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[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1394314650' post='2390291'] It is Mrs Diablo's birthday in a couple of weeks and she has serious GAS for a National Style O. My problem is I can never bring myself to buy modern copies of old models, I'd rather save and buy the real deal. Now if you talk National, then it has to be a Style-O, and if a Style O, then it has to be a mid 30's surely? Brothers In Arms is the over-riding desire here and that is not going to go away. So, I don't know that much about 6 strings, and even less about Nationals. What do I need to look for, where to buy, anyone got one for sale etc? There is one at Notom that I cannot get out of my head. I was there a fortnight ago and really liked it, but the price is perhaps on the sharp end of sharp? [url="http://notomguitars.com/collections/resonators/products/1934-national-style-o"]http://notomguitars....ational-style-o[/url] It is actually up for £500 less in the shop, but I've struggled to find a reference to prices for these. Fender Bass guitars are quite numerous to find, but it seems not mid 30's National Style O's! Any advice, info or looks for/avoids most welcome. Cheers, Rich [/quote] Snakehips Facebook site where you can message him. https://www.facebook.com/richard.odonnell.104?fref=ts

Snakehips is your man. If he and his pal, Professor Scratchy, don't know then it's not worth knowing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TwUUbUk3Q

David Hood is recording the new Waterboys album, in Nashville with Mike Scott & co, at this very moment https://twitter.com/MickPuck

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1394192635' post='2388933'] Grolsch bottle washers on all my basses. never had a problem. Like this bloke: And this one [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgFFNXahcg[/media] [/quote] And Eric Clapton too. The Schaller type big clunky straplocks wore a nice big hole in my gigbag, so I go for Grolsch bottle washers or the dunlop cheapos. By the way fender do their own version of the Grolsch washers and they cost pennies. http://www.guitarbitz.com/guitar-parts-c29/strap-buttons-c39/fender-strap-blocks-p2122?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=fender-strap-blocks-0990819000&utm_campaign=product%2Blisting%2Bads&gclid=CJDJ-tvogL0CFSUUwwodYr0A2w#2207

The world has changed for smaller festivals. There just isn't the money around any more. One of the Blues bands I play for used to tour around the UK and Europe in the 90s and was regularly getting four figure fees for playing festivals. These days you're lucky to get half that and are expected to play mostly for the kudos of playing an international festival. Funding, via sponsership money and grants from The Arts Council etc have dried up. So if you can only pay peanuts, only monkeys will come and play at your festival.

It might help to lower your action so there's less effort involved.

In fact, he's such a great singer and songwriter with such obvious Motown influences, it would have been great if the old Motown 'Funk Brothers' houseband could have got their hands on some of his stuff. That would have been amazing to hear. But sadly, most of them are pushing up daisies now.

Good old (young) Paolo. From the release of his first single I was sure there was loads more classics to come from him. The snippets I've heard from his new album sound great.

The most realistic hi fi sound I ever heard, was after I'd smoked a big doobie and sat and listened to a blues compilation on a cheap cassette, through a £20 Woolworths music centre, sometime in 1995. Maaaaan It sounded like John Lee Hooker and the band were in the room, dude.

I've really liked every modern Laney amp I've played through. The amps are loud and clear and sound a LOT more expensive than their price tag suggests. I've owned, Ashdown ABM, TC Electronic and Barefaced cabs and amps and I'd have no problem playing through a Laney.

What is the aim of a top notch Hi Fi system? Surely it is to replicate the sound of an album as it would be heard in a top notch recording studio. I doubt Abbey Roads CD player, Amp and monitors cost £350,000 combined. I suspect it's just an exercise in separating the obscenely rich from their money. Nothing wrong with that.

Before 2001, both the bridge and neck pickups on Mexican Jazzes were the same size . He's a bit of info from another bass forum over in the USA. [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f38/fenders-final-word-different-pickups-mim-jazz-691797/"]http://www.talkbass....im-jazz-691797/[/url]

John Entwistle, on playing with a drummer that wasn't too keen on keeping a beat. http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/partners-in-time-john-entwistle-keith-moon/

If you sold a kidney you could get one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_MiimcHKGQ

To make a long story short, the more speakers you have, the louder you'll be. You'll have more volume with a less powerful amp, going through lots of speakers (ie a 200 watt amp going through two 4x10 cabinets), than a very powerful amp going through one speaker (ie a 500 watt amp going through a 1x15 cabinet). A 100 watt amp through one 15 inch speaker is really not loud enough to compete with a loud drummer and two enthusiastic guitarists. Your amp doesn't allow you to connect another speaker. So your only alternative is to buy new gear if you want to be heard. I recommend buying secondhand as you get more for your money. Plenty of gear for sale on basschat.

