The Funk

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='213610' date='Jun 6 2008, 02:11 AM']When I got home at the end of the gig I pulled 13 tiny pieces of steel winding out of my pinky with a pair of tweezers.[/quote] Ouch! I do have a very small bloodstain on my main bass. I like it. The weirdest thing I had happen to one of my fingers was that I developed a blood blister on a 3-hour gig on a Friday night and then, after the same gig on the following night, I noticed a large callous had formed OVER the unburst blood blister. I couldn't even get at it with a pin. I had a blood-red fingertip for a week.

[quote name='Doc B' post='213499' date='Jun 5 2008, 09:53 PM']I'll be really interested when they do them with in natural a maple board.[/quote] Or in natural with a rosewood board (and tort plate). They do look cool. Well done for realising this is what people want, Fender.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='213606' date='Jun 6 2008, 01:01 AM']Try playing with your thumb over the bridge pickup with your bass too quiet to really hear properly - you'll have blisters in half an hour. [/quote] The first 10 years of my bass-playing life!

[quote name='Wooks' post='213259' date='Jun 5 2008, 03:05 PM']Can't wait for that, any chance you might be able to do a recording of how she sounds too??[/quote] Yeah, I could record some noodling for you so you can hear how it sounds.

Thanks for the comments, guys. I'm only going on the year the seller has given. If it's an '86, I'll be even happier! It should arrive next week. I'll give you guys a proper review when it gets here.

[quote name='Jobiebass' post='213187' date='Jun 5 2008, 01:20 PM']Electro? as in Electro Music in doncaster??? If thats the case, yeah I buy a lot from there. Really sound guys and always help you out!!! But, sadly Id say your best bet is online retailers for price, they dont have many overheads compaired to actual shops like electro.[/quote] Ask Electro to match the price though. They might be able to do it.

I bought something from them a while ago. Actually, I was a repeat customer. No problems at all.

Ooh yeah, baby! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=190225084278"]Click[/url] The best bass I've ever played in my life was exactly the same as this: a 1989 Warwick Thumb 6 with Barts. I can't wait until it arrives!

Let me know next time you're planning on being in London and you could come over to try them out. The other person I know has a pair of Acme cabs is BigJohn. I'm not sure if he's closer to Anglesey than I am.

I don't think I could go over around the £1500 mark unless I was actually earning some real money from this music lark.

[quote name='redstriper' post='212721' date='Jun 4 2008, 08:02 PM']Don't suppose you want to sell one of your cabs?[/quote]

My Warwick Infinity SN5 cost me £1400 which I thought was a huge amount to spend on a bass.

I got them direct from the USA on Alex's recommendation. He was completely right. Shipping wasn't too bad. I'm not sure what shipping on a single 2x10 would be. The easiest way to find out is to email Andy at Acme and ask him to find out for you. You normally pay 22.5% on top of the price (excluding shipping) in customs and duty. It still works out not that badly.

Very interesting post.

I have 3 Warwicks. I'm going to get a 4th. I love them. Some people don't like the necks. I've never heard anyone complain about the sound.

If you want deep bass, the only place to go is [url="http://www.acmebass.com/"]ACME[/url]. I have two of their 2x10s and one of their 1x10s. The 1x10 is very small and light and goes very deep. The only trouble is it's probably not loud enough on its own to do large gigs with. The 2x10 is still pretty light but should handle most gigs well. Roll off the high and mid attenuators on the back as required and you'll have a very, very deep and bassy sound. You could pair it with a secondhand Ampeg SVP-Pro preamp (there's one for sale at the moment in the For Sale section). Then stick it all through a secondhand QSC power amp of some kind. It probably wouldn't come in at under £800 but possibly around the £1000 mark.

