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I should point out that I like the songs and I enjoy playing them! I wouldn't be in a band whose songs I didn't like or enjoy. It's just a bit weird pushing and promoting an album I don't appear on. Live, I have put my own stamp on the songs I felt I could, but kept it pretty much the same on others when I reckon the bass line as it stands complements the song.

Have any of you ever joined a band which was in the throes of finishing (mixing/mastering/artwork etc.) an album? Did you find it weird that it wasn't you that was playing the bass on the album despite you now playing the songs live and promoting said album? It feels a bit weird to me. I wish it was me. Oh well, it'll be me on the next one I suppose. I hope!

I've had my Hartke HA3500 head ever since I started playing "properly" (3.5 years now). I recently changed my cab to lose some weight when lugging stuff around, but I've never taken much interest in amps. I just want something that works. The Hartke HA works well for me and I like how it sounds. Am I happy? For now I am. Requirements evolve and tastes change though

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1318980768' post='1408662'] The body is quite nice however the neck does look a tad overdone. However the guy is trying to produce something individual and unique and having read his comment in the previous post I must say I support him. It's his bass he can do whatever he likes with it, and if someone likes it and wants to buy it then that too is their business. There isn't any mis-description or fraud going on here. The only injustice I can see is the slating that this guy is getting on BC. There is a Market for relicd basses and I wish the guy good luck. That said I wouldn't buy it, but someone will and all the best to them. [/quote] I slated no-one, I simply aired my opinion on the matter in general (which I am quite within my rights to do) and I agree with what you wrote.

My wife is amazingly tolerant of my hobby. She has one simple rule when it comes to basses (and instruments in general) - instruments are to be played - so no collecting. The only basses she will not tolerate are pointy ones (Flying V, Explorer etc. - we joke and call them "divorce basses" but joking aside, she has said she will divorce me if I take home one of them). To top it all off, she (well, her alter ego "the bass fairy") bought me a Gibson RD Artist. That's got to be all my birthdays for the next 10 years I'd say

Why anyone would buy one of these "reliced" monstrosities when you can have your fill of old school tele headstocked, not split P shenanigans with any one of these... ...is completely beyond me.

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1318843641' post='1406645'] Moffat bash is the first weekend in February. This now the date it will be every year. We will be starting the ball rolling for the next one just shortly. [/quote] Sweet!

Some manufacturers do not allow their US retailers to export from the US.

I've got one of these: Is that amazing? It's certainly odd

Definitely not Hagstrom - wrong headstock shape, wrong tuners, although some of them have a bar string retainer it is screwed in from the front, not bolted at the back, not a Hagstrom logo

I don't understand the relevance of the second question in the title of your thread, specifically in its targeting of basses. Gibson do make other things out of the disputed wood after all.

There's been one in Moffat for a few years now, February.

What's wrong with it?

[quote name='LemonCello' timestamp='1318318124' post='1400322'] I appear to have rung your Gibson bell don't I? Facts of the matter are that Fender have produced several hundred thousand P basses and Gibson only made three Victory Standards. Andy Baxter has one, there's the one on E bay and the bloke from the Wurzels has the other one. I rest my case. You seem overly sensitive about my 'bog standard' comment? In case you hadn't noticed the word 'standard' appears in the name of that particular model doesn't it, so I guess we are only at odds over the word 'bog'? I think I've got better things to do quite honestly. [/quote] It's gone way beyond types of basses. I dealt with that quite capably in my first post. You then went after me. You made a comment about me, and who I am. That is what I take exception to. I'm guessing an apology for your insensitive behaviour is way too much to hope for, so I won't hold my breath. I think that any further correspondence on this matter should be in PM. I've said my public piece.

[quote name='LemonCello' timestamp='1318267182' post='1399896'] I notice you have 2 artists models. Was the standard a bit too bog standard for you? It's a fact that many have tried to emulate the success of the Fender P, but most have failed dismally, including Gibson! [/quote] You haven't noticed much else though, have you? What has my choice of basses got to do with the fact that you've completely missed my point? Shall I reiterate in more concise terms? The whole Gibson Victory range has all the things I listed, most of these things are not found in "bog standard" basses, never mind all of them. I wanted the Victory Artist because I felt that a 2 pickup bass would be more flexible than a single pickup bass. Your attempt to make me look like a snob is bang out of order when you can clearly see (from the link in my sig) that my Victory Artist was basket case picked up for dirt cheap then lovingly restored and even more pertinent my RD Artist was a gift to me from my wife bought with her inheritance, having lost her father just over a year ago. You know nothing about me but you thought you'd have a pop anyway. Well done. Furthermore, it's a lot easier to pick up an RD Artist: they outsold the RD Standard by at least a factor of 3:1. Also why would I get an RD Standard when I already have a 2 pickup passive VVT Gibson bass - my 1987 IV? Yes, the Victory is a heavy bass. So are some other basses. Big whoop. No-one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to play one.

Well I reported it - fat lot of good that did. evilBay really don't give a hoot as long as they get their fees.

The right strap makes a difference. I think relaxing and proper posture when playing helps. I am still quite uptight when I play, but it's getting better. I played my G&L at a gig a while back and while it's not my heaviest bass I was using a non-padded strap and my shoulder hurt quite badly after the gig, compounded with the problem that I was too uptight when I played.

This is how to do a 3 pickup Les Paul, imo.

I think it looks rotten - and that's coming from a Gibson bass fan.

[quote name='LemonCello' timestamp='1318102290' post='1398186'] Yeah, nice looking thing. A fairly bog standard failed P bass rival though. This one is not a bad price, there's one on Andy Baxter Bass for £850! [/quote] How many "fairly bog standard" basses do you know have a maple body, have 22-24 frets, have a series/parallel switchable humbucker, have a four in line angled headstock, have strengthening rods in the neck and have a bridge which is adjustable in all directions (action, intonation and string spacing)? I hate to think what your understanding of "bog standard" is.

If you like the Grabber sound so much then why not get something that uses those pickups? Either a Gibson Q-80 or Explorer basses use them. Not sliding of course

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1317981891' post='1396855'] I think its more a case of not worth it as the posts will be deleted and the poster banned. Just a waste of time. Ive seen someone get told off by a mod just for talking about another manufactures strings and comparing them to EB's. [/quote] I think I'll start a Gibson bass forum and delete all dissent and ban those responsible. Then I'll watch the tumbleweed go by

I hate playing bass, I just get lumped with it because I always have a pen/pencil, I always have a toolkit, I always have spare 9V batteries, I always have a spare instrument lead, I always have a 4 way extension and I know how to do web pages. The bass playing is just a consequence of that