Mykesbass

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='718078' date='Jan 19 2010, 05:03 PM']Hmmm, not superior if i need two hands free ;-) Cheers.[/quote] Sorry, hadn't carefully read your second post! There was a hybrid that Strings & Things (Musicman UK distributors) did that were really unpopular but to my mind hit the mark - a soft outer with solid foam inside - sorry, can't remember the brand name but will try and find it.

+1 on the Hiscox - a little more money but very superior cases.

Welcome to the forums. You may want to stick a post in Gear:Miscellaneous - you're bound to get chapter and verse on strings and scale length there! Good luck.

That's no rant - I'm sure many of us share the frustration - I'm now 2.5 years down the line trying to get something fun and viable together down in Brighton - I can't imagine how tough it must be in Cheltenham. I guess an hour down the M5 isn't a very attractive proposition? Good luck, I'm sure something will happen for you.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='716527' date='Jan 18 2010, 01:11 PM']I'd probably have done the same if a vocalist in my band had shagged my wife.[/quote] And then takes up celibacy - man, that must really hurt!!

Hi Andreas - welocme to the forum. Great place you're from - home of Therapy? had a good night at one of their gigs there many years ago!

Red Planet Guitars - shop's own brand? Staffordshire? There are a lot of manufacturers that will do very short runs of branded guitars, all usually very generic. This lot seem to be lefty specialists.

Just did a cab swap with Chris, great guy, really easy trade - great first deal on Basschat - thanks! Mike

Was in retail when these first came out and stocked them. Originally, they were using the previous Fender hardware - i.e. when they updated the standards the Highway One inherited the old pick-ups etc. Now, by the look of things the pick-up is the same but you get a BadAss on the cheaper bass. Also, the BIG difference is the satin finish on the Highway One - was a big issue among a lot of players who wanted their gloss. (oh, and a gig bag, not a hardcase, so add another £80 for a Hiscox). [url="http://www.fender.co.uk/products/view_specs.php?full_partno=0190460&name=American+Standard+Precision+Bass%26reg%3B"]http://www.fender.co.uk/products/view_spec...n+Bass%26reg%3B[/url] [url="http://www.fender.co.uk/products/view_specs.php?full_partno=0111360&name=Highway+One%26trade%3B+Precision+Bass%26reg%3B"]http://www.fender.co.uk/products/view_spec...n+Bass%26reg%3B[/url] Get out and try some - as with all Fenders (all basses?) some have "it" and some don't.

[quote name='2wheeler' post='713413' date='Jan 15 2010, 09:10 AM']There are dedicated products that might be a bit safer, like New Skin.[/quote] +1 I've used this in an emergency, will need to re-apply several times but it should get you through. Good luck!!

Oh, and Marty Prior at Isaacs on the docks in Ipswich on Sundays.

[quote name='lowdown' post='711450' date='Jan 13 2010, 03:52 PM']I am sure you did not mean to say NWR is a small time Bass player... [/quote] Not just Norman, I wouldn't want to refer to anyone as small time, but, in the spirit of this post, and he may well be on here somewhere as he makes a fine bass as well, I'd like to recommend Pete Stroud - catch him with Bad Influence, or even better, when ex Bluesbreakers guitarist Buddy Whittington is over, see Pete with his old Peter Green mucker, Roger Cotton on keys as well.

Got GB 75 with ash body - really well built, nice bass. Only negative (which may also affect the 34a) is the active electronics are way too complicated!

[quote name='OldGit' post='709995' date='Jan 12 2010, 01:54 PM']Oh the fun of the session player's life [/quote] Even the singers, racking my brains for the guys name - got it, Tony Burrows - apparently on three top ten singles at the same time!

[quote name='OldGit' post='709989' date='Jan 12 2010, 01:49 PM']I didn't realise Danny Thompson played on Congratulations by Cliff Richard[/quote] And George Chisholm - that really threw me!

Thanks for posting OldGit - great player, fun interview.

[quote name='WarPig' post='709638' date='Jan 12 2010, 12:36 AM']Also are the pickups too low?[/quote] Or, oddly enough, too high?

Looks like they've still got it! New album - the first track on Myspace has got a really nice feel! http://www.myspace.com/lightoftheworldmusic

Like: See through white over ash spalted maple f holes Dislike: Relics Didn't realise it until reading through other comments, Lakland oval bridge plate

Seeing Slam Stewart at the first ever Capital Radio Jazz Festival at Alexander Palace in 1980 (I think). Really went to see BB King but Slam was a stand out moment. On a completely different tack and very slightly earlier, the riffs in both the Boomtown Rats Rat Trap and of course the Stranglers Peaches. Got to meet and work with Pete Briquette from the Rats much later - really nice bloke.

Don't think anyone's posted this before - amazing bunch of muso's - backed Paul Simon on one of my all time favourite albums - this is one of those where you just feel the amount of enjoyment the band are getting from it and you want to be part of it! Sorry, where's the info about youtube postings? Found It

Great fun - thought it was going to be a dull show-off then the little bit of tongue in cheek showed through - love the cat's cameo!

[quote name='Marvin' post='705721' date='Jan 8 2010, 04:53 PM']Drummer I know said my Ibby was very hard rock/metal, and couldn't really see it fitting with some genres. Looks even more metal now, since I put a new strap on it [attachment=39650:_GS60_Tr...___Black.jpeg][/quote] Of course there's the other musicians (oops, sorry, you said drummer) prejudices - I didn't get a gig because I didn't have a traditional Fender!