Mr Cougar

Thanks to you both, appreciate the advice.

Hey Guys, a mate of mine's partner has asked him for a Ukulele for Chrimbo, budget c.£60. Do you chaps have any recommendations for a beginners instrument that might help a big cat out? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I bought my Eden 210 from Tremblap a while back and he's a lovely guy, lets you play his delicious custom bass and also has an excellent line in patter. Make sure you ring him to find out where his house is though!

I have Dave Hall's VT2 Dual Bass (mine is the rackmount, but he does a pedal too) and it's the balls. Not very technical description I appreciate, but I think 'the balls' should convey my feelings about it.

Having been a member of this since the begining and before that Bassworld and that weird limbo thing we had for a while inbetween I'd say that the forum is better than ever. On one of the other forums I use where I am a mod we get commission from Amazon for any books bought through a link on the site which generates enough cash. I'd be loath to see this site turn too commercial or into a pay site with premium content as it has always been a collection of friendly enthusiasts (with some w***ers) discussing stuff, buying, trading,selling, GASing and generally being sad obsessives. Which I love.

You know what gets on my tits about Spectors (well the Euro LX ones) on the natural finish headstocks the serial is just printed on with really crappy ink, you can't even tell the second letter is supposed to be a B on mine and I've seen it on loads of others too.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='306893' date='Oct 15 2008, 10:10 AM']I'm just too busy trying not to f*** up to even listen to the tone.[/quote] Ahh, BigBeefChief san if you are concentlating at all you have a'ready failed

I'll just add, I once spent a day some time ago having my 2 Musicmans set up by Jim in Ripon and he is just the nicest most enthusiastic guy you could ever meet, his prices are reasonable. I discussed via email some rather heavy modding I was for a time considering doing on a Warwick and Jim was very enthusiastic and patient with my totally n00b questions. Just to weigh in on woods, to say on one hand its a question of physics and then on the other to dismiss the effects of woods and other elements of construction is totally bogus. I'd say (putting an arbitrary figure on it) that 90% of the sound of the bass is the leccy alone, the remaining 10% is a complex tonal picture made up by the woods and construction technciques. The point here is that most of the guys on here have played so many basses, are so obsesive about elements of their sound that no one elese would notice, that it sounds like a world of difference to have a maple vs a rosewood, or a wenge piece in the body or some-such. I've played two musicman basses identecal except for the necks (maple vs rosewood) and one would either have to be deaf or dogmatically stupid to try to argue there wasn't the most subtle difference in sound. This [i]is[/i] physics, diferent materials produce different characteristics.

Alright guys; this big cat is getting hitched on Easter Sunday next year and I need to find a decent Irish band in Lancashire (I'm getting married near Wigan) can anyone recommend anyone good. I've been online and some of the bands I've heard are absolute pap, bad timing, can't sing etc. Our lass thinks this doesn't matter; I wholeheartedly disagree. Someone on here must know someone, I want upbeat, not a duo, prefereably guitar, bass, fiddle, whistle etc, energetic, need to play for about 1 -1.5 hours and get the crowd going. Ta

Crikey if you (or anyone else for that matter of fact) ever decided to get rid of that Cutlass 1 I'd crawl over broken glass to get it! I missed out on getting one a few years ago (actually it might have been another one you sold at the Bass centre if memory serves??? I'm getting old) decided to get my Gibson instead and I've always regretted not snaffling both!

Well I was sort of kidding

I would so have this if I lived anywhere near London. [url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/31/29230731.html"]Gumtree Stingray Monster[/url] I could do with a bass with more pickups than is useful.