Bassmurf

My first gig in about 3 years is Extreme at the Astoria on 24th Nov...get the funk out!

Back in the '90's, the band I was in decided that we should all wear these strange garish trousers that looked akin to a pair of pyjama bottoms, this stagewear lasted two gigs till a young indie band that we were playing on a bill with took the piss so we went "back to black" so to speak, lol! And recently I have taken to putting my mascot, Floyd Pepper (from the Muppet band of course!) on top of my amp!

Right chaps, this is what Yamaha had to say.... "We do not have any current plans for a specific James LoMenzo signature model; however we are releasing a new BB414 which will be available late this year. This bass features a scratchplate and a design very similar to James' bass. For the more professional bass player, we will be releasing a new "Super BB" bass next year and although this may not come in the same colour as James' custom BB, the design and look of the bass is almost indentical." Alex Wesley Yamaha Guitars

A mate of mine had one in the early '90's, nice sound but I agree the body kinda put me off so if this one becomes available I will definitely be interested!

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Oooh! Have just been watching JLo over on BassPlayerTV and he's using his new custom Yamaha BB bass. Me likes!

Thanks for the info Danlea, worked a bloody treat! Woo-hoo! Cheers! Dan

Can anyone help? I've recently changed the strings on my Fender Geddy Lee from the 45-105 Fender strings to a set of 45-105 DRs' - the other strings are fine but it appears that when I play a powerchord high up (say for instance an F on the D string and a C on the Gstring) the note from the G seems to be out a little out. When I changed the strings I changed them one at the time which when I owned a Precision seemed to work ok! Any ideas? Cheers Dan

Have just gone and bought an Ashdown J-Lo Hyperdrive & an Aphex Bass Xciter and want to get the best out of them when using them in conjunction with my other pedals (Boss ME-50B and Boss GEB-7), anybody got any suggestions where which one would be best suited in an fx chain. I think it should go...[b]Bass[/b]> [b]GEB-7[/b]> [b]Aphex Xciter[/b]> [b]J-Lo[/b]> [b]ME50B[/b]> [b]Amp[/b]? Cheers Dan

DR Nickel Sunbeams are the ones for me!

Well, the sound I've been using with them is just my normal setup with possibly a bias towards the low mids and rolled off a little bit on the bridge pickup. Songs in the set include: Caroline Roll Over Lay Down Something 'bout You Baby I Like Big Fat Mama Rain 4500 Times Don't Waste My Time In My Chair Backwater Rockin' All Over The World Bye Bye Johnny Roadhouse Blues Down Down Whatever You Want ....etc!

LOL! Just the southern counties!

With regret I will be leaving my current band - Quo-caine - and they will be looking for a replacement as of the end of August. Most of the band are based in or around Horsham in West Sussex. The gigs would be possibly be 1/2 a month and they're looking for someone to replicate the sound not the look of early Quo! Ability to provide backing/lead vocals would be a bonus. The band's website is www.quo-caine.com if you fancy a look and the contact e-mail for Rob (singer/guitarist) is [email protected]. Cheers.

King's X Ting Tings Weezer Gabrielle Cilmii

Venues I can suggest are: The Malt Shovel, Horsham The Holbrook social club, Horsham The Green Dragon, Horsham The Railway, Crawley The Tilgate, Crawley Hope that's of some help!

Don't know if I've posted this in the right section but I have a Fender Geddy Lee jazz bass and I was wondering what the best stuff to use to polish it with?

I bought my Ashdown combo (over the phone) from the shop in Stevenage, had it delivered to my work, it turned up with a huge dent and also some broken links in the grille, phoned 'em up they said they would get a replacement one ordered - a week later nothing had arrived, spoke to a very helpful chap @ Ashdown who said they had sent it to Coda Music 4 days earlier. Phoned the shop back and after having a look round their warehouse, they eventually found out! I hope my problem was a one off but tbh I've not used 'em since. Ashdown - 1 Coda Music - 0 Dan

Welcome! When I was a lad I wanted to be a drummer but the parentals would let me have a kit so picked up the bass, so stick with it!

Bugger! Why didn't I think of that. Cheers Bilbo, that's got me a-thinking!

Well, I currently play with some old friends in a Status Quo cover band as they were desperate for a bassist, I'm not a fan of t'Quo but can appreciate the music, I find now having done it for nearly 3 years now that I've been getting seriously bored with the material as probably in any type of "boogie" band, the rhythm section can't really deviate from what has been written (and our drummer agrees!). I've never made so much money from gigging but have finally decided that I'm gonna quit at the end of the year as I can spend 2 hours doing the gig and it could go really well but I just don't get the buzz from playing the stuff as I would if I played songs by bands that I genuinely like/love.