KingBollock

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343226919' post='1747365'] Eek! Neither am I. Just unfashionable underpants... Maybe we should talk about bass strings, or something... [/quote] Good idea! So... what gauge G string do you prefer?

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1343226105' post='1747347'] I'm now overcome with a strange desire to touch your trousers. [/quote] Shame I'm not wearing any...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343225943' post='1747341'] I didn't know you were black. You look fairly caucasian in your pics! Arf, arf. [/quote] Ah ha!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343225280' post='1747326'] Corduroy trousers. [/quote] I wore Corduroy Jeans up until only a few years ago. I'd still wear them if I could remember where I got them from to replace my knackered ones. They're far more comfortable than normal Jeans and, being black, you couldn't tell they were Corduroy until you got close enough to touch them.

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1343068425' post='1744761'] As an aside, I've never got why these things are Ironic, they are more bad luck; a slight annoyance rather than Ironic. [/quote] And there's the real irony!

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1342993400' post='1743677'] who sang that one ? [/quote] Sorry dude, my only link to this thread is that the brook was once rain...

My mate and I once set fire to a brook using Turps.

Music to me is a hobby. I have other hobbies and I have to pay to do them and I quite happily pay because they're fun, that's why I do them. My wife loves card making. She pays a fortune in equipment and materials and stuff, then she puts the cards together and gives them away for free, because she enjoys it. There are plenty of people making a fortune out of her doing her hobby, designers, manufacturers and suppliers, it's their job. If my wife worked in a card making factory, as a designer or a printer, she'd expect to be paid because it would be her job. Making money at your hobby is great if you can, don't get me wrong. How would you feel if all bands had to be paid but minimum wage came into it? Would you play, as a professional, for £6 (or whatever minimum wage is) an hour? And don't some bands pay to play? They must feel that they get something out of it, even if it's only fun or experience.

I wonder if his Eric Clapton wood blocks came from left-overs from that sh*tty table he built from left-overs from cladding the bottom of his bathroom wall?

I agree with everyone else, I wouldn't do it to that Bass. However, if I really wanted to do what you want to do on a different Bass, going for versatility, I'd be more tempted to go with some kind of Humbucker that I could coil tap to get a Jazz sound if I wanted it. I feel that would be even more versatile. I have a P/J Bass and I find they mix quite well. I even changed the Volume knob for the Jazz pickup to a Blend knob. Mostly for the sake of fiddling with it, but it works for me.

It says "1st & only made" yet if you look in the last picture there is another one, but in a different shade of puke, called the Waterskipper. Don't look too closely though, there are far worse one in there than the Raptor. Though, having said that, there are some that I quite like: The Goblin DT, the Scorpion and maybe the Medevil too. I did wonder if they were based on the shapes of US States. I would love to know how exactly they are designed. I have a feeling that it'll involve Apes and Etch-a-Sketches.

I don't understand how it's playable at all. The pickup is effectively laying on the fretboard, as far as I can see, so just fingering any higher than the 3rd fret would bottom out on the pickup surely? He also says it can be bowed, but it's totally flat across the saddle, wouldn't it have to be arched to allow the middle strings to be bowed? I came across this problem recently when I tried a Violin bow, for a bit of fun, on one of my Basses. And the wording of the ad suggests, he calls it a Truss Plate, that that metal plate you can see in pic 2 goes all the way along the neck, that's going to be really uncomfortable isn't it? And, to be frank, his "Professional" Airbrushing is sh*t. I have absolutely nothing against people having a bit of fun experimenting and building things. But I'm not so keen when they try to sell their failures on to unsuspecting people with Bullsh*t. Giving it a high starting price, despite saying there's no reserve, to make it seem exclusive, when it's barely worth the price of a secondhand jack socket and tuners, is just wrong. Edit to add: Also, his negative feedback is interesting, he likes to call people 'DOLT's. And his interpretation of Ebay's rules is rather suspect too.

[quote][font="Arial"][size="4"]You could raise the whole bridge as one if there was a real need, but I cannot imagine that ever being necessary, or why I even mention it.[/size][/font][/quote]

[quote name='Steve G' timestamp='1342709288' post='1739740'] Technically you still haven't But I don't do hats (coz they don't bloody fit), baseball style ones don't do up, cowboy style ones look wrong on me. I have a sun hat but I kind of feel like the Pope in it Usually wear a buff if the sun gets too much for my bare scalp [/quote] I wear a buff when I'm cycling. Prior to the leather hat all I had to keep the sun out of my eyes was one of these: Still wear it when fishing.

[quote name='MysticGuitar' timestamp='1342708767' post='1739722'] oooooo..... leather Stetson.... nice [/quote] It's not actually a Stetson. It looks more Australian in design, but it was the biggest leather hat I could find. Ignore the ugly fat bloke under it.

Could always go and adopt an empty IRC channel. There are plenty around these days.

