KingBollock

Dave Mustaine is a right nasty piece of work. I'm glad they've done nothing interesting since Risk (which I liked) as I hated the thought of giving that steaming, hate filled, bigoted, slimy turd my money. I don't normally let the ideals of any band I like interfere with my enjoyment of their music, if I like it I like it, but he's proper 'orrible. I liked Metallica's self titled album. I believe that if the recording values and the maturity of Hetfield's voice on that album had been used on Master of Puppets, it would probably be the best album [i]ever[/i] and I don't know that it would ever have been beaten. I never got on with Anthrax, it just seemed like some big joke that I didn't get. I love some Slayer songs, but most of their stuff I can take or leave.

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1361919115' post='1993204'] [attachment=128587:bass2.jpg] wears glasses! (two photos on right are the same guy) [/quote] I'd go for this one. I'd put money on it and I don't do that lightly. I have a thing for recognising and remembering faces, which I seem to have developed to make up for my inability to remember names.

It's the "Do I really have to stand like this?" face that I find priceless.

Cool. I was expecting you to say Game, that's what most locals say. I'm a Course man myself but I do occasionally fish off the shore and am hoping to concentrate on it more this year. Planning on buying an inflatable fishing dinghy too, something we can explore the coast in and use as a base for snorkelling.

Welcome from yet another Welsh resident! Though I am so unsociable I might as well be on the moon, feels like it too, sometimes. So, the big question: what type of Fishing?

I had never played a 5 string until the day I bought one. The string spacing on my Aria Pro II 5 string is about 15mm and the neck width is about that of a 4 string, so there was no real transition, it was very easy. The second 5 string I played was also the day I bought it. I struggled with it in the shop, the neck was a lot wider with a 19mm string spacing. Even though I struggled I still felt like it was a good Bass, so I bought it. Once I got it home it took 4 hours to get properly used to it, once I did I felt justified in my choice, it really is a nice Bass. So, I didn't struggle much with the physical aspect and I seemed to automatically take to having the extra notes where they were. This might have been because I first bought a 5 string because I was into a lot of music that needed one at the time. And I very quickly adopted that lower D, instead of dropping the tuning on a 4 string, in most of the songs that I played that required it. I regularly swap between a 4 and 5 string now, with no problems at all.

Yup, I was going to go with Cort, I love my Cort T-35. Westfield too.

A Big Bottom of Bassists.

A Thrum of Bassists was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the thread title. A school/shoal of Bass...

When I bought a Violin, many, many years ago, I found that the quality of the cheapest of the cheap and the dearest of the cheap wasn't much, so I went with really cheap. Which was a good thing for me, because even though I took to it quite well, my hands soon got too big to play it (I'm a great big fat fatty), which was a shame. The thing I found I couldn't skimp on, though, was the bow. My Violin only cost £100 (including case and a bow, though I replaced the bow with a better one), so I have the problem you want to avoid, it's not worth selling on. If you can get some good advice, second-hand might well be the way to go, there'll always be someone just giving up.

[quote name='alstocko' timestamp='1360407509' post='1969846'] No, I mean the Jonas Brothers track. Sorry dude... [/quote] Awww.

Someone who never fails to make my heart feel like it's about to burst and make my spine all aflutter is Sharon den Adel, the singer from Within Temptation, especially on the album The Silent Force. I like to lie back in a dark room, with headphones on and play her albums. The tone of her voice and some of the notes that she hits, along with the music... It's like the moment when the Opiate rush kicks in, it is truly beautiful and if anything could make me believe I have a soul, it's her when she stirs and lifts it into the universe on clouds of gently pulsating awe. I feel as though I have been given a gift. And all that from a cheesy, Pop/Goth/Rock band for teenage girls.

[quote name='alstocko' timestamp='1360342719' post='1969057'] I'll openly admit that I think that there's some cracking Jonas Brothers tracks. World War 3 Hey Baby Burnin' Up is a personal favourite [/quote] Mandy Lion's WWIII? I have the first album and it's great! Love the second one too but have never got around to buying it. First discovered him on a Metal Hammer cover cassette in 1991 that had Love You To Death on it. I've never spoken to anyone who has even heard of him before.

