Rayman

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71695&hl=fleabass"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...amp;hl=fleabass[/url] Here's the thread on mine.

Heavy rock? The mids are your friend. Medium gauge strings are fine 45-105, on a jazz I'd turn everything up full, and clunk the strings like a head on colision between a tractor and a bulldozer. Sansamp would be great, Aguilar tone hammer would be better IMO. The Aerodyne should be fine.

Stingrays are fab, I've had two of them, but now I've got a couple of G&Ls, I'm in no hurry to find another 'ray. If I found a grand to spend tomorrow, I wouldn't be looking for another Musicman, I'd be looking for another G&L.

Don't get either, get an L2000 For the real 'ray tone I'd say 2EQ, but having had a couple of 2EQs myself, I'd go for a 3EQ if I were to get another, it just adds another dimension to the tone, BUT, it's arguable that it doesn't sound as authentic as a 2EQ.

I've tried a couple of Metros, and owned one, and was underwhelmed to be honest. Nice but sterile. I've played an NYC at a BC bash, and was blown away, it was beautiful. Make of that what you will.

As you've discovered, L2000s are bomb proof, and utterly outstanding basses, you're going to love it.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAynG1MsHkY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAynG1MsHkY[/url]

Yeah he's doing Manchester too Al I think. I really fancied going just to see Rhonda Smith, I was gutted when she wasn't involved in the Prince gigs at the O2.

It would have been the mid 80s with a new wave band I sang and played bass for. It was all original stuff and pretty awful too probably, in some dump of a pub in Manchester I seem to remember, and it would've been on my Columbus Jazz. What a nightmare.

You're a star sir, thanks.

Tal was a recent member of his band before Rhonda Smith. This was definately a bloke

Anyone know who the bass player with Jeff Beck's band would have been in 2006? I know Randy Hope Taylor did a stint that year but it wasn't him. It was the lineup that included Jan Hammer on keyboards, and I saw them at the Manchester Apollo. Any ideas?

I had a pee next to Johnny Vegas at some services on the M1, and he didn't wash his hands either.

There you go, nuff said.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='911630' date='Aug 1 2010, 03:32 AM']I love the string spacing on G&L 2500 basses that I've played. But they tended to sound a little dark to me.[/quote] I've found that my US L2000 is slightly darker or richer sounding than my Tribute L2500. The trib is slightly brighter, but I like the fact that they're different tone wise, it gives me a few more options, but the playability on both is just fantastic.

My signature says it all for me. You can play [i]any[/i] style on [i]any[/i] bass, period. There's no such thing as a rock bass, funk bass, etc etc. I, for example, quite happily used to slap a Thunderbird, and it sounded great. Any bass, any style, simple.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' post='910646' date='Jul 30 2010, 08:35 PM']I am......[/quote] Do tell.......

Blimey, what a wizard wheeze!!

[quote name='steve-soar' post='910514' date='Jul 30 2010, 06:32 PM']Funk can't be taught. It's a calling. [/quote] It's in the fingers from birth baby, if you ain't got it, you ain't got it, period

[quote name='Veils' post='910334' date='Jul 30 2010, 03:15 PM']Probably a Lakland DJ4[/quote] [i]Really??[/i]

[quote name='Spike Vincent' post='910608' date='Jul 30 2010, 08:04 PM']Is Beki Bondage famous?[/quote] I played 'Bogeys Club' in Cardiff in the 80s, and in the dressing room there was loads of various grafiti and scrawl on the walls, one comment stated "Beki Bondage is a slag". I'm in no position to comment either way of course.

[quote name='Heathy' post='910588' date='Jul 30 2010, 07:50 PM']Kim Wilde? That's nothing. Russ Abbot once nearly ran me over.[/quote] Oh what an atmosphere there must have been after that.

I have to say though that many people here will say they've [i]never[/i] had a problem at all, so don't write off a 'ray just because some of us [i]have[/i] had an issue, they're great basses when you find a good one.

I've read somewhere that it's a design thing, not an age thing, which is odd, as you'd expect the design to have evolved to illiminate the thing by now. Some people still deny there is a problem, some people cure the problem by angling the pickup slightly towards the G, but I tried everything with both my Stingrays and never cured it with either of them, so I sold them, it drove me mad.