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Lovely jubbly. Just a point to mention seeing in your pics you have it on a wall hanger (the headstock sat in the hanger). My T'bird has the finish sort of melted off in the exact same positions as the wall hanger holds the headstock. I think it must have been a reaction with the finish and the hanger.

I'd possibly suggest not doing a slavish video based copy of Mann Gegen Mann though!! Volkerball is a great DVD to add to your collection. You'll soon be stomping around your neighbourhood grumbling along to German lyrics on your ipod.

Hope you have a good budget aside for fireworks n stuff!! Def lots of drop tuning. I like the fact there are very few lead solos and the drummer plays some fantastically different stuff for an industrial metal? band. Lots of good songs to choose from, how about Du Reicht So Gut, or Asche Zu Asche and Amerika. Could be really good fun there, good luck. Oh I hope you like dressing up in some rather dubious leather gear too PS I haven't checked the German spelling, but you'll get the jist!

[quote name='~tl' post='406760' date='Feb 11 2009, 06:14 PM']The '57 Precision had an aluminium scratchplate with 10-holes, so I guess that is what's been fitted to your bass. Aside from that, 13-holes is standard.[/quote] That's what my thinking is. An off the shelf metal plate, copied from the '57 style metal plate and then fitted to my bass. Poking around at it, I can definitely see the lost holes through the touching up paint job!

[quote name='simon1964' post='407512' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:36 PM']The nearest I've got (without resorting to ripping speaker cones!) was by using my Precision with a Hartke VXL Bass Attack pedal. Not 100% right, but you can get that trebly gritty sound. The Ashdown James Lomenzo gets close as well - maybe Ashdown should do a JJB signature pedal?![/quote] Recommend it to them dude.. if you don't I will!

Just looking to get a replacement scratch plate for my 76 P bass and am hitting an interesting question.. how many screw holes do I need. The metal one I have taken off, which fits very well, only has 10 and this must have been custom made. There are no other screw holes in the body that would have been hidden by the plate, but a couple of suppliers have said it should be 13 holes. Can any 70's owners give me some pointers? Thanks EDIT: Hmm looking a bit closer, I think that at some time back in it's past it's had a bit of a refinish as I think I can see a small pin prick or two which would like up with some of the other holes. Which makes me thing the after market plate was fited at the time of the re-finish. Probably!

Rammstein tend to wobble strings around a low C too on some songs if I recall.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Personally, as I am going to have to chip in.. (which I still don't see as right, like did I get some band financial assistance when upgrade my amp??) I want low cost so used is the way I think we'll have to go. And yeah, how come they hold their prices so well?

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='404262' date='Feb 9 2009, 01:15 PM']Any old foam would be ok, from stuff used in packaging to a bit of Karrimat you lie on when you go camping. Whatever you may have lying around that is not too soft or compressable. i wouldn't, for instance, use uphostery foam rubber. Too soft and it will eventually rot down to sticky gunge. Best bet on the singe saddle adjustment screw is to send Tony at Axes R Us an email [ [email protected] ] - see if he has a spare one lying round , I think it unlikely a guitar parts shop would stock a single screw. Worth asking Allparts or WD music but I think Tony is more likely to help you.[/quote] Thanks Al. I'll give Tony a try and email him shortly.

Suits. A selection of suits can't go wrong. You can find some cool stuff out there that looks good and is a bit different. Not all the same style or colour suits either. Some good tee shirt action underneath. Look for something unusual not obvious and not a naff slogan, or all the same. And the main thing, some damn fine footwear. I have some silver pointers that always get attention, that and they look feckin awesome too! Oh and do summat with yer hair too. You don't want to be on stage with a "work hairdo".. You're there to entertain and look a bit special. Doesn't mean glueing the one with the longest hair all up into a huge single point above his head though! Like it was said earlier, don't go looking like a joke/comedy band.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='403654' date='Feb 8 2009, 07:04 PM']I think it's a realistic price. There's a lot of 70's basses around for sale at silly money and I don't know how folk expect to sell them. Congrats - markyl. You must be well pleased. I also reckon your financial ideas were sound so no need to convince yourself of anything. Enjoy playing your sound investment.[/quote] Thanks Dr Dave. I'll tell her indoors that I have a doctor's agreement on my theory I am happy about the price (of course I'd liked to have paid as little as possible). I have been watching a few and it seems to be the right price. It's worn, got chips and scratches and a few tweaks need doing, but it just feels and sounds... right. Not sure on the neck plate being original at this stage.