A f years ago I made an avatar I would love to use somewhere, but I think it would very quickly do my own head in. I took it from the video for the Pearl Jam song Do The Evolution.

I have to say, I struggled with the intro to the first song but really enjoyed the bass once he started singing. That second video, though, is bloomin' lovely.

[quote name='jackers' timestamp='1359720808' post='1959277'] 'not a control freak' eh? excuse me if I don't believe him. [/quote] If that bloke was near here I'd be bloomin' tempted, I'm listening to his stuff and really enjoying it. Mind you, anyone who'd have me in their band would have to be as nuts as I am, so I'd probably avoid them.

I use them and have never noticed a difference. I only bother using them if I'm changing the pot that the capacitor is attached to, and mainly because they look nice.

I've always wished desperately that I could sing. If I could hand over whatever skills I have with all the instruments I play, including Bass, and be handed the skill to just hold a tune, I would do it in a heart beat. Actually, I'm not quite so sure anymore. Over the last four years I have come to terms with it. But still, if I could swap for the skills to be a brilliant singer, rather than just holding a tune, I'd go for it.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1359585899' post='1957271'] Carlsbro again, I'm afraid. One of those 'Stingray' monstrosities with four buttons for preset filter settings. Can't really remember much else about it, as my therapist says I shouldn't dwell on this sort of thing. Funny thing is, they last forever. The same amp is still functioning just as it always has - same amp, same speaker. If only everything was made like that. Used a Carlsbro Bomber too. sh*t. [/quote] I had to replace the bridge rectifier in mine.

Another for the Carlsboro Stingray here. Only mine was a 100w head with separate speaker cab. It was the most toneless, lifeless waste of components I have ever had the misery of hearing. I hated the bloody thing.

[quote name='BOD2' timestamp='1358862875' post='1946174'] Some pictures here, if you scroll through the thread..... (ignore the first part about adding a shim) [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/49897-how-to-shim-a-neck/"]http://basschat.co.u...to-shim-a-neck/[/url] [/quote] This was the guide I used when I shimmed the neck on my Westfield. It was the first time I had ever done it and I was nervous. This guide made the whole thing simple and has given me the confidence so that if I need to do it again in the future I wont worry about it. So many thanks.

[quote][font="Arial"]I wanted to change the colour of the pickup by the bridge to cream to give a sort of zebra look, but the cover was bonded too hard at one end so it has to stay black![/font][/quote] That explains a lot.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1358448798' post='1939471'] You're right to be pissed off about it. Why shouldn't the lazy bastard take his own pictures? And if it comes to that, what are you lot doing wasting your lives on a bloody [i]bass guitar[/i] forum for Christ's sake..? You should be over in Mali, fighting Islamist Tuareg rebels!! Shame! [/quote] Indeed.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1358375254' post='1938288'] Hah - it's quite literally a beast, isn't it? BTW - did you ever get the action issue sorted on your BC Rich? [/quote] Sort of. I have it in a playable state and it plays great, but the bridge is incomplete and if I were to bust a string I'd lose a saddle. I know what I need to do to it, I just need to get around to it. I want to take it to someone to get it properly looked at first, but finding the money for that ain't so easy. See the two pieces of the saddle? Well I currently have the strings resting on just the little insert bit, with the part that holds it taken away, so the saddles aren't fixed into place and are rather precariously balanced. What I really need is new inserts about half as high as the current ones (and preferably in stainless steel, to go with the frets and the nut I dream of putting in there some day), but I am having no luck finding any. I will probably have to grind the currents ones down, as I had initially planned, but we'll see. I'm not in a band so I am in no real hurry.

That Spider Bass is incredible! But then I have a thing for Spiders, I've got Tarantulas nearly as big... Though, oddly considering my love of spiky Basses, I can't stand the BC Rich Widow Bass (except the head, love the head, I made sure the Warlock I bought has the Widow head).