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Seen in the Ebay section - there's a Squier VM fretless for £100 on Gumtree. [url="https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/squier-vintage-modified-fretless-bass-guitar/1190076168"]https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/squier-vintage-modified-fretless-bass-guitar/1190076168[/url] If you're somewhere near that, or the seller will post it, it could be a good bet.

"Inoffensive" is the word that came into my mind.

Or you could recut the nut and have a three-string bass for those with fat fingers.

Somewhere between options 2 and 4. Dad played piano to a good standard, mum had no musical ability whatsoever. Paid for violin lessons for me and piano lessons for my siblings (I wasn't interested in the piano). Didn't object to me playing the guitar or bass but didn't actively support it either. My parents saw me playing once, about five years ago, coming on for 40 years after I first picked up a guitar.

Are you based in Milwaukee?

It looks more convincing than almost every other relic job I've seen. I think the concept is ridiculous though. Why spend extra money in a bid to convince the world that you're a barbarian who shouldn't be entrusted with a bass, not even a Fender?

I forgot to mention, the bit of paper that comes with it - either no-one else has noticed that it says "USER MANAUL" or I have a rare version.

Mine has now turned up and been batteried. I do have a slight issue though.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1474303977' post='3136971'] I still like US models from all the big players, call me a snob but still feel short changed paying USA money for basses built elsewhere. [/quote] Even for Warwicks?

Why not just get a normal 6-string and not play below fret 2 on the top four strings? Works for me on 5-string.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1474405348' post='3137837'] We get asked for Sex On Fire more than anything by the Beatles at every gig we do. [/quote] We've been asked for Oasis two or three times but never the Beatles. We don't play anything by Oasis. From our setlist, Blondie, Bryan Adams, Fleetwood Mac and the Pretenders are twice as influential as the Beatles, The Who are three times as influential, and they're on level par with Chuck Berry and Steppenwolf.

Well, this might bring the price of that ex-Jack Bruce 5-string fretless Thumb down from £18k. Can someone point the Bass Gallery at this thread?

Is it only in rehearsals that you have issues (which is how I read the OP)? If so, lock the sound guy out of the rehearsals and set the levels yourselves.

You probably wouldn't want to spend the £18k that the Bass Gallery wants for the ex-Jack Bruce fretless Thumb NT 5.

I own the PA, but as Mrs Zero is wedded to me and what's mine is hers (and what's hers is hers), the vocalist does nominally own the PA. We actually use the guitarist's mixer, as he's got all sorts of bells and whistles (graphic EQ, compressors), though I have a couple of decent mixers myself if needed.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1473771476' post='3132960'] As regards drummers, you have to hit them right to make them sound good... [/quote] I find a little kindness helps.

40 years ago with a band that arose from a hall of residence in London, playing a mix of originals and covers on a Hayman 4040 and getting paid £100 between the four of us. Not bad when beer was 20p a pint.

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1473596270' post='3131468'] I think room resonance works with certain cabs. Room 3 at Magnet got a huge boom out of my Barefaced Compact (E flat). In desperation I patched the amp into a Peavey 8x10 that had been left there and the boom went. [/quote] Were the two cabs in exactly the same place? I think placement would have something to do with it.

I played with assorted bands at the Tamworth Rock Festival about ten years on the trot. I think the audience was generally over 1000. Also played live on Telethon '90. However, that was at ludicrous o'clock in the morning. Oh, and Radio WM, for my friend Richard Green.

Generally up to an hour - Brum and Walsall are about 45 minutes away (depending on which bit we're getting to) and that's where most of our gigs are. It did take us a bit longer than that to get to Munich.

60s to current, Sei Original headless fretless and Esh Poseidon through Zoom MS-60B to Tecamp Puma 900 and two Bergantino AE112s. Have also happily used assorted other basses, amps, and cabs. Use what you want.

I didn't fancy a party, being an antisocial git, so when we got the chance to play at Dudley Beer Festival, I jumped at it. Mind you, I still got attacked, bewigged, and silly-stringed.

Geddy Lee. I don't even know how to pronounce his first name - soft g or hard?

Old Mini Clubman estate - me, drummer, drummer's girlfriend, my bass amp (which was a guitar combo, Carlsbro Stingray, with bass drivers in), and drumkit. I have no photographic evidence, especially of me doing 90mph loaded up thusly.

[quote name='3below' timestamp='1472663507' post='3123072'] My thought was that Warwick purchase them in bulk and thus get OEM pricing which is passed on to customers. The quality seems good and they work well enough on Warwick basses which is why I also have a set waiting to go in the current bass build. Now what can I call it that begins with W? [/quote] A Wossname? I've bought a few cheapo tuners, and I've probably got them on my Antoniotsais. The quality has been a bit variable, none have been up to the quality of the tuners on my Warwicks but most have been perfectly acceptable.