Big_Stu

I had it once on my valve amp; it was a pre-amp valve letting me know that it was about to go to the great Woodstock gig in the sky.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1349809843' post='1830905'] Weekend promoter seems about right. Enthusiastic amateur with little experience. [url="http://www.pdhpromotionevents.com/about-us/"]http://www.pdhpromot...s.com/about-us/[/url] [/quote] Anyone using "of" instead of "have", especially on a professional site should be [i]shot and strangled[/i].

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1349797551' post='1830670'] Whoops. Not an EB1 at all. SG Standard. Sorry....I'm easily confused. [/quote] Ahaa! I was just about to ask about it being light-weight. The EB1 looks a right solid b*gger!

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1349803414' post='1830766'] Back in London now! I used English in that post in anticipation of coming home later today [/quote] Excellent! You'll have learnt the lingo by now - you can come & have a word with my new neighbours; they're Italian & barely speak a word of English. He works in a restaurant kitchen, so shouts ALL the time!!! She's knocked twice to have letters translated into English.

Filling the holes on the body or the neck is do-able; the neck would be easier & as John says BBQ skewers & PVA do a a great job of it. Or hardwood dowels if you have a drill the right size for either for a really good fit. The slow drying woodworkers PVA such as dries a lot stronger than the quick-drying stuff.

I bought my son a beginner (Percussion Pro?) kit when he was about 14; so +1 about the cymbals, I think his first lasted about a week before it looked (and sounded) like a pan lid. I always went with the best I could find after that. For his 21st I bought him a Pearl Export kit which he still uses. He had a full set of Sabian Pros at one time but they all got nicked from a festival in Glasgow, £500+ gone! I was in Costco the other day & they've just started selling drums as well as guitars. Now they have a Premier kit in, but it's only one model so take it or leave it kinda thing. Their prices are usually excellent though.

I was speaking with John Diggins just the other day; as usual he's up to his eyeballs in work & now has both of his sons working for him. The waiting time for a new build is still around 18 months. A couple of names are among the list; didn't ask about prices but a guy I know had a bass built about 6 years ago and it cost around £1400. There's one of his on Ebay just now, which could be modded............ http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jaydee-Hooligan-Vintage-Strat-Guitar-/110961996926?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item19d5d9b47e

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1349781114' post='1830342'] [i]"Can I leave my coat back here?"[/i][/quote] Possible invitation to hang it on the back of your bedroom door?

First off I'd be checking myself what he usually has instead of "rock covers nights for a change". Depending on the answer to that is there any reasonable expectation of there being a regular crowd that would turn up out of interest? The rest of it looks like a standard email that they'd send out to every band, just changing the name at the top, hoping to get a few freebies in. You could turn it around and ask what the average fee is that they pay to bands who aren't doing "rock covers nights".

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1349765719' post='1830093'] Best. Thread. Ever. [/quote] Don't you mean "Miglior filo mai" When in Rome and all that?

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1349701468' post='1829250'] [/quote] Could be worse, could have described it how women describe cars............. "What kind of guitar was it?" Woman: "It was a red one!" ............................................................. I'll get me caveman's fur cape.

I've got three One built into my Crate practise amp which has no problems, one of those dinky little plastic Korg ones that my niece currently has on loan & a cast metal Danelectro pedal one which always struggles to pick up an open E. I just fret it at the fifth when I'm doing the A.

I wouldn't say they were that bad; in the same way that someone who knows or cares about Rolex - or Chelsea, may be taken in for a few seconds but the ones that know their stuff will know whether they're about to be ripped off. There's a world of difference between outright forgery with intent to deceive and something being "styled like".

The first Rockinbetter I saw was a Jetglo, it was in Edinburgh's GuitarGuitar for £299. At first take I thought it was a Rick till I saw that Godawful layout on the body. I passed at the time & have regretted it ever since. Now the prices have gone up I'd have to pass anyway; my intention was to whip out the pickups & the aforementioned Fender cover, have a larger b/w/b scratchplate made along with a couple of Jaydee pickups with b/w stripes installed, possibly with an overdrive and/or coil taps, white Hiwatt style chicken knobs all round (ala Lemmy's mapleglo) and a TRC with "***kinbetter" on it. The price increase has meant that the extra work would take it into the "what if I don't like it after all that?" territory.

Rickresource is just so easy to upset it's ridiculous. I went on a few times looking for advice, and questioned some design flaws/features. I had my ancestry questioned, WW2 was mentioned, you name it, you'd think I'd crapped in their granny's bed! When I showed serious interest in a "Jetglo" Rockinbetter but queried the price rise I was told the earlier Korean made ones were better than the current, but more expensive, Chinese ones. But have no idea if that's true, anyone?

