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    AHA................................................................... Just spotted this. Sounds a lot like ike me. I can sing, I can play, I have a sense of humour. Give me a shout, Geoff
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    Hey Craig, So I'm looking on here for bass player slots - Hey - Cumbria - not far from me - that's great i'm thinking but I look in more detail & hey - you want a drummer?? Maybe advertise on "drummers website thing"??? Hmmmmm
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    Well thanks for all of the information - I've had a look at The Major's notes & lessons - looks really detailed - I'll have to try to work my way through some of it! I appreciate all the replies - also the comment about Tablature - I think that Tablature would make it relatively easy to start with, but I suspect I would become too reliant on it, and then if presented with a sheet of just standard notation, then I would be lost.. Stompbox
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    Good evening - I was wondering if anyone has any particular views on reading. I used to read (a little) when I played with a dance band in the 70's, but I'm afraid it has been a question of use it or lose it - and I've lost it. I do have an old Mel Bay "Electric Bass Position Studies" book that I drag out from time to time when I feel fired up about learning to read again, then I get part way through and get fed up - back in the box it goes & then (like onight) I think "Hey - I'll give it another go. I just feel frustrated that I can't read the stuff - I mean, it's like not being able to read books - If you could read, then you would be able to pick up any new song, play it & then put it away till you next wanted to play it. Similarly if you couldn't read books, then you wouldn't try to learn a book by rote - why should you learn bass lines? I'm not expressing myself very well here, but does anyone know of a good bass reading exercise book or method - & would it be better to just use standard notation or include "Tab"? Stompbox.
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    Cheers Dan, Let's keep it moving around. Geoff
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    Bump - price drop to £30 plus postage.......
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    Bump for new price - now £10 posted.....
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    Bump
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    Hey - it's free if you want it - or send me a random CD in exchange...............................
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    Hi - I put these on my Warwick, but I only used them for less than 1 hour from new before deciding I what I really wanted were heavier, nickel wound strings. These are long scale, but as they were on a 2-a-side headstock bass they won't go on a Fender type headstock bass. Yaamha, Ibanez etc. will be fine. Cheers, Stompbox.
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    Bump - come on - it's free!!!
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    Well I'd like to put in my ten pennyworth here. I've been in this "group" for a while now & I think it's great. I've traded a (double) bass with another member for an EUB & bought a couple of minor bits- one where there was a problem was resolved straight away. I've now got involved with the recycle bit of the site where I've sent a couple of books & a CD out for free -I think by and large it IS abit of a community here. Equally I've recently bought a good quality bass for a price that I consider fair. Now I've got it (it's an active Warwick Ash body Geman Corvette Standard) I'm not particularly keen on it - so it will be going up for sale soon, but, as I got it at a fair price, then (hopefully) I will get my money back. It means I will have had an instrumnt for two or three months at relatively little cost & it's expanded my knowledge and experience. Not something you could do elsewhere. So there you go - that's my experience so far- but, there again, I've been out, had a few beers & come back and now had a few glasses of the old [i][b]vin rouge[/b][/i] so it 's all looking pretty good to me. Just keep me away from the for sale section now. Off to the Haslingden Guitar show on Sunday by the way - anyone else there???? Regards, Stompbox
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    OK - it's on its way to INGENIUS now.... Let me know when you are ready to send it on to DANO............ Regards, Stompbox
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    Good morning! I've also got a copy of this book that I've finished with. Let me know if you want to read it & I'll send it on to you - who's next on the list? Stompbox
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    Hi - is the Marshall delay the Echohead EH-1 pedal? Is it still for sale & in AOK working order? Stompbox
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    I had thought to do this a while ago. Will PM the member offering black keys above in this thread.
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    [quote name='Beedster' post='1158307' date='Mar 11 2011, 05:03 PM']I could use a low power amp. Any pics? Chris[/quote] Hi - done it now - I clicked on the "Send " before I'd finished the ad!!! lol
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    Hey there - can anyone use this slave amp. It's a 2 x 125 watt RMS into 4 ohms per channel power amp. I got the chassis complete, but put it into a wooden sleeve that I built with rubber feet & a strap handle. The outputs are 2 x 1/4" jack sockets (one per channel) Inputs are again a single 1/4" jack socket per channel - if you use only input for channel 1 it goes to both channels, if you use input 2 then each channel has its own input. There is a single passive volume control on each input. Has an illuminated mains switch & power fuse on the back. The logos are just paper ones I made up & are only lightly glued on. Photos below. All in good condition/good working order. Huge mains transformer so no power supply sag. It has a great sound if you just use a small preamp - like a Sansamp bass driver into it. I had thought to use it for extra power into a pair of cabinets, but it's just sitting on the shelf. I'm in Morecambe, so you could call to pick it up & save the postage, or could meet up with you at Exit 34 of M6 Weight is about 7 or 8 kilos so postage would be £12 by Standard Parcels - I think. Prefer to sell, but may consider trades- what have you got?? [attachment=74543:P1280002.JPG][attachment=74544:P1280001.JPG][attachment=74542:P1180003.JPG]
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    Hey there - gottit! Ta ever so. Stompbox
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    Hi - PM'd Stompbox
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    OK - well thanks for that. The question sprang into my mind late last night after several beers, so I'm glad I remembered to get it on here this morning. I must confess that in my many, many years of playing, I've never used flatwounds, except on a Hofner Beatle bass that had black nylon wound strings on that I borrowed in the late 60s - but sound from the amp & speaker were so poor that Iwouldn't have known the difference. (A Linear Concorde amp & a Selmer Goliath 1 x 18" cabinet). After the winding went on one of the strings & it all unravelled I didn't use the guitar again. The guy offered the bass to me for £15, but I said it was rubbish. Guess I'm going to have to get some flatwounds then - any recommendations? Stompbox
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    Good morning - I want to know has anyone had success in getting the classic Fender "Click" sound? I 'm talking about the recorded sound of Fender Precisions & Jazz basses on orchestral tracks like "Walk In The Black Forest" - Horst Jankovsky(???) and similar. Is it just a very short delay, or a reverb, or both? I think you have to play with a pick as well. I would be interested to hear comments and advice (apart from "Why do you want to get that sound" .....). Cheers, Stompbox.
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    This is a "Two Albums on One CD" of Link Wray, in good condition and in its case with titles/label etc. He's a pretty mad guitarist (not a great guitarist, just mad) and one of the originators of the heavy vibrato arm/heavy tremolo plus loads of reverb. Anyway you'v probably heard of him. I got the album a while ago & just came across it with some others - I've not played it for ages so it's got to go. Any swaps for - well - any other album - it's your choice. Stompbox
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    Hey there - anyone fancy a read of this? It's a hardback copy, in good nick & I'll send it on to the first person & then each member can forward it to the next. Not a quick read, but pretty interesting - plus some photographs in it. Let me know. Stompbox
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    Hey there - are you still up & about? I know it's been a while, but is your KBA100 still up for grabs? Stompbox.
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