LukeFRC

I'm trying to work out who's who!

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1370872801' post='2106641'] I've just put it up there to see what they say. [/quote] I got there first last night

Thing is according to the Warwick history PDF thing JD thumbs started in 1985... and this is july 1986. - it is odd compare it too another JD thumb... the bottom horn is two frets worth longer - where it joins the body looks a wee bit futher up towards the neck... but the top horn is more cut away but seems to be similar length- but not the same shape.... it's just an utterly different body shape - even the body isn't offset in the same way... would you expect the rear strap button to be dead centre? very odd - posted it on the warwick forums yet John?

Rasta on here traded me this old Aria thing, beaten to hell, different pups in, messy looking. sounded glorious. rather than selling it on i should have just had the frets put back on

I'll b in the mosh pit at the front WoT

mmmm nice looking! i do want to try an ACG

odd how they changed the look of them from the outside

this whole thing is utterly confused on the idea of what pop is. All the time, every decade you'll have good and interesting stuff being made. And you'll also have the popular mainstream stuff made to make money for the industry. Most bands will have nods to both and every so often you'll get something that either mixes to two to be great music and pop. Radiohead would be a modern example of that maybe - very successful, sell a lot - but still can go and record OK computer and then random should have been unsucessful stuff like Kid A. Every so often maybe you'll get a band who are pop and good and manage to hit a resonant frequency on society and culture... like the beatles did. To pull examples of good stuff from pre beatles and then someone say "oh but that's not pop" misses point or two I think.

to be honest- I just read that thread in the OP - they both come across as right idiots- I'm not sure I blame Mr Hall that much for all that in there. Like the fella's been gigging with a guitar for several months and loses two bits of it.... even our nice EU warranties wouldn't cover that. Easiest thing would just been to look up the part in the american version of maplin (mouser??) and buy some rather than get into a bitching fight with the company who made it.

woo well done on the win!

all I will say on this matter is number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine number nine

I've seen plenty of sandbergs in the shops... and Sadowsky. never a Lull. Looking at them though - I've always seen the sandbergs as equivalent in price to Fender and Musicman and the more mass produced basses- you get maybe better quality but without the "brand" that the americans have. Sadowsky pitch their metro line above the fender while the NYC line and Lull are obviously even more boutique. So American boutique manufacturers vs European small batch production in Germany... (you could stick german Warwicks in this question too) are american basses overpriced? are sandberg equivalent to sadowsky? based on price... is the pound stronger against the dollar or the euro? But at the moment... you could get a custom built bass by a small british manufacturer (ACG, ALPHER, OVERWATER, LETTS come to mind) with a starting price about that of a US built mass produced american standard fender..... I'ld suggest that that is where the value is at the moment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HanKNe502i4 i like this. The beatles are odd - great music but much like the stone roses first album - nowdays something about the production and mastering makes it sound a little flatter than other stuff to my ears (yes I know that this is very possibly cos it's actually better quality etc) you have to stick with it to enjoy it.

over even!

this is one of the best threads on basschat. almost 6 years old now!

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1370152617' post='2096938'] Yes they are, or my Alembic at £1k would have gone in seconds [/quote] you know I have been sat there, and every time I go by the sale forum wonder why your bass hasn't sold yet. It looks good! [quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1370169335' post='2097111'] Recently Ive pretty much gone for trades on here to accommodate the fact that basses in the >£1000 bracket seem to be slow movers. [/quote] Trades seem to be the way forward - my last deal on here was a trade of an acoustic I wasn't playing - the fella didn't have money but he did have a couple of old basses and a Pod thing - well sold the pod and one of the basses- stripped down the other bass, stuck a new body on it and built the jazz bass in my profile - which was gigged for the first time on sunday. Better deall for us all that money changing hands. [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1370174558' post='2097185'] I picked up a gem recently on ebay where it was collection only and the auction ended at 9.00 a.m. ........... Result!!! [/quote] I had a bike - he had it in parts... but had the parts of two bikes, photo just showed a frame, collection only ending at 4:45 on a friday... and he had spelt every single keyword incorectly.

ooh that is a nice nail

http://www.edfriedland.com/equipment/1/62 1974 fender

i'ld spotted that on the website and thought it looked like one of the nicest things I had seen!

would the angle on something like this... be too off centre and funky for you? I don't know why folk don't just stick one or two photos up and then a link to an album - like this one I made before I gave up trying to sell it... http://s1230.photobucket.com/user/LukeFRC/library/JV but then agian maybe the above photo is too funky.... ach you'll all enjoy photos of a lovely P bass

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1369782981' post='2092805'] I think this is probably the most common 'problem' with playing the bass. No-one really notices, until it's too late. At an extreme, I physically assaulted a guitarist when after playing a song with my volume rolled to 0, he [i]still[/i] claimed the bass was too loud. I'm still ashamed of my reaction to this day. [/quote] i've done that- turned the bass off... thumbs up from the sound desk, band happy. i start pretending to play like flea in the 80's.... still don't notice...