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[quote name='rjb' post='306852' date='Oct 15 2008, 09:15 AM']I really like the Warwick two piece design execpt for one thing - the stringball holder. The open access is good, but the strings will often pop out whilst your're tightening the machineheads. Gets very annoying..... [/quote] That's why I prefer my older Thumb with the one-piece bridge to the newer one. I don't find pulling a string through a hole to be that onerous, but if you're doing regular waxing and keeping the same strings on, I prefer to just pull the strings off the machine heads and put them back on when I've waxed, which is simple on the one-piece but means picking them back up off the floor with the two-piece...

"Lonely this Christmas" by Mud. Classic.

[quote name='bassman2790' post='306757' date='Oct 14 2008, 11:06 PM']Far better IMHO than the SVT350 that I played through at Robanna's on Monday night.[/quote] I've played through at least two SVT350s at Robanna's and they've been crap, only surpassed by the dreadful weedy SWR they gave me because the input jack on one of the SVTs was packing up. The Ashdowns have been better, until the last rehearsal and an Ashdown 4x10 combo that made a Hohner Jack sound like a Precision with flatwounds being played through a pillow. At least it gives me a chance to cross gear off my "I might want that" list (the David Eden 4x10s went on there too).

Started on violin, which didn't last long. Then my little brother bought a classical guitar and I kept borrowing it and learnt to play it. Bought an electric guitar. Played rhythm guitar in Glen Miller tribute band. Went to university, formed a band in the hall of residence, and was volunteered to be the bassist. Put together a Hayman 40/40 from bits sold off by the Fender Soundhouse after a fire. Played two gigs. Dropped out of university and went home. Something of a musical hiatus for two or three years. Then moved to Tamworth and decided to get back into it, so advertised myself as a lead, rhythm or bass guitarist (I'm crap at lead, as it happens, but in those days so was almost everybody else...) and was recruited to a heavy metal band as a bassist. That has been my main instrument ever since, but I use guitar for songwriting and acoustic duetting.

[quote name='Josh' post='303200' date='Oct 9 2008, 05:44 PM']Just found a pretty good live version of SGS:[/quote] Is Hucknall not singing on it then? [quote name='Josh' post='303200' date='Oct 9 2008, 05:44 PM']You may hate Hucknall but the guy can sing.[/quote] Yes and no. In that order.

[quote name='neepheid' post='305582' date='Oct 13 2008, 04:05 PM']Even if I didn't have an impending wedding to finance, I still wouldn't be £299 + auction activity interested [/quote] I have a feeling that "£299 + auction activity" will = £299 + 0 bids. I reckon a similar design could be used for a 34" scale, with careful; positioning of the tuners. After all, strings are generally pretty overlength - I have to chop some off the longest string run I have, the D on the through-body 7-string Tsai, so there's a bit of surplus.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320310081381"]Item 320310081381[/url] - a rather interesting take on making a headless. From what I can see of it, it uses normal tuners in a novel fashion, rather more attractively than the Warwick Nobby Wossname. Seller also offers plans for sale for his travel guitar of the same family.

[quote name='Ajoten' post='305200' date='Oct 13 2008, 08:34 AM']Over the weekend I remembered that years back another bass I played with the ace fat neck was a Hohner 5 string headless wotsit. I presume the fatness was a design choice rather than headless necessity (Mr Status Owner?)?[/quote] I'm not so keen on the fat neck but I do have a Hohner 5-string headless, bought for pragmatic reasons. I don't think there's any structural need for the fat neck - after all, it's doing less work than the neck on my Tsai unheadless which has also got to handle the weight of the tuners and, er, the head, and the Tsai's neck is considerably shallower. I'm a playability man too - that's the reason that I bought the Warwick Thumb NT (though obviously our playabilities vary, mine's the very shallow JD neck). I don't play with the tone controls and they're centre detented so you don't have to make a note of where they are, just turn them till they click and leave them there.

[quote name='5_string_death' post='298085' date='Oct 2 2008, 10:19 PM']I think you'll find its a 'Jazzcision' mate [/quote] Nah, it's an "Indecision" innit.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='303542' date='Oct 10 2008, 08:25 AM']"In what looks like young offspring enjoying a mixed playgroup session together, is in reality a harsh life lesson. The Impala fawn is serving as target practice for the cheetah cubs in a hunting lesson organized by their mother. The cubs eventually killed the fawn" [/quote] The first thing that came into my mind seeing that photo was that it would make a wonderful [url="http://www.despair.com/viewall.html"]Demotivator[/url] poster.

