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jazzyvee

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  1. Millican and Nesbit more like. πŸ‘πŸΎπŸŽΆπŸŽΆ
  2. I'm not sure i can visualise what you are describing, also I have lightweight barefaced cabs which i guess would not be heavy enough to brace the EUB.
  3. Not a one hit wonder as such but i'm in a band who, decades before I joined, had one huge worldwide No:1 hit song back in 1982. There were a few more hit records for a few years till the band broke up. Some years later they reformed, and I was recruited as a session guitarist for a few years then got asked to join the band. A few years after that we parted company amicably, then in 2012 after depping on bass for them on a couple of gigs, i rejoined as their bass player and have been "Passing the Dutchie" with them ever since. We have not had any hits whilst i have been playing with them, though we have released an album which was started during my absence and when I returned I got to play bass on one of the tracks which was recorded at one of our gigs. In fact if memory serves me right it is the only non synth bass track on the album. The track is a cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" and the album is called When Reggae Was King.
  4. For my dep gig tomorrow night playing with a Bob Marley & The Wailers tribute band im taking this setup.
  5. I cannot convince my ears that 1/4" strip of wood makes a significant difference to the overall sound of a fretted electric bass. A fretless maybe? All my electric basses are fretted and have ebony boards, not because i made that choice for to sonic reasons, it's an aesthetic preference. I like the look of maple fretboards too. Not seen any pau ferro fretboards.
  6. And I guess that I should cut it on the waste side of the bend. If strings are likely to unwrap if cut wrongly, then the right method of cutting should be on the pack somewhere to let in experienced Dunlop string users like me know. I'm putting this down to experience now and thanks for the advice chums. πŸ™‚
  7. I recently bought a couple of new sets of these strings from the Dunlop stand at the guitar show in Solihull earlier this year. Anyway i was replacing an older set. My normal procedure is to just lay the string so it is about an inch or so past the next tuner along then cut it. This is usually enough to get a tight wrap each tuning peg after poking the end down the tuner hole. However this time i cut the string and all was ok till the tension started to increase for tunning and the string started to unravel. so now i have a three string set. I contacted Dunlop but have not had a response back from them. Anyone else had this issue or can telll me what i am doing wrong. I have always used this method and my other basses that all have d'addario pro steels and never had this issue.This is the second time it's happened with dunlop strings.
  8. what is the difference between this one and the latest version, as i am looking for a guitar cab.
  9. Well let's start with anything played by the great famiily Barrett, he was my first bass hero. Whilst I have played the odd Bob Marley & the Wailers song with various bands. In a few weeks time i'm about to do a dep gig with a Bob Marley Tribute band which will be my first gig where the whole set is covering his music. I'm really gonna be happy at the end of that gig. πŸ™‚πŸ˜ Other than that Stanley Clarke & Marcus Miller tracks that are within my dexterity. A couple of weeks ago i decided to learn Josie by Steely Dan that was great fun and once i'd got the hang of it I found a you tube no bass track of that song so I could play along. At some point I will try to download the track and record my bass over it to hear what it sounds like. Actually most of the bass tracks I have learnt make me really happy playing, more so if in a gigging context.
  10. In my youth, I had the guitar model with the clockwork concubine and the tube emulation pedal. The bass player had the bass version and our singer had a PA version. I loved the amp it made for really crisp funk and reggae chops.
  11. I too would love to see him doing a full acoustic set like the tour he did with Chick Corea, lenny white, joe henderson and freddie hubbard just after their Griffith Park Collection album back in the 80's. The dvd of that concert is astounding.
  12. I am reporting myself to the admin team for taking my post of point. πŸ€ͺ🀨🧐
  13. Maybe he should branch out into shoes for bass players. Built in metronome and tuner & sub so you can feel the bass.
  14. I use ACS 17db for when playing gigs and have another set with 20db filters that i use when attending gigs that are loud. I highly rate them.
  15. I Spent part of yesterday afternoom watching SC live in concert. Incredible gig.
  16. I went to see the concert last night. The band were so young and incredible musicians, and Stanley of course is a legend and performed superbly. i was fortunate to meet them at their hotel after the gig. Mainly because Stanley's road manager had a couple of his own cd's for me to play on my radio programme. Anyway i got to have a chat with Stanley and he introduced me to his wife. I asked him if there was a reason he didn't play his alembics and he said it was because of the acoustics. It a depends on the venue since many of the theatre venues they play, an electric bass is too boomy in the room, so in those places he would use the acoustic for the gig. To be honest i really love his db playing as much as his electric playing so it didn't affect my enjoyment.
  17. The bass I dreamed about playing was also an alembic and now I consider myself extremely fortunate to own such a bass and, it surpassed everything i expected from it. I know they are not the sound that everyone likes but for me it's a dream bass fulfilled. I hope you get to try one out one day. I have to say getting your head round using low pass filters does take some getting used to. All the best.
  18. Same here, i was looking forward to it but i had a gig in North Devon. Maybe next time.
  19. Yes I am looking for a home solution for my EUB, i'm also looking for a sturdy stand for holding the bass on gigs as mine does not have a wide enough body to lay on it's side or use one of the stands that hold the bass on it's side. I have a tall stand which I have to pray it does not get knocked.
  20. I'm also interested in a One10 cab but wondering about the difference between that one and a One10T cab. My Big twin has a tweeter in and I like that crispness in the sound. It is unlikely a One10 will be for gigging, mainly for home practice and small band rehearsal sessions. I don't have much experience with cabs that do not have a tweeter, with two on sale on the site and i am wondering whether I would find the top end lacking if I bought one.
  21. Yes it is a product. Listed on a German site https://kontrabass-atelier.de/zubehoer_e.html#wallmount
  22. I am looking for a wall mount for my EUB and wondered if anyone has used one of these?
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