Actually this nut 2nd from bottom looks like it should fit [url="http://www.guitar-parts-and-spares-uk.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d58.html"]http://www.guitar-parts-and-spares-uk.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p585.html[/url]

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like you got a Silver Squier to me, as they all have 40mm nuts. I saw acouple on ebay last week. Was it the red one or the white one you bought? Sorry I can't help you with your nut issue.

I use DR Hi Beams which are great and not too bright sounding. I always found Ernie Ball slinkys to be not overly bright sounding either.

[quote name='bonnp' timestamp='1393532511' post='2381646'] i am building a p bass, partly so my wife does not notice the money going and because i want an agressive old schools type sound i cannot get exactly from my MM sub. so far i have a black gloss mim p bass body, mighty mite maple neck, dimarzio dp122 and a superb kiogon wring loom with 500k pots geared for the old school tone, punk, heavy rock etc, roto swing 66 110s, shcaller tuners (possibly) to round off. i am not sure how it will go but i have learnt everything from the guys on here. lastly i need a pickguard but not sure about colours or quality to go with black, seems to be price ranges from 10.00 to 50.00 where ever i look, any ideas on a decent pickguard and colour? do u really need a decent one? i meant to build the guitar over a couple of months but have purchased everything in under a week [/quote] Trust me, it won't take you a couple of months to put everything together. Once you've got the bits and pieces to make a bass it'll take an afternoon, at the most, and you'll be ready to rock. That's the wonder of Leo Fender's design. Putting together a bass is easier than building a set of draws from IKEA. The most difficult part is the electrics but with Ki0gon's solderless loom that's easy peasy too. Have fun

The hole drilled for tuners in the Mighty Mite headstock are standard Fender size which is 17.5 to 18mm. So you need tuners with bushings/ferrules of that size. Wilkinson Manufacture decent cheap versions for about £20. Schaller and Gotoh do ones which are 3 times that price. But all of them will fit your neck.

[quote name='Stance' timestamp='1393459558' post='2380710'] Any dea why the topic I posted yesterday regarding the sale of a Variax 700 bass just disappeared?!?! Unfortunately it´s not the first time (neither teh second) that this has happend-any idea why?! Thank you Best regards from Portugal [/quote] I found it! It was under the sofa. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/230588-line-6-variax-700-bass-in-very-good-condition/

I own a Silver Squier, MIJ, Jazz Bass, that plays and sounds better than any of my previous Jazz Basses. Which included a Geddy Lee and a 62 non-export MIJ reissue, either of which cost me 3 times as much as the Squier. I used to own a 2001, Indonesian Squier Jazz Bass, that sounded better than all of my previous Jazzes and only cost me £95 secondhand.

Yes, that's a Mexican or Mighty Mite neck, an unoriginal scratchplate, Jazz Bass ashtrays. That means that the only part of the bass that might be from 69 is the body. And that looks like it's been stripped at some point. I think a £1,600 starting price is a teeny bit optimistic.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1393340222' post='2378957'] Difficult one. If you can prove the £50 came from the pub then you could confront them because, even unknowingly, they have not fulfilled their part of your contract, i.e. they've only actually paid you £150. If they just deny it - and they're hardly likely to admit a criminal offence are they - then I can't see what you can do other than Big_Stu's suggestion about telling them you're going to the police about it. I'm a bit surprised they took it in the first place though. On the very few occasions that I've tried to spend a £50 note anywhere, I've been viewed with great suspicion and all manner of UV lamps and special pens have been deployed to verify its authenticity before accepting it - and even then only begrudgingly. They are almost as bad as Scottish notes! [/quote] 'I think you'll find pal, that's legal tenderrrrr!' http://youtu.be/gx-a5rYIAOM

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1393338432' post='2378914'] Yes, but not really what I meant! Should we challenge the pub? On what grounds? Should we re-split the remaining £150 four ways and just get over it? [/quote] Go into the pub and buy a half of lager with the £50 note. Then walk out with the change.