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miles'tone

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  1. I guess that YT is the new way to get known, have fun and pay the bills. The hours are good and no travelling so you can still have a life. It's not like there's an abundance of sessions like the old days anymore. There's an abundance of musicians instead. Any musician who can do their thing, enjoy themselves and give up the day job has my respect.
  2. Yep, love them too. Been a fan since Mother's Milk. Love the Hillel years and most of every album since. Josh's two albums were pretty good but John is a shaman. Yes they cop a lot of flak but I care not a jot. My relationship to their music is between only me and the band and we're all good πŸ˜„
  3. I thought the video he made using shoelaces for strings was amazing.
  4. Plus Hofners sound great for Ska πŸ‘Œ
  5. Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim
  6. Know Your Rights - Primal Scream/The Clash
  7. Write it off as a lesson learned. Move on.
  8. Just sold a Guild to Kris. Easy deal, good chat, top man. Cheers Kris!
  9. Missed you saying this mate. Yes! Wish I'd understood how to dial in a Jazz bass effectively when I owned one. It was a long long time ago ☺️
  10. Go to 14.50 for "the reggae trick" for getting that deep dark tone on a Jazz bass. Brill!
  11. Great reply! Thanks. I know what you mean about Stingrays. I've had 3 at different times but I've always ended up letting them go. But I still wouldn't mind another. It's complicated! You're right, different basses do make you play differently. I really meant that hearing or seeing someone else playing a particular bass can inspire us to dream of owning one to get that sound, but inevitably we will usually only sound like us playing that bass. I with you though, it's a darn fun journey! Some you win, some you lose but it's always an education. It's an interesting ride for sure!
  12. I'll give it a go: No matter what bass you get, you're gonna sound like you. Out of interest @ped, out of your dream basses acquired, which one was your favourite?
  13. Keep It Greasy - Frank again Check out Scott Thunes ripping it up on this version πŸ‘Œ
  14. Dry - PJ Harvey
  15. That bass is fit πŸ˜—πŸ‘Œ
  16. I Have Been Inside You - Frank Z
  17. Dance Of Doom - Garmadon
  18. It's probably a Bass Centre Bruce Thomas Profile bass. He's used one in the past.
  19. The Killing Floor Fillers Good Foot "Get On The Good Foot!"
  20. The too hot problem with the early SBMM SUB 'Rays lay with the preamp not the pickup btw.
  21. Sorry just read this. It's 1 5/8" so around a B width Fender P neck if that makes sense. The neck profile is lovely and comfy too.
  22. Here's my nearly new Guild Starfire 1 bass for sale. Walnut finish. I bought it new earlier this year, it's never left the house and to be honest I've barely played it (house renovations have eaten all my fun time this year). I payed extra for gigbag as they don't come with a case. Also I'm throwing in the new set of medium scale Labella flats that I bought for it but didn't have time to install. It's a shortscale bass btw but because of the bridge design it requires medium scale strings. There's a push/pull volume knob for series/parallel options with the pickup. *edit - Β£400 includes shipping Couple of vids to give you an idea of what it sounds like:
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  23. Up for sale is a beautiful Tacoma Thunderchief acoustic bass. It's a top of the range CB28C made in 2006. As you may know, Tacoma instruments were hand made (in Tacoma USA) by highly skilled luthiers who used only the highest grade materials. Now Tacoma instruments are no more this is quite a rarity. It is very loud acoustically, and loud with a divine tone to boot. Sounds great through the preamp too. It has a top grade spruce top, gorgeous flame maple sides, a stunning quilt maple back and tort binding throughout (looks real deal celluloid tort to me but can't be sure - looks great anyway). This particular bass was an artist custom order, the artist in question being John Cowan - a big name in Nashville who also recorded and toured with The Doobie Brothers back in the day. It comes with a letter of provenance from John himself. You can hear him playing this bass here: At some point in it's life this bass has had a neck repair near the headstock but this doesn't affect it's playability and it holds tune perfectly. The 9th fret on the G string is a little high so there is a buzz there. It came to me like that but I never got around to getting it levelled unfortunately. I've owned it for 2 years but have to sell it and a couple of other basses due to needing to release some funds for a custom build that will be finished in a few weeks. Oh, it comes with the original Tacoma hardcase and catalogue from 2006. Also there is the receipt of sale from the store in Nashville where the second owner bought it in 2009. New, a CB28C Thunderchief bass was over $2000 and this one has custom inlays and the quilt back so a bit more than that I expect. I bought it 2 years ago for Β£680 all in so in the spirit of Basschat I just want to get that back. I may be seriously underpricing myself but it's hard to know how to price it to be honest! It's a work of art for sure, but I get that it's a niche work of art. I love it but it has to go to a new home now. Β£680 shipped (it will be packaged extremely well!)
  24. The USA SLO Special Stingrays from a few years ago had narrow slim necks.
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