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[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='995046' date='Oct 20 2010, 04:38 PM']If it's what you want...[/quote] try telling that to the Mrs

specced it up on Warmoth Charger Green P-J with Rosewood neck w stainless frets , SeymourDuncan p neck and J bridge, black pearl plate and chrome hardware.........$1016.50 + shipping + duty + VAT + long lead time....... OUCH!!

sorted thank you

I'm looking for a wiring diagram for a passive P special (or P-J)... [url="http://www.fender.com/uk/support/wiring_diagrams_parts_lists.php#basses"]http://www.fender.com/uk/support/wiring_di...ists.php#basses[/url] seems only to cover models currently being offered by Fender..... Is it likely to be the same as a std Jazz? I'm primarily interested in the spec of the pots and capacitors for my custom build.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='994852' date='Oct 20 2010, 02:23 PM']Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa This is Basschat anonymous, where gear junkies come to get their fix and find [u][b]the one[/b][/u] (for that week) Sorry but I did that a few times before I realised that I'll never be satisfied with what I have so just buy and sell stuff when I want a change Warmoth stuff is amazing - I built 2 basses from Warmoth parts, basses that I'd never sell Exactly, they're long gone [/quote] No I know I'll never sell it - I've had my current JV P for 27years - I know how to not sell basses.

Having great fun configuring bodies/necks on the Warmoth website...and changed my mind about the colour.... stack everything in my cart and the end result is shocking $$$$ wise........ I wonder if I could sneak all this through on the company credit card?

[quote name='bob_pickard' post='994493' date='Oct 20 2010, 09:55 AM']secondhand values of custom builds are shocking[/quote] I'll not ever be selling it. It's for playing

As the title says I am considering assembling my own custom bass from parts. I want to use NEW parts. I need a P-Bass body and a J-Bass rose/ebony neck to get what I want. It'll use vintage hardware and be painted Foam green with a tort plate.... Can you recommend the best UK supplier to source a NEW body and neck from? Cheers

EB GroupIII flatwounds 45-100 [url="http://www.ernieball.co.uk/products/productdetail/Flatwound+Bass+Group+III+.045+-+.100/part_number=2806/574.1.4.3.5908.23613.22560.5281.0?pp=8&"]http://www.ernieball.co.uk/products/produc...281.0?pp=8&[/url] They're easy on my fingers and seem to last a long time and keep their twang.

[quote name='Conan' post='974008' date='Oct 1 2010, 02:03 PM']Man! This thread's on FIRE!!![/quote] light the blue touch paper stand back let it burn

large norks tend to go floppy and droop at a younger age than smaller perter firmer breasts.....anything bigger than a handful is likely to get veiny and hang round the waist by the time she hits 30 or drops sprogs....so I tend to avoid 'em.

[quote name='chrisba' post='974138' date='Oct 1 2010, 03:06 PM']Lets celebrate the diversity of this happy crowd rather than trying to criticise or question peoples choices.[/quote] happy? Who is happy? I'm with paul h

Whatever It's Friday I obviously touched a nerve. There must be something in that. LOL

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='974016' date='Oct 1 2010, 02:09 PM']The answer is pretty apparent, even in this thread: Because it pays.[/quote] So who plays bass for the money? I know I don't. I do get paid but that's not my motivation.

[quote name='Conan' post='973963' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:42 PM']the band have been going since 1981 - and you appear to have only joined last year (according to the website).[/quote] I joined in 1984, left in 1990 (the band packed it in in 1991ish), rejoined in 2008 when the band reformed between 1991 and 2008 a handful of gigs were played - between this band and another on the same label there were a pool of musicians from which to pick - I was in the other band from 1989 to 1993 - bizarrely they have reformed without me now in 2010

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='973995' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:56 PM']I think it is much more akin to doing the cooking from this point of view, as in, the context of being a musician/bass player.[/quote] Absolutely Why would anyone want to flip McD burgers when they could be creating unique culinary experiences?

playing covers doesn't make you a lesser bass player at all. you are all probably much better than me I just think covers bands may have their place at weddings or the like but it's not why i started playing bass........I certainly believe that covers bands take work away from originals bands and believe that that is bad for music ergo covers bands are bad for music. I disapprove.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='973922' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:24 PM']Erm, nope.....[/quote] Erm...yep.... Many venues ,say 20 years ago, would happily put on an originals band but these days insist on covers only.....if these covers bands didn't exist and the venue wanted live music they'd still be putting on originals.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='973902' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:14 PM']To be fair, this one is a slightly different angle. it's more like: 'I TRAVEL THE WORLD AND GET LOADS OF MONEY FOR PLAYING ORIGINAL MATERIAL. THE REST OF YOU ARE LOSERS.' [/quote] LOL Oh errr do I come across as that sort of w***er? Oh dear....no my point is.......too many people give up too soon in original bands....I know too that if it stopped tomorrow nothing would make me want to take my bass and play covers in pubs, nothing!.....I just don't get it. But also I think it's much harder for new originals bands now because too many bands play covers and too many venues think they want covers........covers bands are killing music!! Sorry

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='973892' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:09 PM']Christ, not this again. Every week it's "WHY BE IN A COVERS BAND!? WHY BE IN A COVERS BAND!?" Why don't you just f*** off?[/quote] I'm sorry I've never raised the subject before and I don't think I've seen a thread about it before.....

It'll be the intonation on the guitar.....fretboards very rarely are precise enough to maintain spot on tuning at all frets and my guess is his 2nd & 3rd fret are slightly out.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='973860' date='Oct 1 2010, 12:57 PM']Of course it goes without saying that you're in a minority - most orignals bands (or covers bands, even) don't get to experience this. But you know that, don't you.[/quote] Most originals bands give up before they get the opportunity to experience this - I'd agree. .....but what if they hadn't given up?

[quote name='chrisba' post='973851' date='Oct 1 2010, 12:52 PM']I would rather play covers to 200 drunken students than original music to 20 introvert musicians. Loads more fun.[/quote] Not as much fun as playing originals to 1000 diehard fans though, believe me!!

[quote name='Norris' post='973830' date='Oct 1 2010, 12:37 PM']It depends what you're after. If you're serious about having a career in music, you would probably want to go for an originals or a tribute band. If, like me, you work for a living and just play music for fun & beer money, a covers band is a lot easy to get regular *local* work. I don't really want to be travelling all over the country several nights a week. I did a lot more playing in my youth, but it just hurts too much getting up for the day job now-a-days, when you've not got in until 2, 3 or 4 am. There are a lot of very serious and committed bass players on this forum. I'm one of the more casual ones [/quote] We don't play gigs week in week out and we don't play often enough to make a living from it. Generally we do it for fun though - it's hardly a career as such, although to some, given our discography, it may seem like one. Yes, we put the work in early on, gigging to empty halls with disinterested audiences but that's all part of it.... And we have the luxury of most of our gigs being fly aways to the Med for a Fri/Sat show, so we get a weekend away with the lads with someone else footing the bill and come back with more cash than we left with - could you do that with a covers band?

[quote name='mike f' post='970615' date='Sep 28 2010, 01:14 PM']I should imagine that a good few of you film your own band when ever you gig - perhaps more as a record of events than a rockumenatary, if you will.[/quote] We leave the fans to do that and post it on youtube.... quality varies from sh*t mobile phone footage to reasonable HD video camera work....but every gig seems to go up on youtube (we don't play many) and we have no need to film ourselves.