Mykesbass

"Time consuming and expensive hobbies (photography)" - not exactly on show in these pictures!!

This thread is getting so long it needs an index! Sorry if this is already on here - had a Stax compilation on in the car today and this is just great:

The added adreneline of a live performance will probably be what they need to add that last bit of sparkle - either that or it will kill them off completely! Give them a go and enjoy them.

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1014591' date='Nov 6 2010, 06:19 PM']You will get X.[/quote] Thanks (but that means my rig is not loud enough )

Welcome to the forum - but Earthlings? You'll only find bass players on here! Better get some pics up of that collection as well.

If I can ask an additional, related question, if an amp with two speaker outputs runs at X at 4 ohms or Y at 8 ohms, if you run one 4 ohm speaker will you get x or do you need to run two 8 ohm speakers?

"got lots of fingering pluck tone" and this from a drummer

[quote name='Circle_of_Fifths' post='1011581' date='Nov 4 2010, 04:54 AM']You really need a friend there in Glasgow - is that near Wandsworth? Wandsworth is the only place other than London I know in the UK. Well - there's Shropshire too - but that's a very long and involved story. [center][font="Century Gothic"] [size=4][i][color="#8B0000"]WILL TUNE BASS GUITARS FOR BEER. [/color][/i][/size][/font][/center][/quote] Why Wandsworth - worked there for 4 years and can't see what the attraction is (apart from the now departed Youngs Brewery)?

Welcome. Nothing strange about Metal & Blues, just don't try and combine them!! Plenty of Oxford area guys on here - they should be able to point you in the right direction for a bass repair man. Mike

No, but chance to revive a very amusing thread: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78634&hl=gearstalker"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...;hl=gearstalker[/url]

Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey - will get on to the dub version later.

so has anyone got any suggestions as to what i should get? Dangerous question to ask on here! Start looking in the for sale section for some second hand goodness, and welcome to the site. Mike

Thanks for that - my usual sources for that sort of info let me down this time.

Who was the bass player on this?

Well the neck is of to Mr Shuker this week for a lovely new unlined ebony board - will post pic's when it returns. One day I'll have a whole Shuker, in the meantime, in the words of Johnny Cash - "I got it one piece at a time" !!

Really easy deal, pleasure doing business with you Tim. Mike

High Society - Frank, Bing and Louis!!

[quote name='Tony Goggle' post='980719' date='Oct 7 2010, 04:54 PM']I am Mark King [/quote] But you're Tony Goggle - how did you get away with it? Oh, and as an ex-local, whereabouts in Penge? Wish I had known when I lived there!!

Mmmmm, Dave.... Dave31KDrums any relation to Dave74200????

This used to be a much sought after Aria in the 80's.

Far enough away from Seymour Duncan Villas - I hear it has become a real pick-up joint.

Beautiful chord progression and lovely tones. Nice stuff.

I recently got this selling Xbox stuff for my son - seems certain brands must get flagged all the time. Just click on the agree button and it should all be fine.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='989716' date='Oct 15 2010, 10:17 PM']I have no grades at all nor can I read music (the same for many musicians if we are still allowed to call ourselves that?) and recently spent an evening with a very fine classical player who came to a blues jam with me a couple of years ago and said he wished he could do that,I thought he was taking the piss at first but he wasnt and he got me to go and show him the basics of the 12 bar and a few simple licks to get him started. I was amazed at what he could play if it was in front of him and literally nothing without! It was like some kind of comedy sketch. You cant teach rock its not possible ,Look at cold play and all that stuff,Middle class mushy rockers cant do a full on Metallica thing,They think they can and I have played with some top notch drummers that read symbols and all sorts of stuff but when it comes to the final rock out at the end,Nothing.....its not on the page.[/quote] A guy I knew came across a similar problem, depped for a function band that was all reading. He said they were amazing until a punter asked for some rock & roll. He spent the break trying to teach them C'mon Everybody but they couldn't get it in time for the second set.

I bought a couple of shirts at a music festival once but who spends over a grand at one? Imagine stashing that in the tent overnight! Strangely though, I quite like it.