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[quote name='WalMan' post='277476' date='Sep 5 2008, 12:00 AM']What do they say: Give a man a fish & he'll eat for a day. Give a man a fishing pole & he won't have to have it as sushi[/quote] Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

LEDs - blue ones will shine through purple the best, and blind half your audience (I use the blue LED power light on my Crate PB to guide alien spacecraft in to land).

Why hath it fourteen strings? Good King Hal needed but VIII. Is this nothing but another Tennessee abomination?

Bodyless basses (eg. Hohner B2, Steinberger cricket bats). Completely the wrong body shape for those of us of A Certain Shape. Bowlback acoustics (incl. basses). Even worse for those of us of A Certain Shape, just try balancing beach balls on top of each other and you'll get my drift.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='276062' date='Sep 3 2008, 10:03 AM']Have you ever actually heard any jazz?[/quote] Lots and lots. And I used to play it too, but I got better. Is there a winding-up smilie? Anyroadup, if music was entirely about playing notes exactly the right length and exactly the right tone and exactly the right volume, there would be no point in having more than one recording of any piece of music. And there would be no point in having musicians either, as just composing to MIDI would be far less trouble and far cheaper. But that's not really the point, is it? The point is that to know where you're going to, you need to know where you're coming from.

[quote name='lwtait' post='275575' date='Sep 2 2008, 04:25 PM']£700 for a squier!!! that's ridiculous!!! i'm guessing its the P5 with the jazz pups (i don't know of any other P5)? they're much cheaper than that new![/quote] I had one, bought it new for around £170 IIRC. Sold it soon afterwards when I got a Tsai 5er with a decent neck though.

Gary Moore is a lefty playing righty (because no-one in the village he grew up in had ever heard of a left-handed guitar). One guitarist I used to play with was a lefty who played righty but who decided that he really ought to play lefty, so he bought a left-handed guitar and learnt to play it that way round too. Considering that it's the non-dominant hand that does most of the work with necked string instruments, it seems a bit odd that we play the way round we do. Maybe the dominant hand bullied the subordinate hand into doing all the work. Or maybe it's from bowed instruments, so avoiding having hundreds of skewered second violinists.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='276039' date='Sep 3 2008, 09:28 AM']I have a confession to make! The quote that opened this thread wasn’t complete. It carries on as follows: [i]'The variation from the exact which is due to incapacity for rendering the exact is, on the whole, ugly. The artist who is to vary effectively from the exact must know the exact and must have mastered its attainment before his emotion can express itself adequately through a sort of flirtation with it’[/i] In a nutshell, the writers argument is that you need to move away from perfection in order to express emotion in music but, in order to do that effectively, you need to know where perfection is. The argument is not without its flaws where some popular music forms are concerned but, for the developing musician, it is compelling.[/quote] Not just know where perfection is, be able to accomplish it. So if you play a bum note because you can't get it right, you're crap, but if you play a bum note deliberately, that's expression. The distinction becomes pointless, though, when you're talking about jazz, which is all about occasionally accidentally hitting the right notes.

If you go by the original link, it's £2900, but if you then click on his shop, it's £1495. So I think it's an artefact of ebay rather than the price going up and down like a wossname's drawers.

[quote name='OldGit' post='274371' date='Sep 1 2008, 12:07 PM']Many a good strap is less than the cost of a few pints of beer or a set of strings and last way longer than either ... Oh and the right strap can transform how your bass feels and hangs and thus how well you perform and play ....[/quote] The straps I buy are certainly less than the cost of a few pints of beer. In fact, they're cheaper than the cost of one pint of beer. Both ends reach the bass and the bass remains suspended above the floor, which is the basic minimum I require of a strap. Stick a bit of neoprene in (the same as the back of a 50p mouse mat) and all of a sudden they're thirty quid. Ditto making them wider and using the word "Comfort".

