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[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1488132623' post='3246165'] You said - "...to stop it turning face-down." Strange, mine hangs with no issues apart from the slight neck dive. [/quote] It doesn't turn completely face-down but tilts away from me. Is your neck strap button in the standard place? Mind you, it was an awfully long time ago when I had a B2 but I don't remember that having the same issue as the B2V/B2AV.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1487152529' post='3237473'] If you must wear one, it goes on the wrist of your fretting hand. On the other wrist it just gets in the way of your playing. [/quote] More importantly, if you are like me and wear your watch on the inside of your right wrist, and it's a mechanical watch, the pickups can do bad things to the internals. Must take my three watches in to be looked at a jeweller some time... I've found clip-on tuners highly inaccurate with my headless Seis.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1488105335' post='3245793'] You must be using the lower of the two bridge end strap buttons to get the problem that you describe. Is there a reason? It seems counter-intuitive otherwise. [/quote] Must I? I'm not. It's because the centre of gravity is well forward of the neck strap pin location.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1488035100' post='3245239'] You'd think headless basses would be free of the problem but my Steinberger fiver does it a bit. Used to it now though. [/quote] That's because it's bodyless too. I keep meaning to move the strap peg on my Hohner B2AV round to where it is on a Status Streamline, not to stop neck dive but to stop it turning face-down. My Thumbs are a bit neck-divey. I think a suede strap, or something with similar frictional qualities, would solve the problem.

My favourite fives are my two Sei headlesses (one fretless Original, one fretted Flamboyant), and my Antoniotsai. I do recommend headless for fives, even more so than fours, as you get rid of a lorra lorra weight and those hideous headstocks. Oh yes, reasons. Playability. It took me quite a few goes to find a five that I was anything like as comfortable with as my Warwick Thumb 4 - a JD NT which has a very slim and shallow neck profile.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1488053502' post='3245493'] 4. Any other suggestions..? [/quote] Find their regular bassist and cut his hands off.

[quote name='SuperSeagull' timestamp='1488055053' post='3245529'] Was that recently? He has recently switched to a white Charger (or a white Rhino according to the marketing blurb!) [/quote] Three or four years ago.

[quote name='Thunderpaws' timestamp='1488034086' post='3245228'] What's the easiest way to copyright your own material? [/quote] Write it. Then it's your copyright. You automatically have copyright of your own original works. Proving that you wrote it on or before a certain date is the issue over proving copyright, but in this case, that's not going to be an issue as the promoter presumably isn't going to claim that he wrote the songs. But I think this would be performance rights rather than a copyright issue, although IANAL so I could be talking rubbish.

Having owned two P basses in the past, I find myself completely immune to this for the last 30 years.

[quote name='SuperSeagull' timestamp='1488036532' post='3245269'] Sorry to be a pedant but Rhino Edwards plays a Status Charger. [/quote] When I saw them at the NIA, he was playing a white Streamline. Shows how foolish it is to make assumptions on a sample of one...

[quote name='jrixn1' timestamp='1487950564' post='3244499'] Wouldn't this result in an unbalanced signal? I think you'd want DI to be balanced. [/quote] No, it would be unbalanced if you just used one output. Inverting the other output and driving the other side with the inverted signal produces a balanced output. However, it would require Zoom to produce a DI effect for just that purpose.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1487930802' post='3244196'] Anyway, after last night's vocal rehearsal and subsequent discussion, it is apparent that I can use whatever I like. She just wanted to have an image of a new, modern prog band, fronted up with old style guitars. But as it turns out, the guitarist who has a PRS is also preferring to use that so it's kind of a moot point now... [/quote] That seems something of a mixed message. What else would give the appearance of a modern prog band than modern instruments? Does she actually want a retro prog band (regressive?).

I wasn't as good a guitarist as the other guitarist in the band we put together in the hall of residence I was in, and we needed a bassist.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1487888865' post='3244011'] You should play some jazz gigs. I've played gigs where I've never heard the tune before. Chord chart, watch, listen and pray. [/quote] My audition for a ceilidh band consisted of turning up to a gig and playing (they did ask me to). No chord chart, just got told the key for each tune, and not only was it a genre I'd never played before, I'd never heard any of the tunes before either. They decided to keep me. However, the rock covers band I've just joined is of the same mind that I am - get the songs polished with me in, get gigging (target is 20-30 gigs a year), rehearse if there are things wrong and to bring new material in. steantval said 45 songs seems like overkill. My covers band that has just folded had around 50 songs, and we wanted to increase that a little more. It means we could choose the 25-30 songs we fancied doing for that gig, rather than (like a club band I used to be with) playing an identical set at every gig for over ten years.

A Sei Flamboyant 5-string unlined fretless with conventional pickups plus piezo bridge saddles driving a Hexpander.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1487780975' post='3242836'] I posted re. my experience as the OP was contemplating the whole who books courier dilemma. I received a PP payment for an item and next day the buyer politely messaged to say he could book a courier through work a lot cheaper than any other way. All plausible, so I agreed and he had the parcel collected next day; 7-10 days later he asked ebay/PP for a refund as I hadn't delivered... he got a refund, I got stiffed! [/quote] Messaged you through Ebay? Surely you could produce that as evidence of what happened.

Just auditioned for, and joined, a band that originally formed in the late 1960s, playing my headless Sei Flamboyant 5. They didn't have a problem with it. Oh, and Rhino Edwards plays a Status Streamline with Quo.

I have both albums by The Famous Jug Band. They're long gone now, though. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ108oystk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ108oystk[/url]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1487077493' post='3236782'] Unfortunately the Bas Extravaganza site is no more and most of the images including that of the Punk Rock Bass have gone with it. The bass itself used to be owned by someone who posted on here occasionally, but I haven't seen them about for some years now. Imagine a Fender Precision battered to within an inch of total destruction, but still (just) playable. [/quote] Imagination is not needed, just search That Ebay for "relic precision" or "relic bass". Oh dammit, there aren't any sander-and-blowtorch ones on that search today...

I saw it, thought it was quite nice but it's got too few strings for me. Sniping tools, they're the way forward. As long as none of you beat me in an auction using them, of course.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1487064380' post='3236603'] That's only relevant if the potential purchaser knows where Stingrays are made (or not in this case) It just seems like they've purposely avoided showing the obvious things - like the logo on the front of the headstock - hoping someone will make assumptions Oh, and they've called it a a Music Man Stingray (which it isnt)....... [/quote] I agree it's somewhat obfuscating the facts, but if the potential purchaser doesn't know where Stingrays are made then said potential purchaser wouldn't think it was a USA bass.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1487000712' post='3236154'] Not that 6Kg is actually "light", you understand. [/quote] I've owned Precisions, you know. 6kg would be quite a lightweight compared to my old fretless.

It does have the words "Made in Indonesia" pretty easily read in the third picture.

Well, it does make a noise.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1486953254' post='3235845'] Fender = Sunburst and tort [/quote] +1. And natural as a second option.