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I have had me a looksee at those supposed wonder planks, the Auralex gramma pad. They seem so simple to make i am going to have to have a go. So. It's just a bit of chipboard/MDF with a bit of old carpet on top, and two runners on the bottom which are padded with thick foam (like the tough stuff you get to kneel on not the kind they used to stuff armchairs with) So is that it ? Because if it is, I can knock one up in 30 minutes tomorrow morning and let you know how it goes.? If it works I will be namimg them the [size=5][i]Dazzlex[/i] gramma pads [/size]and flogging them for half of what Aurelex sell them for.

Is this the same as 'Reputation' points or something different ?? and didnt Ped have about a million or something ? I looked on his profile and now they have gone. what happened to them was he naughty ?

I have two rooms i can keep my bases in. One will fluctuate in winter between 5 to 15 Degrees Centigrade the other is between 10 to 20 C. which is favourite ?

Steve_Soar recently set up my two Farida bass. The FPB 18 and the FJB 20. These are absolutely fantastic basses and i dont just mean for the money. Steve, who knows about a thousand times more than me about basses thought they were high quality, especially the top of the range FJB 20.

Just re-reading hisvery funny and informative autobiography[size=5][b]*[/b][/size]. I'd forgot that [i]he used to use a pick! [/i]for the first 6 moths of bass playing. He was already using finger(s) by the time Rotten phoned him and asked him to join P.I.L. though. [size=5][b]* [/b][url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/69061-pass-it-on-memoirs-of-a-geezer-by-wah-wobble/page__st__40__p__1210292__hl__wobble__fromsearch__1#entry1210292"][size=4]Here is a copy in the re cycling thread[/size][/url][b].[/b][/size]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1320750732' post='1430767'] Somebody should give Clusterfck an Ashdown. It would be only ten minutes before the thing catches fire. [/quote] yep like it did last Sunday to Mr Wobble. I did notice it was Nigel Clutterbuck who leaped to the rescue and 'roadied' him a new amp and quickly dialed it in. It went something like this................. Wobble: enters stage right. Crowd: Hurrah Wobble: "Do you like me bass ? I nicked this off a Dutch geezer" Crowd: "ho ho" Wobble: "no i did really" Wobble: lauches into 'Public Image' riff Crowd: " you are ace" Wobble: "there's nothing better than an open E string" Wobble: TWANG!! (entire building vibrates, lamps explode, optics smash, ladies faint, weak men cry, etc etc Ashdown amp: "[b]Kerr bang[/b]!" Wobble: " This happens to me all the time. I dunno why ?" Nigel: [i]leaps into the fray and without a thought for his own safety, daringly unplugs the dead Ashdown in one deft flick of the wrist.[/i] Wobble: " Now then. I want a bit more in me wedges, i wanna feel in in me guts" Nigel: [i]fiddles about, unplug, plug, dial, dial flicks switch, etc etc[/i] Wobble: "yeah in me guts, thats better" Crowd: " hurrah for Nigel" Wobble [i]thinks; Hmm ? better give Niges firm a plug?[/i] "Rotosound Tru Bass strings, nylon outer with a solid steel core" .

It gets a bit quiet at the end, so its hard to tell anyway. just use it as a chance to do a bit of freeform noodling

[size=2][size=3]Being as Doddy isn't here i will risk a tab[/size] .[/size] I couldnt find any notation that i didnt have to pay for, sorry. You will have to work out timings, trills etc for yourself. Some of the bars were messed up in the transfer. O[u]UTRO[/u]　 G|-------------------11--13--| D|-11--------11--------------| 　 G|-16---14-14--13--14----|-14--------18--16--14--|-16--14--13--14--13-----------|--------------------------------------------| D|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------16--14---|--13---------14--16--14--13--| 　 D|-14--13---------------------------------|-----------------------|----------------------------| A|-------------16--14---14--12-11-12--11--12--|-11--9---7-----7---6---|-4-----2--------------------| E|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------5---4---2---7----| 　 G|---------------------------------9---|-13----14--13----|-13-----------------| D|-------------------------9-------|--------------------------|--------------------| A|---------------------7-----------|-------------------------|---------------------| E|-0-----0----0-----------|----------------------------------|--------------------|

I have the three components in the shed already. MDF, Carpetting, Double dense foam, so im gonna have a go at making my own.

