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It's about a mile from my house Hopefully see you there Jay!

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='445911' date='Mar 26 2009, 12:47 PM']I've heard this this happened to Van Morrison.[/quote] Surely not. Happy smiling Van, the jolly man with a kind word & compliment for everyone? *cough*

Paint the outside of the lead vocalist's mic bulb with that anti-nailbiting stuff. Take all of the innards out of the guitarist's amp head, and fill it with angry wasps instead. [size=1]Actually, that last one may be a bit extreme. Or not, depending on your guitarist.[/size]

Lots of knobs and sliders don't necessarily make a good amp. The G-B doesn't need the bells and whistles.

Superglue is great. It does reduce the feel a bit, but it will certainly help. I have about 5 or 6 tubes of the stuff on the go at the moment Surgical spirit does harden skin -- they use it in hospitals to combat bedsores -- but only a} if rubbed on the skin with cotton wool or the like, and b} over a long period of time. It isn't a quick fix. Having said all that -- if you're using flats and you're still blistering, you really do need to think about lightening your touch.

In my 2p-worth, labels are only really [i]essential[/i] if you're particularly concerned about a} resale value (an expensive custom will be easier to sell if it's a Wal or Alembic than if it's an ACG or Shuker) or b} snob value. Obviously there's always brand loyalty (e.g. "I love Rickies and would never play anything else"), but that's more a case of the label being preferable rather than an absolute must-have. That's what I reckon anyway.

[quote name='OldGit' post='443293' date='Mar 23 2009, 11:52 PM']Actually a metronomic drummer, click track or drum box would be horrible... No feel ..[/quote] A bit like Mike Portnoy, in fact

I sold a cab to Joe many moons ago. Definitely one of the good guys. Also, he's a dab hand with the ol' sound engineering and has done the biz brilliantly for my band a couple of times, including performing the semi-miraculous feat of getting us a really good sound at the Fleece the FOH there normally sounds like a bag of nails.

What polepieces?

I've got arthritis in the top joint of my fretting pinky, so I can't use it. My right hand pinky is starting to go too. I live in fear of the rest of my fingers developing it too.

Delano pickup + either East Retro or ACG guts.

Did the review bass(es) happen?

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='441955' date='Mar 22 2009, 07:42 PM']The amps get stuck on a sturdy shelf unit: [/quote] I should bloody well hope it IS sturdy too, with that Strategy sat on the top...

Has he changed the price or summat? Cos now it's a 99p start and I can't see anything wrong with it.

My favourite J colours are CAR/pearly white, but not sure how well that would go with a maple neck.

Oh pants. Of course the Factor is American. My mistake. Still a classic though.

[u]Tune Bass Maniac[/u] The bass that launched a thousand imitators. One of the first, if not [i]the[/i] first, of the lightweight 80s superJap basses. [u]Kubicki Factor[/u] Like it or loathe it, it's a radical design that works brilliantly. Sounds fabulous too. Look, no coffee table.

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Yup, I have 40TWs in my Shuker 5-string. My favourite setting at the moment is with the bridge pup on full and the neck pup 'tapped'. Lovely tight sound. The only thing I don't like about them is that there is a very noticeable difference in output between the single and double coil settings.

[quote name='lee4' post='440617' date='Mar 20 2009, 08:28 PM']Er,Status Groove(my precious). [b]A classic?[/b][/quote] Only if the OP likes it.

Not a chance.

Well, like I said before, define "cool". If you can demonstrate who the Official 'Cool People' really are, as recognised by absolutely [i]everyone[/i], then maybe I'll have to reconsider. Actually, I've just thought of another more accurate title for this thread of yours. It should be 'All The Stuff I Like Is Great, And The Stuff You Like Is Crap, And That's A Fact'. [quote name='WalMan' post='439553' date='Mar 19 2009, 06:39 PM']Blimey! If you were buying from an advert not a shop that might have been mine, in which case it would have been the silver burst one above. It was quite hard work as an 8 string. Not one to be used for a whole set!![/quote] Nope. It was back in the late 80s, sitting in the window of Amen Corner Music near Bracknell. Sort of a baccy sunburst. It looked like a real beast, but the first thing that attracted me was how similar the body shape was to my Wal! I ummed and ahhed and then walked away. Idiot!

Years ago I nearly bought a Shergold 8-string for £150... been kicking myself ever since for not grabbing it. [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='438263' date='Mar 18 2009, 01:57 PM']Are you serious? Anyway, nothing with a figured top is going in this list. This is for [i]cool[/i] basses.[/quote] Sorry, I must have missed the bit where you were made the ultimate arbiter of taste & coolness So I guess this means that the accurate title of this thread is "Not-American Classics (But Only If [b]I[/b] Like Them)"