LukeFRC

less than £40 if it sounds nice and I had no other options maybe. but I wouldn't

no one. someone gave me a bass and showed me how to play (ironically) seven nation army, and it was fun so I kept going

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1339236807' post='1685659'] I bet if you contact him and offer to he won't respond to any of your emails.. [/quote] well the advert has disappeared now

[quote name='Mike' timestamp='1339106732' post='1683957'] Says he's in Motherwell! [/quote] I can go there pick it up if you want

[quote name='noelk27' timestamp='1339205396' post='1685433'] I'd say one acoustic and one electric is the absolute minimum. For me that would be a mid 80s Yamaha FG and an early 60s Fender Strat. Which is a bit bizarre, mostly because just 3 of the 150+ guitars in my possession are Strats or Strat clones. [/quote] you have that many guitars! wow!

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1339197029' post='1685380'] Punk is Precision, Jazz, Stingray or Ric. That includes modern punk. [/quote] most popular music of the last 50 years in the uk has been precision jazz stingray or ric!

well it looks like some point the acoustic may be on it's way away and I'll keep the electric... which I just wired up coil taps too! woo! like having several guitars in one now! v exciting.

ken this thread is two years old?

Just sold Chris my old copy of Bass Culture, expect him to be hunting for the following soon: 60's fenders Alembic warwick buzzards and a few more 60's fenders great guy

I'm sure his mummy still loves him though

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1339104527' post='1683901'] I forced myself to watch 1:32 of it - imagine if you'd been in the audience and paid to be subjected to this... [/quote] oh it got worse [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1339142173' post='1684161'] Typical case of 'run before you can walk' musicality... Singer trying to be fancy without having the technique to back it up (therefore fails with her timing and intonation) and same can be said of most of the players. Bassist has obviously only just (half) learnt a single basic slap technique and has tried to implement it in a song that doesn't need it, to the detriment of the ensemble, the original groove, his own timing and any form of taste. I bet he also calls himself a 'semi-professional' or 'professional' musician because he gets paid. Muppet. [/quote] thing is I think if we saw videos of a fair few of us lot they would be similarly bad. I'm basing that on the amount of bad slap I see generally. the "what's going on" was even worse.... but it looks like an expensive bass and the tone is the kinda tone that would get people raving about soloed on here or talk bass... just in the band it fails.

the drummer I play with has practiced lots to have a more advanced technique.

[quote name='lobematt' timestamp='1339071935' post='1683204'] Well I still have questions about it so even with everyone's googling it's just as well I'm posting here. If you don't wanna reply to any questions you deem to be dumb then nobodies forcing you! [b]Anyway. I want the switch to be bypassed really. Is there a way that I can wire it to just have the bass set to passive, the blend still be a blend and both pickups on?[/b] [/quote] the switch pulled out makes it passive. If you pull it out you have a passive bass. it would be fairly easy to bypass this... but why? why not just leave it as is and play with the knob pulled out, it does everything you've said you want to to do- but without faffing about with changing anything.

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1339039179' post='1682771'] Fair play but even the (Warwick) Rock Basses are fetching a few grand now, although their quality has improved a thousand times since as far as I can recall, it's just hard to own one of these basses now. Just saddens me that what I *could* afford now for a Warwick, the prices have moved on and even finding a decent enough secondhand Im still looking to spend a fair bit or they're a bit tatty. I just wanna Warwick [/quote] you'll be able to get decent secondhand for reasonable price, not as low as a year or so ago but still pretty good. What model you after?

how long is a piece of string?

it's a short scale bass guitar made in japan.

delano hybrid system???

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1338948475' post='1681608'] My sentiments exactly BSB [/quote] i had a look at an inflation calculator thing.... back in early 90's they cost about £1500 or so right? in todays money thats about £3000 - so not far off todays prices. Why I can pick up a secondhand 1990 streamer stage one in a nice hiscox case for £400 is a mystery i don't complain about!

Bartolini list a thunderbird shaped pup on their website

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1338914618' post='1681017'] Why do none of the Fenders I try sound like this?? Lovely and warm.. In active mode it's not too far off the tone of my Overwater..Hmmm, it may be coming out of it's case.. [/quote] you know I have wondered why you've been trying to move that one on. hard to replace.

Dan! Nice project you have there. I've had a lot of basses and set up even more for my friends- and without doubt the epi thunderbird had by far the worst hard wear- but I thought it was just me. The bridge esp was terrible. anyway not much help for you!