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The BBC is one of the wisest I've readon BC. If more of the users took the time to browse through and welcome people in the Introduction section; they would have found out that he is a very easy going, honest, humuorous guy and you would have quickly got the gist of his style of humour. He has now (unfortunately, in my opinion) tamed his forum personality. It's perfectly understandable that an extroverted individual would need time to settle and take on board/learn the forum's style of discourse. This proves the forum has moderated itself in terms of restoring harmony. It's naive to assume that as the scale of the forum increases; the users will become unmanageable. It's impressive and expected how the members out of authority politely, maturely and firmly tell someone off when stepping out of line. Generally, if a new forum member hasn't learnt the unwritten expectations by example; they will have learnt it as soon as a more forum wary peer has told them, explicitly. I'm far more pissed off with people hinting that they're making use of the ignore function. I don't want to know if you're using it or not. It's especially cruel when being indirectly insensitive. As for Off Topic rants. I'm not sure which ones are in question in this and the 'libel...' thread, but I think it would be a great shame if they were stamped out. I' have been educated and have adopted a different outlook on various social topics which I have the Off Topic section chiefly to thank for. I would assume that, like me, you would want BassChat to continue to develop as a community and I think the best way of doing that is by understanding each other and getting to know each other. One of the best ways of doing this is through detailed, passionate discussion. Whether it be through an eye-catching 'I hate' thread or an inevitable social discussion; 'smoking', 'is this news worthy' etc. it doesn't matter. I think taking away the option of ranty threads will only ensure that we become more detached from each other as the scale of the forum increases. Especially people like me who don't have a sense of humour and need to express themselves in other ways in order to feel like they are contributing to the community. If you took that away, I probably wouldn't stick around which would be a shame for me as I've already met some truly wonderful people.

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Yorkshire relatives and I (on right). Happy holidays.

I really like a lot of these basses. and John Cusack movies. What's happening to me?

Howdy, Phil. Welcome to BC!

Lovely basses, Nik. As you know I had a Hondo II exactly the same. I won't tell you how much I sold it for. It'll be too tempting

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'Power of equality when Flea uses the envelope filter in the bridge, i like that. But then i like the tone of If you have to ask. But black eyed blonde and skinny sweaty man have great slap and pop tones'

'lo all, My friend is after a new amp; the whole shabang for around £400. He's playing a J-type passive bass and is after a Chilis tone. He gave me a song that he particularly likes the tone in. I'll find out what it was and edit it in. I was thinking a Hartke head and 2.5xl.. something along those lines. I'm panicking a bit because he's looking at a new 115 Trace Ellliot combo when I think 10" speakers would be better suited for the tone he's after. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. The potential for gigging (wattage wise) would be useful but he really just wants to improve on his Indie IB200 (anyone have any idea what that would sell for?) I'll add more information as I get it. Thanking you kindly, paul.

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Welcome to the forum, Tony. I have roots in Yorkshire. Halifax mostly.

I'd love to try a passive P-pup with an active MM-pup. A bit of a jack of all trades bass. I'll keep an eye or two on this thread.

I've seen a few similar threads now where people aren't completely certain of what they're buying and what it's worth and often in relation to Fe*der. I think it would be great if we had a progressive stickied thread that has some values, links to serial dating sites and things to look out for scams wise etc. The thread would be a focused place to put presumed scams in too. I would love to do this myself. However, I think someone with vast Fender knowledge, a cynical eye and an excellent grasp of ebay would do a much better job

Welcome, Bison! Is that the Mr. T look? Love that pic

Welcome to the forum, Shaun!

I don't like much being downside up. If the blood was in my head all the time, I might just topple over. Anyhow, welcome back.

Oh swish

Crickey. If Ampeg gear wasn't expensive enough...

Many **** quotes. I like to sleep. There is no set time of day for sleep. You sleep when you’re tired, that’s all there is to it. - Thelonious Monk I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later. - Miles Davis It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play. - Dizzie Gillespie Wrong is right. - Thelonious Monk The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen - Duke Ellington By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with - Duke Ellington Don’t threaten me with love, baby; let’s just go walking in the rain - Billie Holiday At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There’s no beat anymore. You can’t keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There’s a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what’s shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand - Thelonious Monk Finally Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes’ - Eddie Condon What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualised on - Gerry Mulligan A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He’s above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being - Herbie Hancock Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand - Ella Fitzgerald My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often — in fact, mostly — at the expense of everything else in my life. - Stan Getz At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual - Ellis Marsalis Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity - Herbie Hancock Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and thats too bad. - John Coltrane Sustained intensity equals ecstacy - Wynton Marsalis Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music - John Coltrane We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. - Oscar Peterson All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. - John Coltrane I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing - Louis Armstrong Don’t bullshit… just play - Wynton Marsalis Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions - Johnny Griffin If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music. - Charles Mingus I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition - Dizzie Gillespie Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that bullshit and just play - Charlie Parker I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it - Keith Jarrett [url="http://www.jameslomax.com/words/877/jazz-quotes"]http://www.jameslomax.com/words/877/jazz-quotes[/url]

What a friendly introduction. Glad to see you're on the forum, Gary.