KingBollock

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).

In the future all Bass players will be fitted with tank tracks. I can't wait!

Right, that's it, I definitely want a Bass made from Dinosaur poo.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1357567031' post='1924550'] So far, I have learned that at least three of my most treasured basses are really ugly and horrible and so on. [/quote] How do you think I feel? My very favourite Bass is my BC Rich Warlock, that I lusted after for 20 years before actually getting. I've had it for 6 months now and it still takes my breath away when I look at it. It was covered in this thread by the first reply! Poor baby, I might have to put it in its coffin case so it can't hear all the nasty men talking about it!

Warwicks, Alembics, Jaydees, Wals (they look like a child's drawing of a guitar), Fender Jazzes (they look like they've been melted) and those toilet seat Bongo thingumies.

http://youtu.be/wl_qWJ0v3Bw I adore this band.

This is the first time I've spent New Year alone in 18 years. My wife stupidly agreed to work the shift at her mate's pub, thinking that I'd go with her. But I got myself so worked up and made myself so ill over christmas that I just couldn't face it. I had intended to go (or at least to try to) and I thought QueenBollock would have been really pissed off with me if I didn't go, but she saw how bad a time I've had of it over christmas and she completely understands. So she can have a drink she's spending the night at her mum's, who lives in the same village as the pub. Suits me anyway, I'd far rather she spent the night there if she's had a drink. I was on the bog when the new year turned, I hadn't realised it was that time until all the fireworks started going off. I've had some sandwiches and I shared a sausage roll with the Dog, now I'm going to go to bed to read for a bit.

When I had my Westone Raider I, I never even considered buying another Bass, except one that was given to me for free which I quickly sold on. Unfortunately circumstances dictated that I sell it. In a desperate search for my next [i]MY[/i] Bass I have bought 4. Though I do finally have one that I am very happy with and is actually a much better Bass than the Westone. I still miss it like mad, though.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1356791924' post='1913654'] No clue on the PJ Bass why he replaced the stock black rear pickup with a white one..... [/quote] I think that it's something he does automatically. If he has two Basses in with two pick-ups each, he will swap one over. I think he thinks that it makes it look as though he's done something and if he's gone to the trouble it must be an improvement, right?

The first Bass I ever owned and one I regret massively having to sell. The Westone Raider I: (I got this pic online, this was not my Bass. The only photo I have of mine I am playing it while naked, so you ain't getting to see it!)

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1356703551' post='1912622'] where do you buy the nylon 3mm ones? [/quote] I got mine from Strings Direct. http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/p/914874/jim-dunlop-nylon-stubby-3mm-single-guitar-pick-445r3/

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1356218053' post='1908186'] Perfectly adequate for live. Recording, well, its a bottom of the range compressor. It will work fine, it shouldnt be too noisy, it wont reek of mystical mojo, but if you know what you're doing it should ok. Plus points - it has great metering (the importance of which is not to be underestimated at all) [/quote] Cool, thanks. It will be my first foray into the world of compressors and stuff. The only other one I have ever had is the rather simple thing that comes in a Behringer V-Amp Pro... From what I have read and seen about the 3632 it's not too noisy, certainly better than the 3630. I was hoping to get one that would cover more stuff than just Bass, to justify buying it. And I really would like to learn how to use it properly.