Did a naming ceremony and engagement party on Saturday night. Technical problems early on - the guitarist has had problems with the sound cutting out for a while now and had bought a couple of leads in the belief that that would solve the problem. He should have bought a new amp - the jack socket had partly disintegrated. So he borrowed the keyboard player's amp, she went through the PA (and consequently couldn't turn up too loud as it distorted), and we carried on. Most of the evening consisted of people remaining firmly fixed to their chairs, but there was the occasional minor surge onto the dance floor (completely unpredictable which numbers were likely to get them up, there wasn't even any consistency about genre). Still, the happy couple were, er, happy, so that was all right. And I've volunteered to fix the guitarists's amp, so it'll get a decent service as well as a new socket.

From Friday, when the now Mrs Zero and I got married... I varnished my dinosaur especially for the occasion.

Fenders (aims kick at g**tarist's Fender amp which needs a new hideously overpriced and needlessly complex input jack) Ampegs (aims kick at rehearsal room SVT350H which keeps crapping out) SWRs (sound horrible and thin when used to replace Ampeg SVT which keeps crapping out) Warwicks with thick necks Ludicrously expensive straps Rickenbacker basses Gibson basses Planet Waves cables Hofner violin basses

Just adapt the bass break in "Brown Eyed Girl" a little bit.

[quote name='nick' post='271959' date='Aug 28 2008, 06:58 PM']Nice looking Fernandes 4001S 'Faker',very similar to my Maya with exception of neck pickup & control knobs....but alas in Japan. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fernandes-Paul-McCartony-model-80-s-Copy-NT_W0QQitemZ300253430578QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300253430578&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fernandes-Paul-McCar...id=p3286.c0.m14[/url][/quote] The Paul McCartony model, eh? Was he the bassist with "Living in a box"?

[quote name='Josh' post='269026' date='Aug 24 2008, 07:11 PM']I always thought it was Vee-Jer.[/quote] No, you're thinking of the first Star Trek fillum.

[quote name='Fraktal' post='270399' date='Aug 26 2008, 04:45 PM']Ian 'chopthebass' Sirius basses, any of them! Even better, all of them![/quote] You beat me to it...

[quote name='NeonMig' post='262914' date='Aug 15 2008, 08:53 AM']20K+ on a bass? That's like a downpayment on a house or a new car or something.... holy crap.[/quote] You should have a look at the "Bows" section. The cheapest one costs 20% more than my pre-loved [1] 2000 NT Thumb (including hard case) cost me. [1] What a truly terrible expression that is

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='269972' date='Aug 26 2008, 07:59 AM']Believe it or not, there are people out there who think Warwicks are fugly...[/quote] Well, I don't like Streamers...

[quote name='Prosebass' post='268592' date='Aug 23 2008, 08:29 PM']3. It has a musicman style bridge for a change to my usual fender style one's[/quote] It jars a bit - the rectangular Fender style (or preferably a cast rectangular-based one rather than a bent tin one) would follow the rectangular theme of the humbuckers. Those come as a bit of a jar in themselves, just as you're thinking "ohgodanotherfenderclone", the pickups make you switch mental gear, but the oval bridge just doesn't fit in. A cast rectangular one would help the rectangular theme while maintaining a gap from the Fender style bridge.

[quote name='Quatschmacher' post='269010' date='Aug 24 2008, 06:47 PM']Apologies if this has already been posted. Check out the overpricing on [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bass-1953_W0QQitemZ300252595402QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300252595402&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1308&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]this one[/url]![/quote] If someone has a sufficiently appalling sense of aesthetics to buy this, they may be stupid enough to pay that much money too.

Personally, I think that Fender Squier Classic that you have as "Hot" I would classify as "utterly hideous".

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='257502' date='Aug 7 2008, 07:24 PM']Hi Garry, I think you're right there. It does vary a little in places. I was mainly going for the bones of the piece so that Mewsie could get through it for her audition. Not bad for a 30 minute takedown, though [/quote] I hate to tell you this, but in bar 4 you've flatted the flats...

Are you sure it's not Godzilla looking for his bass?

Now what does that remind me of? Ah, I know: [attachment=11683:mercury.jpg] When I first saw a Smart Car with the grey random lines on black finish, I thought someone had wrapped it in clingfilm to keep the flies off.