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I've just put some flannel in the 'memorable gigs this year' thread, and it made me realise how important Basschat has been to me. I'm self employed and work from home, so having a few forums to share the day to day with helps keep me sane and cheerful (not an exaggeration), particularly in what's proven to be a challenging year from a personal perspective. For perhaps 10-12 year music and bass in particular was the main part of my life. Then it all went away for 23 years. Rediscovering the sheer joy of making music with others has been like finding myself again. I have to thank my brothers for their support and encouragement, and of course the musicians I've linked up with. But Basschat and more importantly basschatters have really made a huge difference to my enjoyment and commitment to the bass, helped me out of some holes, see when I'm talking trough my butt (sometimes). I've enjoyed meeting several of you, including at the Midlands Bass Bash. So I'd just like to say thanks to everyone whose paths I've crossed on Basschat, sorry to anyone I've offended by shooting from the hip or with my unusual sense of humour. This is a great community, thanks for welcoming me into it 🙂 Looking forwards to 2020!29 points
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And now fixed with maple-dust laden epoxy, sanded and headstock shape cut. Although Christmas preps are starting to encroach, will be turning my attention back to the body finishing and pickguard while I wait for the black fretboard dots to battle their way through the festive season postal melee.6 points
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Your experience mirrors mine in many ways. Love this place, it is the lens through which I view the world. I think Mrs S is sick of my continual 'there's this bloke on Basschat who says...' references. And, at the end of it all, what else would I spend my money on if not for the classifieds?6 points
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After lunch ya say ? Set all phones on mute, then break open and neck some weird seasonal alcoholic drinks that i never touch the rest of the year. Scoff some festive cakes that are just regular cakes, but have their prices increased at xmas. Nod off on the sofa while the body gas is building nicely. Fart and belch while still in the land of nod. Wake up later, feel like i've been fired out of a cannon, watch a film they put on every year, go to bed singing " as sheperds washed their socks by night all seated round a tub " etc Repeat on Boxing day6 points
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Basschat probably my favourite place on the net ! John5 points
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Happily, at least one person wasn't offended by your shooting from the hip. See, I only understand 24% of BC, and your shooting from the hip has consistently been in the other 73%. (BTW, my arithmetic isn't up to scratch either.) But yeah, great site, and one I'm very grateful for. Like you, I've had very demanding periods, and BC has proven to be one of the best medicines available to me. Not wishing to hijack the thread, but: thanks, folks!5 points
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For sale my Maruszczyk Jazz Fretless. Beautiful instrument, lots of muah. It's lined, but the lines are black. I am looking for a very specific bass for trade: 5 string single cut, 32" or 33", 16 to 17mm spacing at the bridge, 45mm at the nut, max. I also have a Mensinger (Maruszczyk) Cazpar 30" that I could add to the deal. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/430206-sale-or-trade-mensinger-maruszczyk-cazpar-30-short-scale-active-passive-4-string/ Full specs: Base Price € 990.00 Type: Righthand Number of Strings: 4-String Scale Length: Long Scale 34" Number of Frets: 24 Frets Body Wood: Alder Top Wood: Ash € 20.00 Back Veneer: Ash € 20.00 Color Type: Transparent € 30.00 Transparent: 3 Tone Sunburst Body Finish: Nitro € 50.00 Pickguard: Without Pickguard Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple € 60.00 Neck Color: Tinted Vintage € 10.00 Neck Finish: Nitro € 30.00 Nut Width: 38mm Fingerboard Wood: East Indian Rosewood € 20.00 Fretted / Fretless: Fretless Side Dots: Side Dots Fret Lines: Side Lines Fingerboard Inlays: Without Inlay Fingerboard Binding: Without Binding Fingerboard Radius: 12'' Headstock Type: Birdseye Maple (Tinted Vintage) Headstock Finish: Nitro € 20.00 Headstock Logo: Black 'M' Nut: Black Manufacturer: Nordstrand Neck Pickup: Norstrand BJB4 'Warm & Woolly' € 40.00 Bridge Pickup: Norstrand BJB4 'Warm & Woolly' € 40.00 Electronics Type: Passive Passive: volume, volume, tone Hardware Color: Black Bridge Spacing: 19mm Bridge Type: Standard Knobs Type: F-Style Tuner Type: Hipshot Ultralite Clover-Style 1/2 € 100.00 Pickup Cover: Without Pickup Cover Security Locks: Schaller Security Locks € 30.00 String Type: Nickel Nickel Strings: M4DN Gigbag/Suitcase: Nylon Gigbags Nylon Gigbags: Standard GBBS € 90.004 points -
@hiram.k.hackenbacker, can't wait to see the bass... btw. let me post this here...4 points
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Thanks, it's a pleasure to be able to help. I know from experience that it's a scary leap of faith into the expensive world of alembic basses especially when there is no real opportunity to try before you buy. 👍4 points
