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  1. Rich
    2016 is just taking the piss now. 😡 F**k this f**king sh*t year. Relentless attrition from one f***ing end to the other. Sorry about the swearing. I'm upset and angry because bits of my youth keep dying.
  2. Rich
    [quote name='Tweedledum' timestamp='1482397680' post='3200133'] [/quote] Löewenherz. Where 'taste' and 'restraint' have no meaning.
  3. Rich
    Yup, I'm having a NKD. Going to dabble with some keyboard stuff for the first time since 1987, courtesy of the Novation K-Station currently winging its way to me.
  4. Rich
    Can't help feeling that print media is doomed.
  5. Rich
    [sup]oh god it's only half an hour down the road from me[/sup] I do not need another bass, not even a Shuker I do not need another bass, not even a Shuker I do not need another bass, not even a Shuker I do not need another [sub]bass, not even a [/sub]Shuker I [sub]do not [/sub]need another [sub]bass, not even a [/sub]Shuker I need another Shuker D'oh!
  6. Rich
    That is all kinds of fabulous. The chrome pups are perfect. Easily the best looking Thunderbird I've ever seen.
  7. Rich
    The preamps in the Sire V7/M7 basses have a passive tone control. Much like the Sadowsky, it works in both active and passive modes.
  8. Rich
    I'm considering a Novation K-Station (because I've found a cheap one). All I've got to go on at the moment are the various online reviews and a few youtube clips that seem to suggest there are some nice farty analogue bass sounds to be had from it. Anyone have opinions on it?
  9. Rich
    Oh good, some relentless negativity. Things were getting far too cheerful round here.
  10. Rich
    Having missed every single LBGS so far, I was promising myself that I'd go this year.... ...and as it turns out, it's going to be about a week after my scheduled carpal tunnel surgery. Great. Fingers crossed for 2018, then.
  11. Rich
    Neil Sedaka wrote the lyrics to "Oh! Carol" about Carole King, who he went out with at school (her real name is Carol Klein). (Carole King released a responding single "Oh! Neil", using the same tune but with a tongue-in-cheek lyric written by her then husband Gerry Goffin.)
  12. Rich
    [quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1481898014' post='3196107'] My old band Violent Intent - straight outta Sidcup - had a song called Violent Intent. [/quote] My old band Closer Apart -- Wokingham's finest, circa 1987 -- and our sig tune 'Closer Apart'.
  13. Rich
    The best fretless playing I have ever heard was Alain Caron, in Mike Stern's quartet. His F-Bass tone was gorgeous, his pocket playing flawless, but best of all was his soloing... one of them was so damned melodic, the tune actually got stuck in my head and I found myself whistling it next day. Playing a machine-gun flurry of notes and calling it a solo is all very well, but it takes a [i]real[/i] musician to make it tuneful, and he did it in spades.
  14. Rich
    Definitely time to move on. Politely decline the artist's offer of doing 'other things' and wish them luck with the new bassist/arranger/producer... I assume the new guy is doing all three jobs, like you were?
  15. Rich
    Gentle reminder to all: [b]OFFERS OF TRADES SHOULD BE MADE VIA [u]PM ONLY[/u][/b]. Not on the sale thread. Ta. [quote name='Fabrocker' timestamp='1468519960' post='3091547'] [b]Gibson Thunderbird USA 1998 [/b] [s][b]859 GBP[/b][/s][b], 829 incl. shipping and case for Thunderbird[/b] [u][i]Interested in trades for a Status basses. [/i][/u] [u][i](can add cash)[/i][/u] Poland/Poznan [b]Gibson Thunderbird USA 1998 [/b] Some cracks on lacquer, some dings. Normal stuff. Everything works. Everything original. Very low action. Its a beauty! incl. case for Thunderbird [/quote]
  16. Rich
    [quote name='BaconCheese' timestamp='1478977298' post='3173125'] These are amazing- and not just for the price. These are great instruments, period. [/quote] This. GLWTS!
  17. Rich
    [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1481447596' post='3192280'] If stuff like this bothers you, don't buy sight unseen... [/quote] This.
  18. Rich
    Pics would be good. The original link doesn't appear to work.
  19. Rich
    This is the best passive 5 string I've ever played -- OldGit's gorgeous Shuker P.
  20. Rich
    In terms of sheer quality and sonic gorgeousness, [url="http://www.shukerguitars.co.uk/j36.jpg"]my Shuker custom 5[/url]. In terms of bang-per-buck, Sire V7 Marcus Miller.
  21. Rich
    I've always been partial to 12/8. It's a bouncy happy signature. ☺
  22. Rich
    Please don't do that skank. If you took a gentleman's walk into the woods with your Webley, I don't [i]*snif* [/i]think I could carry on... [i]*sob* [/i]
  23. Rich
    I have three that see regular use:[list=1] [*]the built-in one on my Pod XT Live; [*]my trusty old Korg DT-7; [*]a cheapo clip-on that does ok with all strings apart from low B. [/list] The Korg is the only one I use for anything delicate such as setting intonation.
  24. Rich
    Definitely go along.
  25. Rich
    My mate had a silverface Fender Twin and used it in exactly the way mentioned by Mm20 above -- standalone for lovely crystal clean tones, or with a TS9 for those dirty moments. It was the perfect rig, apart from the fact that the Twin weighed as much as a truck and only had one poxy handle.
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