[quote name='TorVic' timestamp='1320789692' post='1431566'] My pictures from the day are available at: [url="https://picasaweb.google.com/100212465725187526301/BassDayUK2011?authuser=0&feat=directlink"]https://picasaweb.go...feat=directlink[/url] (I completely missed everything happening on the balcony! Ah well, next time then.) [/quote] Im getting "Sorry, that page was not found." when i click your link. cant wait to see the pics, glad someones camera was working (unlike mine, if anyone wants a hint for my xmas present this year)

[quote name='ash' timestamp='1320779157' post='1431357'] Its strange but the [i]IP Board [/i]blue theme is quicker on my PC! [/quote] Quicker ?? Is it [i]meant[/i] to be so ?

[quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1320781919' post='1431417'] Yup, used to frequent Erics around that time too, and even with a name band (Joy Division etc) you'd be right up close. Still got me card! You must have gone to Deeside Leisure Centre too??? Out of interest, what bass was JW playing on Sunday - his old Ovation Magnum? [/quote] yep saw quite a few bands at Deeside leisure centre including the Clash and Mikey Dredd, with my mates band the Jiving Daleks supporting them on the Londons Calling tour. Did you ever go to the weekend Futurama festival they had there in the autumn of 1982 ? They were the days, hire a few local hardmen as bouncers but they would stay outside and let five thousand people get on with it. Funnily there was no trouble whatsover. Yes he had his Ovation Magnum "I nicked this of a dutch geezer in the 1980s"

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1320779222' post='1431358'] Interesting topic and something I'm trying to work out myself. I have seen Wobble live a fair number of times and he's normally been galloping with both fingers and.. I recently started having bass lessons (after 30 odd years of playing) and my Teacher picked me up straight away on my only using one finger most of the time to play, I hadn't even realised it myself till he pointed it out! I think on my part it was/is lazyness and have now made myself aware of this and tried to go back to using a 2 finger technique. With Wobble I don't know why it is, but I do know he's dead tight on his [i]rhythms [/i]no matter how many fingers he uses. [/quote] Yeah, as i said it was only two early tracks, the rest were two fingered. I myself have tried one finger or a thumb and can get a pretty decent speed from them.

At the gig there was just one guy in front of me at the front of the stage. It was great to go to a gig and get a real in your face view of the artists. Just like the old days at Erics in Liverpool and Smartyz in Chester circa 1979

Come together by the Beatles, because i can show off with the cool slidey bit (and acentuate it)

I was right up front to observe Jah wobble on sunday and I noticed something. When he played the riffs from two of his old tunes ,Public image, and Poptones. For both of them he used only one finger to pluck with. This is presumeably the way he learned them and it appears to have stuck with him and comes up automatically when he plays them, even decades later. In fact he seemed to favour the James Jamerson method for a lot of his stuff and only for newer more complicated stuff did he ever use two fingers. I cant recal seeing him use three at any time. If my damn camera hadnt knackered I would have videod the entire set. Anyone out there video it ? I want to see if I imagined it ? I am starting to wonder now, but I promise you as he is a personal hero of mine I did pay rather [i]close[/i] attention.

Glad i bought the LH 500

I am getting sent a brand newie from GAK stock Mind you, so I should if an 8 week old amp goes mammay glands skyward.

If i were you id talk to the other two and see if they want to sack the mouthy one.

