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Yup, I have taken breaks before. The worst thing you can do is announce it - like anyone gives a monkey's! I usually leave when the holier-than-thou, a P-bass is all you need, Leo got it right, one true bass brigade get so sanctimonious and preachy that it's either leave or risk a ban for what I might say. But I usually get enticed back when the levels of BS being spouted about Gibson basses reach levels that I cannot leave unaddressed

Me, Aberdeen

Don't look like wrecks, do they? (obvious play on words taken care of)

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1453494580' post='2960114'] What else? No one here can write a decent riff! *ducks* [/quote] You haven't listened to everyone here

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1453494156' post='2960106'] which money? [/quote] Money crops up in at least one post per page of this thread. The whole thread was started on the basis of how much to charge for playing a party and a difference of opinion within the band. Are you trying to get a rise out of me or something?

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1453489546' post='2960043'] Not from my perspective no, we play originals and often play free, especially for friends. [/quote] The money figures being bandied about in the thread recently don't bear any resemblance to my experience.

I presume this is yet another cover band only discussion?

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2nd January 2016 @ The Tunnels, Aberdeen - [/font][/color]A quick phone vid from the same night, thanks to Debby Harley Quinn for providing the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61WV0w90LA

So it's their P and PJ bass? OK, suppose everyone else is at it so why not EBMM too?

Two bands with whom I'm friends played at my birthday party for a slab of beer and food. They're good friends though.

Interparcel/UPS for me too. Sent more than 10 basses in the past, and there was never a problem.

The vast majority of the basses I have owned are second hand and usually already have dings and scratches when I take ownership of them. I actively protect them from further damage, but if it happens then so be it. I would be annoyed if damage happened through my own negligence or carelessness though.

I happened upon this thread again - it's like one of those old school car mag "long term test drive" type reviews My Red Sub is still rumbling along - mostly nicely. It has developed a small fault - there's something iffy about the headphone jack which causes it to short occasionally, hence having the effect of muting the amp as if a plug had been inserted. Easy fix, plug something in it then remove it and it clears the problem (I always have a 1/4" > 3.5mm converter in the aux input so something suitable is always to hand). It only happens once in a blue moon so I haven't got around to looking into it. I guess the socket needs replaced which shouldn't be too troublesome. It has been used at least once a week at "war volume", mostly in the combo at rehearsals where it is the only bass producing equipment in the entire room and makes itself heard over the top of drums, keys, vocals, trombone and sax. In March that'll be 4 years I've had it and it keeps on doing exactly what I need. I will be sad if it ever does give up the ghost - to me this amp does everything I need and it'll be a right bugger to replace as I don't think there's anything quite like it around at the moment - not that I've been seriously looking.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1453105513' post='2956288'] Only if you perform to an audience of nothing but bass players. [/quote] Damn all of them! Oh, wait a minute...

Seems on balance here that I'm wasting my time writing lyrics that are carefully crafted with the occasional poetic device to mean something (or sometimes more than one thing...)

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

Make sure it stays friendly and welcoming. I went to a jam once, there was a clique of regulars clearly "in charge", I got glared at for making mistakes, the whole atmosphere was rather unfriendly. I never went back.

9 at home, 1 at work. I play whichever one takes my fancy at the time and I make a point of playing a different bass every gig where possible, basses which don't get played get sold. It's as much a fashion thing (will it go with my shirt?) as anything else. All basses sound bassy. Usually someone else handling FOH sound anyway so how much "control" over it do I actually have?

You don't need to justify anything to me, buy what you like

It's no accident that you get a Spartacus-like chant of "OBBM" every time this subject comes up

Alternative Candidate

I like some of those songs, I dislike some of them, I hadn't even heard of some of them. So, music then.

[quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1452355574' post='2949220'] GAK & Richtone both have them, I don't think they ae rare, they seem to come up on eBay quite often. I have played one and don't think they are anything out of the ordinary, if anything they are a bit prone to neck dive. [/quote] The OP is asking about the Gibson Les Paul Signature, not the Jack Casady. The Gibson LPS was only made from 1973-79 and is indeed rare and rather expensive whenever it appears on eBay or whatever. I had a Jack Casady and I could see myself going back to one in the future - they're so lightweight but sound really good to me. To be fair I did fit Ultralite tuners to it (one of the press fit bushings of the original tuners was coming out of the face of the headstock under string tension, and it bugged the neat freak in me ) but it didn't neck dive with me. RE: the LPS, I've never had the pleasure of playing one so I can't comment on them much. Lots of info at [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/LesPaulSignatureBass.php"]http://www.flyguitar...gnatureBass.php[/url] Noteworthy that Jack Casady had one, and when he came to help design his signature model, he cited the pickup of the original as a weakness and sought to design a better one with Epiphone ("I loved the bass but found the pickup to be deficient.") Apart from that I got nothing, including the three grand minimum budget I'd need to buy a Gibson LPS bass

I had a 3 pickup Danelectro Hodad which had all combinations available and the solo pickup settings were the weakest sounding. It had a 6 position rotary and a toggle switch which bypassed the rotary and put all pickups on. That was the sound I liked the best, or maybe neck+middle, so I suspect this is a personal preference thing above all else.