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I love country... Just not the shiny new Nashville big-hat tat. IMO it's awful.

[quote name='largo' post='1208425' date='Apr 22 2011, 04:06 PM']Now I'm curious, but wonder if it's the Fender Precision "boys" who prefer the sound of these amps? [/quote] It's sounds lovely with my Jazz....

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1207943' date='Apr 22 2011, 09:24 AM'] This was the nicest P/J bass I've ever played - Status Graphite Vintage PJ4. I traded it as part of a deal to get my 1966 Precision, along with three other basses. This is the only one of the four that I miss, and I'd probably try to buy it back if I knew who has it now. [/quote] I always liked the look of these too - a 'burst would be lovely.

[url="http://www.fender.com/products/americandeluxe/models.php?prodNo=019407"]Quite fancy one of these myself....[/url]

I liked Vintage Trouble... A proper band! Fleet Foxes.. Never, ever got 'em. IMO they're the whitest band on the planet. KD was funny. That Plan B wannabe with the stupid voice was just irritating. Great rhythm section, tho. Hugh Laurie.. I like the guy, and he's got great taste in music. That's all I'll say.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1206928' date='Apr 21 2011, 11:44 AM']I put my PC through it (at work) yesterday using the headphone out from the PC and just used a lead that has a stereo mini jack at each end, with the amp end having a mini to 1/4" headphone adaptor on it. It worked well although as we know the left and right were summed to mono. I think all that Genz stuff is a bit long winded.[/quote] This is what I do - it works a treat.

Pretty much all of my bands are varying ratios of originals : covers You can just adapt to the situation. If it' a listening, musical crowd, more originals. If it's a dancing pub crowd, more covers. If it's a combination of the above, and your original songs a re good, stick 'em in but don't make a fuss about it.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1206097' date='Apr 20 2011, 04:58 PM']There must be something out there. The Aggies are calling me again![/quote] Personally, I'd be tempted to avoid a cab with inherent booty.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1206095' date='Apr 20 2011, 04:56 PM']When?[/quote] In threads like this, usually.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1206083' date='Apr 20 2011, 04:51 PM']That post was not designed to contribute constructively to the debate but to attack the credentials of those with whom you disagree.[/quote] To be fair Bilbo, you're pretty adept at that yourself.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1205842' date='Apr 20 2011, 02:01 PM']Because you get to the good bits quicker. I have rehearsed 32 tunes in one evening using charts. If I had to 'learn' them by rote, I would have probably managed a maximum of 4 that I would probably forget by the time I did a gig.[/quote] That's not my idea of enjoyment. Each to their own, though!

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1205833' date='Apr 20 2011, 01:54 PM']In fact, I think there was an element of 'hey, you could enjoy it even more'.[/quote] How's that?

[quote name='kerley' post='1205746' date='Apr 20 2011, 12:53 PM']If you are interested in bass/music why wouldn't you do it?[/quote] Personally, I just don't have the appetite for it.

[quote name='largo' post='1205721' date='Apr 20 2011, 12:38 PM']As a gigging musician that likes to flightcase his amp, does the SL come with a rackmount kit? Nice looking amp but I'm not going to fling a gig bag in the back of the trailer, it'll last 5 minutes ![/quote] Short answer... no. I'm going to put mine in a Peli-type case for trips away.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1205684' date='Apr 20 2011, 12:11 PM']Just out of interest(and going from the Roy Vogt quite earlier),I'm guessing that some of the non readers have probably bought some method books or whatever. If so,how do you play the material in them?[/quote] I never have. Most useless post ever, I know.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1205609' date='Apr 20 2011, 10:50 AM']Up yours, sunshine! [/quote] Charming - you're supposed to offer me a Werther's Original.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1205595' date='Apr 20 2011, 10:38 AM']Sounds a bit like music lessons in school TBH where they teach you to play recorder just so you can play some French song about Jack in front of the whole school.[/quote] Innit? I'm constantly astonished at the pomposity of a lot of what is being said here - I'm trying my best to ignore it and concentrate on the nuts'n'bolts of the debate. TBH, it's canny funny. It's like trying to humour conversation with a stuffy, opinionated old uncle...

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1205589' date='Apr 20 2011, 10:31 AM']Although my cab is quite coloured im hoping this amp will add a bit more depth to it[/quote] You could say that...

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1205583' date='Apr 20 2011, 10:16 AM']The material I use is irrelevant to the argument. It is the potential to access sophisticated music immediately and to spend time playing that music instead of just knobbing about with scales and riffs and stuff. 'Standing In The Shadows of Motown' would be just as good, a book of trombone solos, any transcribed lines or any conventional method book. It all opens up. When I hear people pick up their saxophones, guitars and basses, in my experiences, they generally all play the same few licks they always play. Written material is often great for pushing you into new territory which is where the learning is.[/quote] Fairy nuff. I rarely sit down and work stuff out for the sake of it... but my ears are always open to what I'm listening to, and I get new ideas from that. I'll remember it, and work it out from my head whenever I'm having a plunk.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1205501' date='Apr 20 2011, 08:49 AM']ff. When I got my double bass last year, I was playing Bach Cello Suites and Paul Chambers transcriptions immediately[/quote] ...but you want to play that kind of stuff. Dare I say most people don't...?

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1205403' date='Apr 20 2011, 12:11 AM']Hmm, we shall see. TC rates their watts much more conservatively cf to say Genz, so the Shuttle 9.0 is probably not that much more powerful than the RH450...I've heard tests on talkbass about this. I don't need the wattage but what the heck, TC make fantastic high end gear [/quote] I can't say I have run either my RH450 or SL900 anywhere close to max (who would?), but I can categorically state that, in my experience, the SL900 'sounds' far more powerful - as in effortless and more dynamic - than the TC. The SL900 has PHAT and 3DPM going on - I don't know whether that's anything to do with it. Wondering how loud either the SL900 or RH750 will go is fruitless, IMO. They're loud. If you run out of steam, you need to buy a PA.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1184756' date='Apr 1 2011, 02:18 PM']Closest I've heard a standard BG come to a DB sound was Howard the Bass Doc, soloing a bridge Jazz pickup, tone rolled off, flatwounds, plucked over the fretboard... around the 12th fret, I think. Close-ish... but no real cigar, obviously.[/quote] ^^^ this wot him sed hear

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1205188' date='Apr 19 2011, 08:49 PM']In truth, I don't give a rat's what approach other have to their playing.[/quote] You should put this philisophy into practice. If you'll excuse the pun.

[quote name='Wil' post='1204909' date='Apr 19 2011, 04:28 PM']Quite. And why should you have to justify choosing to develop your theory knowledge or not anyway? It's down to the individual and whatever they choose to do with their own time is fine.[/quote] It seems to me that some people are struggling to accept that, away from their own little world, there a thriving scene that functions quite happily without getting knee-deep in theory. It might not function in a way that they approve, but function it does.