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I'm selling my old Stingray. It's a 1979 pre-eb model, poplar body, weighs in at 10lbs/4,6kg. Everything on the bass is original, except the 2 strap buttons. There's a nice worn in feel, the instrument being in overall good condition. Electronics is silent and as effective as these old Stingray preamps are known for. The preamp cavity has been copper-shielded. The bass is currently strung with 45-105 nickel rounds. The neck is strong enough to get nice medium-to-low action without fretbuzz, trussrod has life's left. The back of the body has been hand-signed by Will Lee. His former owner explained in his ad the bass belonged to Will Lee, hence the two small holes on the pickguard, in the exact same location as Will Lee's bass covers. I absolutely have no clue for this. What i do know is the bass is a complete tone monster. I've had 7-8 old Stingray during the last 10 years, i always kept this bass. There's something more in the tone you get with. More presence i guess. Btw, the bass comes with an extra original 1979 pickguard, so that you can leave these 2 tiny extra holes under the pickguard. Comes with a new Gator flight-case. As for the price, exchange rate being very variable at the moment, my £1685 price, insured shipping included in European countries is a guiding price. My real price is in euros : €2000 shipping incl.3 points -
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A very Merry Xmas from the Junkyard Dogs:3 points
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In pop terms..... .......though have to admit I'm a sucker for a good carol...3 points
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This. I like the concept of anti-commercialism, and love the Prokofiev excerpt.3 points
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Undoubtedly this3 points
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Not a hit, but...3 points
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I suppose in one sense skiffle started it off for us. The most expensive item was the guitar and after Rock Island Line cheap guitars were coming in consignments of 200. Tea chest bass and washboard and, hey presto, you had a skiffle group. You didn’t worry about PA, if there was one at the hall, then great but otherwise........ This was the first time young people had heard a live band playing with any greater energy that your average turgid dance quartet. Your friend, Bassace, started his public performances on washboard while learning to play the trombone. Then when we had a front line together we strapped the skiffle group on the back and we found we had a band. And this just happened without any clear intentions. Chris Barbers jazz band has only recently come to a close with the ill health of the leader himself. The Lonnie Donnegan Skiffle Group came from within the band with Chris himself playing double bass. Only last Tuesday I played with Chas McDevitt, now 84 and one of the original Skiffle players whose early career took him to an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. He’s written a very good book on the subject which I think is still available.3 points
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And sacked over a month before the gig too... If @BrunoBass has already popped up on his FB account a status along the lines of "...Band just sacked me out of the blue..." absolutely no-one is expecting that he's going to be there for "the big gig". Except the chancers in the band.3 points
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Know the feeling That was nearly three years ago........they're bigger now and the third gets involved3 points
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Got to be better than 'a bloke down the pub says...' 🙃3 points
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BC is easily my most visited website. In some ways it's like a support/recovery group. But one where the members actively encourage each other to do more of the thing that they're addicted to. So actually pretty much the opposite of a support/recovery group. Anyway seems like a good time of year to say a big thank you to Ped and the team for setting BC up and making it the fantastic place that it is.3 points
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Well said @Stub Mandrel and my thoughts exactly. A great resource for this thing we love called bass but also a safe harbour in which to escape life's day to day trials and tribulations.3 points
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This. Beautifully understated. The lyrics are incredibly poignant. Although Costello does an OK version (in my not-so-humble opinion), for me, the definitive version is by Robert Wyatt.3 points
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Parting company with bands is my forté; Would you believe that I've actually joined and left 9 separate bands this weekend alone?.. Believe me when I say; joining and leaving bands builds character and improves your overall musicianship!! As a veteran in letting others down, I find the best way to get what you want is by manipulating others to get it for you and have them believe that it was their decision to do so.... In the case of wanting to leave a band I would never “quit" as this would be admitting defeat! Instead, I might simply break-out into 7 minute long improvisational jazz bass solos during each song of the set or insist on using an effects pedal train of phasers, wahs, envelope filters, fuzz and delays to recreate classic children's nursery rhymes and Ed Sheeran songs. In addition to this I might critique the other band members playing techniques and insist that the singer gets singing lessons and that the drummer play Djembe... The above methods are fool-proof (believe me) and will get desired results within days if not hours!! For good measure you might consider turning up to shows like this........ (Please note: dressing like this will have no effect if you perform in a mariachi band)3 points
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When everyone’s gone home, then I’ll come down from my studio and have something to eat 😊.3 points
