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[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1503321388' post='3357178']The war wasn't about Slavery as such but the right to keep their lives the same, which included keeping slaves. [/quote] Tim, the flag represents the government founded by, amongst others, this guy... "[font=sans-serif][i]Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth[/i]."[/font]

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1503317482' post='3357097'] Can you recommend a book on the subject? [/quote] There's lots of them. Ken Burns' book and multipart documentary is good. The Wikipedia article isn't too bad as a general introduction. First though, read the Wikipedia article on the Cornerstone Speech, the speech given by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stevens in 1861, the birth of the CSA... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech"]https://en.wikipedia...nerstone_Speech[/url]

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1503312959' post='3357042'] I have a fairly healthy grip on the terminally offended and cyber flounce brigade but we are in the entertainment business and we would be absolutely mortified if we actually caused offence with these. The reason we have them is that love it or loath it it's a really cool looking flag and instantly recognisable to most people even though they probably don't even know what exactly it is.[/quote] I'm not offended by it, but I would assume that anyone using it was either racist or ignorant of the history of that flag.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1503314783' post='3357056'] This is an interesting one, as there are all sorts of Confederate flags. For me they represent the Rock n' Roll Rebel type thing and Lynyrd Skynyrd. I'm not to up on the American Civil war, but I bet it's not as clear cut as slavery/white supremacy/North good, South bad type thing. You could either learn your history and use that to justify its use, or just replace it with Old Glory. Still Americana innit? Shame tho, it's such a cool flag and I'm uneasy about destroying elements of history to suit our agenda now. Isn't that what the Nazi's did? [/quote] Let's not beat around the bush... the civil war was about slavery and the confederate flag is the flag of the pro-slavery side. Design-wise, it's cool... but I wouldn't touch it with a barge poll. Not ever.

Awesome, I'm very jealous!

I learnt standard notation through being a woodwind player from an early age. I can pick up sheet music and read it without an instrument and know what it is supposed to sound like. With tab I can have the music and an instrument and have no idea what it's supposed to sound like without a reference recording. I can sight read standard notation, playing it directly from the sheet without having to think about where my fingers are supposed to go... just as I can read sentences without having to think "curly kuh, ah, tuh... cat" It is not possible to sight read tab if you don't first know what it's supposed to sound like.

It's been routed with a butter knife and possibly resprayed? The routing looks almost identical to the mess I made of my first Strat when I put some Seymour Duncan humbuckers in it... the pickup mounting screws were too long for the cavity so I drilled some extra space for them! It's not a Fender body... as far as I'm aware, all Fenders have offset screw holes on the back plate.

It is possible to teach yourself, but you will progress far quicker with a teacher. What sort of music do you listen to? What sort of music do you want to play? Important questions. Youtube is great, but I reckon you do yourself more favours by figuring stuff out directly from the records... start with easy sounding stuff... first tune I taught myself was Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters... learnt the riff, went round to a mate's house and showed him how to play it and we jammed on it for hours. Then got bored and thought, "what if we use [i]different[/i] notes"... voila... our first original composition.

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1502624801' post='3352491'] The weird thing is it has a bridge with mutes like a pre EB Stingray, the tuners look older than the body and neck as well. Bids at £88 well worth looking at if you are local. [/quote] [quote name='Rikki1984' timestamp='1502691073' post='3352819'] Very early Sterlings did have that bridge with the mutes. Potential bargain there for someone. [/quote] [quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1502693456' post='3352828'] Ah, I didn't know that [/quote] The bridge dates it from 1993 to 1996. The bridge looks to be what's known as a Flea Bridge which went from 1992 to 1994, but the first Sterlings were from 1993. Around 1993 some basses started shipping with what is known as the transitional bridge, which is the Flea bridge with the mute assembly removed... and the shorter modern bridge appeared in 1996. Retrofit mute assemblies were available though. Edit: EB took over MM in 1984, so using mutes as an indication of pre-EB is wrong, basically.

So wrong. *writes to Santa*

Mind made up. Lush.

It's a Kahler trem. Not sure if that helps.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1502104761' post='3349296'] Yep.. a blatant rip-off of songs that were blatantly ripped off of songs that were blantantly ripped off... etc. [/quote] Yeah that's one way of looking at it... some of the songs they've been sued for were blues standards and blues, as we all know, is idiomatically derivative... Except that Willie Dixon felt strongly enough that his intellectual property had been stolen to take them to court... and win. Robert Plant has been fairly honest about it... "At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that ... well, you only get caught when you're successful. That's the game." Any way, I'm not sure you could argue along the same lines for Dazed and Confused... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc[/media]

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1502102523' post='3349279'] You could say that about a lot of Zeppelin's back catalogue - the number of copyright claims over the years is quite staggering! [/quote] Hardly surprising though... it's pretty blatant.

