Rich

I've got more basses than I need but less than I want Gig-wise it usually comes down to an 'eeny meeny miney' between the same two -- my custom Shuker and my Sire V7 fiver. There are certain pubs that the Shuker will never see however.

13. I can live with that.

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1452161869' post='2947054'] I'm told the neck will take a fair bit longer than the body has, once the graphite rods are in he'll be glueing the fingerboard to the neck and all that [s]jazz[/s] [b]precision[/b]... [/quote]Fixed.

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1451938369' post='2944852'] Just so you know, I'm already in a band and we're almost fully booked up every Friday and Saturday from March onwards. is that OK with you? [/quote] [quote] I only know 4 of those 6 songs. I don't think I'll have enough time to learn the other two. [/quote] [quote] Will I need a drum kit? I don't actually own one, you see. I only have two drumsticks. Is that OK? [/quote]

I must be really lucky -- all the drummers I've ever been in bands with have been 'that'. All smashing guys, all really easy/satisfying to play with.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1451509732' post='2941172'] Did anyone complain that you were too loud? [/quote] I remember when my blues rock trio played at a social club many many moons ago. We lowered the average age of the room by about 40 years when we walked in. We were setting up, neither the guitarist nor i played a note but the drummer sat down behind his kit and hit his snare ONCE... and a voice from out in the hall said "ooh, it's a bit loud"

The Overwater Tanglewoods (or Overwood Tanglewaters?) seem to go for incredibly reasonable 2ndhand prices.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1450380144' post='2932286'] 12 year olds on YouTube insulting you - remember that. [/quote] ?

Because of what I heard this man doing.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1450305511' post='2931619'] I mentioned that i would like to see Mark... break out from his usual music. [/quote] Which he did of course, on his solo album 'One Man'. Anything more different from the standard L42 you could not possibly imagine, and from what I remember the fanbois hated it for its complete lack of wockity-wockity bass pyrotechnics. I loved it -- I very rarely listen to L42 these days, but I frequently listen to that album.

Horrid scoopy tone = knob. Refusal to compromise for the sake of overall band sound = complete knob. "Too cool for earplugs" = [u][b]idiot[/b][/u] (and complete total and utter knob). What do your bandmates think? Does it get on their nerves too, or is it just you? If it's just you, do they know that it's pissing you off?

Another alternative -- take songs from an entirely different genre and make punk/indie/alt versions of them. Yootoob is full of great examples of genre mashings, they can work brilliantly well and are a load of fun. It's a good way of getting punter-pleasing songs that everyone knows into your set whilst still fitting in with the rest of your stuff.

The headstock alone is an art deco masterpiece. Sorry for hijacking the thread, but god i love these things

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1450128735' post='2929937'] No, I'm convinced the JP haters are confusing "don't like" with "don't understand" [/quote] I think if if you put your mind to it and tried really [i]really[/i] hard, you could probably be a little bit more patronising.

Aye. If D'Angelicos weren't so expensive, I'd buy one just to hang on the wall as a piece of art. My guitarist bestie has one, it's stunning in every way.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1450120519' post='2929826'] Anyway I have checked the dates of birth and death and it's possible that McCartney is a reincarnation of Blanton. [/quote] If you play Let It Be backwards, you can clearly hear Macca saying "I am Jimmy Blanton, and I'm all that. Stop the aimless noodling and bring me my f***ing headband".

Most of my favourite guitar sounds come from humbuckers. But then I like jazz and fusion, so I'm probably a hopeless case For me, guitars don't get much better sounding (or looking) than something like this:

I did just post another comment, but have deleted it -- the reason being that IMO this thread is going round in pointless circles. Very, very boring.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1449977774' post='2928538'] You might want to consider selling your gear. [/quote] Will you please give it up with the "if you don't like Jaco you should give up" stuff? It's demeaning and more than a little insulting. Added to which we've heard it (more than) once and it's getting tedious. Yes I'm tetchy this morning.

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1449917914' post='2927912'] That would be a fair point, but a statement like 'Jaco sounds like someone noodling in a guitar shop' is nothing to do with taste. There is a difference between 'i don't like the way it sounds', and 'it's just a load of random notes that my aunt could come up with'. [/quote] Refer to the OP: [quote] to me it was just disjointed... It sounded like I'd just walked into any guitar shop in the world... Aimless noodling... [/quote] The operative words are "to me". It's an OPINION, as in "I don't like the way it sounds", not a statement of fact like "Jaco sounds like...". You're having a pop at the OP on the basis of your misinterpretation of what he actually said.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1449785759' post='2926929'] I don't know where I rate as a player. I have nights when I'm "on fire" and think I should be on tour with a big international headliner. And I have nights where I feel I haven't progressed any further beyond my abilities as a teen rocker and should give it up. [/quote] Anyone who says they've never had nights like those is a bloody liar ps. *Rainey

I never liked Nirvana. Is there an instrument I should give up, and if so which one?

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1449700103' post='2926190'] Mexican Fenders - I`ve had a few [/quote] But then again, too few to mention.

A lot of people like Mark King**. There is no doubting that he has been tremendously influential over the years and a hell of a lot of people picked up the bass in the first place because of him. Myself included, to a fairly large degree. There are also an awful lot of people who don't like Mark King, and some of them express this opinion in very forthright terms. It's not 'proper' bass, sounds like a canteen of cutlery being thrown down a metal staircase, that sort of thing. I can't say I've ever seen a King fan telling people to give up playing bass or call people 'ignorant', for simply [i]not liking the sound[/i] of it. They take it on the chin because they accept that at the end of the day it is all [i]opinion[/i] and not worth getting all indignant about. Someone doesn't like the same music/player as you. Big deal. If we all liked the same stuff, it would be a tremendously dull world. Some people love Jaco's playing, some people find it fairly unbearable, some people are somewhere in the middle. Accept it and move on. ** [size=3]please note: I am not in any way seeking to compare MK and JP as players. Just thought I'd better clear that up straightaway.[/size]

You can listen to something *once* and know whether you like it or not. You don't have to know the first damn thing about it to know whether it appeals to your ears or not. Read the OP again -- all he did was to say that he'd heard something and didn't like it. He said "to me, it sounded like..."; he didn't try to present his opinion as fact or anything.