Low End Bee

That Nordstrand P pickup made my eyes go all funny.

[quote name='WonderHorse' post='638087' date='Oct 27 2009, 04:09 PM']Never owned a bass solo album. Not interested in them at all. As a bassist obviously I have massive respect for these guys, but I jsut find the sort of stuff they do on bass albums (Jaco especially) boring.[/quote] Me too. I'd rather listen to a song than a technique. I find them unlistenable at best. I hate show off music.

I was a plug and play when we were a 4 piece. Now we're a trio I have gaps to play with. I've added a chorus and an overdrive. Used sparingly they fill it out nicely here and there. Fuzz is next on the list for two songs that will benefit from it. Then I'm calling it a day......Honest

ToP. Much hipper.

Could you get a landlord (who pays you cash in hand out of the till) into trouble if you declare income from him?

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='553540' date='Jul 28 2009, 08:33 AM']I use something which I doubt many others do. You would have to fish around eBay to find one though but I doubt it would cost you much! DOD Ice Box Stereo Chorus (FX64). It was made for guitar but worked a million times better on the bass. Cost me £40 new about 6 years ago. Still works perfect and sounds stunning!!!![/quote] I got one of these on ebay a few weeks ago for £18. It's really very good. Very subtle but useable.

Sly Dunbar Ian Paice Chris Millar

As I've said before. If someone gives me a plectrum with a giant plastic thumb attached I might have a go.

When I was a youngster and the world was all in black and white I bought a homemade 1x18 cab that had been built for use with blues party sound systems. It had a badly panted pop art revolver painted on it on a red, yellow and green background too. Sounded very individual when hooked up to an HH VS100 head with full 'valve sound' engaged. Huge low end. I quite fancy another one to stick under my Trace 1x15 combo.

Why not dress up in the most shocking stage gear you can and give them a monotonous single chord, fuzzed up wall of sound while the singer quotes from Revelations. You might as well have a laugh and go out with a bang.

[attachment=34924:DSC_0063.JPG]In the rehearsal room with the scary looking open chassis aircon. I'm still getting used to the old BV game.

Looks very nice. I'll have a black single pickup one with a mirrored scratcplate for under £600 please. Well when they do one I will.

My 2007 S1 is luvverly. Better than the 1968 C neck I used to own in every way apart from the useless S1 switch (which is going soon). I'm sure the quality varies on the new ones. But I bet the old ones were a lot more variable. I would always 'try before buy' with a large cash outlay. I don't buy this older is better malarkey.

[quote name='ped' post='627417' date='Oct 15 2009, 10:36 PM']Does anyone make a really nice soft suede strap?[/quote] I've got a 30ish year old Rotosound embossed one in dark red that's verging on chamois soft. If you were it too long it rucks up and doesn't spread the weight. Nice at first though.

[quote name='RhysP' post='626012' date='Oct 14 2009, 02:05 PM']Steve Diggle used to play your cousin Gary? What sort of sound did he get out of him? [/quote] "Pack it in Diggle" in E flat mostly.

As used by Steve Diggle before he moved to guitar and my cousin Gary. These are great just like the Shergold Marathons they developed into. I would love one.

I wouldn't advise playing with him anymore. We had a 'leaving' guitarist honour a last gig and it was pretty horrible. I spent the first half hour restraining myself from giving him a good precisioning. I love gigs but I didn't much enjoy that one. Any missed/fluffed note he makes will be like a cat scratching a blackboard to your ears.

I got my 2007 S1 last September for £640 brand new. It's a very nice one. Well once I binned the white scratchplate for a black one The S1 switch is totally useless. It just cuts the volume and takes out all the grunt. It will go in the redundant parts box once I get around to fitting the Wizard thumper I bought ages ago.

I'm really struggling just doing BVs! I've never done 'em before. But since we became a trio very recently I've no real choice. It must be practice at the end of the day. On our older songs that I 've played for a couple of years it's not too bad now. The newer ones, especially where I have to sing and do something fiddly and/or play on the off beat are proving a challenge. The only advice I was given was try and 'find' the first note and practice singing in the car to the stereo. I feel I need a longer journey to work. I've decided to root note it on my sung parts live until I've got it nailed. My excuse is I'm 46 and it's harder to learn new skills....

Red & white stripes with a black scratchplate for home gigs. Black with a gold scratchplate for away gigs.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='613833' date='Oct 1 2009, 02:13 PM']Yes please.[/quote] PM'd

OK we're booked in for 27th November. Probably looking to add another band. I'd rather we did a storming 45 minutes than a double set. Any takers?

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='607788' date='Sep 24 2009, 03:04 PM']Mott's Saturday Gigs.....what a cracking and highly under rated song !![/quote] It is indeed. Mr Hunter is very bitter that it wasn't a hit. Maybe the Croydon reference killed it? Hope they play it at Hammersmith Odeon next Friday.

Scratch my previous one. U2. It wouldn't take long to learn. Loads of cash. I could also take Bono out with a well judged swing of the headstock and pretend it was an accident.