smashie

I'd love to, but the wife would kill me if I bought a 66 P

Thanks Dave, they arrived this morning, excellent service despite my best efforts to cack up the order!

Biggest mistake I ever made was selling my 50w fender bassman and trace elliot rigs after the band imploding. Now I'm looking at spending a lot of money to replace them. I said I wasn't going to gig again and a few years down the line the new band is almost ready to go.

going to watch it now [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xln7l/Legends_Thin_Lizzy_Bad_Reputation/"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xl...Bad_Reputation/[/url]

[url="http://strings.co.uk/"]Strings of Hitchin[/url] Good people there, Keith runs the shop and is top bloke.

It's a Korean Samick made in 1989, exactly the same as mine. Out of all the basses I've had over the years this is the only one I've kept.

[quote name='Faithless' post='1108488' date='Jan 30 2011, 07:09 PM']I don't really like low B string' sound in 'upper register' - notes are too boomy/mushy, and that's something to do with strings gauge I think.[/quote] Yeah I noticed that today, no idea what the strings were, round wound (normally use flat or ground wounds). I thought it was me, probably was to be fair

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to go with B-E-A-D-G as playing through some of the stuff on a borrowed 5 string jazz it seems to fit. M:)

Hi, I've been thinking about a 5 string for a while now, pretty sure it's going to be a Precision American standard. But what I'm struggling with is tuning, B-E-A-D-G or E-A-D-G-C with a hipshot for drop D? I know this is subjective but I was curious as to what you lot do? Cheers, M

The bass was by Andy Pyle, for a session fee. I don't know what he was using then, but he pretty much sticks to '66ish P's now. Next time I see him I'll ask.

He is/was on my subscription list. This is the video that I first saw [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiakironfist#p/u/129/uR05FbkHAg0"]http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiakironfist...129/uR05FbkHAg0[/url] RIP

I've had quite a basses over the years, but the only one I kept is my '89 Samick P. granted I had the neck reduced to a J size. I never thought of getting rid of it because it was cheap, but after all this time it's one of the best playing and sounding basses I've owned. TBH it's probably a plywood monster, but damn it sounds good

Hi, I just asked Mrs Smashie and the writing is not Chinese it's Korean, however the Mrs is Chinese and can't read Korean. Cheers, Mark