Rich

Yep, that.

Question Time in Basildon? Oh god, the mind boggles

The awful bass towards the end of KC & The Sunshine Band's 'Please Don't Go'. As if the song wasn't toe-curling enough, the bassist's timing evaporates completely at one point and he appears to compensate by plucking really hard, with nasty distorted results. And thus, a grim song becomes grimmer.

Whenever I see this pic of this extraordinary bass, I start wondering if perhaps I should have gone for a gloss finish on my Shuke rather than the satin one. That top is beautiful. [quote name='MacDaddy' post='728711' date='Jan 29 2010, 01:56 PM']if it's black, and it's a board, who am I offending by calling it a blackboard? Especially as if it's white and it's a board I'm allowed to call it a whiteboard.[/quote] Errm, you're not offending anybody... that's actually what I was getting at when i said that the basic concept of PC is a good one [i]unless it is taken to extremes[/i] (e.g. your blackboard example, which as far as I am aware is very much the exception rather than the norm -- it certainly never happened at [i]my[/i] school in the 80s).

Very often Stewart Lee is a prize twat, and I'd rather eat my own liver than watch his TV show, but christ he was bang on the money with that quote. Yes, PC does go mad sometimes, but only at its extremes. The likes of the Daily Mail would have you believe that [i]everything[/i] about PC is wrong and evil and designed to turn the so-called white middle classes into oppressed minorities. Utter bollocks. At heart, it is a good thing... it's just that some people don't know when to stop. I'm old enough to remember when the Race Relations Act was first discussed and then introduced in the mid 70s. Incredibly, it was coloquially referred to at the time as the 'N*ggers W*gs and C**ns act' -- such were national attitudes then, even within certain sections of the media. Imagine if absolutely no forms of PC existed, no anti-prejudice legislation or race relations legislation, nothing. Imagine that? the BNP can.

A chiselling of luthiers.

[url="http://www.soul-destroyers.co.uk/index.htm"]http://www.soul-destroyers.co.uk/index.htm[/url] Cool venue, daft band. No-one gets out without dancing. £8, tix available from various places. Venue website is [url="http://www.theglobecardiff.com/"]here[/url].

[quote name='readonly' post='727351' date='Jan 28 2010, 10:34 AM']I would rather look at a girls m*nge than a bass. Sorry.[/quote] Good for you. There are hundreds of sites that will help you out with that. This isn't one of them. Sorry.

Ask yourselves a simple question... how far would any of this sh*t have got on Talkbass.com? You think it's overly-PC here, that people jump at nothing and have no, ahem, 'sense of humour' here? Try a MILF thread over there and see what happens.

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='725517' date='Jan 26 2010, 06:00 PM']I think if someone would genuinely choose bass over their wife, then they need to be seriously looking at their relationship![/quote] I think if someone is given an unreasonable ultimatum, then they need to be seriously looking at their relationship too.

[quote name='redzombie' post='725717' date='Jan 26 2010, 08:48 PM']If Kurt were still around, I wonder if he'd have turned into such a hypocritical tosser too.[/quote] Probably. In a world where Iggy sells insurance and Johnny Rotten flogs butter, anything is possible.

***********... (that's me being utterly speechless with horror) [quote name='Spoombung' post='724826' date='Jan 26 2010, 08:33 AM'][size=6]Blasphemy[/size] [/quote]

[quote name='jonthebass' post='712610' date='Jan 14 2010, 02:40 PM']If it were me I'd go for 2 x 2x10 cabs for the same reasons WoT pointed out,[/quote] +1

I have Nemesis cabs, & I used to use the 2x10 + 1x15 configuration. Then on a whim, I swapped the 2x10 for another 1x15. It sounds [i]loads[/i] better. Obviously 2 x 1x15 might not work for everybody, but personally I've never looked back. Just my 2p.

You want tacky pics of scantily clad women? Go buy Loaded.

The Sei Flamboyant I used to own had a piezo bridge -- with all the treble rolled off the Barts, it did a perfect impression of an Ovation acoustic. It was a great sound. I'm seriously considering fitting a piezo bridge to a future project. [quote name='lemmywinks' post='725008' date='Jan 26 2010, 12:12 PM']I'm no expert and would appreciate verification, but i thought the buffer preamp would come before the volume/blend pot, so the impedance matches the mag pickups before it goes to the output jack?[/quote] That would be my understanding, yes.

Cool just wanted to make sure you ended up with the right article..!

Presumably you mean Bass Guitar Magazine, not Bass Player..?

It's the £100 'venue expenses' that would have annoyed me. If the sustenance wasn't gratis, they should have bloody said so beforehand so you'd have the option of taking it or not. If you're a five-piece band, that'd be [i]*counts on fingers, makes 3 attempts*[/i] £20 each. What a rip.

I have a work-in-progress SX J bass in a sort of primrosey yellow. You never know, one of these days I might even finish it..! [attachment=41013:SX_girl.JPG]

And he's put a two space gap between AND and IT. I would never even consider buying anything at all from anyone who didn't know how to use a space bar properly. Disgraceful.