tauzero

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.

[quote name='MrDaveTheBass' timestamp='1486651049' post='3233539'] Thanks for that! Now I've got the f**king Birdie Song going round my head! NANANANANANANAH! NANANANANANANAH! NANANANANANANAH! DER DER DER DER! [/quote] "Agadoo" trumps the Birdie Song.

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1486802197' post='3234595'] Ford (brand) + Fiesta (model) = Ford Fiesta. Reliant (brand) + Robin (model) = Robin Reliant. What? [/quote] It isn't a Robin Reliant, it's a Reliant Robin. Just because Jasper Carrott called it a Robin Reliant doesn't mean that it's true.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1486740397' post='3234288'] We still speak [b]much of[/b] the original language and pronunciations. Geordie is not just an accent , [b]< comma [/b]its [b]an [/b]ancient language. [/quote] "It's an ancient language". And it isn't, it's just got more Viking in it than other English dialects.

A-Ha - Take on me. Wanted to do that with the last band but the guitarist wasn't keen and Mrs Zero was a bit ambivalent about coping with the vocals.

I've been sacked that way - not because I was a bad bassist or my replacement was a better one (personally, I think he was worse), but because my replacement was a mate of the lead guitarist and drummer and he wanted to join the band. I wasn't at all happy. Still, all was eventually forgiven and I depped for them recently when their bassist who was a replacement for my replacement was unavailable for a gig. But I wouldn't like anything like that to happen again.

He's rejected my best offer again.

Looks interesting but would be a PITA to tune.

That's why God created sniping tools.

Thought it might have been a Yamaha SBV-500 but the remaining bit of body doesn't fit that theory and the headstock's a bit skinnier.

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The free postage must have pretty much wiped out the profit...

[quote name='GreeneKing' timestamp='1485699226' post='3225875'] So an active bass with an uncoloured in bass pre-amp set flat is a passive bass? I see your point but the passive signal is boosted massively both in any pre-amp and amp itself and 'colour' is very often added. [/quote] I own several active basses and just one of them puts out a signal that is boosted compared to the passive signal (and even then, it's not by a huge factor). A Baxendall-type tone control needs (IIRC) a gain of 3x to maintain the same level of output as input, but that's the only gain in a typical active preamp. The change of impedance and the ability to use a tone control network with both boost and cut are the real points of an active preamp.