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[quote name='joegarcia' post='770248' date='Mar 10 2010, 12:17 PM']Or, if you use a bass amp as well you can sound like a bass and a guitar [/quote] Good point, just read your posts properly. And I'm all for getting rid of unnecessary egos on stage. If you sound like two instruments all the better then.

Just quickly scanning through this, all I can assume is that as long as you want your bass to sound like a guitar then its fine to use guitar amps.

Good grief, the things you see. My first ever amp was a 15watt Gorilla bass amp. It was alright, I think. From what I can remember my mate's still got it. I may ask to see it for old times sake Sorry not much help, but thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[quote name='Doddy' post='769827' date='Mar 9 2010, 10:08 PM']I think that is Space Bass which was made by Larry Pless. I think Bootsy had it modified at one point to have [b]five pickups[/b].[/quote] The more the merrier I suppose

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='769755' date='Mar 9 2010, 09:21 PM']I actually now only own two basses - the Jazz and the Roscoe. I think it's because I've worked around them so long, I've become de-sensitised. I just don't get sentimental about instruments. But I can appreciate how much players can become attached to their basses.[/quote] A true sign of professionalism that.

If I lived anywhere nearby I'd use them. I have only ever heard good things about The Gallery/ Bass Merchant.

On a serious note. If it's entirely separate from BC, that's a different forum and I think it's a bit of an ask to want the guys who run BC to set up and run another forum. If it's accommodated within BC it runs the risk of changing the character of the place and possibly alienating some members. There's a good vibe on here and I for one wouldn't want to see anything brought in that changed that. If you place an 'Other Instruments' forum on BC that is available to non members to peruse, then you risk the forum attracting people who haven't the passion or dedication, like Ped and the team, to create their own forum for their own particular interest. From a personal point and a selfish one I admit, I only play bass. I don't, can't and have no particular interest at the moment in learning another instrument. If the forum was to be turned into a quasi multi instrumentalist forum I think I might loose interest. Of course some might say that would be a good thing. It may seem OTT but I really enjoy BC and wouldn't want to see something brought in that damages its character or vibe. I am not saying it shouldn't be considered, but that it should be done with all possible outcomes, positive and negative, taken into account.

[quote name='smurfitt' post='769261' date='Mar 9 2010, 02:08 PM']What d'you think?[/quote] Nothing particularly constructive just jealousy.

Never been into these guys, they just don't do it for me. I also find Damon Albarn slightly irritating, like a scarf that makes you itch under your chin. Nothing really bad just irritating.

Welcome and good luck

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='768613' date='Mar 8 2010, 10:28 PM']I like. The blue one I bought recently is one of my main basses now. Well made and cracking tone.[/quote] Not a hint of wooliness or anything sheep related then?

Good welcome to thee sir!

The description underneath isn't really selling it to me though. [quote]"big, wooly tones"[/quote] Looks great I admit, but I'm not sure I want something that sounds like a sheep.

[quote name='Wil' post='767881' date='Mar 8 2010, 01:01 PM']This thread is shaping up to be a fine afternoon's entertainment.[/quote] I couldn't agree more.

[quote name='JMT3781' post='768445' date='Mar 8 2010, 08:19 PM']what do midlanders count as?[/quote] Sort of Midley? Or mild maybe. Not as soft as south, not as hard as north, but mild. Welcome to the forum Bass_Guardian. Good choice of newspaper to read as well. Well done, keep up the good work.

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='768314' date='Mar 8 2010, 06:39 PM']The downside to having an external site for this, is that it will lay itself open to colonisation by Guitarists... and the dreaded spawn thereof that is The Guitard. If a separate non-bass Sub-Forum were nailed inconspicuously somewhere, at least we'd know all the weirdos there were fundamentally sound.[/quote] Perhaps as a sub within Off Topic so not to attract non-members to its existence.

[quote name='charic' post='768278' date='Mar 8 2010, 05:57 PM']No... as bad as it sounds. I actually did just realise its monday [/quote] You're excused then

[quote name='charic' post='768268' date='Mar 8 2010, 05:50 PM']+1 oooo its monday [/quote] Steady, calm down there.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='767023' date='Mar 7 2010, 04:33 PM']Does he? My recollection of him was always with a Gibson, until some point in more recent times when he started playing Warwicks. As an impressionable teenager in the 70s my recollection of bass players was that they always stood out when they weren't playing Fenders - Paul McCartney and Chris Squire (Rickenbacker), Jim Lea (Gibson or John Birch), Overend Watts and Trevor Boulder (Gibson). For instance a perusal of what's available on YouTube of the Sweet shows Steve Priest playing mainly Fenders, but my overwhelming recollection of his bass was (from probably the only time he ever used it) on TotP playing a Rickenbacker. Oh and Andy Fraser is a well-known Gibson player.[/quote] No he [i][b]doesn't[/b][/i] play a Fender does he! Which is what I should have posted and should have read. Sorry. [quote]Jack Bruce and his Gibson would make my head turn for a double check regardless that I already know he [size=4][b]doesn't[/b][/size] play a Fender[/quote]. Andy Fraser doesn't seem to be associated with a particular bass these days. On his website he's nearly always glued to an acoustic six string.

[quote name='Clarky' post='767527' date='Mar 8 2010, 07:35 AM']"We aim to please" [attachment=44379:MarilynMansonPromo.jpg][/quote] Oh go on, lower the tone! I'd run a mile if he was serving

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='767346' date='Mar 7 2010, 09:30 PM']I've decided not to sell the frog[/quote] Shame, I like chocolate frogs. I'd have offered a good price Oh, welcome to basschat btw 'Hi I'm new to this'.

Welcome!

It's an excellent idea. We could even rebrand the site to say [i][b]Basschat.co.uk The home of deep discussion! And for those who play other instruments, who cannot be bothered to set up their own forum.[/b][/i] Ducks and walks.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='766770' date='Mar 7 2010, 11:20 AM']Their anonymous in looks because it seems that everyone's got one so you notice more when a bassist turns up with something isn't either a Fender or one of their clones. And from the evidence on display in the program the default P-Bass sound is an indistinct rumble competing with the guitarist's bottom E string and the Hammond player's left hand part - unless you're Iron Maiden in which case it's an indistinct rumble punctuated by weird metallic clanking sounds![/quote] To an extent yes, I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure I'd use the word anonymous. The Fender is an iconic instrument, whether personally people like it or not. However, I do agree that when a player isn't playing a Fender the eyes widen and ears go back to see what is being played. For example, Jack Bruce and his Gibson would make my head turn for a double check regardless that I already know he does play a Fender usually. But then we are both on a bass forum and we can be quite trainspotterish about these things. Ask my wife whether she has the slightest interest in who's player what and the answer is definitely no. As for tone and mix, I think maybe dave-bass 5 has raised an interesting point about the rigs, and it may be the that most metal bass players felt that was the sound and tone to have, rather than being to do with the innate features of a P-Bass. Personally I've always found someone like Andy Fraser had a more interesting tone. This may sound completely ridiculous but on Songs of Yesterday he almost, to me, sounds like he's playing a trombone. I'll get my coat. I've gone way off thread, do apologise.

[quote name='karlfer' post='766424' date='Mar 6 2010, 08:08 PM']Bring back the 2nd headstock. Please sign my petition.[/quote] Somebody will have to take on the mantel of Bilbo's carrots then.