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1349584888' post='1827949'] I don't really get the Beatles comparisons with Oasis, I'd never heard an Oasis song that reminded me of them until their later albums. But I have heard Oasis songs that ripped off Wham! T Rex, The Rolling Stones, The Stone Roses, Joy Division, The La's, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Burt Bacharach, Gary Glitter, Stereophonics, George Harrison, REM, Neil Innes, and a few more I can't think of, but very rarely have I noticed any Beatles ripoffs. I'll probably think of loads when I go to bed now [/quote] Mott The Hoople (Bowie to be precise); when I first heard the riff of one of Oasis' later hits I thought "That's the same riff as "Dudes!", but then listening to an i'view with Noel he admitted ripping it off.

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1349603696' post='1828080']I just bought a Mighty Mite neck from the states, it cost me £68.13 + £30.88 pp, and then got a bill for duty of £32. So all in, it cost me £130, which is a lot, when you consider I only paid around £70 + £5 pp, when I managed to find one over here not so long ago.[/quote] I ordered a reproduction SG Junior scratchplate from the US many years ago. It didn't turn up and after much phone wrangling it turned out to be on hold at Glasgow HMRC waiting for £18 duty; which was exactly the same price as the plate cost. I told them to send it back, as was my right, as I wasn't paying it. The coughing and spluttering at the HMRC was excellent! They hadn't expected that, "Do you realise how much trouble that will put us too?" they asked. JayDee cut me a custom one out of a sheet of vintage US scratchplate he had.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1349568582' post='1827907'] So search "Hiwatt Bass -cover" [/quote] Thanks! I've already been reminded of that by a discreet PM

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1349554192' post='1827774'] Even knowing its a bass, not a guitar, would be good enough for me. My partner of 8 years still can't tell the difference [/quote] My other half has perfected a to the nth degree. She has a degree in engineering and was still totally unmoved as a I took a pickup out of my SG and [b]measured it's resistance[/b]. There's a joke there somewhere but she'd slap me if I used it.

[quote name='jude_b' timestamp='1349558592' post='1827828']The other thing I've done, which is admittedly quite sad, is to record songs with my daughter - mostly funk stuff with silly lyrics. I actually prefer this to recording 'serious' songs, because I'm less concerned about the results. It's also a nice alternative way to record them as they're growing up.[/quote] You'll find that the song "Five Currant Buns In The Baker's Shop" works quite well with the riff to the Motorhead version of "Leaving Here" ..... erm ...... erm ........... or so I'm told.

[quote name='Starless' timestamp='1349555811' post='1827797'] I'm sorry, I have no idea what that means. [/quote] You must do; unless you copied "after [i]ceasing[/i] to be, continuing to [i]elicit derision[/i] and [i]ignorant cynicism[/i]" from a big book you found. Still, I'm glad you understood the rest of it enough to understand that folk are allowed to find the tastes of others - in music or anything else - [i]not[/i] to their own liking without being condemned as ignorant OR cloth-eared.

[quote name='Toasting' timestamp='1349552840' post='1827748'] [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/classic-fender-precision-style-bass/1001387473#gallery-item-full-1"]http://www.gumtree.c...ery-item-full-1[/url] Guys, I'm looking to buy a Fender P-bass but is this too good to be true? For £180 it must surely be a copy like the advert suggests may be the case. I'm far from knowledgeable about this so would really appreciate a view; without being gazumped [/quote] The things that jump out at me are using the "style" cop-out in the main headline, the legendary "kept in the loft" scenario and it being kept with others, none of which were being used. I'd avoid on the grounds that they've already tried it on; unless others here, there are many Fender experts, can name you a few questions that would nail it for certain.

When I did it with an EB0 copy, I had a lot of the area covered in masking tape, used a long metal ruler to trace a line either side of the neck down along the body to the tail end. Dead centre of those lines I measured the scale, double-checked from the 12th & (as Purpolaris said) had that line about half way along the saddles' adjustment area. Marked up on the masking tape and drilled while the tape was still in place.

It's nearly as bad as doing a Hiwatt search and seeing ads for amp covers of all sizes (even if they are excellent) and cheap crap batteries of the same name.

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1349536846' post='1827493'] As above.... but if you DO need to increase the size of the hole DON'T drill it, get it REAMED properly by a skilled bod. [/quote] This. But [i][b]IF[/b][/i] you do drill it yourself, drill it with a hand drill & have the drill turning in reverse. It'll take longer but it's far less chance of chewing up the wood around the hole. It's even better still if you have a steady hand and eye to drill the hole half-way from each side to meet in the middle. And as said in many other threads, you can fill up the old screw holes with cocktail sticks stuck with PVA wood-glue. Cut them flush with a sharp knife and sand it down gently with a woman's emery board nail file afterwards. Try to keep within the footprint of the new tuners for a better look.