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I’d start off with a Precision rather than trying to get a Precision sound from so many other types of basses, I wasted so much time doing that it’s laughable.5 points
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Maiden fan since '83 here, I mean for years around that time they were pretty much my go to albums on a daily basis. Personally I really like the new single, it's a little more 'proggy' than their early stuff, but as I've aged I prefer that side of the band, I'm about the only person on planet Earth who prefers Final Frontier album to Book of Souls ( which I found to be a real slog). This new one reminds me of when Wasted Years was released as first single from Somewhere in Time, ooooh it's different. True, but I'm finding the new one to be a real grower, as was WY. Just my tuppence worth. Up the Irons 🤘🤘👍👍5 points
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So I've done quite a bit since my last update so I'll hopefully remember it all! First up cavities have been painted with shielding paint, I love the look but it was a bit of a hassle to get nice and the bloody graphite gets everywhere, so next time maybe just copper shielding tape. The exciting news is I've lacquered the bass, I've been wanting to do this for ages, the weather has been absolutely perfect for it so perfect chance to get this done. The white spots all over the shielding paint is resin polish, it'll wipe off later. Love the look of the bass with this lacquer, grain has come alive. This bit could have gone either way, instead of a transfer or sticker I decided to spray paint my surname on the bass... could have been awful...5 points
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SOLD : my 1982 Aria Pro-II SB-1000 'Super Bass' - fretless In the late 70s / early 80s, the Japanese Matsumoku factory had progressed from picture-perfect copies to their own immaculately engineered and very creative original designs, and king of the basses was the Aria SB 'Super Bass' range, headlined by the top of the pile SB-1000. Matsumoku / Aria had clearly been contemplating the pathway laid down by Alembic, and countered with their own 'boutique' offering, the SB-1000. With a double octave 34" scale 5-ply maple / walnut neck, all-brass hardware and a Canadian Ash body, the SB-1000 certainly looked the part, but backed this up with its double coil MB-1 pickup feeding the proprietary 18V 'BB' active, noise - defeating circuitry, including a 6 - way filter enabling a surprisingly wide range of 80s tones, from deep reggae through to burbling & popping mids and snappy tops. All to the liking of John Taylor, Jack Bruce and Cliff Burton, to name 3 celebrity users. To this confection, this vanishingly rare fretless version adds a warm, menacing growl. This bass, which is a second generation 'bookend headstock' model, is in extremely good, all-original condition. The electronics all work, the 6-way filter provides the requisite 6 different tones, and the natty front face LED featured in these bookend versions blinks away in classic 80s sci-fi style once the bass is plugged in. With its railroad - straight, C-section neck, it is simple to set a very low, super-speedy action & wallow in all the 'mwaah' that results. There are a few minor dings around the body sides and a couple of contusions in the lacquer on the neck (see photos), but these barely dint the majestically thick and luscious clearcoat that Aria saw fit to lavish on these 1000 series models. In the day, the SB-1000s were renowned for the dense and vibrant wood grain finishes that Aria coaxed from its timber, all different. I'm biased, but if you find a more attractive one than this, please let me know ! Non OEM quality hardcase included (see pix) - price is exclusive of shipping costs. Happy to answer any questions, not happy to sell this beauty, but I need the space...4 points -
Now look what you've gone and made me do! Popped into the local store and see the exact bass I have been looking for! Needed (wanted!) something with a bit of clank and zing to compliment the Ibanez with flats on. Not too horendous a price, and got a bit knocked off for a dodgy G tuning peg. that was rattling. it's been bent so a bit of blue tack on it til I find a replacement Anyone know where to get one if BTN are out of stock?4 points
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Here's some pre-punk that, had it come out a few years after punk would have been firmly post-punk, then again if it came out today it would still be as fresh as a daisy...4 points
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Pickups installed in the pickup cover... Foam blocks placed under the pickups to help raise and lower the cover when compressed with the bolts This is the bridge, the best saddle I could make for this bass actually turned out to be small sections of fret wire and a grub screw, I've strung the bass up to ensure things fit as they're supposed to and once It's getting it's setup I'll notch the saddles You can see them a little better here4 points
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Up for sale my trouser flapping, bone shaker of a rig and much raved about on this and other forums. You may have heard my playing it at home in Northumberland 😂 The pairing just works and it sounds amazing! However I am still stupid enough to want to carry my all valve behemoth rigs around so as this is 3rd choice behind both of those I’ve decided to part with it. Id rather not split but could be persuaded and delivery is on top and I’m sure you’ve heard of my man with a van dude, well you’ll get to meet him when he drops it off for a moderate fee. The amp head is as you see it but the Barefaced has a spanking new, still in the packet Barefaced cover that goes with it. ABM 600 - £450 Big Twin and cover - £1000 Im out gigging again now, hurrah, so always have space in my van if you’d rather meet up with me. Cheers all 🤘3 points -
