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[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1475762658' post='3148564'] It appears that there is a petition to stop folks moving into areas adjacent to known music venues and then complaining about the noise until the venue is closed down, depriving both venue workers and bands of employment. As the MU say, "Keep music live." [url="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/168135"]https://petition.par...etitions/168135[/url] [/quote] good call ez, 7940 is me, need at least another 2060 give it up yall, a good cause.

Looked like a great day, sorry i missed it, sold my double bass a short while ago, got an accustic fretless to do the DB gigs with, but its not the same, so this has got me gassing again. im off to ebay right now

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1475574642' post='3146958'] I recently sold an ancient, large and heavy (29Kg) yamaha stage piano on ebay, Eventually sold it for £62 to a charming chap who turned up to collect it on a vespa. He got it home too! [/quote] Should of got a photo [attachment=229262:piano.jpg]

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1475518387' post='3146580'] I can't risk sending kit worth as much as a bass guitar if I know the insurance is worthless - hell, I don't know why we have to pay insurance ON TOP OF the cost to send parcels anyway. Talk about advertising incompetence. [/quote] indeed, and its getting worse, have you seen the list of things that are not insured by some couriers ? for example my hermes (not that you would ever use them for sending anything over £50. ) here is their list....[list] [*]Antiques (objects over 100 years old) [*]Any dangerous, hazardous or prohibited goods (as detailed in our Prohibited Goods section) [*]Articles made largely or wholly of gold, silver or other precious metals [*]Items made of or containing glass [*]Ceramic or composite items of any description including without limitation glass, mirrored items, crystal, ceramics, porcelain, plaster, marble, china, stone, slate, resin, granite, concrete (or any item containing these materials) [*]Items which have been strapped together [*]Diamonds and other precious stones with a value in excess of £250 [*]Eggs [*]TV's & Monitors [*]Liquid food items or items contained in glass or ceramics - (all liquids are prohibited) [*]Any foods solid or liquid contained in glass or ceramics - (all liquids are prohibited) [*]Frozen food [*]Chilled food [*]Perishable food [*]Fire Extinguishers [*]Fossils, Stones, Stoneware [*]Furniture (Unless flat packed) [*]Flat packed furniture with sharp metal edges [*]Human and animal remains including, without limitation, ashes [*]Jewellery with a value over £250 or antique items [*]Marble or any stone derivative [*]Bankers' drafts [*]Current bank notes [*]Currency notes or coins [*]Credit cards / debit cards [*]Uncrossed postal orders which do not state to whom they are to be paid [*]Cheques or dividend warrants which are uncrossed and made payable to the bearer [*]Bearer securities including share warrants [*]Scripts or subscription certificates [*]Bonds or relative coupons un-franked postage or revenue stamps (except a revenue stamp embossed or impressed on an instrument which has been executed) [*]Coupons, Vouchers, Tokens, Stamps [*]Lottery tickets, scratch cards or similar [*]Items which can be exchanged by themselves or with any other item for money or goods or services [*]National insurance stamps [*]All tickets including travel and events [*]Musical instrument hard cases and suitcases when used as external packaging [*]Musical instruments [*]Negotiable documents [*]Perishable goods [*]Plants, seeds, flowers, and plant derivatives [*]Real fur [*]Resin items, amber and composites [*]SIM cards [*]Watches over £250 or antique items [*]Tobacco and Tobacco products. [/list] did you notice sub sections in there also.. "Items which have been strapped together" "prohibited goods" Which is another list and.. "Musical instrument hard cases and suitcases when used as external packaging" so a flight case is not insured which is the best packing you can get?

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1475268651' post='3144686'] I have fretted and fretless US L2500's that I use for most gigs. Great sounding solid punchy basses and I love them almost as much as my Wal. [/quote] hi wal man, yep, i have said it before that my L2000 is the closest thing i can get to my wal in terms of power, it has not got the range but all main freq that i use on the wal is about there on the G&L and its as punchy and tight sounding, my wal is heavy and i like heavy basses, my red 83 L2000 is swamp ash and that weighs a ton but sounds the mutz nutz and a joy to play. good shout needphreid and walman L2500 and L2000 for sale in Scotland [url="http://ayrguitar.com/products/guitars/?type=bass"]http://ayrguitar.com...tars/?type=bass[/url]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1475269162' post='3144690'] Cracking, I like the earlier ones without the eye gouger too although it does look ok with the 5 string layout. I do wonder why he went three bolt though it was never great all THREE times he tried it! [/quote] Hi pete yea bit of a strange one that, just wondering if he change to 4 bolt while he was still working there ? i have an 81 an 83 and an 87 all with 3 bolt necks i think he died in 91, so prob stayed with that design till the end Funny enough non of them have that nasty dead spot about C# , D, on the Gstring all 3 are clear as a bell there with long sustain, ,,,,, mmmmmmmm, maybe something there.... mmmmmmmm edit... just checked he died March 21, 1991... So..... who has a 1991 G&L ??? might be worth checking the date it was made

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1475259849' post='3144578'] SKOLS Noodle Bar? I'm sure Twincam will have something to say about that... [/quote] ahhhhh crap, of course, cheers edited

there are only a few so far, so common bit of support,,,, it will take yall 10 mins, lets av em.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1474887439' post='3141213'] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=KyK0y02HvVc[/url] [/quote] I take it back, this is so much better. EPIC Keef is now my stage advice Guru.

