gareth1982

My band www.stateside45.co.uk are playing at the Diamond there this Friday night (28th Jan). Soul; Motown and Northern, if it's your kind of thing. Cheers

this made me smile! its the kind of thing my dad would have done a couple of years ago before i taught him how to use 'that internet' and 'that ebay'

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1326730360' post='1501146'] It makes them stink and go yellow. That might be a dealbreaker to some people. [/quote] This

3rd dibs? I am in Leeds for work every day so Not far away to collect

Hello meneer. Ik hou van nederlanders. Groetje uit engeland

I've just gone and learnt this song inspired by this performance. We play uptight and signed sealed delivered in my band, but I'd never had a crack at this one til this morning. Nice one Higgie, sounds really good man! *goes to practise a bit more!*

Someone got a bargain

Just my 2 penneth as we say in Yorkshire..... I've been playing for 10 years+ and have bought and sold and own expensive stuff (see signature below for my current collection), but recently off here I picked up a westfield p copy for 65 quid, albeit with upgraded pickups and a highmass bridge, to use as a 'knockabout' house bass and it sounds and plays lovely. I mostly play soul/motown/northern soul, so my usa precision is usually my gigging bass, but i did a spot with the westfield on saturday and i couldn't tell the difference in sound, neither could the audience/soundman/rest of band......it was 65 quid, so there you go.

If you are after a cheapy knockabout bass, you won't go far wrong with one of the Westfield p bass copies. I picked one up off here the other week, albeit with an upgraded bridge and pickup, for 60 quid, and you know what, it's pretty good. I took it to rehearsal and told the drummer it was a rare 70s fender that had been restored and he commented afterwards that 'it sounds better than all of your others'....look at my signature; I think he was overdoing it a bit, but I'm not scared of knocking it or anything for the money!

Avoid it like someone trying to sell you a mattress from the back of a van with 'tree surgeon' hand painted on the side

Very jealous! Well done. How the other half live eh?

You've got a point actually, yea! Not that I've played many new basses, but yes, they always do look in a diagonal line. I once had to buy new extra long saddle screws for my status as I couldn't get enough adjustment on the g string saddle to get the intonation spot on. The strings were nylon coated rotosound trubass incidentally. Massively different to whatever I had on it before.

The saddles are there to do a job, not to look pretty! String brand, age, condition, set up, etc can all affect the intonation of the instrument, so like has been mentioned, check the intonation frequently and don't worry about the position of the saddle relative to the others!

I will have them please. I will pm you my address. Thank you