's... Gumtree in a BC frock. That said, I appreciate the reasons.

Ah - OK. Cheers, Ped. It does feel like the social element has been removed from the classified side of things, which is a shame. I'm sure I'll get used to it... eventually.

Sorry if I missed this already, but the classified ads don't seem to be listed in 'view new content' for the forum. Is this likely to change, or is that how it is? Ta!

Mobile site back up, too. Yay! Cheers, all.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1353102236' post='1871761'] That's v nice but I don't like black basses. There's a dilemma with vintage basses for me - I can see the point of the first production Stingray (another current thread) being this expensive as it's really a museum piece and v interesting (to me at least) with a famous ex owner - but this is a pretty anonymous Fender Jazz that hasn't been played much - OK 45 + years old but is it REALLY worth that much? If a colour came up that I really like I might be more tempted. [/quote] Maybe not worth that much, but it's worth a lot. It doesn't need a famous ex-owner to be worth a few quid. Such is Fender.

From the photos? You can't. It doesn't look wrong, though. Buyer beware, and all that.

...and while I'm on the subject of the band speaking frankly, if any of you haven't read 'Chapter & Verse', you should. It's great.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1353076896' post='1871361'] I would be in agreement were it not for the frankly hideous Battle of Epping Forest. Such a shame, as the rest of the album is as close to perfection as anything, and the rest of the tracks are probably Genesis' finest. [/quote] If you haven't seen them, watch the interviews they did for the 5.1 remixes. They're all on YouTube. They band talk very frankly about a lot of things (particularly Tony), including regret at making Epping Forest so busy. The band (bar Hackett's) hatred of After the Ordeal will make you wince. Poor Steve.

Pointless fact - my copy of Seconds Out on CD (many years old) had a typo in the lyrics: 'The lava's the lover who licks your boobs away.'

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1353054577' post='1870918'] Wembley was 1987 Although during the 1986 leg of the tour in the USA, the ITC medley was Cage/Quiet Earth/Apocalypse in 9/8, which was pretty cool. [/quote] I'm glad we didn't get that in the UK, 'cos that means they would have had to drop the marvellous R'n'B medley encore to make room. Can you imagine?

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1352971277' post='1869855'] I'm using Chrome for Basschat but it doesn't work with Facebook or a whole load of other sites [/quote] ....?

I've just listened to Supper's Ready in DTS 5.1. REALLY FLIPPING LOUD. It was awesome. I just had to share. Thanks for your time.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1352977982' post='1869979'] Is the Reggie classed as a Custom Shop? I thought it was an 'Artist' series but wasn't sure if it carried the CS logo as well? [/quote] The RH 5-string is CS.

'Burst, tort & rosewood P with blocks, thick-baseplate bridge, graphite rods and a TV logo. Lightly relic'd.

[quote name='eude' timestamp='1352816011' post='1867744'] I quite often plug my Mac into the aux and use headphones to practice and as far as my ears can tell the quality is pretty darned good! Eude [/quote] Yip - it's fine. It makes for a great PA for playing an iPod through at garden parties, too...

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1352733447' post='1866677'] OK - I've just re-tried both of my power leads, ensuring that they were well-and-truly pushed home into the power socket. Same result for both - crackle, volume coming and going, then silence. I've just emailed Thomann. Thing is, I'm now wondering whether I want another one, or something else. Steve [/quote] Oh, man - how frustrating. Ibanez missed a trick with these. If they'd sorted the QC out, they could have had a legendary bit of kit in their catalogue. When you get a good'un, they're THAT good.

Oh, FFS - what a nightmare. This might sound partronising, but bear with me. Does the mains lead sit tightly in the socket? I mean solid-as-a-rock? No wobble at all? If not, shove it in really hard (baby!) until it locks. They're a Really snug fit.

Bloody love 'em... best strings ever! I'm stockpiling. ha ha. To recap... they feel like the 760FLs - maybe [i]slightly[/i] more substantial, but no more tense - but they definitely have more going on in the mids. No zing - just clarity. They're just lovely to play. Very responsive, and they growl lovely when you want 'em to... Fretted: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGQ8Ci1XZI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGQ8Ci1XZI[/url] Fretless: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvc1vcFGGY0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvc1vcFGGY0[/url]

Sustain...

Cheers, all. Unfortunately the gig sold out in about an hour. I probably won't get any comps :-(