OWWWWWWwwww go on then, It's just so adorable, i can't help showing it off I think this 35 year old one is one of only a couple of E series in the uk, some info on the early L2000E you might find interesting, Some of this I have not put in the comparison between this and a sabre. [url="http://basschat.co.u...stant-brothers/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/190734-79-sabre-v-81-gl-2000e-not-very-distant-brothers/[/url] 1) The fingerboard on the Early L2000E and some early L2000 is unstained Ebony not rosewood. 2) Leo curved the finger board bottom like he did on the early fender basses see pic. 3) The L2000E had a skunk stripe down the back of the neck on both maple and ebony boards. 4) Leo also went back to the 3 screw tilt neck, From L2000E and then on to the L2000 5) Slot pole pieces, When you move these 90 Deg slot inline with string or across, it sounds different, slightly. 6) The L2000E and for the first year had "Schaller" stamped tuners, with the norm alloy tuning heads to cut down weight. 7) Like the early Musicmans Leo started the serial numbers off from B00... 8) Series 1 pre amps together with the early slot pickups on the early L2000E the OP is huge so were tamed down as were too powerful i think the transients from the pups were too much and were blowing chips, anyone with info on this ? EDIT..... just found this from a post basses from Leo forum... explains "8" a bit better... "The first E's had a preamp that did not allow the treble knob to function when the bridge pup is solo'ed. This was due to the early E preamps' chip not being able to handle the hard transients generated by the MFD's. The second generation E preamp was slightly tweaked with capacitors, and allowed the treble control to function in all positions,including the bridge pup solo'ed. E's and later L2000's all used the same preamp from early 1982 to 1992. Sound differences? Second-gen preamps sound clean and deep, adding big lows and highs that are not harsh or tinny. The bottom end on first-gen preamps can knock down buildings. Nothing sounds as mammoth as a first-gen E in OMG mode, and add in slot pole pickups, you can adversely affect the sperm count of the first 20 rows" Thanks El tookay. [attachment=228966:IMG_0992.jpg] [attachment=228973:IMG_0995.jpg] [attachment=228967:IMG_1000.jpg] [attachment=228968:IMG_1002.jpg] [attachment=228969:IMG_1010.jpg] [attachment=228970:IMG_1003.jpg] [attachment=228971:IMG_1005.jpg] [attachment=228972:IMG_0994.jpg] [attachment=228974:IMG_1004.jpg]

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1474994961' post='3142167'] hey, what happened to the amazing post you had before!? [/quote] i edited it, and thought i had posted 2 the same, so i edited 1 of them to the post above only to realise after i pressed post i had lost it, i was so miffed i could not be bothered to do it again bugger

Some great looking basses and guitars on the G&L site, If I could afford it I would love an asat guitar, next on my list I think.

here is how you deal with it, 2:10 of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uai7M4RpoLU

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1474703181' post='3139906'] I was concerned about the lack of a tone control but my worries were unfounded, I reckon Leo got it right. After a little experimenting and blending of the two volumes, I could get all the tonal variations that I wanted. [/quote] Hi Gary how are are you ? the early L2000 and the L2000E did the same thing in passive mode, no tone just two volumes. the two outer pots were the same volume, the middle one did nothing. a strange choice.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1474630855' post='3139394'] First time I've seen/heard "King Thumb" actually playing with a band! Quite a tasty player! As is this guy - Jodie Bremaneson of Skerryvore. With a lovely blue G&L... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KexIrXcxVHE[/media] [/quote] Cool Clip, enjoyed that, Henry Thomas is a fantastic player, very tastfull playing and is up there with the best of them. dont see him with his wal any more, mainly his very early G&L and his westone thunder, Would love to get him on bass chat, could open a thred called ask henry .. Mods ? [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1474632708' post='3139423'] No mention of Cass Lewis yet? [/quote] pete, any clips ?

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1474562824' post='3138861'] It's the venerable Wal in full active mode going into a one channel of a DBX compressor - set with some limiter gain, half attack and long release/medium ratio into a 3 Leaf envelope follower pedal (Bass Direct do them), then into the other channel of compression with more limiter gain, less attack, higher ratio and more release and recorded direct onto Ableton 9. I've been known to use the 3Leaf, plus a Qtron and DOD envelope pedals driven by Darkglass tube distortion - which gives a most interesting effect! [/quote] 3 Leaf will check that out, i do use the qtron on a few songs but this sounds more ,,,, fluid. you say your wal is going into it,... when i use my wal into the qtron its almost like its overdriving it so i had to put a volume knob on the qtron. i have the same problem with the G&L , as both active and high o/p but when i use my jazz it seems to wah better,,, so i dont think the qtron likes a hi input sig,,,, have you found anything like this ?