I find this subject fascinating. The snobbishness about "cover bands" just didn't exist in the 1960s. The attitude was to form a band and get out there and play. Take a look at the early setlists of some of the British musicians that are typically held as innovators of that period: Jimi Hendrix Experience:[list] [*]Killing Floor - cover [*]Have Mercy - cover [*]Can you see me - original [*]Like a Rolling Stone - cover [*]Rock me Baby - cover [*]Catfish Blues - cover [*]Stone Free - original [*]Hey Joe - cover [*]Wild Thing - cover [/list] Cream[list] [*]Spoonful - cover [*]Crossroads blues - cover [*]I'm So Glad - cover [/list] Led Zeppelin[list] [*]Train Kept A-Rolling - cover [*]I Can't Quit You Baby - cover [*]As Long As I Have You - cover [*]Dazed and Confused - cover* [*]White Summer/Black Mountain Side - cover* [*]How Many More Times - cover* [/list] The Who[list] [*]I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying - cover [*]You Really Got Me - cover [*]Young Man Blues - cover [*]Green Onions - cover [*]Long Tall Shorty - cover [*]Pretty Thing - cover [*]Smokestack Lightning - cover [*]Here 'tis - cover [*]Ooh Poo Pah Doo - cover [/list] *where Led Zeppelin originally claimed they were originals

Also watch this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYuqTsUlyM[/media]

I would think that you would suffer a little in terms of control and dexterity. I'd always encourage people to use a movable anchor using rest strokes. It really has so much in its favour that I wouldn't consider anything else. I had been playing bass about ten years before I switched to this technique... if I'd started with it earlier it would have been a lot easier to learn. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDzRqeS0ruQ[/media]

[quote name='dazza14' timestamp='1501842282' post='3347701'] Had a gig last night at a pub we've played a few times in the past but is now under new management (the gig was booked through the previous landlady but management informed us they would honour the bookings) and when we'd finished our playing I, and our singer, approached the bar staff and asked to see the manageress about being paid and it went downhill from there. We were left standing for about five minutes before I reminded the barman what we were waiting for, he told us to go to the other end of the bar where the manageress was standing, so off we trotted. She asked us "who was it that booked you?" (knowing full well it was the previous landlady) Then "well the booking wasn't made through me... I don't really know much about it..." - more head scratching and delaying. We played along, showed sympathy, but in our minds thinking 'just f***ing pay us'! She then told us our booking wasn't in the diary, as she did this she thumbed through said diary only to land on last nights date and there we were, in black and white, listed as entertainment. So back to the 'I didn't book you' line of denial. I then said that we had been booked last December, had contacted the pub three weeks earlier, had delivered posters, had contacted the pub to discuss fee - I always do this via text or email to have a record for this eventuality - and if she was unsure who had booked us or who was paying for us why had she not asked us when we arrived three hours earlier? At this her partner/boyfriend/husband came up (a big fella standing a good 6ft 5" and probably 19st in weight) and asked her when the lady who booked us was coming in. By this point I was ready to pick up a bar stool and introduce it to the optics and glasses in the bar, and if the police came, so be it. So more head scratching, heavy sighing by our singer, dirty looks between me and the boyfriend, and then suddenly she resolved that she was going to pay the fee. The whole conversation took 30mins from the moment we approached the bar. I've since learnt that last night's manageress (and her co-manageress) left last night, it was their last night before a new landlord takes over today. I wonder if our fee was her intended 'goldne handshake'...? Needless to say we won't be playing there again, unless we get the fee upfront. [/quote] Who are they managing for? If you have documents backing you up, write to the area manager of the company that own the pub.

East German apparently. They apparently made some nice guitars. I'm not sure this is one of those.

The bass V is quirky enough for me to want one for novelty value... but at £102 it's already gone over what I'd pay for an original. But they typically go for £3k or more. This one looks okay-ish as a copy... most originals have block inlays but the few that do have the 12th fret dots much closer together (and symmetrical). If the nut was recut and the stickers cleaned off, it might be nicer.

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1495878494' post='3307224'] Girlfriend in a Coma (Smiths) [/quote] What do you think of this bassline? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKU53CvEu0[/media]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1501662699' post='3346257'] Both the Beatles and The Stones essentially started out as cover bands, I'd be amazed if the Who didnt do some covers in thier early years too but I'm less familiar with their history. [/quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5-syKM910[/media] Two songs... one by Wilson Pickett, one by the Miracles. Cover band? Check.

There's really nothing that looks, feels or plays like them. In terms of the sound, a lot of it is in those neodymium pickups and the 4 band preamp. You could probably get most of the way there by installing a Bongo preamp into an HH bass... Unfortunately, Bongo owners very rarely swap the electronics and it's nigh-on impossible to buy a second hand preamp. EBMM will not sell you one.

It looks like an old style Ibanez SR885

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1500155871' post='3336016'] Because then the owner would get the $20.00 and the employee would get nothing except their $2.00 an hour wage. Blue [/quote] Minimum wage here is $9.70 (£7.50) for those over 25.