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[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='426212' date='Mar 5 2009, 02:36 PM']Oh no we can't.[/quote] Oh yes we can

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='426146' date='Mar 5 2009, 01:41 PM']Can we stop with all the smiley f***ing faces?[/quote] Yes we can

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='426124' date='Mar 5 2009, 01:16 PM']LOL. You and your black scratch plates. I agree though. Black and white look fantastic.[/quote] HAHAHA its all your fault for showing me the pictures of your red DD with black scratchplate. I was not even looking at ore considering a Lakland until I saw your pictures :)

[quote name='Tee' post='425936' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:14 AM'][attachment=21492:Image033.jpg] Olympic white P's with black scratch plates. Me like. Here are my two US Ps[/quote] They look so yummy. Really falling in love with white precisions with black scratchplate. Must resist.

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='426059' date='Mar 5 2009, 12:35 PM']That's only [b]your[/b] opinion. [/quote] Is that fact or just in your opinion

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='425974' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:38 AM']It may only have been a fact [b]in his opinion [/b]of course, although I'd be inclined to agree with him on this occasion. [/quote] Is your agreement fact that his opinion was fact or just his opinion or is your agreement just your opinion that his opinion was fact or just his opinion Going to lay down now as my head hurts

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='425438' date='Mar 4 2009, 07:10 PM']No. I have not paid much attention to that other thread TBH Seems to have got a lot of people worked up though [/quote] OK thanks. Just worried my joke was being misread.

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='425343' date='Mar 4 2009, 05:40 PM']Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! I meant go on and [b]bite your tongue[/b]!!!! [/quote] You want to bite my tongue???

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='425356' date='Mar 4 2009, 05:49 PM']Nobody has to like motown any more than you have to like U2. However, the list of bass players who were influenced by Jamersons playing without even knowing who is was is enormous and you can still hear his influence on music today. Unlike some other revered bass players [/quote] Is this aimed at me?

[quote name='josh3184' post='425108' date='Mar 4 2009, 02:29 PM']I'm sure this will start flame wars, but I've never really seen what all the fuss is about...[/quote] Burn him ... he is the work of the devil Really enjoyed that, thanks for posting.

I think we need to agree that there is something terribly wrong with liking The Beautiful South. We can then move on and discuss even further the dramatic seriousness of losing all credability and loss of mental state from wanting to be in a Beautiful South tribute band. Someone please be on my side on this one

[quote name='beerdragon' post='425229' date='Mar 4 2009, 04:10 PM']For those of you who don't know bassicinstinct is in a Beautiful South tribute band The Beautiful Sound. you can see his gigs in the Gigs section.[/quote] I'm so biting my tongue here. I so want to reply but I must resist

Great thread this. Bass wise I have what I want which is a Musicman Stingray, Fender Jazz 70's re-issue and now the Lakland Duck Dunn Precision. However, still not totally sure yet if its perfect but I have no plans to get rid of them. The Stingray sounds amazing, feels amazing and has one of the best necks ever. However it has always sounded punchy but thin. Great tone but I can never get anything driving out of it. It also has that clanky tiny noise that seems to be common with the Stingray. If I turn the bass tone up it sounds fuller but then you lose the classic Stingray tone so I don't seem to be able to win. If I was to play Foo Fighters or Green Day where they play a lot of 8's it just sounds thin compared to a fender. It seems to suit finger style more and bass lines with more movemement like funk, pop etc rather than driving rock or punk. The Fender Jazz on the other hand is very full, punchy and sounds amazing. However, it does have a tendancy to sound a little wooly and somewhat bland but that may be the amp. The neck does feel incredible though. The Lakland Duck Dunn I have just got and so not had chance to try sound wise or even feel as it has just gone into a luthier but fingers crossed its going to sound like a true precison. Fat, punchy, clanky, full and driving. As for my rig, I have an Ashown MAG 300H, an Ashdown MAG 1 x 15 and 2 x10. They sound great but I have always got in the back my head this feeling thats its going to blow up. No idea whay as I have had no problems with them but for some reason, it just feels fragile and is going to blow up. Maybe it just feels cheap.

[quote name='neilb' post='300019' date='Oct 5 2008, 05:09 PM']You know its right when you hit that B note on the E string, makes yer ribs flex...............ahhhhh![/quote] What is it about the B on the E string that makes it sound so much fatter, deeper and louder than say the A or G or C on the E string?? I thought it was just me but maybe not.

I quite liked the Housemartins. I thought some of the songs were superb catchy pop songs but The Beautiful South make we want to kill things.

We need somebody to take the Oasis and Radiohead CD's to the charity shop. I know we won't get much but it might pay for the bus home

Good man. Don't forget to turn the gas off. I'll board the windows up to keep them pesky poachers out

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='425012' date='Mar 4 2009, 01:11 PM']Sorry!! Couldn't resist it. I'll get my coat shall I? [/quote] Seems like your the last one left so can you turn the lights out and shut the door when you leave

[quote name='SteveK' post='424403' date='Mar 3 2009, 07:04 PM'][b][u][size=3]It's official[/size][/u][/b] [u][b]U2 only 1/2 as good as Take That[/b][/u] [b][i]"The group's 12th album No Line on the Horizon sold 64,698 copies on its first day on sale" "Last December, Take That sold 133,000 albums on day one"[/i][/b] Quotes from Music Week taken from [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7921583.stm"]HERE[/url] So, there you have it...Now, let that be an end to it! [/quote] Can I make it be known that I am guilty of being 1 of those 133,000 who bought the Take That albums but it was for my sister. However, I am not being guilty of being one of the 64,698 who bought the new U2 album as I don't like it.

I think Girls Aloud are better than The Spice Girls.

[quote name='51m0n' post='424142' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:30 PM']You see once again you try and say one thing and I'm pretty sure I'm hearing a different meaning here. I [b]think[/b] you are trying to say how much U2 have done to extend the canon of popular music, and yet the list you give of influenced bands is one that corresponds exactly to my list of thoroughly overrated drivel. Wow, thats scarily accurate.... So if I liked U2 I might like Coldplay and Radiohead, or Snow Patrol? Damned glad I am where I am on this one then! [/quote] No, if you like U2, Coldplay, Radiohead and Snow Patrol then your life would be so much better because you would luurrrvve Treacle Tart.

[quote name='51m0n' post='424135' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:22 PM']But what has treacle tart done for puddings as we know them that Rice pudding hasn't? I bet more rice pudding variants have been sold than treacle tarts for a start...[/quote] No Way. Every kid in school chose Treacle Tart over Rice Pudding. Also, rice pudding is trying to trick us all. Its a savory food, either plain with curry or chinese. It them turns up trying to be a pudding. It just don't know what it wants to be. HAHA a bit like U2 these days, lost of direction

[quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='424136' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:22 PM']No one slags off The Smiths on my watch! Totally unique. I do agree however that Morrissry's solo stuff is crap and is totally lucklustre with out Marr & Rourke.[/quote] Dhiaria is unique also (hides under table)

[quote name='51m0n' post='424134' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:20 PM'] Best thing to do with those U2 records IMO mate [/quote]

[quote name='51m0n' post='424121' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:08 PM']I stand by my point regarding what they did to extend the canon of popular music. Compared to which U2 have frankly done virtually nothing (IMO).[/quote] I would not say U2 have done virtually nothing to extend the canon of popular music. So many bands have been influenced by U2. Radiohead, Coldplay, Snow Patrol for example. u2 themselves were influenced by The Ramones, The Beatles and Joy Division.