Telebass

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Howdy! Good to get back in, no? I lost bass playing for 17 years...boy, was it good to pick it up again!

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[quote name='throwoff' post='859759' date='Jun 7 2010, 12:37 PM']Tell them to shove it. No Gear - No Band. Simple.[/quote] +1 "They may have to travel a distance without the room for gear.....there's many reasons why they wouldn't have an amp"" There are no reasons AT ALL for a band to turn up without the proper kit, barring accidents on the way. Even then, they should call ahead and say that they cannot play. I wouldn't lend my gear to anyone I didn't know well, and I've only done that twice.

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Welcome! Plenty for you to enjoy here! Ask questions - lots of them!

Neck should fit and be the same thin C with 9.5" radius...

I'd love to be asked to do it, but in all honesty, I've not the abilty to be very versatile. My reading is minimal - I'd cannot sight read at all. I could work it out eventually...

[quote name='flyfisher' post='852706' date='May 31 2010, 03:33 PM']Don't get me wrong, I'm as easily seduced by GAS as anyone, but I reckon I really just need to practice more.[/quote] Now, THAT'S the truth...for us all.

I've long found that only Precisions work for me. I eventually got to Markbass amps, and apart from upgrading my homemade 12" ext cab to a Markbass 15 of some sort, I'm done, equipment-wise. Although a black Classic 50s P is a definite addition sometime...

Yes, round core makes, to me, quite a difference in feel. The TI Jazz series (round and flat) are round-core strings.

Sorry to hijack, but I read the thread title quickly, and my first thought was that you couldn't get fretted radius sanders... I'll get me coat.

I use a Levys M1, at 2.5!" and a Klondyke at 3.5". Both will keep the weight well distributed. However, the thing with wide leather straps is that they need some amount of breaking in, like new leather boots. I didn't use the Klondyke much because of this. Then I lent it to our very moist guitarist when he'd forgotten to put his strap in his gig box. Two gigs, and it was wonderfully soft! (and fortunately, not smelly!) The Levys was ok from the start, but has also softened a bit. Never used anything neoprene, or the Comfort Strapp, so can't comment. But the wide leather ones serve me well, and didn't cause any problems after shoulder surgery a couple of years back.

Jamerson/Babbitt/Edwards/McCartney/Squire/Dee Murray, considerable number of one-offs that I like, eg Burlesque by Family - Wetton really rips that up. But for economy, fills that are amazingly melodic, and make-it-sound-easy ness, there's only one man - Joe Osborn. The problem with Osborn? You have to like the Carpenters to really hear him at his best!

[quote name='Clarky' post='852456' date='May 31 2010, 11:23 AM']I would love to be in a second band but our control freak guitarist/singer/frontman would go ape and it would probably be the end of my days in Kismetik. I mentioned jokingly to him the other day over a pint that I had also joined a thrash metal band and his face dropped about a foot and his attitude totally changed until I pointed out it was a quip. His SOH barely returned after that (he is 47, has no kids and views the band as his 'baby'). As I feel loyalty to Kismetik I don't want to rock the boat badly but I would love to do something a bit different than 16th-note pick-style punk just for fun (I dunno, maybe classic rock, metal, even indie rock or covers band)[/quote] What JTUK said... I'm angling for more work via a second band - just another covers band to fill in the gaps, really. Will use the first in the diary rule..

As you can see to the left, I've recently had a bit of an epiphany with these particular flatwounds... (Austrian strings: when I put the bass in its case, a little voice says, "I'll be back"). I've put them on my split-coil Precision, which has a slightly weak neck. I find my tone to be not yet hugely different to the fairly dead nickel rounds I was using, so best of all worlds at the moment. The flats will lose that, eventually. But I'm hooked! If I really need to bite, then the single coil Precision still has nickel rounds on. Amp is set flat-ish; as it's essentially a 2x12 setup, it's not lacking in top end anyway, so, on that bass, the flats will stay! I grew up with RS66s, starting in 1970/71, so flats are way off my 'normal' area for strings. But these TI JF 344 strings are just the business. A piece of me wants to change the single coil over too. However, I think I'll not do this to the humbucking Telebass! Quite thumpy enough already...

Bass only. I did have a basic acoustic for a bit, and I have one again now, and a classical. They reside in their cases 364/365ths of the year, maybe more... As soon as I saw one of my then-new-schoolmates playing bass in the 6th form band, it was a Will Smith-Independence Day moment - "I just got to get me one of these!" 41 years later...

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[quote name='Golchen' post='851625' date='May 30 2010, 09:15 AM']I have all of them (on vinyl of course!). I was a BIG fan of the Nice back in the day.[/quote] Me too! Don't have any of the vinyl anymore (sob) - used to have it all! Must replace it it with CDs at some point...did some practicse/noodling to Brandenburger just yesterday!

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