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Simply Red cured me of wanting to listen to music.

One of the bands I love to hate, and a significant contributory factor in me stopping listening to music in about 1985.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1443602748' post='2876033'] There will always threads like this while we keep referring to these instruments as basses. They really should have some sort of title of their own like 'extended range guitar' (ERG) or something. [/quote] You mean like "extended range bass" (ERB) which is what they're currently referred to as? I imagine that if they were made with guitar-scaled necks they would be referred to as ERGs, as they'd be guitars with more strings stuck on. In this case, they're basses with more strings stuck on.

After father and son duo Lee and Hank Marvin split up, Lee was rather embittered and took on the role of Ben Rumson in "Paint your wagon" with his featuring song "I was born under a wandering star" as a response to Hank's featuring in "Summer Holiday". Subsequent attempts to reform, with the mooted involvement of Marvin Gaye and/or Marvin the Paranoid Android, proved unsuccessful.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1443425886' post='2874472'] just my take on this, I don't think enough effort is put into teaming up with guys who have similar musical tastes, I love playing the covers I do because I really like the songs we do, some more than others, but I don't dislike playing any of them, or maybe I'm just lucky [/quote] We have overlapping but by no means identical tastes, which does mean that there's a fair amount of variety to the set. A while ago, I played with a club band for the money. Very few of the songs were ones that I would have any desire whatsoever to listen to. In the end, that just wasn't satisfying, although all the members of the band got on well and I still do occasional deps for them, and I moved on (via another couple of bands) to the current band.

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1443286403' post='2873607'] I take it shooting them wouldn't be an option, then? [/quote] The simplest option is not to have an audience in the first place. Works for me.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1443425049' post='2874468'] Alex uses the analogy with cars and compares the high mass high energy Bugatti Veyron with the lower mass lower energy VW Golf (doesn't say if it is diesel ) The point I was making is that there are a lot of Golf like family hatchbacks out there, everyone does a Golf like car and we all have expectations when we look at a medium sized hatchback with a 1.9 diesel engine. Similarly most speaker manufacturers have 10,12 and 15" drivers with thin cones and modest magnets, pressed chassis and two or three roll surrounds and they all perform in a similar way. [/quote] If I may make a wild generalisation, cabs from different manufacturers tend to be built with similar dimensions, grouping into the 1x12, 1x15, 2x10, 2x12, and 4x10 (most popular sizes). These are, in a way, dictated by the speaker sizes, insofar as the tendency will be to make a cab compact if it uses 10" drivers, comparatively larger if it uses 12" drivers, and BFO sized for the 15" as the user is obviously not that bothered about it crowding the guitarist off the stage. It's possibly that clustering of cabinet volumes that is falsely equated with a driver tone.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1443300735' post='2873751'] The general rule is to keep the cab as tight to the wall as possible. When the distance from the wall to the front of the cab is 1/4 wavelength you get a cancellation dip at that frequency, as the original and reflected waves meet 180 degrees out of phase. [/quote] Does a rear port make any difference to that? A little thinking (which is possibly less than the minimum required) suggests that it would actually exacerbate the problem as the out-of-phase sound from the rear port would be additive with the sound from the front.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1443037789' post='2871785'] It seems to be quite common that the PCB around board mounted sockets flexes slightly in use and after a few years the tracks fracture and crack. I'm not even any sort of professional repair guy, but I can think of at least three bits of kit I've repaired where this was the fault, so I presume it's a regular point of failure. [/quote] I am not a professional repair guy so this is merely opinion, but generally PCB mounted sockets will be attached firmly to a case panel, thus obviating flex (unless it's a very flimsy panel). Where you could get an issue is if the nut holding the socket in place loosens off a bit, and then you'll be putting mechanical stress through the solder joints. So make sure you've always got tight nuts.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1443175204' post='2872789'] There hasnt been decent Bond theme since before Maccas Live and Let Die. [/quote] Fixed that for you.

Between four and six strings? Obviously doesn't get out enough. And as for "Just like you need a special electric guitar to play metal, you need a special bass to play in a metal band." - no you don't. It's a bass. It sounds like a bass. A bass in a metal band sounds like a bass. Oh, and "If you want to go even further, you might want to consider Warwick, Spector or Lakland. These are American brands that are not as popular as the ones listed above" - has anybody told Warwick that they've moved continents?

When you haven't got a lot of room on stage, the fact that you've got no lead to tread on is an even greater benefit than on a big stage.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1443133106' post='2872622'] My wife has a Bay City Rollers scarf. [/quote]I have two Gary Glitter scarves. And a Gary Glitter album. Well, they literally turned Fred West's house to dust to prevent souvenir collectors from collecting, so there's always a chance the market will rise.

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1443010797' post='2871404'] The Rugby World Cup has pushed our start time back to 11 pm this Saturday. Finish at 2!! [/quote] It's pushed the start time for two of our gigs back by two months each...

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1443018071' post='2871493'] But they did write a cheque for about £250,000 when I needed them to on another policy. [/quote] Ah, a Fodera, eh?

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1442913937' post='2870387'] Oh, and of course Clapton - however did he allow Layla to be recorded, let alone released?! [/quote] You do mean the awful acoustic version rather than the masterful electric version, don't you? David Bowie, there's another one.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1442936264' post='2870752'] A 'Face' could have been construed, back then, as a celebrity, or person of note; the folks cited were simply somewhat modest. [/quote] They were actually trying to make themselves appear as insignificant and unthreatening as possible, due to the rise in facism.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1443011651' post='2871414'] Sorry. I thought you wanted to know why he had a .ca web address and might be interested in the geography and people of that area. My mistake. [/quote] I was simply pointing out that it was quite likely that he was Canadian rather than American. But it seems that although he comes from Ontario, which is in Canada, and lives in Ontario, which is in Canada, he's not Canadian because some of Ontario overlaps with some bits of America. So does that mean that Dumfries is English, or is it that Alnwick is Scottish?

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1442997057' post='2871190'] Yeah, on DAB, tbh it's just background music but I can't say as I noticed any phone-ins. [/quote] That's because Planet Rock went all-digital, Absolute Phone-in took over the Planet Rock frequency on FM.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1443000552' post='2871231'] He is in Ontario. Just South of Detroit. He may technically live in Canada and may have a slight Canadian accent but there's no way he is a proper Canadian. I've worked in Michagan and Ontario and met a lot of people who live in that area. [/quote] Good grief, so you issue Canadian passports too? Is there no end to your authority?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1442933786' post='2870696'] He's American. [/quote] With a .ca domain? That doesn't stand for "California".

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1442951103' post='2870928'] I've just started listening to Planet Rock again, between the hours of 2 'till 5pm.[/quote] On digital? Since it went to Absolute Music, the phone-ins get in the way of the morning music and the music itself has got a bit blander.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1442773790' post='2869379'] thanks for the info - i like the look of the graphtech saddles - are they reversible? would need to spin two of them around as on the gotoh bridge the E and A have the long screw below the string rather than above [/quote] Do you mean reversible fore and aft or reversible top and bottom? I don't see why you shouldn't reverse them fore and aft, I'm sitting looking at a bridge with very similar Graphtech saddles on it that's waiting to go on a bass and I can't see any reason that they'd be bothered about which way the string was running over the saddle.

Very impressive piece of work.