gjones

Rings a bell. It's not this one is it? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/170783-vintage-icon-v4-bass-thats-a-mij-p-not/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/170783-vintage-icon-v4-bass-thats-a-mij-p-not/page__fromsearch__1[/url]

I've messaged him and he admits I'm right (although he says he didn't know it until I pointed it out)...............but he's not doing anything about it.

What about the Graeme Mearns band.The drummer plays in another band with me and they seem like they may fit the bill. If they do give Ali Murray their drummer a message on Facebook [url="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=583992470"]http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=583992470[/url] This is the band if you've never seen them before [url="http://www.myspace.com/thegraememearnsband"]http://www.myspace.com/thegraememearnsband[/url]

Or alternatively go for a secondhand Japanese Precision for around the same price as a new Squier Classic vibe like this one [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-1994-Japan-built-/260976344366?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cc366fd2e"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3cc366fd2e[/url] I'm not the seller by the way I just know how good the MIJ Fenders are. Edit : Oooops just had a closer look at that Jap Fender and it's a fake. All that's MIJ is possibly the neck. The rest is a road worn 'Vintage' cheapo road worn copy with wilkinson parts. Maybe you'd be better off buying a Classic Vibe out of the shop after all when there are so many scammers about.

In a situation like that I always go to the manager and get them to move people. If they don't move people then my band doesn't play - that's up to them (but we still get paid). If they can't move people there and then we're happy to wait until they go and then set up and play until closing time - but we still get the money promised.

Both methods are valid it just depends on what you are playing. If what I'm playing is not very complex I tend to use my index finger and my pinky to fret notes. If I'm playing fast scale type runs it's easier, more precise and the sound is more defined if I use all my fingers.

I know a few things about Jazzes, Up until recently I had a Geddy, a 62 reissue and I still have my old MIJ Squier Jazz. I thought Precisions were for old fuddy duddys until I saw a guy I know playing a battered US one through a GK combo which changed my preconceptions of P basses overnight. It sounded so big and fat and ballsy and defined that the next day I swapped my MM SUB for an old MIJ Precision on this very forum. It's a 57 reissue which has a nice shallow maple neck. It's great live and sounds especially good when recorded compared to my Jazzes which sometimes could get lost in the mix. You could pick up something similiar on Basschat or Ebay for about £400.

Very classy.

Ten years ago I got to a stage where I was an 'okay' bass player. I'd plateaued and had no motivation to improve. My attitude changed a couple of years ago and since then I've put the time in and I feel I'm a lot better now than I was before. If you feel that you're not great but you want to be better, then you will be. You'll put the time in, listening to bassists you admire and aspire to play like and put in the time playing your bass, rehearsing and practising to achieve that goal. If I were you I'd spend time listening to tunes you like with with great basslines so that you know what you're aiming for. Then sit down and learn them note perfect (no sloping off for a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit when it gets to the difficult bit).

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1331391274' post='1572281'] Confession time: I can't slap. [/quote] But what do you do when you're in a music shop at the weekend and you want to impress the spotty teenage boys and the mummies and daddies out to buy a Daisy Rock guitar for their precious little Trixiebell?

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1331377020' post='1572017'] This is from the 80's era...... We may look at these units again if there is interest [/quote] I lusted after one of these in the early 80s when all I had was a horrible little Carlsboro with farty speakers.

I agreed no need to change the pickups if you have a J-retro. The J-retro can has such a great EQ that expensive new pickups aren't going to improve your sound by much.

My first amp in 1980 was a Carlsboro. It was total sh*te!!!!

That's a funny sounding guitar?

I play through the 'old' bassist's (he doesn't have any room in his house) line6 LD300 at the rehearsal room my band rents. It actual sounds alright when you turn all the rubbishy effects off. It's certainly loud enough and it's got a bit of oomph.

I've played some dodgy dives in my time. I played a bar down in Leith which was straight out of Trainspotting. The manageress was a 65 year old ex hooker in a mini skirt and thighboots. Most of the fighting was between shellsuited women and the guys just wandered around in a heroin induced haze. The singer/gutarist had a full pint thrown at him while he was singing which just missed him and smashed against the wall. Amazingly they loved us and asked us back! I refused to go as I didn't want to end up dead but the rest of the band actually went and played the gig. That night some guy got glassed for supporting the wrong team. It could have been me.

The coolest bass player I ever saw was the guy in Goldfrapp. He just stands with hat tipped over one eye and plays a perspex bass. Occasionally he'll also wear gold lame trousers. There's no trying to look cool........he just [size=6][b]IS[/b][/size] cool. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9ETvfIRFQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9ETvfIRFQ[/url]

Oh well, you'll all be glad to know I haven't lost the GAS. I played a gig with my ABM 500 and my BC212 and I just couldn't get the volume required (it's a 250w cab after all). So I've put a deposit on a Barefaced compact. Hopefully it will sound fab and that will be that, no more GAS. Hopefully.......

It depends on the gig. Recently I've been back playing bass (after ten years playing in other bands) for an old friend of mine, who is a singer and guitarist, who has gone onto bigger and better things touring with some big names as guitarist and band leader. The bassists he's been playing with recently are real pros so when I turn up for the gig I know I have to impress. It's good for me though because I've been cruising for a while and these gigs stretch me and mean I have to up my game. It's weird because I thought I was over the butterflys in the stomach thing a long time ago.

And it's got a musicman bridge? It's a real Frankenstein bass (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

I hate to think how he gets those basses looking so disgusting. But there must loonies out there who want a bass that looks like it's been smeared in excrement or he wouldn't keep on doing it.

Certainly sounds like the real deal. The quality of some of the so called budget basses coming out of the far east is scarily good. Of course it helps that your playing is pretty ace as well. Like they say, a lot of the sound you get out of an instrument is in the fingers.

[quote name='Alec 'Aleb' Mills' timestamp='1330766304' post='1562608'] I suppose it is! Ah, I guess I'm just a tight bastard then [/quote] Recently they've been selling cheap on ebay..............around £250/260 on ebay for secondhand ABM 500.

Look what you've gone and made me do! I've bit the bullet and put a deposit on a compact.