Rich

[quote name='paul h' post='138103' date='Feb 11 2008, 12:28 PM']It's the closest I have ever come to getting the sound I am after. [b]A combination of Roy Budd, David Holmes, Basement Jaxx[/b] and Lupe Fiasco. Pretty much every part is written on the bass. So when it comes to do an actual bassline I struggle a bit.[/quote] When I first glanced at this, I read it as a "combination of Roy [i]Hudd[/i] and Basement Jaxx...". The mind absolutely boggled for a second!

I bought his SX bass body... I first emailed him about it last Thursday morning, and by mid afternoon he'd put it in the post. Arrived Saturday and it's great, even better than he described it. Bloke's a top banana.

One of my favourites is this from Richard Strauss: "Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them."

Absolutely! Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice - [i]Samuel Johnson[/i] Music is the shorthand of emotion - [i]Leo Tolstoy [/i] Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life - [i]Jean Paul Richter [/i] Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always - [i]Tamás Vásáry [/i] Music is an outburst of the soul - [i]Frederick Delius [/i] Without music, life would be a mistake - [i]Friedrich Nietzsche [/i] After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - [i]Aldous Huxley [/i] A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved - [i]Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach[/i] He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once - [i]Robert Browning [/i] What is best in music is not to be found in the notes - [i]Gustav Mahler[/i] The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not move'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons , strategems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted - [i]William Shakespeare [/i] Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail - [i]Luciano Pavarotti [/i] Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and a gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful, of which it is the invisible but nevertheless dazzling, passionate and eternal form - [i]Plato[/i] Music is the art of the prophets - [i]Martin Luther[/i] Music is love in search of a word - [i]Sidney Lanier [/i] Music is revelation; a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy - [i]Ludwig van Beethoven [/i] The music is in the air. Take as much as you want - [i]Sir Edward Elgar [/i] Music is the universal language of mankind - [i]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [/i] Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without - [i]K'ung-fu-tzu [/i] Music is well said to be the speech of angels. In fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite - [i]Thomas Carlyle [/i] Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art - [i]Herbert Spencer [/i] Music is the flowering of character - [i]K'ung-fu-tzu [/i] Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent - [i]Victor Hugo[/i] Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes - [i]Pablo Casals [/i]

I've just bought [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12252"]jamesemt's SX jazz body [/url](sort of buttery yellow with either white or torty plate, can't decide which I prefer!) -- the intention was to fit the nice neck from my Squier J to it, but it turns out that the Squier neck is too wide for the SX pocket. Rather than arse about with a router, I've just ordered a maple SX neck with pearl blocks from Rondo. I'm planning to fit a neck pickup ashtray and an Artec 3-band EQ, so I'm going to have to drill into the body edge to mount the jack socket. I've already done that for the Squier, so I'm not daunted by the prospect What I'm aiming for is a retro look with a contemporary sound. I'll definitely post pics when it's done.

[quote name='bigd1' post='136414' date='Feb 8 2008, 11:59 AM']I think you will find there is a world of a difference between playing at a wedding gig no matter haw big it is, and being on tour as your Dream theater example.[/quote] Yes, you're right... the wedding gig is far, [i]far[/i] more important. [quote]My point was just to hopefully be clear, has anybody found they really need to take spare instruments when playing gigs?[/quote] As I said before, I've had two gigs in the past where I wished to god I'd had a spare bass, but didn't. So now, I take one just in case it happens again.

Some of them are stuck on with double sided tape. Take a hair dryer to it, the tape loosens and it's easy to prise off. I did this with the Peavey 410s I used to have... took off the name badge but left the red triangle thingy on. They looked loads better. When you want to stick them back on, just use some fresh double sided tape.

Ricky live (on Exit Stage Left), Jazz studio. I think.

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Guys, [b]can those of you wishing to engage in a political debate about the EU start one in the Off-Topic section?[/b] It does have the makings of a good discussion, as long as you keep it civil.

[quote name='finnbass' post='127073' date='Jan 24 2008, 05:00 PM']This is mine: [/quote]That is achingly lovely. The back view especially... the neck joint is a masterpiece.

[quote name='David Nimrod' post='135818' date='Feb 7 2008, 03:28 PM']It's amazing what crap customer service we've got used to when someone just doing the job right seems exceptional...[/quote] nail => head

[quote name='Shockwave' post='135779' date='Feb 7 2008, 02:34 PM']Jazz and funk is pretty few and far between[/quote] Yeah, don't bother trying to interest anyone in fusion. I was in a fusion 3-piece for a while, but in the end we gave up cos we couldn't find anywhere to gig. We were too loud for jazz venues and too jazzy for pubs. The only place we ever really gigged frequently was the Prom, which is sh*t. I tried to form a jazz/funk band a while back but just couldn't find any interested musos.

Weren't we thinking of having some t shirts made with 'I SURVIVED JON SHUKER'S WOOD STORE' on them?

Bloody right. EXACTLY what I've been trying to say all along, only put more eloquently than me Perhaps all those big bands have a big comfort-blanket problem..? I can't understand what exactly is wrong with taking along a second bass 'just in case'? What's so difficult about chucking two gigbags and gtr stands in the car, instead of one, if you feel the gig warrants it? Why is it such a bad idea?

Yup, they (and Strings Direct) get all my string business. Most of my experience with them is similar to neep's... if you get an order in by close of play on a Monday, it's pretty much guaranteed to turn up on Tuesday.

Sod's law being what it is, the first time you don't take one, you'll need it. In the past I've been let down three times by a bass at gigs, luckily none of them was a big paid affair. Nonetheless each time, I wished to god that I'd had a spare bass with me. It would have been rather more than a comfort blanket.

...and the lord looked upon the Wood Store, and he saw that it was good... not to mention potentially expensive...

[quote name='kdphysio' post='133083' date='Feb 3 2008, 03:36 PM']It's just like women......there's always a more beautiful one out there....... but luckily guitars can't say no! [/quote] Yes, and thankfully they don't point and laugh when you're naked either.

[quote name='Ant' post='118139' date='Jan 10 2008, 08:18 PM']hello all, thanks for the replies and help - ive decided to go with a shuker. and i shall keep you all informed!!![/quote] Good call... but if it were my money, I'd have at least tried the Ibanez first.

For everyone who said "Why do you need a backup..?"... [quote name='nottswarwick' post='134741' date='Feb 5 2008, 11:50 PM']my view....if you are doing semi-pro or pro gigs, you need a spare instrument on stage, without question. Possibly rare, but strings do break, batteries do die suddenly, electronics do fail...rare I know, but if this happens and you are being paid you need to be able to pick up your spare immediately and carry on. If you have to cut short someones wedding gig, you are really not going to be popular.[/quote][i]...this[/i] is why. If I take a backup to a gig, it's a 5... but that's just because I happen to have two 5s Before I got the Shuke, my backup was a 4 with a D-tuner.