Spike Vincent

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1389296255' post='2332590'] Having a left-handed bass is cheating! Learn right-handed :-p [/quote] I tried, I really did......

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1389296292' post='2332592'] Basic rule. If you can be punched in the bollocks when playing, its too high [/quote] Yes.

Hate them with a passion.It's cheating. Put 30 years of wear and tear on it yourself.

[quote name='Alfie' timestamp='1387629583' post='2313957'] No one has ever come up to me after a gig to say, "I love the height you wear your bass". Either I am doing it wrong, or it really [i]really [/i]doesn't matter. [/quote] This has happened to me more than once.

Inspiring.

My first "proper" bass was a Columbus Precision, definitely a solid wood body and a nice neck profile. Not a bad bass, but not as good a s a Squier.

There's plenty of gigs where I've thought "hmmmm do I really want to take a 1978 Fender Precision to this establishment" so the second hand Squier PJ gets plenty of outings.I've also got a £10 Aria,XRB, it's previous owner had removed the active circuitry,and replaced the P pickup with a bar pickup from a 1966 Watkins Rapier.Sounds great.

Wooden stage over a storage void.I engineered regularly at a pub with a similar set up.Solution was put the bass cab on beer crates to limit the resonance caused by the chamber under the stage.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1388404692' post='2321531'] just read that Macca does everything else right handed, but couldn't play guitar till he switched it round, is this true? and am I a narcissist for quoting myself? [/quote] I've heard that about Hendrix, and have the same issue myself, but I've not heard that about Sir Paul.

The Precision is the Ford Transit van. Might not be perfect for all applications but it will do the job, and all of us at some point have used or benefited from one.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1387904080' post='2317105'] At the tail end of the 1990's I played in a band supporting Christian Death, who had a big underground following back in the 1980's. During our soundcheck I was absent mindedly playing the bassline to This Is Heresy, their highest charting song (banned by the BBC for blasphemous content no less). The singer came up to the front of the stage and in an incredibly whiny voice told me I shouldn't play his song. Later in the evening I inadvertently urinated in his make up box (honestly, it was an accident) and our chance of a full supporting tour completely disappeared when almost all the audience left after we'd played since they were there to us rather than Christian Death ... [/quote] You are my new Hero.

I have done on occasion, we used a 150w keyboard combo.

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[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1387480185' post='2312558'] ..? This does not compute. Beans on toast is 'dinner'..? [/quote] Oh yes.The food of Kings.

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1387479456' post='2312538'] Jaco has it high and he looks pretty cool! [/quote] Yes, in a I'm Jaco sort of way, but not in a blood spattered Sid Vicious way.

Ah, it's working now. Best beans on toast I've ever done.

I need to post pictures of my dinner and Facebook won't load, is it just me or is anyone else having problems?

Middle age, I reckon......My bass has crept up a few inches recently.

Frankly, I don't think you'll notice a significant - by which I mean useable - difference between 15w and 25w. Both will be adequate for bedroom use, neither will be any use in a band scenario. I'd prefer the Marshall because it's a Marshall...

I agree with Roland Rock,a tatty but original vintage Precision does seem to be more desireable than a refinished one. If someone claims to have refinished a vintage bass or body in order to sell it, be very dubious.

With the current band, we started with a few originals from the previous band 2 of us were in, and then spent a year writing new material. There are 2 covers in the set, but a 3 piece punk band doing Human League covers mean's the covers are barely recognisable. I have done the covers band thing, largely for pocket money and as a means of keeping up to speed and gigging whilst the main band's drummer is off touring with his other bands,but it's not my thing really.

As far as copies are concerned, the Tokai is very good indeed,apart from the inherent neck dive.

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' timestamp='1386091250' post='2295620'] In my opinion, once a cardboard box is assembled, with some brown tape used across the bottom to make it secure, then it's a living thing, with a soul. S.P. [/quote] It's probably a cat that sneaked in.

[quote name='Mr Stinky' timestamp='1386080542' post='2295426'] I really need to vent my spleen on this subject. I realise there are going to be vastly different outlooks on this and I'll do my best not to turn BC into a session with a shrink. When i see 'stars' wreck their guitars and gear, it really turns my stomach and makes me feel physically ill. My first recollection was when i went to see Rainbow at the old Southampton Gaumont. It was a great gig until Blackmore rammed his strat. into the speakers and went nuts, smashing it into as many bits as he could. I remember thinking what an arsehole. If he disliked his guitar so much, why not just give it to someone in the audience that would be grateful for it. Or a school! I never followed The Who, but they're a topic in themselves. I can think of load of bands and players that i've liked over the years, only to be put off by the on-stage antics. Kiss NIrvana Twisted Sister Motley Crue Greenday Foo Fighters Ygwie even Metallica. The drummer in Greenday for instance....not only does he kick his kit over, he uses the stands to make sure he splits all the shells so there's no way they can ever be played again. It makes me feel like smacking him in the face a few times. How many kids in the audience does he think would rather see the kit destroyed rather than have it given to them. I'm wondering wether its just a display of arrogance and the fact that they can afford to buy replacments. I realise that there is the chain of thought that a guitar/bass is just a lump of wood with some electrical bits or the fact that once you buy an instrument, its yours to do whatever you want with it. I guess i'm a little more 'romantic' for want of a better word. When a guitar is completed and turned on for the first time, it has life and becomes a living thing with a soul. That's my say on the matter, i'll be interested to see how this topic progresses. It's something that's troubled me for many years, pehaps one of you learned chaps or chapesses could explain it all to me. [/quote] I had stern words with that Cobain chap at an early in their career gig in Bristol along the lines of "If you don't want that left handed Jaguar I'll have it mate" shortly after he chucked it up in the air and let it crash onto the stage ( without it breaking) . He responded by pretending to be asleep.