Another one here who kind of stopped listening after SSOASS, there's quite a few of us it seems, we should start a band I think Maiden have always been a live band, which is backed up by their relentless touring schedule in their 'heyday' years. (YMMV) I've never been one for listening to recorded live music albums, there's one exception though and that's 'Live After Death', which is quite frankly an awesome album, and an excellent chronicle of a band who are on top of their live game.3 points
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To my ( and my friends) ears there was a level of maturity and adventure in Wasted Years that Maiden had only shown glimpses of before, to be fair we were all male, all aged 16/17 when Wasted Years came out, so we were all fairly immature guys who loved their metal, but metal, generally, meant 'anger', power, lyrics about ancient figures, or warriors, or drinking, and riffs generally were hard, fast and powerful. WY came along with its carefully picked intro, it's'futuristic' guitar sound, melancholy reflective lyrics and to us, a new side of Maiden emerged. I'm sure other people felt quite differently and this is all tosh but it's a time I remember fondly. Loved that album too.3 points
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Well my pickups turned up a month earlier than estimated so thats a result! Still havent managed to do a lot to it as I've been really struggling with my back at the moment after suffering with chronic back for the last 15years its now at the point that my back is spasming and more often than not my legs give way from underneath me and its making working very difficult so mrs Jimothey is going to go back to work full time and I'll stay at home looking after the kids so tgis build is probably going to stall for a while whilst I sort out a workshop But here's a quick mockup I thought maybe add a pickguard it will be made out of ply and stained black to keep the rugged/rustic look? I didn't fancy a standard Tbird shape one? The pickup is part of a pair that I'm going to use the other one on a 5 string 51p build in the future.... 👍🏻3 points
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Cleaned up the shape of the top with the bobbin sander - it's definitely a keeper. Does jobs like this so well and cleanly, don't know how long I'd have been at it if I was hand sanding.3 points
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I gig very, very infrequently, the last one i did was a while ago for a mate’s 40th. He put together a 14 piece samba band and hired a decent venue in Southampton. I got my Ampeg SVT serviced, hooked up the 8 x 10 cab and used my ‘75 P bass with flat wounds. Sounded absolutely bloody gorgeous, even the sound guy was smiling in the sound check and the brass players were enjoying it too. I kept expecting someone to tell me to turn it down but it never happened. Went to bed on a high that night after a mate of mine, whose opinion I value, said afterwards the bass sounded superb. Woke up the next morning in a cold sweat thinking, “he never actually complimented my playing though…”3 points
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There's a volute!3 points
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The best song title in the history of music Fat Lad Exam Failure...3 points
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Interestingly, as used by a certain Mr Illsley on the first ever gig by Dire Straits (Deptford Crossfields festival, the whole shebang being powered by an extension cable out of somebody's apartment window)., Mind you, John may just have borrowed it for the day. Apologies for the quality of the photo, they didn't have cameras back then - this is someone's memory directly printed onto a Kraft cheese slice.3 points
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Well I was trying to find a venue for the Dudes to play near here, but some bugger went and bit the head off a bat in Wuhan and messed up the world BLOODY OZZY OSBORNE FANS!!!3 points
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It does look lovely when on the bass, I just hope to god it works out ok!3 points
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But came out lovely, thankfully...3 points
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Temporary price drop to £395 if you can collect, or we can arrange a meetup/handover. Here we have a lovely old Kramer Jazz style bass made by ESP in Japan in the 80's. It's essentially a jazz bass with a slightly wider (but shallow) neck, and a slightly downsized P style body. It has a worn-in satin neck finish which feels lovely to play. It has great balance despite the vintage style tuners and has a wonderfully pokey Jazz tone. The build quality is very good as you'd expect from ESP, and it feels solid despite weighing just 3.75kg/8.2lb. The blocks on the dark rosewood board are actually stickers. I intended to remove them when I got the bass but I think they work really well. They will come off easily if desired. The bass comes with an ESP flightcase, Schaller straplocks and a nice ESP strap.2 points -
Nothing, so with all the money I've not spent, we would have our house in Tuscany by now.2 points