Just a quickie. The 76 P bass I picked up yesterday has the PUPs screwed down really low and the volume has suffered IMHO. I want to raise them up a bit but the guy I bought it from said I need to pad underneath the PUPs to give support. He suggested some foam material, similar to cheap earplugs. I was just wondering if there were any recommendations on what I should use and where to get it. Also, one of the bridge saddle intonation adjustment screws has been replaced with some wierd misfitting screw. Could I pick something like that up singlely from a guitar parts store? (or does anyone have an old one lurking??) M.

Nice. Looks in slightly better condition than mine. Give it a punt, if you fancy a T'bird then this is the colour that says RAWK!! to me Lovely neck to play and soooooooooooo much sustain.

Picking it up tomorrow all being well. Had a chat to the seller and he's sold it to go towards a custom made bass.. by a luthier who's name I've forgotten. Anyway I asked him about the nut width and he reckons it's 40mm so that sounds reasonably slim for a P bass, is that a "B" width neck? I explained to my better half that with the interest rates so low that and savings in the banks etc are just not making any useful growth, so I should put some funds into a classic instrument that will gain in price. She fixed me that look... well, I convinced myself anyway!! Thanks for the comments too

Yorick, the link in the post has the pics in it. Yep that plate is outta the door! I hope it's a standard fit and it hasn't been re-drilled for that plate, I forgot to ask. Just can't wait to get my mits on it

Well, it's been nagging me for a while and I've missed a few options recently, so I wasn't going to let this one go - [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=260353247298"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=260353247298[/url] My limit was £900 and that seems to have been the reserve as well so.. uh.. it was destiny!!! I just need to get a black scratchplate for it ASAP, so there'll be a P bass mirror plate for sale on here soon. Hope to collect it on Sunday (depending on the mental snow thing going on).. can't wait! M.

Thanks everyone. It's mainly for the vocals with some keyboards as well. The Thomann ones look posible, pity about the crappy exchange rate. We have a couple of slaves so a pair of powered units would be best and give us the spread we need.

[quote name='neilb' post='402129' date='Feb 6 2009, 04:17 PM']Very true, nice bloke. Me and NWR (and two other very nice blokes Messrs McBrain and Dickinson)[/quote] Man, that face says he's sure seen and done a lot!!

Evenin' all! We need to get a couple of powered stage monitors for the band I'm in, nothing clever or special, just capable of providing foldback for a ropey covers band. I really don't want to have to chip in for a new pair, but I'm buggered if I can track down any used stuff right now. If anyone has any pointers for attractively priced (read..cheap) monitors, I'd love to know I thanks you all.

According to the wiki article, Strummer and Jones laid the bass down for early Sandanista! recordings which Paul re-recorded on his return from filming. Also Jones and the engineer may have laid down some bass tracks on Combat Rock. So what was Simonon up to? Doesn't take that long to splatter a bit more Jackson Pollock stylee paint up yer bass!! Maybe he was on "rolling fat ones" duty??

Well, I never did. So I'm wasting time at work and have a look on the centre for all misinformation - wikipedia - at Paul Simonon's page to discover that on the majority of tracks on Cut The Crap and also Rock Casbah, the bass tracks were actually laid down by Mr Norman Watt-Roy. Wow, I need to go back and listen to these and see if it's obviously Norman. I never knew this fact (if it is correct) and I wonder why it was Norman doing the duties on these.