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How annoying - all the companies I thought of which haven't been mentioned started making basses in 1961!

Agreed, an L-2000 will run quite happily in passive mode with the battery removed or depleted. Then the passive/active/active with treble boost switch (the one nearest the bridge) effectively becomes a kill switch. This is of course assuming we're talking about stock wiring...

10 years to make my mind up, thanks for the heads-up

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1456165825' post='2986171'] Jumping in with both feet, because I am feeling reckless. I lived in Aberdeen from 1986 to 2002 and, at the time I would have struggled to distinguish between nationalist, separatist and racist. I had White Settler sprayed on my house 11 times, was spat on, barred from pubs, assaulted, had the wheels loosened on my car, was refused from taxis. On most occasions when I reported this to the police, I was told "What do you expect? Go home." I won't be going back. [/quote] I'm sorry my home city let you down, that's a bloody awful report

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1455958755' post='2983888'] No, just an over simplified statement of statistical theory... Most things fall into some form of distribution and that will include both cover and originals bands... As others have noted. On this table... X axis will be increasing goodness of band, Y axis will be number of bands... [/quote] Thanks for the basic stats lesson, prof. Now if you could just point on the X axis where "pretty awful" is, that would clear everything right up.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1455884761' post='2983271'] But does it sound great? If so, great! [/quote] Depends who's playing it

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1455872159' post='2983066'] What's your excuse? [/quote] I like my gear.

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1455820662' post='2982764'] The hypocrisy, though, is that the majority of original bands are pretty awful. [/quote] A declaration of war!

Hi folks, we've got a couple of gigs coming up in March as follows: Friday 4th - Zee's Venue/Nightclub, Stonehaven - with Rodriguez Friday 11th - Krakatoa, Aberdeen - with The Humpff Family See you there... https://www.facebook.com/TheInevitableTeaspoons

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455756143' post='2982244'] Question, am I the only guy on bass chat that loves gigging at the bar band level? [/quote] I dunno, but I'm pretty sure you're definitely the guy who talks most about gigging at the bar band level

I think there's got to be some variety in the set, I wouldn't keep bashing people over the head at the same pace with the same ferocity for the entire time

[quote name='SaxyBassist' timestamp='1455581232' post='2980501'] I took the recordings off - no one was interested apart from hiram.k.hackenbacker who kindly pm'd me some thoughts on it - I'm self taught and wanted a bit of feedback so I can keep improving - but then chickened out and took them off as it took me ages to pluck up the courage to post them!! Feel rubbish now [/quote] It was a month before I got any feedback on our EP. Still waiting for feedback on our live (mostly) unplugged radio stuff and that's been nearly two weeks. That's despite playing by the rules and offering feedback on other peoples' stuff. This forum moves pretty slow, doesn't mean your stuff is bad. Well, at least I hope it doesn't

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Any other arbiters of taste and fashion like to chip in? I'd like to make sure I'm not breaking any rules with my clothing and I need your approval to survive

Take the 's' out of the https in the link and it'll embed properly. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_m7JIVKhM[/media] Am at work just now but will try to have a listen later

Yup, although if I've done some of my own mods then there's always a little trepidation (not that anything bad has ever happened, my wiring/soldering is ok but I still doubt myself). I pretty much always use the bass I'm going to play at the gig at the rehearsal before - safety first!

I couldn't resist the wordplay either

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1455196412' post='2976913'] When was this? How old were you? I can imagine that if you're 16-18 and half the class at school are looking for a band who'll gig their 18th Birthday for free, or for free beer, you can get away with it. Iike Sausage, above, I'm 56. I've never gigged. I started bass when I was 50. My repertoire is negligible. Most bands expect a 56 year old to be seasoned musician. It's fine thinking you can busk through with roots and 5ths, but unless you can get the right genre on the play-list you'll struggle to make covers sound right, surely? You may be ok with 12-bar blues, but funk is going to be something of a challenge. My day job has me getting up at 6am and I don't get finished until 8-9pm some nights and I can't plan when those nights are going to be. So rehearsals are always going to be at weekends; when most bands want to be gigging.... now it's me feeling like I'm going no where! And that's why I play weird stuff (for a bass player) at home. [/quote] It was 2009 and I was 33. I'm telling you I was a lazy so-and-so until I joined a band. Then I HAD to get good, or get lost.

I joined a band when I don't even think I could play a whole song through. You're never going to be "ready" enough, so just do it

Anyone who slags you off for having the audacity to listen to a U2 album and express a positive opinion about the bass playing contained within is a snobby, self important idiot and can GTFO as far as I'm concerned. Listen and appreciate away.

Fair play to Fender for trying something a bit different, but you've got to get the proportions right and IMO something that slim also has to be sleek - to me it looks weird, stretched out or something, like an awkward gangly youth on a growth spurt but not all of their body got the memo.