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[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1457103832' post='2995403'] Really put me off asymmetric necks and will avoid them in future. [/quote] I think some techniques suit asymmetric necks and some don't, and yours is obviously in the "don't" camp. I'm very happy with my asymmetric-necked Sei, but I tried one of Alan's ACG guitars with an asymmetric neck and didn't get on with it at all, probably because I'm mainly an acoustic guitar player and make occasional use of my thumb over the top which just doesn't work with an asymmetric neck.

Titles by Barclay James Harvest - a song made up of B**tles song titles and some musical references. Kid Rock - All Summer Long, a complete lift of Sweet Home Alabama. In the outro of Dire Straits' Money for Nothing, Sting does some backing vocals, including "I want my, I want my, I want my MTV" to the melody of "Don't stand so close to me".

Focus III - works, apart from the bass solo which is so low you can't hear it, and isn't much cop if you turn it up. I'm another one who's happy with Lamb Lies Down. I suppose I can't count doublebacks like Tyrannosaurus Rex's Beard of Stars/Unicorn and My people were fair/Prophets, seers, and sages...

What I find really annoying is when whatever cloth-eared gibbon is doing the sound editing cuts out a bar, or a beat, or even half a beat. Presumably they know bugger-all about music.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1456965942' post='2994160'] Why? It's very good but so was the 94 video (with that note!), as was the stunning version Dave Gilmour played at the Albert Hall last year. [/quote] Because it was the original line-up reunited. I'm not saying that the other versions aren't good, it's that the musicians who originally created the parts were doing it once more.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1456830905' post='2992576'] I'm now worried that I will now have to buy a 5-string before I'm allowed to play the live version of Comfortably Numb to an audience. [/quote] But surely this must be the definitive live version: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4i8tzFbTAk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4i8tzFbTAk[/url]

It was apparently sold, but it's back. Time to offer him tuppence and a packet of Rolos (almost complete) again.

You used to be able to get them from Status although they're not listing them now. Would be worth getting in touch with them though.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1456492765' post='2989585'] oh the non-toll bit... I don't want to be elitist about it [/quote] You should go for the toll, you don't want to look as if you're penny-pinching.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1456561149' post='2990232'] Yes that's true... Any idea when the EUB was invented / came into popular usage? If it was before the bass guitar I wonder why it isn't the more popular instrument now? [/quote] Rickenb*cker's Electro Bass Viol from 1936. [url="http://www.vintageguitar.com/3399/rickenbacker-electro-bass/"]http://www.vintageguitar.com/3399/rickenbacker-electro-bass/[/url] They must have forgotten about it otherwise the Hall family would be chasing NS, BSX, and the others for royalties or to shut them down.

[quote name='smurfitt' timestamp='1456579120' post='2990433'] Always play exact because it sounds better. [/quote] The world didn't need another band playing "With a little help from my friends" the same way as the Beatles, thankfully Joe Cocker wasn't getting advice from Basschat.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1456501890' post='2989734'] Guy Pratt plays a 5-String on Pulse. In comfortably numb he has gratutitously overused the bottom string. Don't know what note it is but all the chords and the melody line ascends - giving the song a lift, while the bass note tries to drag the song down. That's not an accidental wrong note, that's a bad choice. IMO. [/quote] It differs from the original in two places, I think - in the first instrumental he goes from low B to the A G F# E run down, and in the choruses, the second time through the D A D A he plays the low rather than the high D. The bit in the instrumental sounds wrong to me, I can see the logic of what he's doing in the chorus though as in that part the melody rises from D to A rather than falling.

That's a shame about Joe, he did a great piece of work for me defretting and reprofiling a 2000 (fatneck) Warwick Thumb to the same neck profile as my JD Thumb.

I use a Zoom MS-60B with the BassPitch effect (I think) which gives a pretty effective octave up, slightly dirty, useful for things like "Riverboat song" and "I love rock and roll".

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1456316118' post='2987685'] I don't personally know any bassists that think class-D sounds better than traditional amps but I do know a lot that use them. [/quote] I think my class-D Tecamp Puma and lightweight Berg 1x12s sound a bloody sight better than any of the heavyweight gear I've had - which has been Laney and Trace Elliot. And I have never had any desire whatsoever to have a valve bass amp.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1456446546' post='2989230'] I believe it was Lemmy who said 'If it's too loud you're too old'. :-) [/quote] Ted Nugent, actually. Who used to wear earplugs on stage.

When I had a listen to the isolated bass track for "The Seeker", I realised that not only had I been playing it wrong, but that every single tab and instructional video is also wrong. So now I feel smug because I'm playing it right...

I use chorus on everything.

It's easy for you youngsters, there's rather less around from 1957 (excluding Fenders, as I do) - Danelectro hadn't started doing basses. It looks like Hofner were doing some rather nice archtops like the President. Or there's a Rick 4000, or a Gibson EB-1. Oh, and the Kay Jazz Special.

"For God's sake don't sing".

The first video was technically impressive, although I'm another one who wasn't keen on the tone - while the first part was about pyrotechnics rather than feeling, I thought the section from 2:00 had quite a bit of expression.

I've rather fancied a Poseidon since I first saw one, and when Bassmachine put one up for sale or trade and showed signs of liking both Warwicks and the unusual, we were able to sort out an exchange for my Buzzard and a bit of money. After something of a comedy of errors at my end getting boxes sorting out and then a postal strike in Greece affecting movement at that end, we've finally finished up with respective basses at their intended destinations. And this is the happy owner of the Esh: Very comfortable neck, good sound from the magnetic pickups. Not so sure about the piezo but I have yet to put it through a rig. First outing will be on Friday at a local gig.

[quote name='geofio' timestamp='1456094753' post='2985403'] Would not use a pc for recording , Mac is the only way to go for serious recording, there are always issues with pc been there done that. no matter the power of the pc/lapotop they just don't hack it for multitrack recording don.t waste your money on a pc is my 20 years recording music advice!!!! [/quote] I've been in three recording studios in the last five or so years, all were using Windows PCs.

It might seem somewhat counterintuitive but have you considered a narrow-necked 5-string or stringing a 4-string BEAD? You can shift your fretting hand up 5 frets that way, reducing stretch and possibly putting it in a more relaxed position.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1455805588' post='2982596'] I had a guitarist start a regular number (I think it was Amazing Grace) in 4/4 rather than the usual 3/4. We were a duo so the train wreck was total!! [/quote] On a tangent, I was once on a cross-channel ferry where Sid and Doris Bonkers were playing in the lounge on keyboards and guitar with a drum machine. I'm not sure that they'd entirely got the hang of programming it because they did "Delilah" in 4/4.