gjones

Any new song should be learned (i.e. chord changes, stops starts, your part) before you get to the rehearsal stage. My advice is to make sure everybody (who needs it) has a chord chart in front of them so they have no excuses for mucking it up and wasting your time.

Playing music is fun but it's serious fun and you do need to put work and commitment into it. With a new band I always recommend having a gig booked so that there is a deadline to aim for. The nightmare of making a ballsup in front of an audience baying for blood because you haven't learnt the song properly is usuallly enough to concentrate the mind of the laziest musician.

MIJ Silver series squiers are excellent basses. Since I played a friends 92 jazz bass I was looking for a decent example on ebay and eventually bought one a year or so ago. Sound and build quality are great and it's well worth the £250 I paid for it. Don't know much about the precisions though but I assume they're of a similair quality. Japanese Fenders are never shoddily made.

Doesn't matter what make it is, just make sure it's got a light. I bought a snazzy korg tuner took it to a gig............and I couldn't see it in the dark because it doesn't light up (so totally useless on stage).

I'll say it again........it's gotta light up!

Ask this guy [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq0q5gIIIq4&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq0q5gIIIq4...feature=related[/url]

Ha, ha seriously though. If it's Pino Pallidino it's a fretless bass with an octaver, some reverb and probably a bit of chorus.

Buy a synth!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bass-Guitar-/120636382967?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c167d1ef7"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bas...=item1c167d1ef7[/url]

Here's a link from somebody who owns one [url="http://www.harmonycentral.com/reviews/344193"]http://www.harmonycentral.com/reviews/344193[/url]

If it was fretted I'd be interested.

[quote name='Fretless Eric' post='997788' date='Oct 23 2010, 08:39 AM']I promised I'd post on progress so; still haven't been able to locate a screw. I am told that the Allparts Part No. GS-0359-005 [url="http://www.allparts.com/Bass-Key-Screws-p/gs-0359-005.htm"]http://www.allparts.com/Bass-Key-Screws-p/gs-0359-005.htm[/url] is the one to get, it certainly has the right "imperial" thread: 12/24. Unfortunately they have a high minimum order value and despite the exceptional exchange rate we can get in Australia, I am not about to buy these and I can't find anyone who is about to order from Allparts so that I can piggy-back. I'm sure I'll find one eventually, at least it means that my other basses are getting out and about.[/quote]

I had the same problem with an old bass I have. It was very difficult to find the correct imperial size screws here in the UK. A friend brought some machinehead worm screws back from the US with him and they fitted perfectly. Check out the last post on this thread which has link to a shop in the states that has the size I think you're looking for. It's closed at the moment but says they are re-opening later in oct and they seeem to deliver internationally [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87073&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87073&hl=[/url]

Hope this helps.

If you're after perfection get a refund and buy a Japanese one.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='991627' date='Oct 17 2010, 09:11 PM']Is it too late for a refund?[/quote]

You're sooooo cruel!

My blood usually freezes in my veins when I hear the words 'bass solo album'

But this is actually really very good. Just like the review you've quoted says, just really good tunes which happen to be played on bass by a really tasteful player.

You've converted me.

By the way is you bass tuned like a guitar EADGBE? It sounds like it might be.

[quote name='4 candles' post='988463' date='Oct 14 2010, 09:42 PM']Leeds coolege of music

You are a f***ing discrace, your graduates are a discrace

anyone who has a degee from leeds, please burn it!!!

Any aspiring musicians out there, Dont go to leeds. Get a well paid job, some occasional lessons from a good guy on basschat, learn loads of tunes, and keep busy

Regards

Mark[/quote]

Peter Sklaroff was, until very recently, head of jazz at Leeds College of Music and when I knew him 20 years ago could play a mean mustang sally.....hopefully he still can. I'm sure he'd be very interested in your opinion [url="http://www.myspace.com/petesklaroff"]http://www.myspace.com/petesklaroff[/url]

[quote name='merello' post='983693' date='Oct 10 2010, 07:40 PM']Mad 'I want a Geddy Lee' price drop![/quote]

You fancy a Geddy eh? Other than they are incredibly well put together, sound great and have the fastest and easiest playing neck known to man/woman. What do you like about them?

Get one of these they're great! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvW-fn8m2WA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvW-fn8m2WA...feature=related[/url]

And you'll look just like him [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Clayton_2005_Wien_v1.jpg"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Cla...005_Wien_v1.jpg[/url]

Edit : Oh and by the way they'll really cheap.......but great value [url="http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/squier-/71293"]http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/squier-/71293[/url]

I used Rotosound roundwounds for years. Then for a while I decided that ernie balls slinkys where the ones for me. I tried DR Fatbeams but found them very inflexible so bought a set of Hi Beams which felt a lot easier to play (and sound pretty good too). BUT I've ended going back to the Rotosounds, simply because they are the sound that I hear in my head when I hear a Jazz Bass. Although the DR Hi Beams come a close second.

