KevB

I was hoping it was something straight forward but not had chance to jam it yet. Been sent a list of 27 songs to get to grips with by Sunday and I'm not a reader... I could probably take all that time just to get to grips with the little runs in the first 5 minutes of Deep Purple's Lazy (which is on the list).

Probably be able to pick up a set of second hand midi bass pedals (eg Roland PK5) for less than £200 and then you can go a lot further than just triggering the samples you could use them in conjunction with the sound module to have a more musical input.

So I'm wading through a big set list for a potential new project, lots to do and not nearly enough time. One thing they asked to do was The Doors Roadhouse Blues (easy enough) but they base theirs on the Jeff Healey version; [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fxmHNdeL70&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fxmHNdeL70...feature=related[/url] Do any of you out there play it and is that little bass intro way up the neck reasonably easy or is he doing something clever that I'm unlikely to have time to master by the weekend?

If her solo stuff doesn't take off you'd think someone like Melissa Auf Der Maur would be a shoe in...

Just spotted this; [url="http://www.soundsliveshop.com/p/Rickenbacker_4003_Bass_Mapleglo/RICK-504003MG"]http://www.soundsliveshop.com/p/Rickenback...o/RICK-504003MG[/url] I wonder if I should pay the money and then insist they send the one in the picture?

After some of the tosh he's forced into the public sphere I think buying Abbey Road is the least Lloyd Webber can do in recompense

As someone else pointed out the pic is misleading, they actually have a side mounted jack socket and 3 knobs, 2 vols and a tone. When I ordered mine it didn't have a matching coloured headstock either on arrival but I wasn't bothered. I did little tweaking of string and pickup heights but it was perfectly playable out of the box, there have been a few posts about these on other threads and evryone that has bought them seems happy with them. I bought mine as a backup after seeing someoen play one at a jam session and thought the tone was excellent for a low cost bass. Fender take some flack for QC problems but whoever is running the Squier line in China or Indonesia where these are built seem to be getting it right most of the time.

If you are on a budget these are very playable and excellent value for money: [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Squier-P-Bass-Special---Black-Metallic~ID~3431.asp"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~S...lic~ID~3431.asp[/url]

Can the original poster tell me which pub it is, I might just turn up for the entertainment value

In case anyone is thinking of buying the RickySounds product I can vouch for the guy's work personally as he fitted a genuine Ric vintage selector knob/capacitor to my modern 4003. The extra cost of him doing the job or me buying the same part on ebay and bodging through it myself was minimal. I left it at his house, popped out to do some shopping and it was done when I came back, nice bloke too.

The Squier P bass specials with the additional bridge jazz PU are definitely worth checking out, excellent value for money. Played mine at a jam last weekend and a self confessed Jamerson fan told me how good a Motown thump I was getting from it. If the house was on fire I'd probably still grab my US jazz first though...

It's not really a mistake as such but if you listen through only one channel on Paperback Writer you can hear (probably McCartney) shuffling around and sniffing waiting for the next bit to sing over. It's only because of the really heavily left/right mixing that was done you can hear it as it allows you to mix out nearly all instruments with just your standard stereo.

If the original seller put the bass (or any other item) up with BIN at 99p and then refuses to sell he should be drummed off eBay. The other people that get my goat are the ones who are too cheapskate to put a reserve on something (cos it increases your selling fees a bit) but then pull out of a sale when it doesn't fetch what they wanted. Ban the lot of 'em.

Like Spiny Norman's P bass, I have a butterscotch blonde bass. This is the US jazz before I put a badass bridge on it. Not quite as bright yellow in the flesh as it looks using flash photography though.

Liquidised marrowfat peas. If you can find a pan big enough leave it simmering for 20 mins, will come off a treat.

Thought Big Beef Chief would be a shoe-in, he's got a beret and everything...

You might also be able to find a used G&L tribute for that price. They are active but will still do a pretty mean P tone.

I managed to get a US jazz with hard case 2-3 years ago which was only about 3 yrs old at the time for £380 and that was seen as a very good deal so your P bass is as good. People on here routinely put them up at £500 minimum so assuming there's nothing iffy with it go for it.

Has Trevor Bolder left the band then? I thought he was still involved. Highly underrated bass player, not sure if he's on the original version of Easy Livin or not though, he was in the band in its early years then left but came back.

You could always just pick up a cheap S/H 4 string and have it pretuned to drop D. Most players take a back up bass to gigs which they don't use 99% of the time so have one that you do use. You can then retune it back to normal in the break if you do 2 sets then it will be there as a 'normal' backup for one set.

Also in The Firm with Page and briefly had a project called The Law as well as his solo stuff and the Muddy Waters tribute album, plenty of material to draw on through the years. I saw him 10yrs or so back on a solo tour and wasn't expecting much but I was knocked out by how good a shape his voice was still in and it was a good mix of his career in the set, great night.

Of course for bands like Yes and other classic proggers the 10 minute mark was pretty common and they often went considerably further...

If you're all good players get stuck into some Rush, that'll keep you busy for a few sessions

I have a Behringer TU300. It cost about £25 and appears to do exactly what it is supposed to do. Used it in bands and I was in tune with everyone else and use it for home practice and I'm in tune with what I'm playing along with. Three different modes - chromatic, b and bb and can switch to either bass or guitar modes depending what you're putting through it. I find the prices of some of the other pedal tuners laughable for what they are. But it's Behringer so it's gotta be crap right?

I'll get shouted down no doubt for raising the name of the much accursed Behringer but their pedal tuner works fine, had one for a while and it seems to do everything that other more expensive pedal tuners (like Boss) do. My only slight irritation is if you use it in chromatic mode the notation for being perfectly sharp is a very small dot after the note letter which can be hard to see, a proper # symbol would be clearer. If you use it in other modes it is clearer to use.