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I've got a JD Thumb which has the lovely shallow neck - best neck I've ever played. It looks like they're only slimming them down a bit, not to the old dimensions.

[quote name='yorick' post='579132' date='Aug 24 2009, 03:01 PM']I played the Farmyard Party biker bash back in '96 (i think) with a punk/folk band called Bleeding Hearts.[/quote] So you'd have been my replacement then, after Steve threw his teddies out of the pram and decided to sack everyone else in the band? I've played the [url="http://www.tamworthbands.com/rockfestival/index.htm"]Tamworth Rock Festival[/url] nine or ten times, starting with the inception year of the two-day festival in 1984. It went OK most years, except that in 1986 there was a huge downpour so we took everything to a nearby club, the Rathole (the name suited it, the plaster was falling off the walls and the wiring was seriously dodgy). I last played it in 1995 on the acoustic stage, as a solo spot.

I'm somewhat overcommitted so I'm leaving one covers band, [url="http://www.break-away.org.uk"]Breakaway[/url], who are based in Birmingham (the others are from Northfield and Kingstanding, and rehearsals are in Brum). I have told them and they've started looking for a bassist, so I thought I'd try here to see if anyone fancied replacing me. There's a pretty up to date set list on the website, plus you'll see what the band is like. It's not desperately urgent as I'll play for them until a replacement gets drafted in, but it would be nice to get someone in fairly soon. If you're interested, either get in touch with me or contact them direct.

[quote name='cetera' post='562068' date='Aug 6 2009, 04:33 PM']It'll be fun being incognito.... [/quote] Oh, is Cognito coming then? Lovely girl... I might make it down, not sure yet.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='561570' date='Aug 5 2009, 10:48 PM']Are you doubting his authentierty?[/quote] I now have an image of Cartman yelling "respect mah authentierty!". Dammit.

Used them ever since I got a Warwick with Schallers on in 1987. I have had a guitar come off a strap and never want to repeat the experience. I use the [url="http://www.dangleberrymusic.co.uk/p-542-boston-guitar-strap-locks-black-strap-lock-system-for-guitar-and-bass.aspx"]Boston Schaller clones from Dangleberry[/url] which have two nuts per strap-end bit and consequently are less prone to undoing themselves than the Schallers. A tenner isn't a big investment really...

A couple of things: You can get the editor (v1.4) from Ashdown just by going to the legacy products page and going to the [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?ID=199"]Superfly 500 page[/url] where you will find a link to the [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/software/SuperFly1.40.zip"]v1.4 editor[/url] and [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/software/SuperflyUSBWindows.zip"]the USB driver[/url] (presumably for XP). From my own experimenting, I would say that you need to connect the Superfly direct to your computer, not go through a USB hub. You should also use XP, because Vista is a resource-hungry pile of poo that Microsoft can't wait to supersede, but that's not important right now. If you have the Superfly connected to a PC, you can make changes on the fly, although it doesn't look very rock'n'roll. I use mine with a Korg AX3000B which sends out program change messages on MIDI. As the Superfly's first ten slots are fixed presets, I use bank 4 (and upwards, if I start getting ambitious), patch 1 of which corresponds to program 12. I suppose if I was really ambitious, I could get an Arduino and program it to output some different program change but I think my needs are satisfied for now.

[quote name='charic' post='560249' date='Aug 4 2009, 02:54 PM']Is it bad that all this talk of amps and cabs is giving me gas for a new rig... if alex done a 4x10 that looks rawk I could be in trouble lol.[/quote] Looks like there could be a market for cardboard boxes made up to look like 4x10s then.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='557767' date='Aug 1 2009, 01:31 PM']D'you know what if, I was Fender, I'd sue. [/quote] "How dare you have a more attractive, richer, deeper sunburst than us! We'll see your ass in court!" I've never been entirely sure what donkeys have to do with the American legal process but it does seem to feature them a lot.

Friday - the new (to me) band's first public outing after a couple of parties, at the Adam and Eve in Brum. Not only the first time I've played there, it's also (rather surprisingly) the first time I've ever actually set foot in the place. Started at 10.30, did two sets and finished at about 1.30 with lots of sweaty dancing people around us. Much fun, the gafferess liked us, so hopefully there will be plenty more gigs there. Saturday - a wedding reception for the ceilidh band in a (quite nice) church hall in Stourbridge. Just for a change, the buffet was on while we finished setting up, rather than an hour or so in like normal. Normally, the first hour consists of a few people getting up to dance while everyone else waits for the buffet, but they were up for dancing from the start. As most of the guests had children, they gradually evaporated through the evening, so we finished up at 10.30, which was nice for Mrs Zero and I as we hadn't got to bed till about 4 in the morning. Oh, and we made use of Mrs Zero's new satnav for the first time, and jolly useful it was too. It's nice not being shouted at when you don't turn at the right place...