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I will trade this bass, plus one or more of the others I have for sale here, for a more valuable bass you might have. I would trade 2, 3 or 4 basses for one. Yes, I am looking for THE ONE for years. I just don't know what it is. 4 strings only. The others: Warwick Masterbuilt Starbass II Bubinga. Ibanez SRH505. Maruszczyk Jazz Fretless. For sale is my Sandberg California Supreme VM4. 2 band Glockenklang. Active and Passive. Few dings, nothing special. Comes with case.2 points -
I love all the Xmas hits we've had over the years and wondered what everyone's favourite song was for Xmas. I'll start with mine. Just makes me feel good every time i hear it.2 points
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I don't mean to belittle anyone's good intentions, but I don't think there'll be many applicants from the Basschat membership. 😁2 points
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I find Joe Dart's effects board needlessly over-complicated2 points
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Sold ....Again 😂😂😂2 points -
If I wasn't of a certain age, I might think the same about the term "Tufty Club"2 points
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That’s quite correct, although Wiki erroneously has him with a tea chest. He had Chris Barber, followed by Micky Ashman. We decided to graduate from a tea chest and went up to Chas Footes in Denman Street where they had a cellar with lots of DBs at all sorts of prices. We chose the cheapest at £35 and got into conversation with a nice tall guy about the strength, or otherwise, of the E string. It was only after he had left the shop that the assistant said ‘that was Ray Brown’. Happy days, 1954 as I remember.2 points
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The Sound of the Life of the Mind - Ben Folds Five. I do love a bit of piano and fuzzy bass power-pop.2 points
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Is that a euphemism?2 points
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A few years ago I built this - effectively a Fender Champ clone but with s solid state rather than valve rectifier: http://www.ampmaker.com/store/WF-55-4w-tweed-style-amp.html. However it seems that AmpMaker aren't currently taking orders (check the site for the reason - I daren't mention the word here!), so I'm not sure whether this will be an option within the next few months. I spent quite a lot of time looking around for a suitable kit and at the time, for UK based suppliers at least, couldn't find very much at all other than AmpMaker. There's quite a lot of stuff available from the US as I recall, and I also looked at a far east company called Ceriatone who had a pretty comprehensive range. From a quick search it does look like there might be more options in the UK now, though. (Edit - just spotted that you're in Germany, so these comments probably aren't relevant!) I found the instructions very comprehensive. I spent a lot of time reading through them before I even bought the kit, and followed them to the letter. I have a healthy appreciation of the dangers of 230v AC, but if you heed the warnings, follow the instructions carefully, and do absolutely all the checks, then you should be able to build safely. I built the amp over a few days in the Christmas holiday period, maybe spending a couple of hours a day on it. The one small thing I did over and above the instructions when I was testing was to use a second multimeter constantly attached to the power supply capacitors so that I could always see whether they held any charge or not. The one I built was a turret board construction, and came with a pre-drilled chassis. To answer the question "will it last", then I'd say absolutely yes, as long as you build it carefully in the first place. A final comment on safety. You absolutely can't take any chances. If you have even the slightest doubt about understanding the schematic (I don't mean how the amp works, but how to wire it up according to the schematic and instructions), or having the relevant practical skills to construct the circuit board, mount it and the other components, wire it all up correctly, and carry out all the tests, then you probably shouldn't embark on the project.2 points
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Isn't it just one note, to compliment the one chord guitar part? 😉2 points
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And our very own @MoJoKe is stepping in with an Evo 1 on loan until mine gets sorted. I love Basschat2 points
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A masterclass in songwriting.2 points
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Very well put @Stub Mandrel Basschat is an amazing resource & full of lovely people Thanks @ped, mods & all BCers2 points
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I think this says it all. Well said, Stub.2 points
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A fair chunk of my collection is only with me because people didn't know or didn't care enough to check what they were selling!2 points
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No wonder I’m shrinking2 points
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Tufty says "Avoid the 4003, it tends to clog my chipper!"2 points
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...and to you. 👍 However... No reflection on you guys of course, but this is what I'll most likely be doing...2 points
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Are they any good for metal?2 points
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We like this one a lot. The quality isn't great, but it definitely captures the moment. Taken at Dingwalls in Camden last December.2 points
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since the thread is starting to re-awaken, here are my basses Series I & II europas. Quilted maple, burl maple and burl redwood.2 points
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