Rich

Why is it that female bassists can look so much cooler than guys?

[i]*deafening silence of people queuing up to disagree, not*[/i]

Alex, your guitarist is an utter twat.

I quite like the question on the Bass Player mag's 'Introduce Yourself' section, "what was your lightbulb moment?". I think it'd be a good one for pretty much every player.

I sing. Dabbled with drums at school but never got far beyond 4-on-the-floor. That's about it. Oh, and I play a sh*t hot air-guitar.

[quote name='dood' post='69276' date='Oct 3 2007, 10:06 PM']Sometimes even just getting EMG pups is a hassle![/quote]Can say that again. Jon's said that in the past EMG have had him tearing (what's left of) his hair out in frustation. I think they dragged their heels a bit with my TWs.

That colour plumbs hitherto unknown depths of wrongness. I thought [color="#FF00FF"]pink[/color] cars were bad enough (apart from FAB1 of course), but that colour has given me eyestrain just looking at the picture.

That headstock is a face only a mother could love. Ug-leeeeeeee.

Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Little Wing (for my money, superior to Hendrix's original) Madness -- One Step Beyond The Specials -- Gangsters (not strictly a cover of Prince Buster's 'Al Capone' but based heavily on it, and an utter classic)

God yes, her Fields Of Gold is beautiful too.

[quote name='The_D' post='67109' date='Sep 28 2007, 08:35 PM']Well I meant none of the above that I had mentioned I agree with Bohemian Rhapsodie being pretty dang un-coverable![/quote]Not so... many years back I saw a band in an hotel in Jakarta play an absolutely blinding version of this... they had all the vocal harmony parts spot-on, everything. It was brilliant, I mean goose-bumpingly good.

Shame, he's a nice guy.

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='68080' date='Oct 1 2007, 12:32 PM']Joe Cockers "With a Little Help............."[/quote] Absolutely, definitely +1000000. JC's is the definitive version of that song. JMHO of course.

Watching this with keen interest. [quote name='DHA' post='66370' date='Sep 27 2007, 12:18 PM']Okay, talked me into it. [attachment=2495:PICT0029.JPG] The larger transformer is the mains one the smaller is the output transformer. There is a 12ax7 pre-amp/driver valve and a Mullard EL90 output valve which is part of the EL34, EL84 family and sounds great IMHO. The VT1-Purist-Pro is acting as the main pre-amp and will push the output stage into overdrive with ease. The finished amp will have a 400W SS power amp, DI and Line out, VT1 pre-amp, tone controls, valve blended Fx loop, valve compressor and tuner mute. Dave[/quote] Perfect. All it needs is a rackmount kit.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='63822' date='Sep 21 2007, 08:37 PM']I used to use Rotosound flats, but I had three sets of crap ones turn up in one order once and haven't risked them since.[/quote]That's what killed Rotos for me -- 2 crap sets in a row. And then a few years later, the same thing happened with Elites.

[quote name='SJA' post='67520' date='Sep 29 2007, 10:32 PM']there's a nice fretless mini-solo in the long version of Gary Moore's "empty rooms". there are clips on youtube with Bob Daisley playing it live, I think it was [b]Mo Foster[/b] who played it on record.[/quote]It certainly was, and he's another geezer well worth checking out fretlessly. His solo album 'Bel Assis' is superb. (As is his book '17 Watts?', it's a scream.)

Oh poo

And now the same recording but this time [b]JUST THE BASS..!![/b] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDE-ZvfOwU&mode=related&search="]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDE-ZvfOwU...ted&search=[/url] (Note: nothing happens until 00:53 or so... then all hell breaks loose..!) [size=1]I like some of the comments from the muppets who are convinced that's a Warwick bass... [/size]

Ohhhhhhh that bass tone... *goosebumps*

Bugger. I've used parcel2go a few times and they've been very good, but it looks like they've just lost my custom. If their cover for even a cased guitar is going to be less than the price of a Stagg, bollocks to 'em.

I play a lot of gigs and have done for years, but I'm no more a 'real' musician than you are. Surely a 'fake musician, i.e. not a 'real' one, is someone who only plays air guitar..?

More emoticons??

[quote name='The Funk' post='63181' date='Sep 20 2007, 04:11 PM']When you roll over for a cuddle and accidentally play 'Satisfaction' instead.[/quote] *coffee->screen* Straight to the Quotes thread for that one, I think

[quote name='JoeS' post='61863' date='Sep 17 2007, 08:09 PM']I got a Bass Central T-shirt thrown at me when I was in there last year, eighteen months on and it's still as good as ever.[/quote]What, you've had it on for eighteen months..? Isn't it a tiny bit [i]funky[/i] by now?