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That Sotheby's catalogue makes fascinating reading. There were some real bargains had there -- Fender lap steel for 480 quid, Modulus 8-string for a grand, and that JG Wal for only 2k..!

The woods and the finish on the 5 are the best of the three, but the over-fussy bridge looks totally wrong. I generally love überJazzes, but those particular ones really aren't toasting my crumpet to be honest.

Utterly tragic, such an appalling loss. Living a dream & still had his whole life ahead of him. My heartfelt condolences to all who knew or loved him.

I'm very lucky, in that [i]all[/i] the drummers I've played with in the last 15 years or so have been rock solid and metronomic (but not at the expense of feel, thankfully). There have been a couple of ropey ones in my dim distant past though. Springsteen's 'Born To Run' speeds up quite dramatically throughout its length. [quote name='Mykesbass' post='720837' date='Jan 22 2010, 09:30 AM']I saw a drummer working with a device called the Beat Bug - it registered his snare beats and let him know if he was wandering. The guy was scarily accurate. Would strongly reccomend them to anyone who is fanatical about time keeping.[/quote] IIRC, when Phil Gould was with the increasingly sequencer-laden Level 42, he never played to a click track... he didn't need to because his timing is uncannily accurate.

The SMX range get slagged in some quarters, but I had a GP12SMX preamp for quite a while and it was utterly brilliant. It sounded quite neutral, didn't have the Marmite 'Trace sound' that many of the older models had, and with the two preshapes and that superb compressor it was everything you could want in a head. In fact I wish I'd never sold it. Keep yours. 80 quid? What an absurd bargain. Well done

Fantastic rig Joe Can I be your roadie? Not.

Fantastic, & about time. I love SWR gear, the only reason I sold my SM900 was that the weight was just too much. So I'll be very interested to see what these titchy new things are like.

Excellent idea, I've just done it. There is now a Master Index, which will be updated as & when new sessions appear.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71857"]Sessions 1 and 1A - Relative Minor Triads[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71858"]Sessions 2 and 2A - Major Scale Triads 8va[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71859"]Session 3 - Flat 5s in Dominant 7 and Minor 7 Chords[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71862"]Session 4 - An Introduction To Odd-Metre and Multiple Time Signatures[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72046"]Session 5 - The Tritone, the Whole-Tone Scale and the Cycle of Fifths[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72351"]Session 6 - 1st Position sight reading[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72354"]Session 7 - 1st Position sight reading with key changes[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73076"]Session 8 - The Turnaround[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73089"]Session 9 - Syncopation[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73335"]Session 10 - Reading in Cut Common[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73340"]Session 11 - Alternative Fingerings[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73725"]Session 12 - 5 string bass workout[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73787"]Session 13 - 5th Position sight reading[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=74326"]Session 14 - 4th and 5th Position sight reading[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=76694"]Session 15 - 6th Position sight reading[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78653"]Session 16 - Creating a Walking Bass Line[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80447"]Session 17 - Substitutions & Stylistic Variation[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=82083"]Session 18 - The Development of the 12 Bar Blues in the Jazz Genre[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=82731"]Session 19 - 12 Bar Blues - Bass Riffs and Lines[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=84502"]Session 20 - Getting started with Music Reading - in C Major[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=85274"]Session 21 - Getting Started with Music Reading - in F Major[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=86151"]Session 22 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in G Major[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87214"]Session 23 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in Bb Major[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87778"]Session 24 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in D Major[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=89420"]Session 25 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in A Minor[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=90835"]Session 26 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in D Minor / Semiquavers[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=92749"]Session 27 - Getting Started with Sight-Reading - in G Minor / Triplets[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=94908"]Session 28 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - E Minor / Articulations[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=103182"]Session 29 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - B Minor / Dynamics[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=105677"]Session 30 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - A Major and 3/4[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=106459&hl="]Session 31 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in Eb Major[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=126094"]Session 32 - Classic bass part analysis 1[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=130435"]Session 33 - Walking lines on one "Key Centre"[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=130899"]Session 34 - Classic Bass Part Analysis 2 - "Moondance"[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=136187"]Session 35 - "Rhythm Changes"[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=144887"]Session 36 - "Creating solo bass guitar arrangements"[/url]

[quote]My evil twins: WAL MKII 5 fretted & fretless. Nothing like them soundwise. [/quote] For my money, these are two of the most gorgeous instruments ever to have graced this forum.

