Rayman

James Burton's a hero, I love him, and his Telecaster. I saw him with the full Elvis/Vegas band a few years back. Utterly fantastic, proper guitar playing that.

I think there's a lot of tosh spoken about neck width. For me, I prefer the [i]tone[/i] of the Jazz over the Precision. Ergonomically it makes no difference to me playing a Geddy Lee Jazz neck or a 6 string Bongo.

No matter what make and model of bass I have in my hands, I always gravitate to a similar tone. A cross between JJ Burnel, Steve Harris and Adam Nitti would sum it up I think. I like to play quite aggressively and with staccato on the Spector, but quite mild an mellow on the GWB35, and again with a lot of staccato. That's at home for fun of course, with the band it's whatever the song needs to work, but generally my tone remains the same, it's [i]my[/i] sound.

I've always loved Ibanez gear. I had an old 70's Ibanez precision that was great, and more recently a K5 which was one of the most comfortable basses I've ever had to play. Currently I have a GWB35 which, apart from some loose fret markers that are currently being replaced, is totally sublime. Once the cheap plastic fret markers have all been replaced with some nice dark resin ones, it'll be my permanent home bass.

Stunning. I want it.

Ha, that's funny. My youngest daughter watches Zingzillas, but that episode passed me by. I love Stuart, he's a big influence on me, but that Warwick bass......I dunno.......I just don't know if I could live with the shape.

Good god, that's beautiful, really really beautiful. I love Overwaters anyway, but that's right up there with the best.

It makes a change something like this [i]NOT[/i] being in London. Count me in Pete.

Kinal MK-5, currently back with Eubassix and I can't afford to get it back. NEVER should've let this one go. Utterly fabulous bass in every way .

[quote name='Machines' post='984081' date='Oct 11 2010, 08:57 AM']Enjoyed looking at the gear, always fun to try out new stuff. Saw a few familiar faces and was good to catch up . Stu Hamm was very talented, but I'll be honest that I didn't enjoy it. Me and ped left before Victor Bailey though as our ears had been 'bassed out' .[/quote] I didn't go at all this year Matt, and I feel guilty because I like Gary and Stevie, and I feel like I should support the cause, and bass day is usually the only time I see most of you all face to face. Don't why, I just didn't fancy it. I'm a Stu Hamm fan too, but I dunno, I took the kids to the park instead. I think the trouble is, I can only listen to so much bass playing and I've just heard enough. Gearwise, there are rarely any bargains to be had, just lots of full price equipment I can't afford. Maybe next year.

Big screwdriver mate, and as always, steady as she goes with a truss rod, a quarter turn can make a big difference.

One of my favourite players Yolanda Charles swears by her Blade Jazz, not sure of the model, but having had a quick go on it I can confirm it's beautiful. I really don't know much about Blade basses, but I'd love to know more.

I'm kind of wishing I'd gone too. I saw them at the King Georges Hall in Blackburn a handful of years back and it was awful, mainly because of the terrible venue to be honest, but I ended up leaving and going for a kebab after an hour or so. I was on the front row to the far right hand end, but because the stage was so high, I couldn't see a damn thing, all I could see was the PA and whoever came to the front and centre of the stage, useless. The band themselves seemed to be lacking some sparkle on that occasion too, MK just didn't look like he was enjoying it at all. Maybe I'll try and catch them later on this tour.

Hmmm thanks for that. I think I'll go for a darker colour than the current white for sure.

So I bought an Ibanez Gary Willis Fretless from here a while back. As usual before a purchase I did lots of research on it first, and quite a few people mentioned electronic upgrades etc, but since I got mine I've loved the tone from it straight away, no problem there. My issue is with the white fretlines. They're obviously some kind of plastic strips glued into the fret slots, but the problem is quite a few of them keep popping up slightly, maybe only .5mm or so, but just enough to give me unwanted buzz. You can push them back down and the bass is perfect again, but slowly they start to come back up again over time, bloody annoying to say the least. Now I really love this bass a lot, and it aint going anywhere, so I need to sort this out. I'll be getting a tech to do it, but I wondered how hard a job it is to pull them out and replace them with resin instead?

Looks smart, but why change the pups? My Alpine white Epi TB had a monstrous tone totally stock. I like you intended to upgrade the pups on mine before I even bought it, until a friend told me to leave it and gig it a couple of times first, he assured me the stock pickups were more than up to the job. He was right. I never did upgrade a single thing on that bass, it was just fantastic as it was out of the box. Beautiful fretboard too. In fact I preferred it to a Gibson TB I tried a while later.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='965342' date='Sep 23 2010, 10:18 AM']Ive flirted with Lakland, Warwick, tried a few Sadowsky Metros, tried a Rickenbacker 4003, and yet I still go ‘this isnt right, for me’.[/quote] Yep, I've been there I can tell you, and I tend to agree that when you find a make or model of bass you really love, it's always a good idea to stick with it. I've made the mistake of finding basses I love then moving them on just for a change. I've played a handful of Bongos, and I like them a lot, homerplaysbass had a couple of absolute corkers a while back. I don't know what it is about a Sterling that doesn't do it for me, I can't put my finger on it. I've had a couple of Stingrays, and when given a Sterling to try I just couldn't get it to work for me at all. Me, I'd go Bongo, but only my opinion of course.

I just assumed he changed his gear so often because he came on here all the time. I've been away from the site for two weeks, and have been blissfully GAS free in tha time. After just 10 minutes on here I'm drooling over the for sale section again. So I'm off, for another two weeks.

I've always used TI flats. They were great on a Jazz bass for both rock and jazz stuff because you can get a great click and punch from them, plus they're nice and soft and quite low tension so they're nice to play. I found LaBellas a bit darker and rounder sounding. Never tried D'Addario.