Quick plug for Rotosound TruBass tapewounds .......great vintage Motown sound.


quick Edit : I notice that Rotosound swingbass sometimes get a bad press because they feel icky when new and get dull very quickly. I guess I'm lucky because my hands don't sweat much so once they're worn in they don't get dull particularly quickly and when they do I loosen them off for 24hrs and abracadabra they've got their zing back (try it it works).

[quote name='bassatnight' post='806137' date='Apr 14 2010, 03:27 PM']My list of once upon a times...

1984 Westone Thunder 1
1985 Aria SB700 and a Fender P Fretless (I paid £200 for her!)
1986 Aria SB1000/ Travis Bean TB2000 Fretless (thought I was Mick Karn!)
1987 Yamaha BB5000/Westone Thunder 3 Fretless/Jaydee Supernatural (won from guitarist magazine)
1989 Fender Jazz US/Musicman Stingray

Stopped playing whilst travelling and generally living it up abroad for a few years

1992 Aria Cat Fretless
1994 Fender P US
1998 Aria SB1000 Fretless in Paduk
2001 Warwick Corvette (stolen)
2003 Fender Jazz 1981 US
2005 Fender P US/Stingray 5 string
2008 Fender Jazz 2002/Aria SB900
2009 Sandberg Calif J/M Overwater Perception/ Lakeland 44/01 / Fender Marcus Miller/ Fender Jazz US/ Fender P US/ Status Graphite Fretless
2010 Sadowsky Jazz / Aria SB1000/ Aria SB700/ Wal Mk2 Fretless[/quote]

What happened in 2009.......did you win the lottery?

Some of these early 80's Squiers can go for silly prices which , frankly, are probably not justified. But saying that, I have a Japanese Silver Series Squier Jazz, made in the early 90's, which is a really lovely bass. A friend let me borrow his for a while and I was so impressed I trawled ebay until I found a good example to buy for myself. I paid £250 for mine and they usually go for between £200 and £300.

If it's made in Japan, whether it's a Squier or a Fender, you know it's going to be good.

[quote name='Bero' post='979993' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:34 PM']Wow, where can i get them, they sound class[/quote]

Bit of a comparison here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=99324"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=99324[/url]

Don't know where you can get them ........but he obviously does.

For years Bob used to use a big lump of sponge......see video at 3.13 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTRUpALajc&feature=related"]Bob with the Funk Brothers[/url]

[quote name='Bero' post='978875' date='Oct 5 2010, 09:52 PM']Have Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Bass, never really happy with sound, neck + feel all excellent,
has anyone ever changed pick ups and what have they used.
Have a Audere pre amp in it, might put it back to passive and change pick ups
Any pick up suggestions[/quote]

I love the feel of my Geddy Lee but I know what you mean - it can sound a bit thin sometimes but I don't think it's the pickups. The pickups in the Geddy are USA vintage. I changed the neck to a thicker rosewood one and it changed the sound completely and gave it much more bottom end. The conclusion I came to is that a lot of the sound of the Geddy Lee bass comes from the very thin maple neck. I think that any other pickup you swop the stock pickups with will suffer from the same lack of bass.

But if you really want to change them.....these sound groovy [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-uPgqcHuo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-uPgqcHuo[/url]

[quote name='bubinga5' post='972294' date='Sep 30 2010, 03:42 AM']i erm....want to marry her..[/quote]

I saw her first.....!

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='973828' date='Oct 1 2010, 12:36 PM']Don't have the time or the energy outside of work/family life to build up a decent following for an originals band now, plus being over 30 means it's only folk or jazz left to me [/quote]

And blues......don't forget blues.

I started off in a band writing original material which meant I very rarely learnt songs by other bands. I thought at the time that playing covers was a bit 'sad'. But in retrospect I realise that you learn a lot by playing others material and as you grow as a player and a musician you can integrate others styles and ideas into your own stuff.
I still do play in an original band but don't have problem playing with the odd covers band now and then. I recommend it, if nothing else, it's a heck of a lot of fun.

Probably the compression on the mp3 makes it sound punchier (and it will have a bass drum backing the bass up for added thump). The Mag 600 has a built in compressor try that and see if it improves things.

[quote name='zzaass' post='968342' date='Sep 26 2010, 01:36 PM']Do I see two bass players ?[/quote]

I think you do.