Good Enough for henry larry and bernard, its good enough for me, here is some G&L porn,,, the power of the L2000...E. henry thomas [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yao64rkG1Uk"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Yao64rkG1Uk[/url] Larry graham [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vPM-MlCLs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=s-vPM-MlCLs[/url] bernard Edwards [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kXaX5D6Ng"]https://www.youtube....h?v=14kXaX5D6Ng[/url] So you say to people when asked, what do you use, "a G&L" and they say... what? whats that ? does not help not being able to find any as stock in shops, so people cant see or try them, i think the importer is JHS but why are they not advertised over here ? [url="http://www.glguitars.com/"]http://www.glguitars.com/[/url]

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1474535562' post='3138594'] I thought I'd do a beautiful melody evoking that feeling of autumnal colour, kids scuffing leaves and playing conkers, hot chocolate round the fire and burning folks who've tried to blow up parliament. Then I thought, sod that, I'll do this instead: [url="https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/really-free-man"]https://soundcloud.c...really-free-man[/url] [/quote] Len what pedal did you use for that ?... i want one [quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1474504305' post='3138502'] What a nice little piece, indeed very mellow. [/quote] Cheers, wish i had wrote it, credit should go to "wayne Johnson" mine is a bass adaptation of a very nice track called "Marina" from the "Wayne johnson Trio" album is called "Grasshopper". Very hard to get on cd, but worth tracking down if not just for some of the best bass playing iv have ever heard by Jimmy Johnson, its a must have for anyone who like melodic bass playing, and top draw guitar and drums without it getting too tec arsey. i like yours i can hear the theme you was aiming for in the playing, it does capture that chaos well. well done.

i stand behind our singer, i could attach one of these to the back of his neck, when he sings flat i could kick him on his right side and he could adjust, when he is sharp i kick his left side. only trouble is, he is so sh*t ........ at the end of the gig he would have to go to hospital

Comon yall lets have them noodles here is my quick noodle, something mellow.....( Not the norm ) inspiration from "wayne johnson", Marina. hard to squeeze into one min, but fun trying. (dont know if its ok but bass content starts at 0:03 and finishes at 1.03, but the clip does not finish till 1:08 with quiet ends, is that ok? .... if not i will chop the quiet ends off to fit) bass= washburn XB600 Ped= Boss RV3 on setting 4, vol 1 pre A = SWR super RedHead di out [url="https://soundcloud.com/mr-funky-7/bass-noodle-1/s-t0zZH"]https://soundcloud.c...oodle-1/s-t0zZH[/url]

Its just what you get use to at the end of the day, fo eg, i have a few pairs of headphones by Beyer like dt100 and some beyer dt100 canford compensated in the studio as that is what some people like. But me, i cant stand them, i think they sound god awfull, talk about bad bass. i have some cheap AKG K44 had them years, and i love them, i can hear things better in them, so... when i mix a track for cd using them i know what the bass will sound like on a cd and i know what the cymbals will sound like and everything inbetween on a car cd player and an MP3. If i use the Beyers my mix will be all over the place on cd because i cant hear bass very well in them so will add more in the headphones to get what i am use too, result is a bass heavy mix on cd and mp3. so its just what you get use to, if you keep changing you have to re eq your head if that makes sense. monitors im using the Roland DS-90s which have been fab, [url="http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DS90/"]http://www.sweetwate...re/detail/DS90/[/url] But my back up pair, which are not bad but will be a jump in quality for you against pc speakers are good old tannoy reveal actives you can get on ebay for less than £100, quick look and found these for 80 quid with 4 hours left to go. here ya go... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tannoy-Active-Reveal-Near-field-Monitors-/232082219025?hash=item36092da011:g:rr8AAOSwOyJX2UXw"]http://www.ebay.co.u...r8AAOSwOyJX2UXw[/url] but as markstuk says these newer ones are a great deal. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/tannoy-reveal-402-monitor-speakers-/152244353068"]http://www.ebay.co.u...s-/152244353068[/url] but just like dt100s its just what you get use to.

sounds great to me, used my jd at a few functions, tis indeed a good all rounder, even more suprising at the end of the night when you get your spot you play it cool and do a solo with your fingers, " Well..... i was'nt expecting that"

[quote name='Burrito' timestamp='1473003234' post='3125932'] Playing with a 50s rock 'n' roll band this weekend, an audience member came up and said "do you know any Oasis?". It's stuff like this that happens all the time now. Having been around the live scene for the best part of 30 years I can only agree with the general replies here so far. I guess for me it's in my blood and I can't imagine not doing it. My view is I always play to whoever is there and try not to sulk / strop when playing to 6 people who are only half watching. [/quote] do you know any Oasis? i think he must have been taking the pi@@ the !w@. should of dedicated the next 3 in a row, R&R songs to him. Thats the spirit, im like you, wont ever give in, keep the faith

Nothing worse, scumbags, will also keep a look out. Good shout bluejay.