[quote name='umph' post='212138' date='Jun 3 2008, 10:09 PM']matamp > orange[/quote] My guitarist has a 120W '70s Matamp head. GT120, I believe. My mum heard it - and she knows nothing about music - but she said that's the best sound she's ever heard any of us make with our guitars. I keep meaning to try it for bass. I reckon it'd sound stupendous. Gypsymoth - I know Stevie Wonder & Wonder Love used to all use Orange amps back in the early 70s. If you watch that footage of him on Musik Laden (or Beat Club as it was known here), Stevie's sending his clavinet, synth and rhodes through an Orange each, both his guitarists have Orange amps and Nathan Watts also goes through an Orange (wearing a matching Orange jumpsuit). I'm sure the old cabs were good - the trouble now is that the new ones sound a bit woolly. I like the look of both the Orangular and Orangtino rigs. I'd love to hear how they sound!

[quote name='jakesbass' post='212250' date='Jun 4 2008, 02:05 AM']Nearly. The natural minor (A minor in the key of C) is the one in "normal" useage[/quote] In what context? In most things funk/rock things I play a Dorian instead of natural minor, ie. major 6th instead of minor 6th. Obviously I can hear when the people playing with me are playing a natural minor - my major 6th clashes horribly with their minor 6th and people give me funny looks.

[quote name='trent900' post='212168' date='Jun 3 2008, 11:02 PM']Harmonic minor is the minor we normally use, so carrying on in the key of C: Harmonic minor: C D Eb F G Ab B C Melodic minor is odd as it depends whether you're going up or coming down: C D Eb F G A B C Bb Ab A G F Eb D C.[/quote] Whoa, whoa, whoa there. Harmonic minor is not the minor we normally use - unless we're in Nirvana. There's a difference between Classical Melodic Minor (which you describe above) and Jazz Melodic Minor (which is the same coming down as it is going up). EDIT: Someone got there before me. The Jazz Melodic Minor and the Harmonic Minor both have their own modes and harmony too. As do the Harmonic Major, Whole Tone and Diminished Scales. But that's basically it. Unless you want to get really far out.

I honestly think the cabs are the weakness. Try an Orange head through some other manufacturers' cabs - something clean, like Epifani cabs.

I think the Orange heads are cool - not so sure about the cabs.

Simple slap song: [i]Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)[/i] - Sly & The Family Stone.

[quote name='E_MaN' post='211513' date='Jun 3 2008, 12:38 AM']yeah like that, is it fingers or double thumbing?[/quote] Double thumbing? Someone needs a history lesson.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='211356' date='Jun 2 2008, 08:45 PM']He did? I thought Stevie wrote the song for Jeff as 'payment' for guesting on one of his albums but was told it was too good a song to give away![/quote] The way Jeff tells it, he and Stevie were jamming when Jeff stumbled across that riff. Then the story goes that Stevie took that riff and wrote the entire song within the space of about 10 minutes. Jeff played on one of the tunes on [i]Talking Book[/i], which Stevie's version of [i]Superstition[/i] was on. Around the same time Jeff was recording his album with Bogert and Appice. Stevie had agreed with Jeff that the BBA version would be the single. When Berry Gordy heard Stevie's version he overruled Stevie and said it was such a good song that it had to be released as a single. As [i]Talking Book[/i] came out in '72 and I think [i]BBA[/i] came out in '73, BBA's single was kind of taken away from them. I know that Stevie played keyboards on the entire BBA album but his parts were deleted. I'm not sure if he played keyboards on it before or after the agreement was broken - or if the deletion happened before or after - and whether to read anything into it anyway. Stevie did then "give" Jeff two songs for [i]Blow By Blow[/i]: [i]'Cause We've Ended As Lovers[/i] and [i]Thelonius[/i]. I've heard from places that he did that to try to make up for it. The trouble is when you read or hear things fifth or sixth hand it's hard to tell what's actually true and what's made up BS. Neither version is a cover though as both were recorded before either was released (I think).

[quote name='alexclaber' post='211130' date='Jun 2 2008, 02:36 PM']Well it was written for Jeff Beck![/quote] ...Who came up with the riff during a jam with Stevie. Stevie actually played keys on the entire BBA album - only for them to have been wiped off.