steve-bbb

did you check if htere is any standard level of cover with TNT automatically included? i use UKMail through my business and all deliveries with them are insured up to £500 with incremements available above that if necessary for more valuable items

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1320493280' post='1427490'] Being French, I don't think he'd get the underlying sarcasm of "widdly" [/quote] any fluent french speakers please provide me with a nice idiomatic translation - ty

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1320481512' post='1427323'] As a massive Fender fan I think Fender got it really wrong. The recession kicked in, people are struggling so they jacked the prices right up. My most modern bass is late 80s now so it doesn't directly affect me but it was a poor move [/quote] theyre not the only ones - when the recession fired up a couple of years ago my first thoughts were 'great i should be able to get a few good photographic bargains only to discover that Canon had massively hiked their RRP's '

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1320478194' post='1427306'] And that stupid haircut. Jesus Christ. This 'youtube generation' need to learn that no one gives a flying f*** about them. Just because they can mangle a song whilst the camera is rolling doesn't mean the world needs to see their efforts. [/quote] thought i was reading the stone roses reforming thread again for a moment there

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1320482813' post='1427335'] Me at the guitar festival last Saturday trying to convince the guitarist in the trio that as we're surrounded by hundreds of other good guitarists, it'll sound a bit better if we drag a few up to guest. My tactfull way of saying it sounds thin when he's soloing on certain numbers [/quote] nice bass! i hope you managed to shoehorn in the phrase 'when you do your widdly bit in the solo'

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1320447431' post='1427124'] You can tell from his Username what his attitude is likely to be like [/quote] do you have your own moat and drawbridge ?

keep an eye on joinmyband (and similar) website too - lot of naughty peeps have been using sites like it to sell stuff have you heard of the [url="http://www.immobilise.com"]immobilise[/url] website ? you can enter serial numbers of all sorts of personal property on there - its main aim is to assist police forces in restoring found or recovered property to its rightful owner - especially if it is found away from the area it went missing - it enables police forces to search UK wide and not just their own area - havent looked at the site for a while but i think it also allows a buyer to enter a serial number of an item to see if it comes up on the lost/missing list?

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1320313543' post='1425081'] What are you complaining about? You've just been given licence to do whatever the hell you want with your basslines and you know none of them are going to bicker about it. That's the dream gig. Score! [/quote] i honestly dont think a great many guitarists and vocalists dont actually realise what youre doing unless you happen to play with a lot of top end and middle punching it through if like me you play with a big fat bottom and no top and mid-mids i concur with all the opinions above that you can pretty much get away with whatewver you please .... a bit like a DJ playing 'dog like sparkey' at an old folks knees up!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1320270886' post='1424756'] I think it`s a vocalist thing, Muzz. No matter what bass/amp/string combination I`ve used, the singer in one of my bands retort is always: "It just goes boom boom." Like I`m playing Basil f8cking Brush! [/quote] try something like "what do you want me to play in the middle 8 when you do the shouty bit?" see how that goes

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b55K0ODrDcs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b55K0ODrDcs[/url]

see if a quick string swap solves the problem! have had a very similar problem just recently - a guitar techie mate did a setup on my neck and when i got it back after a short time i noticed a very high pitch harmonic whistling only on the open D and nowhere else - after a bit of examination it turned out it was exactly the harmonic at the position roughly two thirds between 2nd and 3rd fret the nut angle was fine and the frets were ok and the windings so my tech suggested it was most likely string - to which i was initially sceptical - however he removed the d string and replaced it and the problem stopped immediately - just to recheck we put the original string back on and the harmonic whistle started up again because id changed the strings at about the same time as giving him the bass to setup i didnt really appreciate that it might have been the strings and assumed it would be a high fret somewhere or something to do with his setup as i was aware that he had indivisually addressed a couple of high spots on the A/D/G 2/3rd fret area edit- just to add - exactly the same as yours - it was only the open string that made the whistle and not when fretted at all

that guitar solo is LUSH ....[b]and[/b] listen to the way HH listens to the band and just does the most discreet and perfect fills - you barely notice at first that there is a piano in there until you start listening for it

[quote name='mrdreadful' timestamp='1320067346' post='1421779'] This stuff is entirely subjective anyway, it just represents a coincidental convergance of the opinions of what is probably a very small group. [/quote] only takes 30 people for this sort of garbage to be 'legitimised' by lazy hacks

just one more waffer thin bass

saw steve hillage on the OPEN tour at hammersmith odeon i was the only person in the crowd NOT wearing a kaftan (and there was a rather pungent mellow hazy fog hanging over the audience)

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1320064836' post='1421721'] The world's best bassline ever is Muse's "Hysteria" as voted by readers of MusicRadar.com: [url="http://www.nme.com/news/muse/60107"]http://www.nme.com/news/muse/60107[/url] Looks like MusicRadar readers should listen out a bit more if you ask me. [/quote] could have been worse could have been that one off top gear innit

[color=#FF0010][color=#000000]This bass can be viewed & collected in Hackney. If you decide to have it shipped i will make sure it's packed well inside a cardboard guitar box[/color][/color] asking for offers over 10k or your offer will be automatically rejected and then not prepared to spend 1% of the asking price on a decent flight case for delivery ??? WTF maybe seller is banking on the notion that anybody who could afford this sort of wedge for a bass would go collect in person or send their PA?

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1319901299' post='1419936'] Totally utterly killer bass player, singer, songwriter and bandleader.... Check this out at about 3:30:- [/quote] the other bass player is pretty good too

ALLO ! http://youtu.be/OSmYx0kg7bc

...from a biased Mick Ronson fan .... Great Sh*te more like

not heard her on the beeb this year but did enjoy here shows on bbc2 previously [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs8br"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs8br[/url]

find a good shop with a good selection of both fender and squier and compare the two unless money is not significant factor in your final choice, id wager a tenner i can guess which one you will end up buying

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1319878651' post='1419523'] Hi Steve, I do indeed. Do you think this could be part of the problem? [/quote] well if youre heavy handed like i am then the weight of your thumb/hand combined with the slight rocking motion against the pickup is going to pull against the screw maybe - youre basically pulling against the strings so there will be an approximately equal opposite force going through the pickup/body where the tip of your thumb connects with it and unless you play with your hand absolutley still then there is going to be 'some' leverage against those screws maybe a combination of that and what nugget says above - sounds like you might need to plug the screw holes with some slithers of wood to pack the screw in tighter

do you (like me) use the top edge of the pickup cover as a thumbrest?