Rich

[quote name='timhiggins' timestamp='1485654086' post='3225647'] Dont know if this has made it in yet but it gets my vote ...utter sh*te you can take it and ram at right up your jaxy ! {Ricky Martin -- Livin La Vida Loca} [/quote] It's actually a lot of fun to play, if you go heavy on the ska like we do

Primus. I just don't get the fuss. I bought Sailing The Seas Of Cheese to see what the fuss was about... listened to it once with ever increasing incredulity, shook my head in bafflement at its popularity and put it in a drawer. Rediscovered it a couple of years later, thought I'd see if it would do any better this time.... and, no. Les Claypool's voice was still like fingernails down a blackboard and his supposedly brilliant bass playing still just sounded sloppy. Sold it.

Am I right in thinking that the bridge string spacing on the BB5000 is tighter than on the other more recent BB fivers?

I'm sure a decent pharmacist could have given him something to sort out his leaky bum bum. He didn't have to keep going on about it.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1485524714' post='3224628'] Not sure about the demanding bass-lines bit, but Duff McKagan has to be the coolest looking bassist there is. [/quote] Sorry Duff, but Phil Lynott has the Coolest Looking Bassist award in perpetuity.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1485456784' post='3224133'] Nothing at all, isn't that what the music is for though ? [/quote] Surely the music is for listening to, not looking at?

[media]http://youtu.be/D2OlsCu1tfc[/media]

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1485376112' post='3223543'] That is no reason not to visit and post on Basschat. You are a bassist at heart, always will be. [/quote] This. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

Kings X are one of those bands that I've never really got round to checking out properly, although Mr Pinnick's reputation means that I really should. I'm quite tempted to go to the Bierkeller gig to see what I've been missing out on.

I chaperoned my kids to a My Chemical Romance gig many years ago. I stood at the back out of the way but close enough to keep an eye on them. At one point I glanced to my right, and found that I was one of a whole line of chaperone dads standing at the back... The funniest bit was that we were all doing exactly the same thing -- stood with arms folded, glaring at the stage with a facial expression that said, "Go on then, you whippersnappers. The kids reckon you're great, so impress ME. I saw Nirvana, y'know. Give it your best." Having said that, MCR were actually ok. Apart from the gaps between songs, which were unprofessionally long, and the lack of crowd rapport. Predictably though, the kids thought it was the brilliantest thing in the world and sang themselves hoarse, and I was temporarily The Coolest Dad at their school

Saw a pre-Ernie Ball Stingray for sale for £250 many years ago. Went 'hmmm' and walked away from it. Saw a Shergold Marathon 8-string for sale for £195 many years ago. Went 'hmmm' and walked away from it. Yes. I Am An Idiot.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1485286717' post='3222827'] Saw them on their last tour* at the Hammy. They opened with Bullet in the Barrel (a b-side, they were a great b-side band). Also met him at a band convention in Covent Garden in '89.[/quote]I was a huge fan back in the day -- Astoria '88 is still one of my top 3 gigs ever. Sounds like you and I were at the same IBAS convention! I was heartbroken when Frank called it a day; I went to their first post-Frank gig with John Beck on guitar and a chap called Lee Knott on vocals but the spark was gone. I do like what I've heard of the latter day John Mitchell-fronted band though. [quote]*There's only one IB for me - bought The Tall Ships and hated it - IB Light.[/quote]If you still have your copy of Tall Ships and want to offload it, I'll gladly buy it off you.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1485210254' post='3222237'] What's so special about the cheesemakers? [/quote] Well obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

I would be most interested to see how this turns out. Make sure you keep this thread up to date with progress/pics, if you go ahead with it!

Another mahooosive +1 for Jon Shuker here. [quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1484936359' post='3219910'] Turns out there's also an excellent cheesemaker just outside Carlisle. [/quote] Blessed are the cheesemakers

MacArthur Park, any version but especially Richard Harris'. "Someone left a cake out in the rain", for feck's sake. Unbelievably, this bloated nonsense came from Jimmy Webb, writer of the glorious Wichita Lineman and other genuine gems. I suppose everybody has an off-day.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1485079727' post='3220875'] sorry lads, thought people would realise my tongue was in my cheek by that point [/quote] My only excuse is that it was early and I was still BFCC (Before First Cup of Coffee).

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1485043214' post='3220744'] must admit I don't understand this preoccupation with light weight heads, cabs yes, but heads no, I've got a 200 watt TE SMX head that weights 13Kg, easy one hand lift, even my missus can carry it, come on lads man up [/quote] I love macho posturing, it always makes me laugh.

[quote name='Russ' timestamp='1485009328' post='3220365'] Not hugely impressed. I was hoping for something much more substantial. The pedalboard looks good though. [/quote] I'm rather hoping that Trace will incorporate the pedalboard as the preamp for a lightweight amp head. In the absence of a mini-SMX, it could make a good alternative.

I bought my 1980 Pro 2E secondhand in 1986 from Hamer's in Reading for £330.

There's a good impedance thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/135-impedance-etc/page__pid__3069542__st__240#entry3069542"]here[/url].

[quote name='sratas' timestamp='1484305147' post='3214474']it seems that I have been lucky and/or Barefaced cabs are idiot proof[/quote][quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1484307168' post='3214511']They pretty much are, for a given value of idiot! [/quote] There's an old saying: [i]If you make it idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot.[/i]

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1484837086' post='3218938'] Wow - a bunch of musicians slagging off a musical product without having heard it or even seen the full specs, who'd have thought it?![/quote] Personally I'm not slagging off the amp itself -- yes, it may well sound brilliant. It's the [i]concept[/i] I'm so disappointed in. [quote]For all anyone knows, these new offerings could contain everything they wanted from TE or have I missed the comments from the people that have heard them at the show? Though of course, they could just be what they look like.[/quote] Nobody's saying they sound crap. We haven't heard them. But yes it's what it looks like... insofar as one can see from a glance that none of the classic SMX features are there. Preshapes? Graphic? Eq balance? That superb 2 band compressor? FX loops? Nope. Just a 3-band shelve eq and an output jack. Not even so much as a speakon. Obviously it's unlikely theyd be able to fit [i]all[/i] that lot into a 5lb micro, but it doesn't have to be that small. Just look how much Peavey shoehorned into the 1000 watt 9lb MiniMega head. A similar sized SMX would clean up.

Very disappointing. Like a lot of you, what I really want to see is a lightweight small-package SMX with all its classic features. Doesn't have to be ultra teeny tiny, just sub-10lbs and around the 500w mark. A good take on this would see my Shuttle 6.0 up for sale and, I would suggest, could be something of a world-beater. Instead, we get yet another clone fag packet.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1484754509' post='3218131'] A friend of mine recently launched a 'semi-ironic, multi-media, poly-sensual event' where guests were invited to lie down in the road outside a launderette on Neasden High St and drink their own piss while listening to an 8-track tape of The Osmonds' Greatest Hits. Heartbreakingly, only four people turned up to support this fledgling enterprise. [/quote] Well no wonder it failed. The Osmonds? Pfft. [i]Proper[/i] irony needs Slik, Milli Vanilli or the Goombay Dance Band at the very least.