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1320683904' post='1429950'] Our sorry excuse of a try out room worked very well. We got to demo more basses/pre-amp and cabs than I have ever managed at Bassday. It was quiet so we could explain and answer questions without shouting and people could actually hear what they were playing. They also had a degree of privacy to play a bass without an audience, a lot of people do not like to play in front of a pile of bass players. Had you tired it maybe you would have seen it in a different light. Cheers Alan [/quote] I would have loved to but both times i went upstairs i could barely move to the end where the interesting stuff was and when i got there, there was somone already playing something and some one else either wating or crawling over the top of him to get to a higher up step, i couldnt really see. I am embaressed to say that when I got there I didnt have any idea who was a punter or trader, for ACG so couldnt actually ask anyone. i felt it was too packed to just stand there and earwig till i could tell who was who. The people I recognized up there were Dave from EAD whose wonderful cabs I had already heard and knew about (even the new 112's) and John East, who i chatted to last year and didnt actually appear to have anything that new I could 'try' and i was painfully aware of people behind me who seemed to want to get a close look at his pre amps so I felt I had to move away again.

The man who is afraid to admit he was wrong is a fool. I am not that fool, I was wrong. Marcus Miller was very good, and well worth the wait from 1pm till he came on stage at 6:30pm. Taking lots of requests and joking with the very happy crowd. His bass playing was simply superlative (with great drumming from Pat Illingworth) Marcus even took up a challenge to play with a Marcus Miller Fender that a fan had brought in for him to sign, and he really spanked that bass. I hope that someone has videod it for the guy. He must have been beaming, watching Marcus play with that bass. But I will leave the details of his performance to those who know more about the guy. Was Marcus worth the change of venue? Well I still say NO. But only because the place was just massively cramped and overcrowded. 2 full sized stands from Yamaha and Taurus Amps(who?) and 5 or 6 half or quarter size trade stands, most of which were up on the balcony overlooking the stage, and subsequently had to stop everytime anyone came on stage. I'll bet words were had with Steve Williams about the change of venue and what it meant for the traders. The one and only string stand had a very cramped area right next to the entrance and smaller than the average kitchen table, to lay out its meagre wares. With a corresponding reduction of stock it had only one type of flats and they were Elites! Needless to say I didnt buy them. (but i was saved a little later by Rotosound dude, Nigel Clutterbuck himself. He had nipped outside for a crafty snout when i caught up with him. I mentioned the trade stands lack of Rotosound Tru Bass nylons, that Jah Wobble had just been singing the praises of. Fortunately he just happened to have a set of the very same Tru Bass black nylon strings, that he produced from the back of his nearby parked 4x4 (A very nice Nissan Qashquai) and a personal promise that they would "last forever" I told him if they didnt that I'd be briging them along to next years bass day and would expect an exchange. The two full sized stands were Taurus and Yamaha. The taurus stand seemed to constantly (and i mean constantly) have the same two guys playing on and on for the entire day, with the very ocassional 'guest allowed in. The Mayones 'stand' consisted of two lonely basses and stands next to Taurus. I never saw either of them played.[i] (The aluminium welding on the Taurus lighting stands was of a shocking standard. I think some of them must have thought I was mad, after they caught me leaning in to closely inspect the welds on the framework that was at the back and sides of the stand. Either that or they thought I was a thief awaiting a chance to snaffle something ?)[/i] I did however see lots of people who had brought bases to try out on the amps and cabs that last year were in abundance, and this year were very few and far between. Certainly no one was getting a chance to plug in to the Taurus amps. No Mark bass stand, no Matamp stand, no Orange stand etc etc.All of whom were there last year Indeed the space to try anything out was just not there. Upstairs they had set up a sorry excuse for a ' try out room' on the fire escape stairs at the end. People (person) had to sit on stone steps and give it a go with a cold backside. Back downstairs only Yamaha had anything like a proper space to try out bases and therefore they was a constant crush around the stand, where anyone who was lucky enough to get a go had an instant audience of punters standing 12 inches away from there whilst they oggled the Yamaha BB range. [i](I heard the Yamaha dude regailing a punter about how he and Billy Sheehan went for a curry in Glasgow and Billy ate the hottest curry in the house and didnt break a sweat) [/i] The stand next to them in the corner (Promenade music ?) had