stingrayPete1977

I have been gigging the Stagg using the dots and a bad technique adapted from eb but I have noticed that I am starting to use a more correct style the more I play db at home. I have a pub gig coming up that our drummer can't do where we have decided to do an unplugged version of our set plus the singer and guitarist have been an acoustic duo for ages anyway, I might take the db for its maiden live gig!

Cheers guys

As most of you know I started on the Stagg around Christmas last year and bought a Gedo half carved a few months later, I really need some structured lessons but the more I practice from various books the better I am getting (bit of the Rufus Reid book and some from a bass guitar scales book where I am ignoring the fingering and positions and adapting them with DB half/first position instead). I dont think I will challenging Bilbo for a bass off yet but it sounds like music and I get annoyed with my intonation as my ears are improving, I can also play in tune (ish) while reading which strangely on elec bass I always play the whole gig looking at the neck! Like I said I still need to get on some proper lessons but my little challenge of learning a couple of the etudes from a book for half an hour to an hour most nights is paying off, my reading is improving too as I have only been reading for about two years or so. That is all really

Also as a car tinkerer you say grease Milty but Jeez grease can set like rock! I would get some WD40 down there first then and only then use copper grease if you feel it needs it as it does not set like regular greases. If you get the nut off then just spray the thread of that with WD40 and run it up and down a few times.

That is brilliant!

Did they make a ricky? Probably be better than a real one!

I always thought it was funny that the olp came with a matching headstock which is a hundred pound option on an ebmm.

Tbf these days if the venue are sure we will go down like a lead balloon then I'd rather give it a miss, I had a few years with an eager guitarist that would play at the opening of a crisp packet wishing I was playing the same gig with my other band and visa versa sometimes too but it was indeed the blues band where I felt it more often

Just be careful with the strings, my 3/4 spiros did not fit without some serious bodging! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/196792-spiros-too-short-l130-wasted/page__st__20__p__1939538__hl__strings__fromsearch__1#entry1939538"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/196792-spiros-too-short-l130-wasted/page__st__20__p__1939538__hl__strings__fromsearch__1#entry1939538[/url]

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1375792638' post='2165634'] As a rule: MM1 = Axis MM2 = Stingray 4 MM3 = Stingray 5 MM4 = Silhouette MM5 = Baritone [/quote] This is good info that I did not know other than the MM2 being a Ray and MM4 being like my Guitar, cool ta.

I have an MM4 guitar with a Gibson Tony Iommi pickup that sell for £120 alone new, I paid £94 inc the postage for the lot and its a little cracker

Get the mods done!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1375707846' post='2164514'] [/quote] couldn't resist!

I have fitted a k and k bass max since I started this thread, not had much chance to try it amplified yet though.

They were too poplar, that's why they stopped making them

[quote name='Bassclef' timestamp='1375611933' post='2163339'] I suspect, as a non-bass player advertising on this site, he was probably just being polite. It sounds like his musical project is about the politics of food, so he clearly has a serious point to make. I guarantee you he'll have heard jokes like these many times before. Believe me the novelty effect soon wears off and it becomes hard to laugh sincerely. Ray, I love good humour as much as you do. Please tell me why you think people feel the need to keep referring to meat, ham, beef and so on in a vegetarian post. If an ad says "Female bass player wanted for Grrrl band" do these same people stick up posts saying things like "I'll e-male you" or "I'm a bloke but what if I wear a bra to rehearsals"? If an ad says "Christian bass player wanted" do they feel they have to say things like "Promise you won't get cross if I don't quite nail the line"? No. They may not agree with these "belief systems" but at least they respect them. [/quote] I can imagine all of those things being said, go and read the honest opinions thread about Vicki and his cross dressing if you enjoyed these puns That said you might prefer to get involved in the halal meat thread unnaturally oversized breasts is the topic title so I imagine your fancy will not be tickled by it! Good luck with the veggie bassist search anyway, I can see the OP has a humour and if I was veggie I would at least give it a shot

Now that really is brilliant!!

Stripe could be rosewood actually, too dark for walnut?

I'd say poplar body? Alder looks more like the pine table to my eyes. Maple neck but quite low grade (graded in A's I think? The more A's the better with a tighter grain ending with birdseye?). Skunk stripe, no idea actual skunk maybe!

[quote name='Longmayyourun' timestamp='1375636079' post='2163725'] Well of course ''Google is your friend'' here, but you're going to need a [i]heck [/i]of a long time to work through his discography. Couldn't quite believe it myself when I had a quick look just now. Roughly equivalent, I would say, to Danny Thompson saying ''nah mate, it's your gig, I was just sitting in till you got here'' What's that? Who's Danny Thompson? [/quote] Got that one! I once jammed with Jimmy Cricket though

A stingray humbucker would work quite well wouldn't it

What we gonna do?

[quote name='Longmayyourun' timestamp='1375607854' post='2163284'] I know we're not being competitive here, but as far as I can see we have a winner [/quote] I've never heard of him

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1375571379' post='2163132'] Great basses, well built but at the end of the day, not as well built with poorer woods than real Stingrays. For that reason, they don't now, nor ever will, be close to the value of said real stringray. £450 absolute tops. Easy to make comparisons to the JV Squiers in terms of value increase in the future (value of those still completely baffles me) however the difference is the Stingray's being made at the same time as these were better, and i would say they were selling at no more than£700 really at the moment. So £675 for this is a joke! The only thing that these may have had going for them was that they were 5 string stingrays that were in the classic format. Now that EB have brought out the new Classic series, its lost that unique factor! [/quote] I agree, heaven knows why the sr5 didnt look like the sub 5 in the first place!?

I was really impressed by the genz contour amp, it was at a medium sized pub too, perfect!