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[quote name='Musky' post='1088619' date='Jan 13 2011, 09:22 PM']My favourite bit of hi-fi hokum - [url="http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm"]http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm[/url] [/quote] You beat me to it. I'm moderately convinced that that site is a semi-hoax - the fact that there are covers from science fiction books on every page does hint that they are pointing out the unreality of all the claims, but OTOH if anyone is actually stupid enough to buy [url="http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina47.htm"]four 3/4" diameter blue dots for $99[/url] then you can do it through Paypal.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1087269' date='Jan 12 2011, 09:30 PM']Funnily enough I just did - or rather tired to , my call was rejected. [/quote] Have you made more than one attempt to call them? It's not something about your appearance, is it? Two noses? Eye in the middle of your forehead? Ginger?

[quote name='Doddy' post='1085479' date='Jan 11 2011, 01:40 PM']"Bay City Rollers require new member. Everyone welcome."[/quote] "Enthusiasm more important than ability".

It looks as if someone's just gouged out a hyuge hole in the front and stuck four P pickup halves in it.

[quote name='agoulding' post='1081759' date='Jan 8 2011, 02:37 AM']My point is, upon seeing me play, he said i could get very far with my playing and I should pursue it as a career. This really, really inspired me and I am currently working on material. Something struck me though, I didn't really like what he said, he said my music lacked feel. So Im asking you guys, what is feel? surely if you have written something and it means something to you, that is feel, and that is all that matters right? do others need to see the meaning or purpose behind your music?? sure, some people may be able to se it/hear it, but youre the only one that knows deep inside what its all about? Aaaaaand one mooooreee thing. Have you ever experienced anything that has really given you the drive and inspiration to "go for it"? and what inspires you more than anything??[/quote] What was the context? Were you playing with a band or with sequenced instruments/drum machine? It's not necessarily about your playing but about the gestalt of the song. My dad first saw me perform a few months ago, and that's after I'd been playing about 35 years, so consider yourself favoured!

It would be worth looking for website design tips for accessibility because a lot of them are applicable. Poorly sighted people and dyslexics are the ones who benefit from clear appearance - IIRC the advice is for pastel background, black foreground, and sans-serif fonts (I admit to using a black background on one of my bands' websites, but we are a rawk band after all).

So it's possible to keep a Precision looking decent for nearly 50 years. Really shows up the tat that you normally see...

Thought it must be a scam from the advert text - he refers to "pics" at one point, and says "There are two nicks on the back of the bass neck that I am disclosing here as you can see in the picks." at another, but there's only one picture.

[quote name='KevB' post='1084440' date='Jan 10 2011, 04:34 PM']Go on Jon admit it, if you had £8K for basses you'd buy 80 more pieces of Japcrap and open a museum [/quote] For 8k, I think Jon could buy 800 more pieces of Japcrap...

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1080670' date='Jan 7 2011, 01:30 AM']Being asked to hold on for a moment while someone gets the phone isn't an issue unless it's a long call and I'm stood about like a lemon[/quote] Any assistant worth their salt should be able to tell if a call is going to be a short or a long one in very short order, and if it's going to be a long one, tell the caller that they'll call back and get a number. What would really impress me as the customer in the shop would be if that happens, and as I'm leaving after being served, I hear the assistant calling back as promised. It'll never happen though...

I forgot another one - had the wireless die on me just as I was about to go into a bass-n-drums breakdown section of a song. Cue rapid shuffling of wires and continuation. I didn't use the wireless (a Nady 101) for years after that, and when I did I discovered that the problem was the power supply connector, a 3.5mm jack plug - the wire to it had broken internally and invisibly just where it entered the moulded plug. Exactly the same thing later happened to a second Nady unit I bought later.

[quote name='icastle' post='1080271' date='Jan 6 2011, 07:00 PM']Not too keen on the body shapes but there are some truly fantastic finishes on some of those basses... [/quote] I think the body shapes are fantastic - shame that Tony Tsai has stopped doing these basses:

Of course, if the position isn't actually employment [i]per se[/i] but a position where a self-employed person is subcontracted to the band, all this talk of discrimination and illegality is pure irrelevant crap. Do those who are describing it as illegal actually know that the bassist will be an employee, or are they all just spouting hot air?

First gig with new Warwick Thumb at the Mean Fiddler. Decide to adjust truss rod slightly before going on. It breaks. I play gig with rather unusually high action... At one pub gig, put my pint on a shelf just behind and above my amp. There is just enough room for it to inch forward and spill a few drops into my Superfly, which promptly decides to have the rest of the night off. I go through the PA. When I get home, I dismantle and wash the Superfly, then dry it out and remantle it. It works perfectly.

[quote name='Martin E' post='1072801' date='Dec 30 2010, 03:03 PM']£1 – 3.15mm, £2 – 2.5mm, 10p – 1.85mm, 50p – 1.78mm, 5p – 1.7mm and 1p – 1.65mm[/quote] I just measured up a clearance using a couple of 20ps... They're 1.7mm too, I now know.

One that Mrs Zero and I will be doing this evening for the first time:

So, was there anything worthwhile to make me watch it on iplayer or download it? Saw a few seconds of Kylie being a chipmunk and (later) Alison Moyet not being a chipmunk.

I love the fact that the Brian Blessed B-Quad Bike has appeared there too. It's the Thread That Will Not Die...

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1073043' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:33 PM']...and you wouldn't be slightly dismayed if someone did this to a 2010 Jazz?[/quote] I'd be overjoyed.

[quote name='jsixties' post='1072860' date='Dec 30 2010, 04:31 PM']Absolutely terrible. I don't know if is worst the "artist" work or the seller description . [/quote] It could be worse. It could be an Oly White Fender Jazz with nothing at all done to it.

The shop is empty...

[quote name='Merton' post='1073107' date='Dec 30 2010, 08:18 PM']I just "accidentally" phoned Mark @ Bass Direct (twice, bloody HSBC...) and "accidentally" paid for an MB200 to be my home/practice amp. Now just gotta wait for the tiny thing to arrive [/quote] At least the postman will be able to put it through the letterbox.

[quote name='mep' post='1072912' date='Dec 30 2010, 05:21 PM']And me. I've tried others, but always come back to JD nylon 1mm's[/quote] That's what I use - I don't use them much on bass but I do about 50/50 fingerpick and plectrum on guitar, using the JDs, and I just use the same plectrums on bass.

[quote name='Marvin' post='1073135' date='Dec 30 2010, 08:45 PM']With regard to the subject of U2 I've never understood the moaning about Clayton's playing. Most of the whinging seems to emanate from people who don't even like U2. It's not bass driven music so it doesn't require 'look at me' lines. Anything more 'colourful' wouldn't fit in, there's no space for it - the focus of U2 are Bono's lyrics/voice and Edge's guitar playing. Arguing that one could play a better line is a mute point, and somewhat irrelevant as only the 0.0000x% of nerdy bass players in the general populous would be listening to it anyway.[/quote] With U2, there's also quite a bit of difference between songs where the bass and drums are simply providing a platform for Bono and the Edge (eg. "With or without you") and those where the bass is providing a melodic glue (eg. "One"). I'm not much of one for playing the chugging note but I enjoy playing "With or without you" far more than the dreary "Dakota".