greentext

12 minutes ago, NickD said:

I love his analysis of things

Yh he is just on it, with breaking down a good groove

31 minutes ago, MungoBass said:

This takes me back to 1977 when I bought a used Traynor 1 x 15 to replace a home-made 1 x 18 which had a white bed sheet cut up for the speaker cloth!

 

I seem to think my Traynor had a silver cloth front....but can’t be sure. However, the sound was fantastic!

ahaha great to hear about the homemade cab! 

yh i love this era of solid state Traynor amps, such a great sound for the money 

2 hours ago, steve-bbb said:

he plays the lines really well and gives good backgound and history details

Agreed love the level of detail in goes into, find it adds to much to get a playthrough video

2 hours ago, Cosmicrain said:

Not sure what was going on with Geentext and the neck situation, all I know is Mike Birch would have thrown it straight back at me if I made it like that, meaning someone has tried to do something and had the neck off and then not got it back on again properly

Yh was a real shame, obviously between the original owner and me some stuff is gonna happen, someone must of been jacking around with it, just was unlucky I believe. Bass Direct handled it well and sorted me out I walked away happy. 

33 minutes ago, baldwinbass said:

I particularly like his discussion of The Nightfly, one of my favourite albums. 

Haha thats how I found his videos doing research on The Nightfly album as its also one of my fav's!

34 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

What a great channel. Many thanks!

No worries at all, it is fantastic content

you know that Thundercat episode is gonna be a killeeerrr

Probably super well known in here already as a No Treble columnist but thought this was worth its own thread.

His content is super engaging, analytical, educational and really well put together, would recommend any bass player check out his videos. Also a KILLER upright/electric player and is a pleasure to listen to and watch in his videos. 

https://www.youtube.com/@pdbass 

Was just reading this article, gotta say im excited.

33 minutes ago, Chris2112 said:

Absolutely. I never liked Chappers in the Andertons videos because he seemed to think he was the star and had a unique talent of making everything he played sound awful. That he was so thoroughly exposed by the people he was trying to goon-rush was a relief. 

 

I still watch and enjoy KDH's videos now. 

Haha yh I agree, by the way all the 'signature' artists are jumping ship hopefully the whole Chapman guitar thing just dies an overdue death. I think worst of all, weaponising his fans against anyone is just so low and embarrassing he deserves nothing from the community. 

Agreed on KDH, loving the content. 

8 hours ago, joeystrange said:

That means it’s one louder.

2 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

Chapman have always lacked credibility and have been mocked for their 'sigs for friends' of owner Rob Chapman. Given he way Chapman was seemed to vanish from Andertons following the KDH exposé (the one about bullying, not the one about Chapman's production problems), I'm surprised that he's even trying to keep Chapman Guitars chugging along. 

Chappers is a total goose in my honest opinion, as toxic as it was, ChappersGate was a very interesting time for the guitar community. With Riffcity and Levi Clay chiming in support of KDH with there own experiences, and just the amount of people and companies coming out the woodwork was astonishing, was a fantastic investigatory piece (granted he could of gone about some stuff a different way in some bits but overall great video). Then the now legendary My Truth video of Chappers responding to the claims and him coming off like a total clown, talk about digging your own grave. Laughable stuff.

I still watch KDH's videos to this day and find he makes some great content. The Stevie T video being another highlight of someone that seriously needs to be cancelled. 

3 minutes ago, Henrythe8 said:

A bit disappointed as there was no reply form Sandberg to my eMails

Thats no fun, I contacted them in 2019 about a new pickguard for my bass on the below email and they got back to me same day, likely the same email address you have already emailed but i'll pasted it here if it can benefit anyone else looking on in the future;

[email protected] 

56 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

Don't apologise, that's a cracking shot!

Cheers! Definitely lost in the juju in that one haha 

I usually love Ritter stuff but gotta say this one really isnt for me, that fretboard would both mesmerise and confuse if I was to play it

yh that is a cracking looking rig, and an awesome tattered P-bass, bet this ripsssssss, thanks for sharing 

On 01/03/2021 at 18:48, drTStingray said:

I tend to use the EBS in preference to the Bass Balls - you can see from how battered it is!! 

Love how dinged up this is! Bet it looks wicked on the board

Commenting to follow, always liked the look of these Vincent basses, keen to see what people are saying 

On 06/02/2023 at 13:38, nilorius said:

I don't why but always when i hear Wild cherry - Play that funky music, it associates me with funk hymn.

I always think of that film Evolution starring David Duchovny haha 

Just now, kwmlondon said:

Just ask Lee Sklar or John Taylor

yh seee thats the other side of it I never saw until after i'd got out of the one track mind, what Sklar does with the Dinger is unreal, a true pioneer 

1 minute ago, Kev said:

As someone still part of such a metal scene, can confirm not a lot has changed in that regard!

nollynollynollynolly hahha

no for real its a great sound and all that but yh defo got a bit boring for me, each to there own! 

1 minute ago, kwmlondon said:

13 minutes ago, greentext said:

 

I met Sheldon Dingwall couple of years ago, he was very pleased that I get funky with my Dingwall, bless him!

thats rad, i have him Facebook and wishes me happy birthday every year, never met the dude but what a guy!

1 minute ago, kwmlondon said:

Ha! I use a Darkglass pedal… but I don’t play metal or even distorted that much. I play pop/rock/funk so the whole Dingwall/Darkglass is a bit Leftfield. It’s immense for disco!!

haha see disco, dingwalls and darkglass never crossed my mind in those days, had a very one track mind of just being a metal guy but have since broadened my horizons massive and could see how that would be an awesome combo!

12 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

You playing 4 string mainly now yep?

Hmmm I play a 5 string Trace Elliot T-Bass as my main bass as the lowest I need to tune is B standard, back when I had the Dinger's, I was playing in drop F sharp or something insane, which meant I needed that extended range for the tension in the low tuning. Also used the Dinger in drop A shortly after and was great but by then I could get away with the Ibanez BTB 35' inch so no need for the Dinger anymore. 

18 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

I have a Singray 4 string that always makes me smile but I always go back to the Combustion. It just works really well for me, it’s moved my playing on for sure, though I can totally understand why you’d get tired of it.

Absolutely love a Stingray and owned a few myself over the years. For me as well, in the metal scene I was part of at the time, everyone had a Dingwall Combustion going into a Darkglass pedal, and it just got really borinngggg. Everyone sounded the same, now dont get me wrong it was a GREAT sound, but once everyone had it there was nothing original about turning up to a metal show with that set up. Sooo just to be a bit different I stopped playing that stuff all together to separate myself from just being a copy paste of everyone else, does that sorta make sense? Not saying I ever got as good a tone as the Dingwall/Darkglass days but at least I was trying to do my own thing. I dont know just my 2 cents on that haha.

2 minutes ago, sk8 said:

That’s insane. Definitely the same one

Yh gotta be, turned out to be a real stinker by the time it got to me. Don't know if you can see by zooming in my photo at the 24th fret, you can see the G string was running straight off the fretboard and if you look at the B its way in on the fretboard, so it played really bad but thought I was just adapting to the new bass but turns out it wasnt me. I didn't notice as I was just so stoked to finally own a Zoot, but my guitar tech at the time, came to pick it up from rehearsals and from across the room was like what is going on there! I returned it Bass Direct not shortly after he gave it the once over and got my first P-Bass there on starting an obsession im yet to shake, so not all bad things haha