I used to shave my head completely, with a razor. Which was tedious. I talked to a hair dresser once, saying that I wished I would just go bald so I didn't have to keep shaving it, and she said I probably would never go bald, something to do with my kind of hair, apparently. So I stopped shaving it. That was in the middle of 1999, I had it cut for the first time since then a few weeks ago, just a few split ends trimmed off, that's all. I always thought that Bruce Dickinson and James Hetfield suffered from Samson Syndrome, where they cut their hair and their voices turned to crap. I'm sure there are others too. (It's not really true by the way, it just happened to coincide with me going off their bands) And the dude with the size 8 head... bloody hell, I've never met anyone with a bigger noggin than mine! I'm 7 3/4. I finally had to make myself a hat stretcher to get a leather Stetson to fit me.

[quote name='Bloc Riff Nut' timestamp='1342634436' post='1738432'] That's fantastic! I want an amp with Boom,Grrrr and Sizzz. The best explination I've heard. [/quote] Ohhh, there's an idea. My wife once decided to be nice and clean my Laney Linebacker for me. She thought Nail Polish Remover would be a good idea... Once she'd removed about a third of the ink from the front she came to tell me what she'd done. I got her to remove the rest and replaced all the lettering using an old fashioned Dymo labeller. I think it looks ace, but I hadn't thought of changing the wording, until now...

Just remembered this. I got a lift back from band practise by one of the guitarists. He was driving his girlfriend's Mini. We managed to get a 7 piece Drum Kit, my Bass Amp and Cab, his Combo and Guitar and him and me in the car. It was a very tight squeeze! We dropped the Drum Kit off on the way to my house and then he dropped me off. It was middle of winter and there was ice everywhere. The road he took away from my house was very steep and he lost control of the car, which started to spin, until it hit the flat road at the bottom, side on, where it turned over and rolled through a road sign and a hedge and landed upside down in someone's garden. The owner of the garden came out shouting that he was going to call the Police and threatening him with violence. The Guitarist managed to get the Car back on it's wheels and managed to drive away. He was unhurt. He went straight to the Police to report the accident just in case this bloke had called the them, but he hadn't and the Guitarist ended up being charged £300 for the sign he busted.

[quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1342540307' post='1736836'] yes if you'd had a prang and the police attended you'd have been in far worse trouble for having that hookah pipe than anything the prang could have done to you. [/quote] How we never got caught I'll never know. We travelled all around the country like that.

I remember being told about an accident where some kids were travelling in the back of a van with their bicycles when it had a crash and rolled. The bikes basically turned the back of the van into a huge human blender. Very nasty. For years, while we had a Mitsubishi L300 with no back seats or rear windows, I travelled in the back on huge bean bags. It was really comfortable and I'd often nod off. Sometimes my mate would come with us and we'd sit with a hookah pipe between us. It was great, but we were very, very lucky we never had an accident.

[quote name='TomWIC' timestamp='1342462973' post='1735624'] In the rack is a Peavey Tour 700 and a Behringer PL2000, very surprised at the quality of it for how much it cost, although shamefully I'm not yet using it's power distribution features...it's just a pretty light at the moment. 1U spare, not sure what I want in there, but most likely either a rack wireless system if I can find a good one for the right price, or just a standard wireless system mounted on a shelf. Until I can decide on what cab to upgrade to, my Ashdown MAG410 Deep is doing an alright job. The new head has helped a lot, so I'm not in a huge rush to upgrade it. Want to save the pennies for the right one. [attachment=113327:IMG_3006.JPG] [/quote] I wanted a Behringer PL2000 but the light sticks out too far and I wouldn't be able to get the front on my rack case. Which is a shame.

Had an odd experience in The Music Station in Swansea. There's a Piano and Keyboard type shop downstairs, but there's a Guitar shop and a Lighting and PA shop upstairs. We went in on a friday, the people downstairs were very pleasant and showed us where the Guitar shop was. I couldn't get the bloke in the Guitar Shop to look away from his computer. Wondered into the PA part and the bloke in there was lovely, we came out of there with an 8u Stagg rack. I tried to ask the Guitar shop bloke a question about a Guitar but he would only grunt. I'd seen something I wanted too, but he just wasn't interested. We went back the following day and the Guitar shop was staffed by three much younger people. The one that approached us was very friendly and helpful. I ended up buying the Cort T-35 that I'd seen the previous day.

I used to work in a Roland service centre and one day we had a bloke come in who had had an accident on the motorway. He'd clipped the central barrier and flipped his car over, several times, it finally stopped rolling and landed upright on the hard shoulder. He was absolutely fine. However, he'd managed to spread several grands worth of keyboards and amps across the motorway and a nearby field. I was given his Trace Elliot combo and his Roland W-30 to repair, but, rather surprisingly, they were fine, a bit scuffed up on the outside, but they worked perfectly. The stuff the boss had taken to repair hadn't faired quite so well, but I can't remember what they were.

My mate and me had grown up playing, he Guitar and me on Bass, we were 12 when we started. He was a natural, right from the beginning. It wasn't until we were 18 that he actually got around to asking for a go on my Bass. I handed it over and he fiddled with it for five minutes. Then he handed it back, puffed out his cheeks and said "Not as easy as it looks is it?" and tried to shake the pain out of his hands. I think he learned a new respect for the Bass that day. For the kind of Guitarist who would say such a thing, I think it's perfectly fair to get them to play a fiddly solo on the Guitar, hand them the Bass and ask them to repeat it note for note at the same speed.