Rich

Opinions are like arseholes, in that everybody's got one. When you think yours is the only valid opinion, you start [i]being[/i] an arsehole. I've always liked 'Lady Madonna' myself.

[quote name='discreet' post='902336' date='Jul 22 2010, 08:45 PM']McCartney was the best drummer.[/quote] He certainly wasn't the worst

So these three are all the same thing? Wow, I'm really confused now.

OK. What's this?

[quote name='MIJ-VI' post='901856' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:28 PM']This is an electric bass guitar.......................................................[/quote] But the tuning is exactly the same as a P bass, albeit with two extra top strings. So what makes this a 'guitar', and a Precision not? [quote]and this is an electric bass:[/quote] But so is this: Are you saying there are more similarities between this and a P bass, than between the P bass and the Bass VI?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='901671' date='Jul 22 2010, 09:54 AM']The electric bass was designed by Leo Fender and introduced in 1951 as the first Precision bass. Leo designed it to be a more portable alternative to the double bass with accurate intonation from the fretted neck. It was loosely based on the Telecaster guitar design. Interestingly, if you look at all of the 50's literature and advertising, there's no mention of the word "guitar" at all. So therefore, the electric bass is descended from the double bass. It just happens to be shaped like an elongated guitar for convenience.[/quote] It's guitar shaped, and basically a member of the guitar family, and is therefore a bass guitar. 'Bass' refers to its sonic range, like 'baritone' or 'tenor' or whatever. If an orchestral player asked what you played and you replied "bass", his logical answer would be "Bass what? Clarinet? Sax?". [quote]Perhaps we should all call our instruments, "Fender Basses" like Leo did? [/quote] Or "GUITAR", like Leo did?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='899797' date='Jul 20 2010, 10:47 AM']As for the RSI thing, I think some people are more prone to that than others but I don't feel like I use a lot of pressure to stop notes (practically nothing compared to double bass), and in 20 years I've never had a problem with my wrists.[/quote] Yeah, I think you're right. Both my wrists have given me problems and I've had surgery on one, but I have a gtrist mate who has been playing longer than me and using computers at work longer than me too, and has never had a single twinge from either hand. Lucky git.

I like a nice low action, not so low that everything chokes off but low enough that it reacts to my light touch. I have ramps on both my main basses and I find this helps me to maintain said lightness and get a good even response. Since my carpal thing, I'm very wary about wrist and/or finger pain. High action, nein danke.

+1 for the series/parallel switching. Also, how about a Villex passive tone thingy?

I reckon a Jazz would be fine with BEAD tuning. After all, Anthony Jackson has had his tuned C-F-Bb-Eb for years.

OK, if we're talking real magic lamp fantasy stuff... I'd like a 5 string fretted bass that could be made fretless at the flick of a switch, with Delanos and an East eq [i]plus[/i] the innards from a Line6 Variax bass.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='895756' date='Jul 15 2010, 04:28 PM']If it's from Dolphin it may be a bit fishy.......[/quote][quote name='jezzaboy' post='895846' date='Jul 15 2010, 06:19 PM']I think that your swiming against the tide there.[/quote] No. Please, [i]please[/i] stop there, I beg of you For the sake of us all, everywhere, I mean, think of the children...

Louis Jordan, 'Jump Jive'. Now [i]that[/i]'s what I call dance music.

The black Aerodynalike is very nice. Me likey. Not too sure about the Rickenrays though.

errrm... yuck

[quote name='Commando Jack' post='894591' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:20 PM']when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea[/quote] WAHEY! ROCK'n'ROLL!! [size=1]Actually yeah, I know exactly what you mean [/size]

Unfortunately, I was pulled at a gig once. It was the ex Mrs.Rich. [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='891174' date='Jul 10 2010, 11:06 AM']Oh there was a girl who my singer tried to hook me up with. Her name was Angela, she was all blonde hair and red lips and tits, and as dopey as you can imagine. This was in the USA, and she first asked me what I was doing over there (having just seen my band perform!). I told her I was working at McGuire air force base as a stunt pilot. "Oh really? Wow!" she cooed. I went on to tell her that I was an English Language graduate and to combine my two loves I became a specialist in skywriting, and that my post at McGuire was in order to teach the American pilots to punctuate correctly. Because cursive is fairly straightforward once you've got the hang of flying the plane, but semicolons are hard to write and often pilots who can write one don't know where it's appropriate to use it. Etc. She stood up to about half an hour of this before making her excuses and backing away.[/quote] Brilliant. Many years ago, a mate and I managed to succeessfully get the same sod-off-and-leave-us-alone result by telling two annoying women that we were plumbers working on nuclear submarines, and proceeding to explain to them in great detail how toilets work underwater.

I've seen Kingston fretless 5s going for ludicrously cheap 2ndhand prices. I mean, we're talking Squier Jazz money.

Calm down calm down, jeez it was only a joke. Numb nuts indeed.

You're in Reading, he's in Paris... somehow, I don't reckon he'll be taking you up on the offer of a demo

No matter how good the player and how fabulous his kit is, when it comes to a live gig the bass sound FOH is only as good as the PA system and the engineer behind the desk. If Chris W's bass really is lacking in oomph, then all I can say is it's the first un-oomphy Status I've heard. Mine is oomphier than an oomph-monster swimming in a lake of oomph. [size=1]Do I win a prize for Most Gratuitous Over-Use Of The Word 'Oomph'..?[/size]

This is a bit more like it. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-VM-Jazz-Bass-Body-Complete-/190413455204?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c5586bf64"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-VM-Jazz-Bass-...=item2c5586bf64[/url]

I love Purple Rain, it screams "80s" but that's not a problem for me. I love the guitar sounds, especially on the title track and Let's Go Crazy -- right on the very edge of uncontrollable feedback. Dirty Mind is a belting album too.

[quote name='Doddy' post='891309' date='Jul 10 2010, 02:43 PM']There was a reference to all these guys making the same kind of music over and over again. Maybe that is kind of true to a point,but then again that's the same with any genre. The Blues has stayed mostly the same for ever. Hip Hop has a large number of artists that sound exactly the same,as does pop. There are a million bands that sound like Oasis or Arctic Monkeys or whoever. The modern Jazz scene is no different.[/quote] Hear hear. Music doesn't have to be groundbreaking, leftfield, avantgarde, in order to be enjoyable.

Trouble is, the same thing happens every time... whenever anyone tries to start a sensible discussion about this type of music, it always [i]always[/i] turns into a "it's rubbish / no it's not / yes it is / etc" playground thing. The same stuff getting posted over and over again. Some people love it, some don't. OK, we get it. Can't we just talk about it without having to constantly attack or defend it?