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I thought I recognised that verbal diarrhoea. Here's his Silver Squier for sale. He's asking about £150 more than it's worth. I think it's just a MIJ neck bolted to a 'who knows what' body. Silver Squiers all had a brass earthing strip from the bridge to the rear pickup, this one doesn't. Which means it will either buzz like crazy or it's not a Squier. A Korean Fender is probably not a collectors item either. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SQUIER-by-FENDER-Silver-Series-Jazz-Bass-USA-Accessories-CUSTOM-COLOUR-VGC-/262087208146?hash=item3d059d6cd2"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3d059d6cd2[/url]

'YOU' as in 'The bass player', is only as good as your drummer. If your drummer can't find the groove, then you won't be able to find it either.

Gigging is a funny thing. The money is not great (usually) and I don't really like my fellow band members (singer and guitarist are married and are both Narcissistic sociopaths). The drummer has some kind of serious, paranoid, mental health issue (which he takes all sorts of heavy duty meds for) and is crazier than a box of frogs. I wouldn't want to socialise with any of them outside the band. But we make such a great racket together and I really enjoy the gigs. As soon as we finish though I take the cash and am outta that door like a rat up a drainpipe. P.S. An interesting topic to discuss might be, 'Basschatters who are in bands, where they dislike their fellow band members, but stay in the band because they really like the music they play'.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1444049832' post='2879764'] None, the keyboard player will do it with their left hand [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHx3DGm0cEw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=LHx3DGm0cEw[/url] I wish I could embed. [/quote] He's good, when he's just playing simple backing chords on the keyboard but as soon as he starts something a bit more syncopated, he's back to playing roots. He is no replacement for a good bass player.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1444460798' post='2883362'] Hi, Picked up a J body, in basswood. It's actually fairly decent, but they've completely lashed up drilling the neck holes in the body, to the point where it won't even accept a neck plate with all 4 screws (without trying to fit neck, just trying to get all 4 screws through the body!) Needless to say, it doesn't line up with the neck I'm planning to use. In fact none of the holes individually line up with any of the holes in the neck. Now, if the holes in the body had been fairly square, but they just didn't line up with the neck holes, I'd have filled the neck holes and re drilled the neck, but in this instance I'm going to have to redrill the body holes. I'm planning to dowel, glue and fill the holes before redrilling but my question is- will I need to also redrill the neck holes, or is there a way I can measure where the body holes need to be, so I can avoid this? The neck is genuine fender and all 4 holes are straight and true, but I can't figure out how to work out where the new holes in the body would need to be positioned to line up with them. Am I just going to have to do the neck as well? Thanks in advance [/quote] Do you have a real Fender body that you can get the exact measurements from? You only need to know how far, in mm, the neck plate should be from the sides of the neck pocket. The back plate will act as template for the holes. On my Jazz bass the neck plate is situated 5mm in from the bottom side of the neck plate (the lower horn side) and 7mm from the neck side (the side the neck joins the body from). Hope this helps.

Who does this guy think he's kidding? Nice bass but worth £250 max. And I don't even think the body is original. Because the silver series basses used to have a grounding strip from the bridge to the bridge pickup like the original 62s. Those machine heads look suspiciously new too. After all, this is supposed to be a 20 something year old bass http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SQUIER-by-FENDER-Silver-Series-Jazz-Bass-USA-Accessories-CUSTOM-COLOUR-VGC-/262077066206?hash=item3d0502abde

when I first joined BC, I realised that I had the opportunity to try out a lot of basses without losing any money. So I bought and sold many, many basses. I ended up trying them out and moving them on for what I paid for them. I ended up keeping a Jazz and Precision. And they cover most of the styles of music I play.

[quote name='Raslee' timestamp='1444286198' post='2881800'] Gigging (mostly weddings & functions) has enabled me to reduce my day job from 5 to 4 days...and next years calendar is filling up too! Plus excess wedding food leftovers often means the fridge is never empty - especially for cheese - what's not to like? [/quote] 'I do it for the cheese'.....I like it.

Thumpinator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TacaSl6dimU

Doddy has done a few. This is his profile http://basschat.co.uk/user/2394-doddy/

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1426861665' post='2722853'] I always assumed that the shallow neck was the main reason why most people bought Geddies/Geddy's? Surely adding a thicker (more P-like presumably) neck will affect the tone, but also the playability inherent in this model? It also lacks the Baddass II, which makes it a further departure from Geddy's original bass... Fender's choices baffle me sometimes... [/quote] I fitted an allparts Jazz Bass neck to my MIJ Geddy Lee, which was much deeper than the original neck, and it made a BIB difference in the sound. It basically darkened and deepened the sound.

My first impression is, that if the F800 speakers are going to be heard clearly out front, then they're going to have to be bloody loud onstage.Probably too loud for comfort. The beauty of having a PA out front is that the stage is a much quieter (relatively speaking) and more comfortable place to be, than standing in front of a whopping great PA speaker, whacking out the band at gig volume.

You can have the most expensive cable, bass, amp and cab known to man. But if yer drummers sh*t, you'll sound sh*t too.

Very interesting thanks for that. The first website says they don't ship overseas at the bottom of the page. [url="http://www.shimokura-webshop.com/products/detail.php?product_id=59023&category_id=630"]http://www.shimokura...category_id=630[/url]

Barefaced Compact received intact, in great condition and sounding good. Martin is an excellent guy to deal with. Recommended!

You should contact the courier and explain the situation. They should be able to keep it at the depot and he can pick it up with acceptable ID. If that's against company policy, then it will be sent back to you.

Why, oh why, did the mullet ever go out of fashion? I think it's a great look.

Where there's money to be made you'll always get chancers. There's quite a few 'traders' on BC who wouldn't know one end of a bass guitar or amp from another. They just buy and sell stuff to make a few quid.

He must have run out of yellow paint.

I assume the P/J has the jazz pickup turned off completely. Because all I can hear is a (very nice) P split pickup on both. And I can't tell the difference. They both sound great.

One of the venues I play in has the 100 watt one as backline. It was pretty good. I really loved the fact I could pick it up with my pinky. I thought about buying one of the 500 watters but don't like the stories of unreliability.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1442388249' post='2866473'] I am not sure I can tie commitment directly to rehearsing. There are many really good bands with totally committed members that hardly ever rehearse. Blue [/quote] I meant commitment to being as good a band as they can be. It doesn't matter how good the musicians in a band are, rehearsals of song arrangements will always make the songs sound better. Being professional doesn't just mean being paid to play. Some of the best paying gigs I've played were shockingly unprepared and shambolic. I felt embarrassed to take the money(but I did )

Commitment is what I look for. If band members won't put the hours in to rehearse a set so it can be played well, then I'm not interested. I'm too long in the tooth to be seen playing with the equivalent of a school band.

I have a Silver Squier Jazz. They are very nice basses. I saw one for sale recently on ebay and the seller had taken a picture of the original receipt. It cost £260 back in around 1993, 22 years ago. They were a cut above the bog standard Squiers. And this is it [attachment=200490:$_57.JPG]