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Rewind - Martin Herrick. He's a member here but I can't remember his username. https://www.herrickpickups.com/ He made the hidden front pick up in my Psilos bass.2 points
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Practice playing. Every type of bass has been used for all those styles of music. The difference is the fellow or lady playing the thing. You can play all of that music on pretty much any reasonable quality bass. By reasonable bass, I mean something you can plug into a DI and it sounds good without any polishing on a desk, no amp, no effects, no EQ tweaks. Everything else is fluff. It's fun but it's still fluff. A decent player and any decent bass and you're good to go.2 points
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So i decide to Go with macassar ebony and in the end decide to use regular single coils Pickups2 points
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Icelandic contemporaries of KUKL - PURRKUR PILLNIKK - 'googooplex'2 points
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Administrator? Schmadministrator more like!2 points
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Castration doesn’t just prevent procreation… it calms them down a bit… … it’s a win/win.2 points
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Bizarre indeed, I remember when I bought my old Squier VM77 Jazz Bass the shop offered to put it in a box for me but I didn’t want to let it out of my sight, no way was I taking the chance of a shiny untouched boxed one instead of the great player display model that just played so good.2 points
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Not unheard-of though: And they resisted the temptation of sticking standard J pups in the SBV reissues - best description for this is Jazz on steroids, full, dark, punchy tone even compared to the 70s DiMarzio Model Js in my no. 1 Jazz. This is one of my favourite recording basses. SB75s do come up very occasionally & I've always had a bit of GAS for them - great-looking basses and by all accounts, typical excellent Yammy quality.2 points
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Joking aside, that’s the problem right there. The game went ahead with a crowd of 67,000 because the government is desperate to push the idea of a ‘Global Britain’ (against all evidence) and didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of Brussels & Dublin, which had pulled out (the latter at the last minute due to Covid concerns). There was no way that they or UEFA were going to restrict the crowd, hang the consequences. To add to this, once it became clear the England had a chance of winning, the government was looking for a significant slice of reflected glory. Ironically, it became a PR disaster following the disgraceful scenes outside the stadium on the day and the players’ reaction to comments made by the PM and (in particular) the Home Secretary.2 points
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The synrh band I was in during the 80s used to cover this.2 points
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@MHMSWC#03............ love all of that! Killing Joke, Cult, just great. Will get some more on later I hope!2 points
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Happen it was the RSPCA rather than the PC Brigade that swung into action to ban it then!2 points
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Listening to the @donstrumental latest video reminded me of a few Dennis Brown tracks that I hadn’t heard for a long time, great Basslines, and superb playing . .2 points
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That is a perfectly good point. The counter to that is infections are rising exponentially and no one knows how that will play out in terms of the death rate in a few weeks time and whether this will help to create a variant that is resistant to the vaccines. I suppose that my point is why are we lifting all restrictions in one go and that (for example) surely allowing more than 67,000 people to attend a football match was criminally reckless.2 points
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I kept expecting He-man to pop up in the video.2 points
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At last gig I played in June, the engineer actually asked me to turn up (gasp!). He didn't DI my bass, he actually recorded me with a mic in front of the amp. He recorded the gig for the festival we we playing, as they were streaming the gig online. My bass (my MIJ Precision through a Markbass CMD 121) sounded absolutely fantastic in the video - loud and fat and punchy. I later found out he is a bass player himself. You don't find engineers like that every day. I thought about kidnapping him and keeping him in my basement. Trouble is, I don't have a basement This is him https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stevie-cossar-b043471062 points
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British exceptionalism at its finest… We're all in the same boat mate, it's not a great time...2 points
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Oilroight bab?2 points
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It's called 'Basschat', not 'Bassguitarchat'. Jus' sayin'. 😉 Personally I'm just here for the Kargyraa style of Tuvan throat singing posts.2 points
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This is, by far and away, the best P bass I have ever played, this side of Modern Vintage upping their offer.2 points
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