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[quote name='SJA' post='112058' date='Jan 1 2008, 11:56 PM']I was tempted to get one of those Wesley/Galveston Ebay cheapo acrylic basses, and put an LED or 2 in it, and Kent Armstrong lipstick J pickups. a nice stage prop....[/quote] haha- someone's put lights in a Wesley see-thru strat- [url="http://www.ashbysoft.com/wesley.html"]http://www.ashbysoft.com/wesley.html[/url]

yeah, it's always sounded "wrong" to me. I read a story that John Bonham couldn't figure out the odd time signature, so just played 4/4 through it?

some others- Dante Gizzi on Gun's Gallus album eg. Steal your fire Dave Ellefson on Megadeth's the world needs a hero eg. Warhorse/recipe for hate Rick Savage on early Def Leppard (before he got replaced by a Fairlight sampler....) eg. Overture, Switch 625

*obligatory "pear-shaped" jibe*

Warwick offered the Corvette standard in the ash body + wenge/ovangkol neck combination- [url="http://www.bmusic.com.au/links/prodnews/archives/warwickcv.htm"]http://www.bmusic.com.au/links/prodnews/ar...s/warwickcv.htm[/url]

- but artificially aged by a revolutionary new relicing technique (involving putting it in a special bin with various specially chosen "distressing rocks" and rolling it down a hill)

Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes mostly plays acoustic basses- in particular the old (and very large) Ernie Ball Earthwood.

most headless basses have 2 strap buttons at the base, because the tuning block's in the middle, however, my Hohner B2A still can get knocked over. it's so chewed up anyway that I don't worry about it. but for any instrument worth anything i'd use a stand. the idea's pretty old- Guild did it back in the 60's- [url="http://www.guitargonauts.com/pick-29.html"]http://www.guitargonauts.com/pick-29.html[/url]

the bass of the future will have so many strings and such a wide fingerboard as a result, that players will have to wear Tony Levin-style "Funk finger" extensions on both their plucking and fretting hands.

reminiscent of an oven-ready chicken.

funnily enough i was just looking at these- [url="http://www.cranesmusicstore.com/aldenvxtroubadourteardropbasswhite-p-29.html"]http://www.cranesmusicstore.com/aldenvxtro...white-p-29.html[/url]

what 'Nard Edwards did was play as if with a pick, but using his index fingernail and thumb instead. (it's him on Diana Ross' I'm coming out too) you can see him do this on the Chic live at the budokan (1996) DVD on "Dance dance dance". to be honest, I think it's an idiosyncratic technique that worked for him, and it might not work for everyone. FWIW I prefer playing those lines as normal fingerstyle.

yep, Kaos it is- [url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6155495805590520265"]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6155495805590520265[/url]

the screen could be a Kaos Pad (touchscreen-controlled effects).

17 for me- 5 original, 12 covers. I'm hoping to find a more rewarding original project this year.

ps. you could always just add an extra 9v compartment visible only from the back of the bass- as Sims LED do.

Matt Bellamy (Muse) seems to be intent on cramming an entire pedalboard in his guitars- Whammy, Zfex etc....... [url="http://www.mansonguitars.co.uk/Muse%20gallery/index.htm"]http://www.mansonguitars.co.uk/Muse%20gallery/index.htm[/url] there used to be a muse fansite here with details on all his manson guitars, but it seems to be down. [url="http://musegear.fobbedoff.net/"]http://musegear.fobbedoff.net/[/url] Chris Squire used an Electra bass with built in flanger chorus, overdrive etc. in it.

cons for thru-stringing- sometimes you'll find the string end silk will lie across the nut, and it can be a pain changing strings, having to thread them through the body. pros, I've found the string feels stiffer, and there's more metallic attack.

I think that 5 string bass is being sold on ebay by tropicalmoonmusic. I like how it's got a split p pickup for just one string

acrylic's very dense, so I'd expect you'd get a lot of sustain and lows (Charlie Jones said that about his first see-thru bass) , but not much resonant snap. ps. a Status Stealth or a Steinberger cricket bat is entirely plastic too!

I was tempted to get one of those Wesley/Galveston Ebay cheapo acrylic basses, and put an LED or 2 in it, and Kent Armstrong lipstick J pickups. a nice stage prop....

Charlie Jones, playing a see-thru bass custom-built by Nightingale Guitars. he's posing with it on the cover of an old Bassist magazine issue. he's got a new even-more-see-thru P-style bass now (body, neck, fingerboard, bridge, pickup, machinehead buttons) [url="http://www.crimsonguitars.com/CharlieJonesBass.html"]http://www.crimsonguitars.com/CharlieJonesBass.html[/url]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180036918114"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=180036918114[/url] £200 would be more realistic- but only to be framed as piece of memorabilia. doesn't look repairable at all

[quote name='paul h' post='104221' date='Dec 14 2007, 10:31 AM']I really thought I would be the only one! Cheers. Here is a quick and dirty sample of all three basses. Aerodyne first followed by the Squier and finishing with the BB614.[/quote] has the Aerodyne got a PJ config? sounds like it still gets that Jazz sound to the popped notes on the D and G, which my PJ basses don't- they sound more like the 2nd(strangely) and 3rd clips.

the Squier P5 plays great and is promising acoustically, but plugged in the B string output is weak- because the pickups aren't wide enough to cope with the wide spread of the strings. an owner's testimony here- [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8995"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8995[/url] on Talkbass everyone seems to be raving about the new Squier active Jazz 5 though.