gjones

My 35 year old bass has played a 1000 gigs and has been through the wars but the only places it shows wear is the hardwear and the electrics. There's nothing but the odd dent on the neck and body.

After 10 years playing every weekend, in 2002 I fell out with my brother-in-law (whose band I was in), got a proper job, sold my amp and gave up bass. What an interesting time that was! I was out every weekend getting drunk and having fun like normal people do. But after a couple of years, slowly but surely, the word got out that I was a bass player and I got offered more and more gigs. I bought a bass amp, discovered basschat, found out what G.A.S. was and I haven't looked back. Oh and by the way I made up with my brother-in-law and we were out gigging this weekend, with the old band, as if the last 13 years had never happened. There's a moral in this story..............eh somewhere?

I've never found the perfect drummer yet. Some can swing but aren't tight and others are tight but can't swing. I play in a ska band and a blues, swing, jump jive, rockabilly type band. The ones who are good at ska can't swing and the ones who can swing can't play ska. The really good drummers all seem to be playing in wedding bands to pay for the mortgage. Meanwhile we continue to go through drummers like Katie Price goes through husbands and like it says on my avatar, however good you are, in reality 'you're only as good as yer drummer!'.

The reason why people rant on internet forums is because they can. In real life when your boss, the salesperson in the shop, the traffic warden, the person, listening to techno at frightening volume, sitting in front of you on the bus, piss you off......you have to hold your tongue. Because there are consequences to actually saying what you feel in REAL life. On the internet there are none. So when you get narked by the frustrating irritations in your, day to day, life. You can vent by coming onto off topic and letting it rip!

Bloody hell, they take themselves seriously don't they. Just send them a text or email saying 'Have I got the gig?'. If they um and arr then tell them you're not interested (unless you really need the cash). They sound like they may be numpties.

By the way, I thought Surbiton was a made up town, where Mr Bean and Frank Spencer lived. I didn't realise it actually existed in reality.

The better you are, the quieter you can play and still sound good. But saying that, there is a minimum volume you need to play at, to be able to play AC/DC tunes without them sounding sh*t.

I know of no guitarists who carry around DI boxes for their acoustic guitars. If it's an electric acoustic, with a battery powered pre amp, you won't need one. You can just plug straight into the desk. The worst case scenario is where you just stick a mic in front of your guitar and away you go.

A 'Grant' which cost me £50 secondhand. It was a Precision copy. They were imported from Asia, by a shop in Edinburgh called Grants, in the 80s. Some guy was trying to sell one on Basschat a couple of years ago for £400 as a collectible vintage bass. I can't remember his name but I do remember how he described it. [b][size=6]+++AWESOME+++[/size][/b] [size=4]It wasn't......[/size] Edit: I found that very ad. Heeheeheee...... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/175221-sold/

I prefer this song by Honeyblood, played at the Same Radio 1 big weekend. But maybe that's just because the singer is my niece Stina. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zr873

Nut slot height can also make a big difference to playability from open string to 5th fret. I've filed the nut on my Jazz bass and it makes it a lot easier to play. This video shows how a MIM standard bass leaves the factory with a nut that really needs a good seeing too (not sure about USA standards). http://youtu.be/cI9Y9MsmnEc

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1401145292' post='2460625'] While on the subject of dating Fenders any ideas on the date of this Jazz Bass? [/quote] My Fender book says 1967 until 74.

I haven't even looked at the basses for sale section for about a year. And that's coming from a guy who bought 9 basses in 3 years, between 2009 and 2012. But now my priorities have changed and I no longer have an insatiable urge to try new basses. I've settled with a really nice P bass and a really nice Jazz and I no longer have GAS for basses any longer.

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1401054754' post='2459676'] Chuned. Haha EDIT: how can you tell it's hot? [/quote] My spider sense says his story sounds unlikely. And I read somewhere, that 80% of criminals in British prisons were bad at spelling.

The person who has written this ad is obviously a moron. If find it unlikely that this is an unwanted gift for an ungrateful son. My spider sense is tingling. [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/for-sale-guitar-fender-precision/1062152816#photo-content"]http://www.gumtree.c...6#photo-content[/url]

I played through one of these in a recording studio recently. I tried to lift it and it was so heavy, I thought it must have been screwed to the cab it was sitting on. It wasn't........

Thanks for that.

What you hear on that track is most likely just the Jazz bass straight into the desk. Whatever tone the bass players getting is at the whim of the sound engineer. It's unlikely to be the 'sound' of the amp he's using to monitor himself onstage. But saying that, Ed Friedland is a big fan of Genz Benz and he can get a very warm sound from them.

Space Trucking is an overlooked classic IMO. It's big and dumb, but fun. A bit like Ian Gillan http://youtu.be/hHOrpFeXUao

Yeah look like 70s type. Strings direct do a set for £60 http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/p/921749/fender-pure-vintage-70s-bass-tuning-machineheads/

The cheaper (£100) after market necks are not bad but they won't be as good as your Fender. If I were you I'd save my pennies and go for a Warmoth. You can't get better [url="http://www.warmoth.com/"]http://www.warmoth.com/[/url]

I bought a John East J-Retro from Russell. Perfect nick and posted like a flash. Deal with confidence.

If you've tested everything else, I'd test the cable from amp to cab. And maybe the connectors in the cab itself. Interestingly, valve amps aren't so sensitive to voltage fluctuations as their capacitors hold charge. Which is why they stay on for a while after you've switched them off. I found that out when I played at an outside venue with a generator which kept on going on and off. The lights would flutter, my amp would switch itself off, but the guitarists just kept on going, totally oblivious to the power problem.

Do you have a blend control? If not, try lowering the split pickup and making the single coil higher so you get more output and bite from the bridge pickup.