brought quite few basses but nowhere to try them, unless you count a chair behind the counter crushed into a corner after fighting your way past the people at the sting stand. I spoke to three people who had trade stands and belive me none were happy about the change. They can speak up for themselves if they wish. Of course along with the lack of space went hundreds of people milling around everywhere. I dont wish to end on a low note, so back to the guest musicians. Nigel Clutterbucks was brilliant. Not too much of his speed slap and telling several tall tales, which the audience seemed to heartily enjoy. The guy can really play with a groove if he wants to. Talking of playing with a groove there was next up the one and only Mr Jah Wobble and his didgeridoo playing drummer (forgot his name sorry) Jah was on for less than an hour, which was a crime against humanity in my opinion. Wobble told the story of his picking up a bass and how he came up with his greatest bass lines by "playing with shapes" on the fretboard (Public Image. Poptones, etc) He gave us his thoughts on guitar players "[i]nuisances"[/i] and drummers were [i]"borderline austistic" [/i]and the packed crowd laughed along with him. But of course we had all come along to see him play and play he did. booming out some hypnotic bass lines and showing us how he would compose his own lines or jams. His playing was simply [i]awsome,[/i] there was just not enough of it.! He broke an amplifier (Ashdown. pah!) and said that he did that all the time, and while that was being fixed he told us that Ampeg was now rubbish, and we belived him. His bass "I stole this from a Dutch man twenty five years ago" was an Ovation Magnum (see pic below) He was a good talker and I belive he could have been a comedian, he definately connected with the crowd. Even when he started getting cosmic about frequncies and the beat and how they affected humans. We could have stood there and listened all day. Maybe he will be there next year. Well he does now live in Manchester so why not ? I realise that Steve Williams wanted to get a personal hero for his bass day, but the move to the cramped venue was a bad one. Please go back to the music school next year Steve, no matter who you cant get on the date. I dont know what feedback you got. People are loath to be blunt with someone to their face especially after they have made such an effort to get something right. But nobody i spoke to was happy about the move, no matter how much they enjoyed Marcus Miller. I realise after the 2010 bass day with three huge bass names, that there must have been a temptation to try and keep that very high standard up, and the lack of any big names for the October date must have been frustrating. But to sacrifice the trade stands and squeeze people in to a much smaller space where they have no chance to try out bass kit was wrong. Steve, the Band on the Wall was just too small. I do not accept the argument that Manchester bass day is more of a gig and now the London show is a regular that is the place to go to try out bass gear. In my personal opinion the music school venue enabled a perfect mixture of music, lecture talks and trade stands to display and try out bass kit. Not everyone can get to the London bass show. I would love to go but I cant afford over £150 train tickets or even £80 on petrol. and why should I have to travel over 200 miles anyway? Last yearsManchester bass day was in the perfect place with a good mix of music and trade stands with plenty of space to try out goods. The trade stands should be put before the artists. Lets face it, if we want to see them we can go to a gig anytime, but we can not go to a well put together spacious bass trade fair, where we can try out gear every week can we ? Anyway after saying all that, I would still like to thank Steve for bringing Marcus Miller over and changing my mind for me about him. I would especially like to thank Steve for getting Jah Wobble there, he would have been worth the £25 on his own, had he played and chatted for 2 hours. (can you get him again next year, being as he is a local ?) . [center][u]Ovation Magnum[/u][/center]

See you there fellow Basschatters. Come up and say "Hi" if you recognize me. I look like my avatar (without the cap) and have a black pinstriped shirt on.

I bought one of these B1000 P basses off ebay, as my first bass nearly two years ago. Probably from the same guy selling them @ £75 delivered. They are fantastic bases and not just for the money. I have mine in the corner of the living room so I can pick it up and noodle on whilst watching tv, so it gets a lot of regular use. Fantastic value for money.

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1320312574' post='1425055'] If i had a cheap enough way to get to London and back i would. I'll have to see what i can do. Same as TorVic, it will be my first one. Liam [/quote] Agree with this + 1000. Its just too expensive to get 200+ miles to London by car or train. Otherwise I would dearly love to go for a looksee.

Does anyone have any idea of the average time frame for a repair by GAK ? They have had it since 17 October and my Behringer just dont cut the mustard like the Harke. i am missing it