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Roto swingbass.....felt like playing 4 rat tail metal files they were so rough.

I'm stuck in a rut at the moment in that i like fender 7250 super bass nickles....not a very trendy string but feel and work fine for me. I should try something different as the best is only what you know.

ps there is/was a very long thread on tb as to who made fender strings.....i thought after all the rumours/red herrings/bloke down pub-shop posts that fender do make strings afterall?

I tee'd off another rad' too worked a treat. have you insulated the roof void between rafters?

Have you still got the original garage door? If so fit some double glazed patio doors.

I bought 2 pink ones a few months back when kennys music had them on a blowout deal at £40 plus post!

My 3ts is older but all have same design.....

i dropped a set of 250k pots and a .1 cap in one of them and its my goto bass.

All of mine have a set up mainly dropping nut height etc and play very well indeed, great necks p bass but nice and shallow.

Out the box mine were quite bright with good slap tone.

All in all great value

Yup cracking bass's...they get a lot of love from owners...i have 3 precisions.

.....i thought they were made in vietnam but the importers are in scotland?

Ahh Tito played bass too! Love jermaines playing and sings too.

Excellent...great fun..'n a headless bass too!

I've come across an ambidextrous bass player...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58vRP_QsGcE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58vRP_QsGcE[/url]

just been watching Don't Blame it on the Boogie, Jacksons, following on the from the other thread...below or above delete as necessary!

I thought Jermaine Jackson played bass when the Jacksons played live (or in vids when not ) and was more than just a tidy player, but in the first vid he is playing a right handed Fender but as a leftie...in the next video he is playing a right handed & very 80's pointy bass (Charvel?) and playing right handed, unless that's not Jermaine playing at all in one them


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeapaltJEx4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeapaltJEx4[/url]

US for resale and romance....Mexican for value....

As someone who isnt into recording and stuff I find it amazing that (to me) Wiltons tone sounds awful....but drop it into the mix and hey presto.

quite educational for me....thanks for posting that

Forgot to add i gave up looking for uk ones....also the US ones although good aren't quite as lush as the jacomo ones.

Jacomo on ebay....they are a japanese firm. they come by airmail and takes around 4 days tops....ive got 5 sets and they are very good. remove the A and D strings and use the E and G to align them. i promise you will be impressed, my first set have been on for nearly a year and look new.

Many thanks guys

This old tone thing....i'm no expert but it seems that basically a 60s p bass aint that much different to a new fender (or westfield for that matter) but amps sure are, and i'm a firm believer that the amp makes the biggest difference.

in my humble opinion...

Wow cheers guys....never knew country had so many sub genres...what type of country is that behind the clouds track?

Forgive my ignorance!

Bash my balls with an iron bar tis a small world...yup the central at gillingham....i'd heard a rumour it was recorded and something about one of the audiance/ central staff having to lend the guys a tape deck or something as their's went down...

like it cheers

Mark King a smoker...now I never knew that...Super Kings no doubt and Kingsize to boot?

I always assumed he was a bit of fitness freak in his early [s]tapes[/s] days judgin' by all those Muscle T Shirts until I read he always cooks a pizza for reporters interviewing him at home!

Met him twice. First time in around, ohh must be 1983, no must of been 1984 as True Colours had only just been released. He was getting a drink at the bar at the Margate Winter Garden gig, proper nice fella from I can remember, I'd had a few so don't remember too much, only what my friends tell me

Saw him earlier in 1982'ish at the Central in Gillingham Medway but was sober and tongue tied so could only grunt something very embarrassing about Love Games.

good hunting...have you tried the fan forum?

I forget the guys name but his playing on this track was sublime...my first choice for a "I wish I could play fretless like this guy" example.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26rb1MZH2Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26rb1MZH2Q[/url]

Hi, I saw Level 42 more than few times back in the early 80's, can't help with the video but I've never heard of that gig.... where was it? Was it just MK?

I look back at some of the Old Grey Whistle Tests that are on youtube and think the beeb did a very good old job back in the 70's 80's, but that could be thru rose tinted glasses. There are some great vids of some great groups etc, I'm sure many were duff 'erns though, only it doesn't ever seem like it.

There were some good progs in the 80's with very memorable groups/artists back then on the box, The Tube (everyone whom was anyone!), Paul King's 60 Minutes (Die Krupps etc), that Beeb Rough Guide To The World (Duncan Dhu, Front 242 etc) and the prog' after that which I can't remember were Ok too in that there was a fair bit of music on those too, I can still remember the Welsh one with Traddiodiad Ofnus ....I think I'd still give the BBC's 'canned' mock tube effort Oxford Road Show a miss though although to be fair The Smiths played live....Duran and Spandau didn't.

Tis a shame 'cos I do think that 'Later' did start off excellently, I mean Jools even had the all holy Matt Johnson on 'be jesus, but of 'late' 'Later' seems to be a parody of the Fast Show's Jazz Club...only without the laughs, be nice to see someone smile for a change.

I'd hate to see it go though, as its a got it's place for the roll neck jumpers & strange hats 'n facial hair brigade, but I would dearly like to see something accompany it.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6fBnPmhmc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6fBnPmhmc[/url]

Ok, if you got kids (or maybe not!) you may have seen the cartoon film Cars, and the other small film 'Mater and the Ghost Light' which comes with the main flick on the DVD.

Now, I'm not normally a country fan and roots and 5ths ain't my thing but the song that plays all thru 'Mator and the Ghost Light' is a real gem of a [i]purtee bit of typo'cal[/i], of what I think as proper US country music and my daughter loves it.

The songs by Brad Paisley, Behind the Clouds, although it seems this isn't the usual type of old school country he usually does?

Any other old school country recommendations...for a good 'ole boy....more slide guitar, rootin' and tootin' and mock yoodling the better!

cheers

PS I play it in E

My secondary school days were 74 to 79....we had good music room but noone was allowed to use the instruments in case they got damaged or worn out....!?!

No bass of any kind but i do remember lots of triangles and bongos...

.i do also recall i was learning piano in my music lesson when i was 11 and remember being bollocked by the head teaching in the room below, for playing scales....it put the puplis off their mathes..."no one wants to hear scales when theres times tables to be learnt"....very encouraging guy old Smythe

I thought last weeks was ok with london grammer....thought i'd found a new group worth a listern...then found that most LG tunes seem samey.

surely someone could relaunch a new age ' tube'....or maybe the yoofs of today listerning habits have such that it wouldnt work...or it could be i'm 50 and cant understand the words to anything
and anyone under 20 needs a haircut?

A modified fender seems to sell ok and doesn't appear to effect value, the mod'ed stingrays ive seen for sale often struggle to find a buyer

????

Ive always used fender superbass rounds but tried some DR rounds of unknown variant and i 'think' they seemed quieter with tone open (max treble!) on the finger noise front.
placebo effect or real....any thoughts welcome