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Did you watch to the end?

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' timestamp='1394753998' post='2394986'] I have just remembered why I stopped coming to this site! [/quote]

In the words of George Takei: [i]oh my![/i] [i]That[/i] is the colour, people

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1392234071' post='2366339'] I've played one of his old BC Rich Eagle basses when it was for sale in a shop , and it was awful, with a neck like a tree trunk. [/quote] They've got a Precision-a-like neck. Shame, brilliant basses - but horses for courses. One man's gravy is another man's jus, ad nauseum.

ATK, for me.

[quote name='lee4' timestamp='1391202250' post='2354639'] So,what price range should I put it in? [/quote] Worth looking at Ebay and seeing what others have gone, and also running a search of the Marketplace here.

One of those on the bass playing "bucket list" for me - I will try one, one day Where did you go to try all these?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1389610279' post='2335990'] Networking is king. [/quote] Agreed, and the same in most employment. I started with my current employer via them getting in touch on LinkedIn; and I got my last job over a cup of coffee. It does pay to keep the connections up.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1389063185' post='2329546'] I think it's the fact he doesn't use them now... [/quote] I'd assume this, too - doesn't he play Bongos, now?

I never even considered a career in music. I've playing since I was a teenager, but it just never entered my mind. Does show how subjective it all is - we will have people wondering why we all turned our backs on our dreams and went off to be wage slaves. Takes all sorts, and BC is richer for it

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1389462537' post='2334436'] Thoroughly nice chap and built like an outhouse. [/quote] Aw, you say the nicest things!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1389251147' post='2331821'] Yeah he's got a '74 (IIRC) Jazz, looks all original to me, he still plays it. [/quote] I forget you're a Yorkie, too! It's got some dents it. Big gouge out of the fretboard which was taped up when I last saw it.

I know Stu, lovely bloke. Had a couple of gigs with his new lot, We Could Be Astronauts. Cat can play! If it's the same as his current, it'll be a mid-70s jazz. With some stickers his nipper has added

I assume it was your Orange combo thread? If so, all done The guys have all been quite correct. Once sold, threads are locked

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1389005502' post='2328568'] On the bass these days I play 5-string so if I need a low D it's on the 3rd fret of the B-string. However a lot of the time I find it more effective to use the D in the same octave as the guitar as it generally sounds better on the bass and tend to tighten up the overall sound of the note in the mix. [/quote] From experience, this!

[quote name='crazybassplayer1988' timestamp='1389005173' post='2328564'] Been playing bass for a year and have played in simple e a d g. I'm about to join a band which the guitarist plays in drop d. How do you tune a bass to correspond to the drop d guitarist? [/quote] DADG, I would assume - you're just dropping the E to a D, no?

From what I've seen, it looks like it's the younger ones in crisis. We've played a couple of gigs this last year, with some really young bands, who were very concerned that this was their last chance to "make it" - if they got older, or didn't look right, they wouldn't have a hope.

Haha, it's perfectly fine to like Rickenbackers - lots of people on here love them; we just caught hell from John Hall about whether any sales were related to Rickenfakers, and if we thought we were too pretty for prison Looks like a smashing rig and welcome in

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1388793625' post='2326282'] I'm sure the irony is not only lost on me that most of the negative contributors to this thread would rather carp about other Bassists and musicians who were out playing on NYE (OK, it was recorded earlier) whilst they are sat at home not playing....could be why Swifty can afford a £14k Bass perhaps? [/quote] Maybe. I think a few of us need to chin up - it was NYE, a bit of tv and some light entertainment. Nothing to take to heart

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1388751980' post='2325543'] It was a real Burgundy Ric. But with an EB pickup in the neck position and a jazz pickup in the bridge position [/quote] Ah, there you go - I've learnt something new, thanks