Rich

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='405886' date='Feb 10 2009, 11:37 PM']Maybe there's an after-market Papier-mâché Ampeg-looking thing that the Shuttle could hide within, thus it could end up looking as enormous as it sounds?[/quote] Yup. Here it is. There's a Shuttle hiding inside the head, and the cab is actually a 1x12".

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='406665' date='Feb 11 2009, 05:18 PM']Country music is, on the whole, very fine, IMO. Like the old stuff, like the new stuff, like country-rock, like alt-country. 15 years ago, I'd have killed myself for thinking that; but you grow up, and your tastes get broader rather than narrower. Same as I find something to enjoy in blues, metal, reggae, dance, classical ad inf.[/quote]Ain't that the truth. If I could show my 15 year old self some of the stuff in my current CD collection, I'd die of shock. In 1980 I'd sooner have poked in my eardrums with a soldering iron than listen to Mozart or Motorhead or Miles Davis. [quote]Now, when it comes to hardcore British country music 'buffs', as they like to call themselves, that's a different story. Detest anything after Slim Whitman, build shrines to Boxcar Willie and drive around in rusty old Yank Barges with Confederate flag stickers. Weasel-featured, long greasy hair, tattoos, scars, ratty little moustaches, prosthetic limbs. And you should see their husbands.[/quote] coffee->screen

Not keen on the music, but surely this is the Best Thread Title Ever.

How many different prefixes can be added to '-core' or '-metal'..?

Grown? Nah not me. I'm just too lazy to write "oh for christ's sake change the record". errm sorry, I mean 'wink'.

[quote name='RayFW' post='406508' date='Feb 11 2009, 03:55 PM']Cos then you get your wife, dog and job back.[/quote]Or your girl leaves your best friend for you, and you win lots of money and a car in a well-advised poker game. [quote name='BigBeefChief' post='406594' date='Feb 11 2009, 04:39 PM'][i]<< predictable anti-Jazz irrelevance >>[/i][/quote]

Just like Del Palmer, my first bass was a '64 Hofner Artist II -- I bought mine from my school metalwork teacher for £20. Still got it. It's pretty much unplayable now, but looks as as fck on the wall. Second bass was a Columbus Jazz copy, third bass was my treasured Wal. Started playing because I'd always felt drawn to the bass, ever since I was everso young and at a concert with my folks, and had felt my tummy fluttering because of the low end. I distinctly remember telling my mum that I could [i]feel[/i] what that man with the 'guitar' was playing -- dim memory suggests that it was a sunburst Fender of some sort. Initial influences were Tony Butler of Big Country and Dave Steele of The Beat, until one day I saw Mark King on the telly... [quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='397275' date='Feb 1 2009, 09:23 PM']I got a Kay 'SG'. Thin bodied, sunburst, and probably short scale. £20 new, from Norman Hackett's in Reading (where I believe Bryan Adams also got his first six string). Rode home to Woodley with it on my back, on my Raleigh Runabout moped, which was a bit naughty, as I was 15 and not yet legal on the road.[/quote] Norman Hackett's! On the corner in Caversham, my god that takes me back. I used to live in Shinfield, so the Reading music shops were a regular haunt of mine. I bought my Wal from Hamer's on Oxford Road.

[quote name='dood' post='405999' date='Feb 11 2009, 09:28 AM']new baby Doodle (sorry, 'Sally' I believe, eh Rich lol)[/quote] Ohhh yes you just KNOW that the name has stuck forever, don't you? [quote]Steve, I like your second idea and your logical approach makes sense.[/quote] +1 for the second design. I also v.much like the idea of varying knob size. Stop sniggering at the back there, boy.

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='405738' date='Feb 10 2009, 09:00 PM']Can't do it.In fact i can't even talk or answer a question whilst playing bass.[/quote] Don't feel bad about it. Talking whilst playing is MASSIVELY more difficult than singing and playing. Don't know why this should be the case, but it is. I can sing and play quite well, but talk? Nah.