Is it just a trick of the camera angle, or is the B string a bit close to the edge, down by a river? Seasons go passing by...

Has it got frets?

[quote name='neepheid' post='301356' date='Oct 7 2008, 02:13 PM']Yeah, I've been in trouble for that before - the whole reason I never post directly in Off Topic any more.[/quote] I'm not dyslexic but I am dystypic. I use Firefox with a British English dictionary installed and it spell-checks what I type into input boxes. Which is nice.

The day before I first met my Warwick Thumb, twenty years ago, I never thought I would spend more than a couple of hundred quid on a bass. However, when I played it (to test out an effects pedal, as it happened), I was so struck by it that I paid £900 for it. Most of my basses have been in the £100-£300 bracket. I would like a custom bass or two sometime, though, but wouldn't want to pay out ridiculous amounts.

Good bits: Can pick up a tune pretty quickly Can sight-read guitarists' fingers pretty well Can add enough frilly bits to make things interesting if required Can play up to 7 strings, up to 5 of them fretlessly Can play EUB Have experience of many different musical styles, and reggae Will play Mustang Sally for money Can solo well Bad bits: Very limited slap technique (it's not that I'm desperate to play it, it's just nice to have as much in the armoury as possible) Limited theory Crap memory Will play reggae for money Can solo badly

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='300393' date='Oct 6 2008, 12:07 PM']I defy anyone over the age of 30 to listen to Donald Fagan's Nightfly album and not be whisked back to a time when a young man's hopes and dreams had still to be crushed by the reality of 'life'.[/quote] I fell asleep. Not good when you're driving round the Birmingham ring road, but it was that bland and tedious...

Police - Walking on the moon Cream - Sunshine of your love Simple Minds - Waterfront

[quote name='Beedster' post='298054' date='Oct 2 2008, 09:48 PM']I no longer feel the need to buy and sell basses, honest! [/quote] You've obviously been away too long.

[quote name='chrkelly' post='296731' date='Oct 1 2008, 03:21 PM']If I'd been any more awake this morning I would have told the postman, sorry there's no Steve Thomas here, and sent him away with my pickup! Concert Systems told me they had the pickup in stock when I ordered it, obviously not. Still no XLR cable though. What a surprise![/quote] Any minute now there'll be a Steve Thomas along to complain that Concert Systems still haven't sent him his pickup...

[quote name='lowdown' post='296204' date='Oct 1 2008, 09:25 AM']If you go down the software route. You might want to check out Computor monthly magazine. It has a Dvd with a complete virtual studio set up. Seq, Soft synths, fx plugins and sampler and samples. And its all free, with plenty of tutorials. Cost you £6.99[/quote] Is it available at the average W H Smiths? And is the name of the magazine just "Computor"?

[quote name='lwtait' post='293288' date='Sep 27 2008, 08:32 AM']in progress - oh dear. if theres an easy way to tell a mate that his band (that you play guitar for) absolutely sucks and you want to leave, someone tell me. (i play guitar in this band)[/quote] You tell him that you're overstretched with four bands on the go and you have to leave one, and that you'll make the sacrifice of leaving his band because you're holding him back musically.

Happy with the Warwick 4-stringses. Happy with number 1 fretted Tsai 5-string and with Tsai 7-string, the defretted one and number 2 fretted need some work, and the 6 needs completing. Happy with the Superfly. The 2x10 sounds good but has poor sensitivity. The AX3000B should do me for effects, and if it doesn't I've got a V-Amp and an RFX-2000 to play with too. Only true GAS is for a speaker and a 5-string fretless. When I get myself revved up sufficiently, building a pair of Omni 10.5s should sort the first out, and a bit of work on the neck of the defretted Tsai should sort out the latter.

[quote name='geilerbass' post='298279' date='Oct 3 2008, 08:41 AM']I don't think it would be unreasonable for authorities to publish the home addresses of known spammers on the internet, so that disgruntled recipients can go round their houses and cram the spammers' letter boxes full of pages from porn mags and flyers for viagra.[/quote] I think that's far too kind and advocate [url="http://www.tauzero.co.uk/other/spamurai.html"]harsher punishment for spammers[/url].

Funnily enough, the cellist that has played a couple of gigs with the ceilidh band I'm in has just started university, and he's at That London. Shall try to remember to contact him and see if he's looking for anything.

Condolences from me too.