Rich

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1455643187' post='2981049'] What's going on at 16th - 20th frets? [/quote] Scallops. The red painted areas have been carved out.

He was a bloke in Jimmy Tarbuck's class at school.

Must admit it's a name I've only come across a couple of times in the dim distant past. Never actually seen one in the flesh/wood/whatever, but from what I've seen via google they look good.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455593065' post='2980530'] At this point in time I guess I don't care who gets it or doesn't get it. [/quote] 11 back-to-back comments in the space of 45 minutes and calling another member's post "rubbish" would tend to suggest otherwise. This subject, or specifically this particular argument has been done to death and I'm sure I speak for others when I say that I'm sick of the sight of it. The topic is "how the Beatles grip Liverpool" and this particular argument is waaaay OT. Back on track please, or I will lock the thread.

Surely the whole point in getting people talking about you is to pique their curiosity, not to make them all think you're a monumental helmet-flake.

[quote name='Yogi Berra'] It's like déjà vu all over again. [/quote]

[quote name='vbance' timestamp='1452252982' post='2948036'] [url="https://flic.kr/p/CUtwab"][/url] [/quote] What's that? I presume a bitsa, so what's the spec? Looks superb.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1455464684' post='2979299'] I'm just curious as to why people start threads like these then ignore everything said in it. [/quote] Must admit the same thought had occurred to me too

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1455448391' post='2979108'] I concur! [/quote] Me too. I recall reading an interview with Eddie Jackson once where he said a key part of his recorded sound was a thing he called The Trunk -- basically a flightcase containing a mic and a 12" speaker that was cranked to the very edge of destruction and the sound mixed in alongside the clean tone.

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1455266776' post='2977553'] Somebody who loads[b] £5000 [/b]of equipment into the back of a [b]£500[/b] car to travel [b]50 miles [/b]to be grudgingly paid [b]£5[/b] by a landlord who reckons you should have done it for "exposure" and seems to think he's running Carnegie Hall rather than the Dog & Duck [/quote] Fixed again.

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1454328269' post='2968557'] Harp? That's what all the whingy emo-rockers call anything with more than 6 (sometimes 4)strings posted on a facebook Bass page. Anyone who's seen it will know what I mean. [/quote] Those feckers wind me right up. "It's a harp", "just get a piano", "Jaco only needed four", etc etc etc ad feckin nauseum. And they always seem to think they're the first person ever to say it, ooh look at clever old me with my original cutting edge humour. Luddite twerps. The sort of people who wish bass R&D had stopped dead in 1954. Yes I know everyone's entitled to an opinion. Well this is mine. Sorry. [/rant]

[quote name='Chownybass' timestamp='1455197883' post='2976933'] That's what I've been told. Personally I like to think they sound like "Chowny Basses". They definitely have a distinctive tone. [/quote] It's the variety of tones available that gets me. There's even a video of a guy slapping it on the website, and it sounds great. It's not just a one-trick woofy Hofneralike, faaar from it, although it'll do that if it's what you're after. Sorry if I'm coming across like an advert here but I really like these instruments. Especially the blue

If you take out the existing preamp, you're left with what is effectively a knobless passive Jazz bass that happens to have a battery box already fitted. In theory, it will take any preamp that will fit in a standard Jazz cavity.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1455222214' post='2977270'] Awlrite Rich, you were first, don't be an archhole about it [/quote] Oh fudge off you wander 😄

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/278383-bad-jokes/page__view__findpost__p__2976220

The only famous bassists I've met are Herbie Flowers, Stu Hamm and Mo Foster. All three are lovely guys more than happy to chat. Mo in particular is an absolute gent. Mr Flowers was even kind enough to roll us a 'jazz Woodbine'. Mind you, that was many many years ago.

I reckon 'Rushbo' would have looked cool in the Fender script. Rushbo Prescription Bass. Make it so!

6/10. RAWWWK! ish.

Pretty much my only issue with the Miller preamp is the ridiculous amount of boost/cut available. One barely has to touch the bass control and it's instant rumble. For me, it's unusable past about 1/2 way -- if it's +/-15dB then I'd have been happy with +/-7. It'd be more musical & usable. Obviously YMMV.

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1455018187' post='2975002'] On the matter of Whirlwind cables - I have two Whirlwinds that I bought around 1990 which I'm still gigging with over a quarter of a century later, so I'm pretty happy with them. [/quote] I see your 1990 and raise you my two main cables are a pair of Klotzes (sp??) that I bought in 1986 after everything except my Wal was stolen. Used for almost every gig ever since. Having said that, I've just ordered my first obbm cable (for the wireless). So that lot should do me till I croak

It's not a Squier neck.

Oh lordy, an April '65 Jazz... not just a YOB bass, but a MOB bass. *whimper* [Img]http://www.cotswoldbassguitars.co.uk/images/190/FenderL65%20001.jpg" class="ipsImage" />

Holst's Planets Suite? It is a thematic concept, after all.

The 'Bangs & Crashes' album of 12"/remixes has a couple of live tracks on it, both with Graham Edwards on bass. The album is worth having just for 'Ball Of Confusion'.

[i]Scenes From A Memory[/i] and [i]The Astonishing[/i] by Dream Theater (especially the former) Jeff Wayne's [i]War Of The Worlds[/i]