[quote name='SJA' post='405601' date='Feb 10 2009, 06:33 PM']whatever you think of Sting, the verse of this song is an impressive bit of vocal & bass coordination- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnnUDGLnUzE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnnUDGLnUzE[/url][/quote] Blimey, that is good stuff. I think ol' Gordon gets an unfairly harsh press. In a similar vein... whatever you might think of Mark King, this is a very impressive example of the play/sing thing. Slap-phobics should fastforward to 0:45 or thereabouts [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwrJNhTBNWs"]Level 42 - To Be With You Again live[/url]

Well as you know, I'm a big fan of controls that follow the edge of the body... so how's this? [attachment=20039:kiwi6.jpg] The cyrillic characters are supposed to be switches... they're the closest things I could find in Word...

Covers vs. originals vs. tributes, oh god here we go again. Have I slipped into some sort of Groundhog Day?

I like to think that in my head I am still in my teens... but I have 2 pairs of slippers and caught myself looking at [i]cardigans[/i] in Debenhams a few months back. [size=1]Although in my defence, one of my pairs of slippers are Gromit ones a bit like [url="http://www.toonhound.com/wrboots-2.jpg"]these[/url]. Actually, this probably makes it worse.[/size]

[quote name='Soulfinger' post='403703' date='Feb 8 2009, 07:48 PM']I´m sure a lot of the guys here playing in covers bands would love to have the opportunity to play stuff like "Isn´t she Lovely" and "[b]I Wish[/b]". Both cracking tunes and very inspiring to play IMHO.[/quote]Yes, it's in our set... and yes, oh god I LOVE playing it. The groove is so cool, it gives me goosebumps. Wonderful, if you pardon the pun.

Nice one Al, good luck for Friday.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='403244' date='Feb 8 2009, 10:40 AM']If you're a musician on the payroll, you turn up on time, play the gig, get paid and go home. End of story. You just have to keep your mouth shut and take the money...[/quote] Absolutely. For a paid dep, this is the only possible mantra. [quote name='OldGit' post='403307' date='Feb 8 2009, 12:12 PM']Stevie has his moments too ..[/quote] Exhibit #1 for the prosecution: I Just Called To Say I Love You But he can be forgiven for almost anything, simply for giving us Superstition, Sir Duke and I Wish.

This sit. is no longer vac. (pending rehearsals) Will let you know how I get on!

What we need now is an 8 page thread on the inappropriate use of a pick.

[quote name='LWTAIT' post='402500' date='Feb 6 2009, 11:34 PM']im not saying its an ugly bass, but its just a fender copy.[/quote] 'Tis true, he could IMHO have found something nicer for the front page -- I bet it's a beaut to play, but sorry to whoever owns it, but it isn't really a looker -- but it's not "just a Fender copy" any more than ferret's red 'un is just a P copy. Personally if I'd been choosing a 'straight' looking bass for the shop window, I'd have used the lovely burst Jazz at the bottom of the sale stock page. Oh, the GAS when I look at that one...

Try a model shop? Back when I used to glue bits of plastic together as a hobby, you used to be able to get various plastic sections in lengths -- I'm pretty sure round white rods were among the available bits.

I had to drill a hole for an extra control, as the EMG eq system I got was the BQS 3-band with the sweepable mid. There was plenty of room for the extra control. If you fitted a 2-band eq then obviously you wouldn't need to do any drilling (or any other mods). The EMG pickups are exactly the same size as the crappy stock ones.

+1 for Frank Dunnery, Al Murphy and the astonishing Martin Taylor, but my absolute favourite is [b]Mike Stern [/b](ex Miles Davis and Blood Sweat & Tears).

I think the Norwich gig will be the closest one to Bilbo... I'm sure he'd love to come along

[quote name='lozbass' post='401182' date='Feb 5 2009, 04:09 PM']I love the title of the thread - I don't know how many times I've said the same![/quote]God yes -- if I had a tenner for every time I've said/thought "Yay, I'll never need another amp/cab/whatever again"...