The bridge is a Wilkinson. As far as I know these were never factory fitted to Fenders, and didn't even exist in the 70s.

[quote name='Phaedrus' post='715216' date='Jan 16 2010, 09:25 PM'][b]I do understand the joy of owning and playing through a 100w valve half-stack, and if I played guitar, I'd probably also aspire to something like that[/b]. For a guitarist who likes that set-up and has used it in every band he's been in, the prospect of arriving to play a gig with a liittle box like a 1x12 combo would probably make him feel less of a man[/quote]Yes, sure, it is lovely to play through something with such power -- [i]but it is complete total and utter overkill for a pub gig[/i]. Add to that a loud drummer, and a 4kw PA simply to try to keep a balance out front, and you've got bleeding ears and no chance of another gig at that pub. If you seriously want to lower on-stage volumes, that guitar amp has got to go and the drummer's got to have a bit of a think too.

Recommend it? God yes, it should be required viewing for all musicians.

I bought one of these late last year, cheap as chips. Unlike chenzo, I was actually after a standard phaser rather than crazy/wierd sounds, and it fits the bill just fine. I think it is probably capable of a certain amount of weird, it certainly seems v.flexible. I haven't used it live yet, or really investigated it too deeply. It works fine for bass, it's not a tone mangler or low-end sucker. More blurb [url="http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/ibanez/tonelok/pm7"]here[/url].

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='711967' date='Jan 13 2010, 09:53 PM'][/quote] That is UTTERLY gorgeous. In the massively unlikely event that I finally dipped my toe into Stingray-infested waters, that would be the one for me. Still not keen on the Bongo, and the least said about the Big Al the better. And I still reckon they are all overpriced.

[quote name='richrips' post='712923' date='Jan 14 2010, 07:27 PM']but then you can't really fake a magnum[/quote] Anything can be faked. Even breasts, apparently. My 2p? run away, very quickly.

The guy leaves me cold, but I hope you all have a good time if you're going. 41 quid for a pair of tickets isn't too bad in the scheme of things, I seem to remember paying far more than 20 for my ticket to Jazz Cafe gigs in the past.

I already have The Bass, so I'd be more likely to spend the dosh on new cabs -- Bergs or the like. And an Audi S4 Avant to carry them around in

You can thank young Mr. tenfloors for that, it was his idea to pin them.

[u]Yes Please[/u] Visually balanced headstocks -- i.e. 2 tuners a side, 3 over 2, etc. Exotic body woods (most of them anyway) Neck edge LEDs Multi-laminate necks Colour-matched headstocks, e.g. lake placid Jazz Hi-spec überJazz type basses Wooden control knobs [u]Not Too Keen[/u] Visually unbalanced headstocks -- i.e. 4 tuners in line, 4 over 1, etc. Neck front LEDs Lakland’s oval bridge plate Plastic control knobs [u]Oh God, Pass The Bucket[/u] Buckeye burl Pointy headstocks sparkly DiPinto and Italia basses Those silly oval Delano pickups Pretty much all Gibson basses (except the old Les Paul Triumph, which for some reason I really like) Steinberger cricket-bats Chicken-head control knobs

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='707206' date='Jan 9 2010, 10:57 PM']Yet another +1. There's loads more variation in 5 string basses than there is in 4 strings. I favor the variety that have the same spacing as a four string (which tend to be more expensive of course). Other players like the 5 strings crammed into the same width as 4 and everything in between. Other than that, I think the place to start is to just play as if it was a 4 string using the B only as thumb rest. Get used to the feel and the extra string being there. Go from there![/quote] IMHO string spacing is the key. My first foray into 5s was with one that had narrower string spacing than a 4, & I found it much harder to swap between it and a 4 than I did a regular spaced 5. YMMV however. Try as many 5s as you can and see what works for you, and have fun finding out!