Rich

Big Jonas fan here. I actually jammed with him for a short while at the Rotosound (I think?) stand at the 1987 British Music Fair. I kept up with him for what felt like a few seconds but he basically ate me for breakfast

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1439682053' post='2845024'] I assume it is because Blue believes that if you don't like the music he likes, you aren't allowed to like any music. Which is a bit of a disappointing attitude. [/quote] [quote name='blue' timestamp='1440199689' post='2849121'] [b]Sort of[/b] [/quote] 'Sort of' what? It's sort of what you believe, or it's sort of a disappointing attitude?

One of my favourite moments in that Enormous Room video is the look on the guy's face in the background at 1m26s... complete "What the fu..?"

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1440177660' post='2848921'] My brain immediately leans towards Lousiana/New Orleans/Cajun references for some reason: Molasses Chicken Grease Gumbo Black & Gold The Crawfish [/quote] This I like. Molasses has been taken alas. Redfish Succotash

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1440097326' post='2848340'] I'm hoping he does some gigs too. [/quote] Yes! And please please PLEASE can some of them be outside London.

Give it a couple of minutes. Someone will be along to tell us how dreadful it all is and that the bass guitar should never be a solo instrument and so on.

No, the bass is long gone. Unfortunately so is the hair.

An old thread, and some even older pics I've dug up! Summer 1995 I think? The band was my old Swindon-based blues rock trio, the bass is a Maison 5-string I bought whilst working in Jakarta (if memory serves, I managed to make the purchase price disappear into my expenses... ).

Don't they know it's the end of the world?

I love the sound of flats on a P (who doesn't?**) and would like to get the same noise from my bitsa P -- the trouble is, I absolutely hate the [i]feel[/i] of flatwound strings. Detest and loathe it. Eucchh. They feel, I dunno, slimy or something, and just make me want to wash my hands. I'm not even mad keen on groundwounds/halfwands/pressurewounds -- I like to feel proper windings under my fingers. So, what I'm getting at is this: other than sticking a set of rounds on and waiting for 20 years, is there any way of getting the strings to [i]sound like[/i] flats without actually [i]being[/i] flats? ** [size=2]intended to be purely rhetorical, I am fully aware that many people don't [/size]

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Indeed. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/267188-original-bands-wanted-to-audition-for-new-tv-series/page__p__2836444#entry2836444"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/267188-original-bands-wanted-to-audition-for-new-tv-series/page__p__2836444#entry2836444[/url]

When, little hen? When, when, when will you lay me an egg for my tea?

Yes, I did. Or more accurately, I sold a Status for cash and bought a Sire with some of it. Do you have a problem with that?

Me too. I paid £330 for mine in '86.

[font="Arial Black"][size="4"]"The knobs are not original" [/size][/font] Worth pointing out, because the rest of it is so obviously mint and untouched.

[quote name='squire5' timestamp='1439803461' post='2845805'] [url="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Factory-war-Rick-5-strings-bass-guitar-Hott-selling-bass-with-9V-active-pickups/32398566143.html"]http://www.aliexpres...2398566143.html[/url] Have a look at this one.They get away with calling it a war-Rick.Blatant. [/quote] Jeez, what a dreadful thing The headstock looks like a kitchen utensil (much the same as a real Warwick, really) and the control knobs appear to have been fired at it from a blunderbuss.

"[i]This is truly the rarest piece of stone roses memorabilia any fan/collector could possibly own...[/i]" I'd have said the original was probably rarer and a whole lot more desirable to any sensible collector [quote name='bigmuff69' timestamp='1439879746' post='2846363'] About £3500 to {sic} expensive[/quote] +1

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1439895301' post='2846504'] There are a lot of reasons people sell their basses, amps, pedals etc here. Being crap is not usually one of them. GAS is a fickle animal [/quote] This. Up until recently I had a Status 5-string. I'd had it for donkey's and it was a great bass, a real looker and sounded superb, I loved it. Guess what? I sold it. Not because it was crap, but because I fancied a change and needed a few bob. So I bought something cheaper that I'd had my eye on (a V7). I wasn't the first to do such a thing with a long-owned and cherished instrument, and I certainly won't be the last. As mac says, GAS is a [i]very[/i] fickle mistress.

Yeah, but if they do Rhythm Stick the keyboard player will play it like Les Dawson (but nobody will bat an eyelid), and the OP will be laughing so hard that he will drop one bum note into his otherwise flawless part and the rest of the band will all turn and glare at him.

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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1439631912' post='2844504'] I think we need 3 lists. . . . Need To Know, Nice To Know and You're Kidding, Right? [/quote]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1439633592' post='2844521'] Now that led to Roger Moore in a Volvo (The Saint), a far more acceptable combination. [/quote] Nonsense. Lord Brett Sinclair in that mustard yellow Aston DBS, now THAT's more like it.