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Warwick did a Jack Bruce sig bass which (looking at the neck dimensions) seems to have the nice slim neck of the early stuff. One minor point that they may have overlooked in producing a Jack Bruce sig Thumb was the number of frets. It has 26 more than JB's own Thumb... Oh, and JB's original Thumb has the one-piece bridge that Warwick for some reason ditched: So, how close should a sig instrument be to the actual instrument that inspired it?

Light sabre: Lightwave Sabre Millennium Falcon: Fender Precision Dagobah: [url="http://www.nhbassfest.com/"]Manchester, New Hampshire[/url]

[quote name='SteveO' post='866706' date='Jun 14 2010, 07:34 AM']For the multi instrumentalists, how long did it take to memorise the different chord shapes?[/quote] What, both of them? I started on guitar and took up bass later, which meant I had an idea of what notes were in various chords and scales. It's easier translating guitar knowledge to bass than to keyboards. I think it would be a bit more difficult going from bass to guitar, but I also feel that it's useful for a bassist to have at least a basic grasp of another melodic instrument. Drums would probably be handy too - it's something I'd like to have some ability at but have never got round to.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='866463' date='Jun 13 2010, 09:24 PM']You can always spot the guitarist trying to play a bass - They always hook their thumb over the top of the neck, play with that slanty hand (shockingly bad technique!) & have no clue what their fourth finger is for![/quote] You missed out "fret with the middle finger and slide it up and down the fretboard".

I used to play in the house band for an open mic night. One night I was late getting there and the guitarist, a brilliant jazz player, had taken up the bass. It, er, wasn't very good. As soon as he could, he shoved the bass at me and told me to take over. There's a guitarist I know who teaches guitar and who is a good player. On a local bands web forum, a band was bemoaning the fact that they couldn't play a gig because their bassist couldn't make it. I wish I remember his exact words, but it was along the lines of "give a guitarist a CD and he'll learn the bass lines in ten minutes". I was too dumbfounded to reply to that...

[quote name='Marvin' post='862431' date='Jun 9 2010, 06:03 PM']1. Trace 2. POD 3. V Bass I'm making a wild guess BTW. If I'm right do I get a Basschat t-shirt?[/quote] My wild guess is 1. POD, 2. V Bass, 3. Trace. I already have a Basschat T-shirt.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='862627' date='Jun 9 2010, 09:22 PM']Just wondered what you guys would have out of these...always interested to hear you guys views..hope Nic doesnt mind me using his pics.. Fender CS 62 Lake Placid Blue Fender CS 62 Shell Pink Fender 64 NOS TTS[/quote] Whichever one I could resell for the highest price so I could get a decent bass.

[quote name='OldGit' post='863537' date='Jun 10 2010, 06:04 PM']The worrying thing there is the wiring looks modern. There's no traditional fluffy wires. There's red and green wires, grey and white modern wires from the pup ....[/quote] Given that drilling for another pot, it might be that it was wired differently at some point in its history and then rewired to standard.

I can feel my back going from just looking at this and that Trace V8.

I use smiley face on my amp (Superfly 1000 through a Tech Soundsystems 4x10, so pretty hi-fi) but it's this and not this

If Mrs Zero buys me a Fender for my birthday, I'll know she thinks I'm getting old.

Looks like it needs relicing. It does prove one thing though - Fenders more than six months old needn't look like sh*t if you take care of them.

My experiences with interparcel.com have generally been good, but the last item I sent, I used the HDNL courier service and that was very slow - took a week for a non-guaranteed 2-day delivery. I avoid ParcelFarce - motto "We can break an anvil and lose an elephant".

[quote name='steve-soar' post='860987' date='Jun 8 2010, 01:53 PM']If the show had been done in a more schoastic manner and was screened on say, BBC4, then God know what kind of atrocity would have occurred. "And the award for The Greatest Bassist Of All Time, voted by you, BBC4 viewers goes to...." Anyone?[/quote] It wouldn't have been bassist, it would have been keyboard player (the other invisible ones), and the winner would have been Brian Cox.

I think I broke an A string once. It was so long ago, I can't remember which bass it was on - either a Hayman or a Fender P. More recently broke the F string on the 7-string tuning up when I didn't notice that the tuner was trying to tune me to C, not F. It was only there as a backup and I play the set on a 5-string, so using it for a couple of numbers as a 6-string (I brought it with me, I might as well give it an outing) was no problem.

Spalted.

I had some T-shirts done a couple of years ago by a company called GP Work & Leisure at a very reasonable price. The cost for (IIRC) 20 shirts was £20 setup, £2/shirt print, £2-50 shirt - Fruit of the Loom valueweight shirts. Website is [url="http://www.gpwl.co.uk"]here[/url] - best bet is to email them or ring them (especially as the website is rubbish).

[quote name='urbanx' post='860465' date='Jun 7 2010, 10:32 PM']...until someone runs a DC current through it...[/quote] As the input capacitor would block that, only an amp that was already broken would be broken by that.

I switched over to it, saw Woss was hosting it, and switched over to something else. On a non-bass aspect, I couldn't work out why every other member of the 'Oo got in but Daltrey, one of the finest voices of all time, was ignored, especially when that wobbly-voiced squawker Plant got in.

I put a very similar route into my old P to put a home-made active circuit in.

The Peavey range are worth looking at - I found the Grind a better neck than the Cirrus, and both of them better than the Millennium. You'd need to stretch the budget a bit for a Grind (but a second-hand one should come in under budget), and more than that for a Cirrus. Not quite Jazz-style though.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='855101' date='Jun 2 2010, 05:05 PM']Those JD Thumbs are cool, got any pictures?[/quote] Indeed I have. The Thumb twins (I prefer the one-piece bridge of the JD to the two-piece of the later Thumbs): The Tsai 5: And the Mazeti fretless 5:

1 and 2 are the Warwick twins - a Warwick JD Thumb 4-string fretted, from 1987, with a beautiful slim neck, and a Thumb from 2000 which I had defretted and reprofiled so the baseball bat neck was reduced to the same dimensions as the JD. 3 is the Antoniotsai 5-string. I've played a lot of 5-strings and this was the one with the best neck so far, until I played mcgraham's W&T. It's my main gigging bass. 4 is the Mazeti 5-string fretless that I got from Wooks a little while back. I still haven't satisfied my 5-string fretless quest though. 5 is one I no longer have - my 70s Precision went in order to finance the first Warwick. While I don't regret that, I was fond of that Fender - tatty but the second-best P I've played.