Mykesbass

2nd hand Cort, Ibanez or Yamaha. Cort GB75 should be in that price bracket and is a lovely bass.

Only other thing I'll add to the excellent advice from Discreet and Lurksalot is to be ready to accept a tone that doesn't sound great up close, but try to use a very long lead to hear it from where the audience will be. What may sound like a tone lacking in bottom end up close can sound great further away.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1441539717' post='2859589'] They sell a lot of them. Don't ask me to explain that. [/quote] Hadn't thought to check their sold items, but you really amaze me.

It is quite amazing what they put up for Spare or Repair, and the prices they ask, especially in light of the Thomann Deko thread.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1441489595' post='2859282'] I`ve just told my band I`ve ordered two of them. The silence is deafening................... [/quote] [quote name='Bikenbass' timestamp='1441498328' post='2859367'] Not for long! [/quote] The deafness is silencing...

Bit of chanting on it, is this of any use? - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUzojGMGnc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUzojGMGnc[/url]

Despite posting the Mustang Sally flow chart I really wouldn't mind playing it if there was a horn section. The one that I really do not want to hear let alone play again is Summer of 69.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1441059342' post='2855821'] I wasn't meaning to correct you, merely to clarify. The Dearmonds were/are sometimes refered to as Dearmond By Guild too. [/quote] Without this turning in to a thread of apologies and counter apologies, I hadn't taken umbrage

Really sorry folks, first time in many months that I haven't voted - just didn't get time to sit down and plug in! Congrats on the win Lurks!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1441056930' post='2855797'] Just to clarify ... the 1990s Dearmond Starfire, like the 1990s reissued Guild Starfire, was fitted with the 1970s style Guild humbuckers (these where sometimes known as Dearmond Gold Tone humbuckers). Many people replaced the Dearmond/Guild humbuckers with Hammon Dark Stars which were a re-engineering of the original 1960s Guild/Hagstrom Bisonic pickups. Both the Dark Stars and the Bisonics are single coils, not humbuckers. The recent Guild reissues have a (different) re-engineered single-coil Bisonic. The point of course is that not all Starfire basses are the same. It's probably the case that most, although not all Starfire users, preferred the Bisonics/Dark Stars to the humbuckers. [/quote] Ah, I stand corrected - there is a lot of flexibility in the use of the two brand names out there by various dealers, with some using both names for the one bass.

Playing at The Crown in Littlehampton this Thursday - Aretha Franklin/Janis Joplin flavoured Blues.

[quote name='gareth' timestamp='1441032587' post='2855491'] Short scale = bad sound [/quote] Well that's one opinion...the wrong one of course

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1440944611' post='2854878'] Hi, Anyone out there own and play a Dearmond Starfire bass? I like the look of a semi acoustic bass, I tried an Eastwood Classic 4 but was not impressed with the build quality. I also tried the Gretsch Electromatic and was very disappointed with the one I played. I own a beautiful Dearmond MT77 guitar which is as well built as any Gibson or Fender I have ever played so I am hoping the Starfire will have the same kind of build quality and hopefully sound decent as well? Cheers Rog [/quote] A lot of love for the Guild reissue here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/248927-nbd-guild-starfire/page__st__30__p__2811583__hl__guild%20starfire__fromsearch__1#entry2811583"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/248927-nbd-guild-starfire/page__st__30__p__2811583__hl__guild%20starfire__fromsearch__1#entry2811583[/url]

Working Week - Working Nights. One of my go to albums when I can't decide what I want to listen to.

Happy to add a Fender Rumbe V3 (or two) into the cab shootout.

[quote name='Bassjon' timestamp='1440639914' post='2852641'] We don't have much choice when it comes to heroes do we? Lemmy, McCartney, Sting, Pinnick, Lynott, Lee er...... the bloke out of Asia? [/quote] Roger Waters, Jack Bruce, Rick Danko, Greg Lake, Gene Simmons, Mark King, Les Claypool, Glenn Hughes, Suzi Quatro - no great quantity but a good mix.

Played this little beauty today, now have serious gas. Trouble is 1) broke, 2) next purchase must be double bass, 3) fortunately it is a year older than me so doesn't have the draw of a year of birth bass (phew)!!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1440673291' post='2852826'] As the OP is apparently female, I think 'manning it out' would be unlikely. As is having a ball in your shoulder, but that would be unusual regardless. [/quote] a) I didn't read that bit Many odd profiles on here with people being daft about age, area and gender c) OK, we need a new name for it as it isn't entirely exclusive but is a very male phenomenon! Pegleg42, I'll rephrase - don't act like a bloke about this and not seek medical advice

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1440659098' post='2852669'] I would seek some professional advice on this, either/or GP or an osteopath. There will be plenty of useful advice on here which might help. Osteopaths can manipulate joints which can help release trapped nerves which might or might not be causing your problem. Most of all get some help and don't be a bloke and just "man it out". That might only allow it to get worse. [/quote] This, especially the "man it out" bit - and I'll add don't self diagnose. Over 15,000 young people & children are affected by arthritis every year.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1440519116' post='2851494'] Of course, but those TV appearances put the whole of a nation in a room together, across generations. That's a huge event, and part of why it had such a profound effect on so many people. Nothing else like it. [/quote] Sure, if you are only measuring instant impact then no-one can argue with a TV audience of 40% of the population. But for a lasting legacy and global change, it may well have been the Americans who instigated that.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1440515451' post='2851440'] Initially localised around the bases. The Beatles got off the plane and within hours had played to pretty much the whole population. [/quote] Initially, but then it was shipments of American music post-war to those GIs where McCartney said he first got to hear the likes of Arthur Alexander. It was the GIs who spread Jazz, Blues and RnB, bringing Black music to white audiences which opened the door to the Beatles with their new take on this sound. OK, it may not have been so instant but it may well have been equally, or even more significant.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1440514581' post='2851427'] I only have video archives, anecdotes, books and the music to base it on, but I really can't think of a culture shock comparable to the Beatles getting off that plane in 1963. I don't think anything comes close. [/quote] Funny, was thinking about this thread last night whilst reading a few pages of Andrew Marr's A History of Britain in the 20th Century. There could be an argument for the GIs landing in the UK bringing about a larger cultural change than anything that has come since.

Is it this one? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/54998-simmons-basses/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/54998-simmons-basses/[/url]

Classic Vibe? That'll be Squier then