gjones

I've got it and will sell it back to you for a million dollars.

I know a drummer who played a shakey egg on his folky album (the one where he grew a beard).

No 8 - The room you're in

Even if the price of your old bass merely keeps up with inflation, it's better than putting your cash in the bank. Alternatively you could invest your cash in porkbellys (whatever they are).

I have the J Retro in my Jazz.

I really love the John East pre amp. I have a Fender Deluxe Jazz and a Fender Elite Precision. Compared to the John East pre amp, the Fender versions are pretty basic. The thing I miss most with the Fenders, is a sweepable mid control. I'm tempted to buy the deluxe version, of the John East, for my jazz.

You don't need to take the neck off. Just remove the scratchplate, put something down to protect the body (I use a piece of card) and use a phillips screwdriver to adjust the trussrod. You can loosen the strings if you wish but it's not necessary.

They are great basses. One thing I noticed with the pair that I owned, was that although could get a low action, the necks were temperature sensitive and I found that they required regular, adjustment.

I bought a G&L L2500 tribute a few months ago, and I really like it. It has a lot of tonal options and also has a very tight sounding B string.

I've trained myself to take constructive criticism without going in a huff. In fact I welcome it.

I learned hey Joe from a book which had one of those floppy records enclosed.

Suspending a buyer? That's about as dumb as it gets. Ok you may end up buying directly from the seller on this one purchase but eBay is all about buying at a distance and it's rare that you get the chance to try before you buy. Pushing a buyer off like that is bad business.

Did you bankrupt him, with your demand for a £20,000 fee?

My recently bought, early 90s, MIJ Fender Precision (from Basschat), sounded perfect playing with my country band, at the weekend. I have various posh basses but the P bass sounded perfect for the type of songs we were playing. You can't go wrong with a MIJ P bass.

I sacked the drummer in my band for exactly the same reason. He was also my landlord. But he had to go. I figured that, as we had another more committed drummer waiting in the wings, a decision had to be made. And I could always find another flat.

Interestingly I heard this song on the radio the other day and thought exactly the same. The good thing about being the a bass player and the boss, is that you can whack the bass up in the mix and drown out the guitarist. By the way, that's the first time I've heard a Rikky sounding halfway decent live (but still think he should have kept the Yamaha)..

Just give it time. I've seen MB500s going for £250 recently and MB 800s going for around £350.

I play through a PF500 and an ampeg 410 at a local venue regularly (it's the venues gear). The problem with the PF500 is that, if you want to play loud, you have to turn the gain up. If you turn the gain up it tends to sound pretty overdriven (which is fine if you want that sound). A few times I've brought my Gallien Krueger MB500 along to the gig and found I can get a much louder and cleaner sound out of the 410, than I could with the PF500. A few months ago I bought a Barefaced Super Compact and even the GK MB500 wasn't powerful enough to drive it enough to compete, comfortably, with a loud drummer. So I went out and bought a GK MB800, which now gives me enough power to get the level of volume I need. GK amps are very powerful and ridiculously cheap, secondhand.

I like the song, it reminds me of Jeff Buckley, but I'm not a fan of her voice. Maybe she could write the songs and get another singer into the band to sing them (like Pete Townsend does with Roger daltrey). But she is a great bass player.

Hmmm....good question. I think I waited until other people called me a musician. I don't think I've ever called myself a musician? Even when I was making my living doing it. People would ask me what I did and I would say I played bass in a band.

That's the one! I forgot to add the link....duh.

I used to have one of these back in the day. It was the cheapest bass in the shop (Grants in Edinburgh) and I bought it for £75 back in 1980. It had cheap pickups and cheap tuners and a cheap plywood body. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's vintage, it just means it's old. If somebody actually buys it for £399.99, they'll be very disappointed.

The Trace Elliot was a top line piece of kit back in the day. I could only dream of owning a TE combo and struggled by on a totally sh*te Carlsbro Stingray., that farted like a hippopotamus. Recently I played gig through a TE G7 combo and it sounded great paired with my Precision. I've seen them going for £150 on Ebay and would love one but then I think about the weight and decide to stick with my 'light as a feather' head and cab.

I saw this band playing in Edinburgh a few years ago and was surprised how excellent the bassist's Vintage Stingray sounded.

Ignore it and it will probably go away.