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='556542' date='Jul 30 2009, 08:29 PM']Or the quantum headless - brilliant bit of kit and great for lugging around hotels etc[/quote] I had one, I was able to transport it plus a GK 200MB (plus a leads and effects bag and a sleeping bag) on the back of my bike. Not a bad little bass.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='556142' date='Jul 30 2009, 01:39 PM']The guy has been paid so it is EBay's property to give.[/quote] Presumably it's actually Paypal's property (ie. Ebay wearing another hat) - just wondering if the actual mechanics of the Paypal system (the bits frantically paddling as the Paypal swan glides along) is that Paypal effectively buys the goods on your behalf and then sells them to you.

[quote name='Clarky' post='556509' date='Jul 30 2009, 07:59 PM']In short, if I can't do the gig then I think they should have said 'no' just like we do when either of them can't make a gig. BTW, the Brum promoter knows he mucked up the date as I spoke to him after he changed it and I told him I couldn't do that day, so it would have been no surprise to him - and he couldn't feel aggrieved - if the others had simply cancelled[/quote] Just wondering about the exact situation over other gigs - I may be wrong but it seems you turn down gigs if other members are unavailable. In this case, you hadn't turned the gig down because you were all available on the original date, so you'd accepted the gig and would have had to cancel the rescheduled gig rather than turning it down. Or have you actually cancelled other gigs because one of the other members was unavailable? I'd wish them well, I wouldn't mind having a bassist to dep for me very occasionally when I get schedule collisions.

If Carl paid for it by Paypal, he'd have the seller's email address in his Paypal history.

[quote name='thumbo' post='553642' date='Jul 28 2009, 10:24 AM']They have updated the jack plugs now - they no longer have that spring system on them because they were ripping the innards out of very expensive Taylor acoustic guitars. I'm guessing that it was the spring that was causing the issue for you, right?[/quote] It caused an issue for me on a Variax guitar - it was making very poor contact so the guitar kept cutting out. I replaced it with a normal stereo cable and it was fine.

Stuff the basses, what bikes have you got?

[quote name='Mike Brooks' post='554324' date='Jul 28 2009, 07:26 PM']As is the album that came after it, "Go On"[/quote] And the album after that, "Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on... - the Father Ted years"

Just started reading the almost-latest issue. Went to the local motorway services to get it (for some reason they're a very reliable stockist), couldn't see it on the normal shelves, looked up at the top shelf, saw a row of tits and on the end was Janek. Wish they wouldn't put it up there, it's a bit embarrassing. Haven't got very far into it yet, more later...

[quote name='KevB' post='546379' date='Jul 21 2009, 01:17 PM']Problem is that often rehearsal studios are in either slightly dodgy areas or remote 'industrial unit' type places and casual thieves soon get to know about them.[/quote] Robanna's in Birmingham has some druggie drop-in place just nearby, and you can always see window glass somewhere on the street. I suspect the two may not be unconnected. But I drive a tatty Mondeo estate or a tatty Ka, and don't leave stuff in view. OP has my sympathy, I've been lucky enough never to have an instrument stolen and know it would be a real blow if any of mine were.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='542842' date='Jul 17 2009, 04:19 AM']FWIW I'm about the scrawniest fully-grown human male I've come across. I can lift my Schroeder 1212L with one hand and lug it short distances like that, or lift it one-handed high enough to get my other hand underneath.[/quote] Excellent. at 19kg or so, that's nicely in my "lightweight" category, and fits nicely into my Beaufort scale (the Beaufort was the last club I played with my featherweight before going over to a lightweight).

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='542407' date='Jul 16 2009, 04:52 PM']I play like that but when not playing the bass sort of swings around to the front. And ive just remembered the buttons on my jacket. they also come in contact with the bass. Bugger, maybe going naked was a good idea.[/quote] Just as long as you don't get, er, over-excited.

I'm another one who (generally) plays it unplugged first. If some friendly assistant has plugged it in for me, it would be churlish of me to unplug it, so I just ignore the noise coming out of the amp while I have a play around checking for playability (and hope everyone else ignores it too). As for pieces of music, that'll be Mustang Sally, or the Toccata and Fugue in Dm by Bach (BWV 565, not BWV 566, which is a completely different Toccata and Fugue in Dm). And a slap bassline to an old original song or two (just slap, no pop), and another bassline to an old original song with sliding forced harmonics if it's a fretless.

I wear my bass high enough to be clear of the belt buckle, especially when additionally deflected by my stomach. That's when I'm not wearing a T-shirt which covers the belt buckle. Plus I don't have any painted or lacquered basses, they're all natural finish.