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[quote name='jakesbass' post='1111438' date='Feb 1 2011, 06:51 PM']For me the truth of this situation is more about how tolerant one is. I find that I can enjoy playing stuff that I wouldn't listen to. It feels different actually performing it and stuff that I would otherwise consider cheesy might seem like quite a lot of fun to perform. I wouldn't refer specifically to people I have worked with but I have played with some people who I felt were not so good until I playing with them gave me a bit more insight... I have had some disappointing ones too. The one exception to naming names is Bruce Forsyth, I felt Bruce was the epitome of finger down the throat cheese, throwaway saturday night tv guff, then I did a show with him and I was absolutely blown away by the quality of the guy. He sang, danced, joked and even played in a piano trio setting with me and the drummer. I left the stage humbled. I do realise there is a bit of a difference playing a show like I described and some sh*te arse norbert in a local boozer for 30 squids[/quote] There probably isn't a better example of the right answer to this question...

[quote name='martinbass7750' post='1110924' date='Feb 1 2011, 01:12 PM']+1 for the tascam, I practice with mine all the time. MP3 player and headphone amp in one![/quote] + another 1 for the MP-BT1. I'd be lost without mine now, and I still have my CD-BT1 MkII, because it has a line in socket, which means you can input your pc or any other line level from iPods or whatever. Very useful.

Hmm, back in 1975/6, I had a Ned Callan guitar - a sort of single-cut SG. Quite good, too. No memory of what became of it...

Happy Birthday for Monday! Great cake! I am particularly biased, of course!

According to Alex Claber, Barefaced builder, his cabs are built and braced to within an inch of their lives, light or not. I'm considering one, or maybe the 2x12...

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I lost it for 17 years!

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Wot he ^^^ said... Welcome!

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Howdy! Nice P-bass!

Don't like them either. For rounds, I use Rotosound Rotobass, and they are unsilked. My split-coil P currently wears TI JF344s, so is lumbered with red silks. However, the TIs are so nice, I'll overlook the silks!

[quote name='TimR' post='1062730' date='Dec 18 2010, 06:24 PM']There are things we know about human biology and psyche. We know that people see colours differently, people appreciate different paintings and women can discriminate more colours than men, some people are colour blind. We know people like different foods and have different tastes, some can stand very hot chillies others only like beef and Yorkshire pudding. We also know that people hear differently, some people have different levels of deafness, we all like different tunes, some people have perfect pitch and others are tone deaf. Women listen to the words/singer, men listen to the music. Drummers listen to the drums, bassists listen to the bass, the best musicians can hear the whole band at once. So why the obsession with 'my tone'? You are the only one who hears it that way. You can't describe it in words to a sound-man. No measuring equipment in the world can measure it to reproduce it. The environment plays a huge part in its reproduction so it doesn't matter how much you spend on your gear when you walk into that dodgy pub with the low beams it just won't work. Buy something that sounds good and concentrate on the notes. Or am I alone here.[/quote] Nope. Bang on assessment. I play what sounds good to me, and what I'm comfortable with. Whether or not anyone else thinks it sounds OK. If there was a truly objective way to do this, taking all variables into account, we'd all be playing the same rig..

60 last year, 65-ish thi, so not bad. Very few charity gigs. Quite a lot of private work, and a good bit of that in the diary for 2011. Considering the guitarist became a dad and I've had two spinal ops (third one for Christmas...), we've done well.

No contest. Keep the P.

Although Joe Osborne does it all wrong for me, in terms of instrument/strings/technique (Jazz Bass/flats/pick), he's probably the guy I'd name as top personal influence.

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Howdy, great intro!

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Agreed. ^^^ And hello!