gary mac

Thanks Bluejay, great blogging

Sorry don't know the answer but was just listening to Pleasant Valley a couple of days back and thoroughly enjoying the bass line.

A fair few mex p bass and jazzes seem to get around the £300 mark at the mo on ebay. Don't think I would, unless I felt that I could do a decent repair myself and/or spray the headstock to match the body. Does it play well? Is the price negotiable?

Yes I'd be quite happy with that set list. A few of them are in the set that we do, with our girlie singer. We've just been talking about adding the Elbow number.

[quote name='warriorbass05' timestamp='1362144557' post='1996374'] How about this [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zNvBIfSfOM&list=UUkL5Yr0mf37cfKZ4u-vUbIQ&index=1[/media] [/quote] Man I love this one. Can't hear your vid very well but that could be the fault of my laptop speakers I guess.

That has made a splendid start to my day

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1362319273' post='1998287'] Ooh, I'm very sorry to hear it, mate. A morale booster that hurts... may you recover quickly. [/quote]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1362314717' post='1998205'] You didn't have a... [i]drink, [/i]did you? *Gasp* [/quote] No drinkies Mark, just the M.E. giving me a severe bashing lately. The gigging is a great morale booster but I really pay for it, usually two or three days of being flat out and quite often a migraine thrown in on top of the mix.

Function gig for us last night, a fishing club's end of season annual bash. Fully expected it to be a bit of a dire affair, as we had been told before hand, that there has never been any dancing to any of the bands booked in previous years. Second number in and we had them up and bopping Got paid a bonus and two more bookings. All in all a good night. Paying for it today though, crashed out on the sofa and feeling extremely fuzzy.

I will resist the temptation to slap through the middle of Mustang Sally at the function tonight. ....sigh......... It's a fishing club end of season dinner dance, only we've been told they never dance.

Good post Nige and I thoroughly agree, even though I've been guiltly of not checking out enough of the stuff on here, other than your stuff and Clarky's. Oh and yesterday I did visit the rather excellent vid put up by our Mr. Discreet.

Really like that Mark, excellent work.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' timestamp='1361985837' post='1994086'] I particularly like the sound of your custom P bass. It sounds like the guy who created it is outrageously handsome. [/quote]

There's some very handsome wood amongst that lot

Oh god we haven't even started on flats, or rounds yet. Or make of strings.

This could take a while post 13 and we are still on the number of strings, which, by the way must be FOUR.

I've let my subscription slip this year. Even the free gift couldn't tempt me. Last years one never arrived and the year before I had to make numerous phone calls before they finally sent it. I know it has new ownership now but just feel totally hacked off with it. Plus they need to use a bigger font size for us more senior readers

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1361792764' post='1990783'] Sorry, I just can't agree with this. I have bought perfectly playable instruments from shops. However, it takes a trip to the tech I use to get the instrument playing exactly the way I want it. I don't expect a shop to cater for all the adjustments that have to be made to suit my own playing style. All I expect is a shop to produce a bass in playable condition. If it's not in playable condition then I don't buy it. This opens a can of worms as to what is playable. However, I think some folk just expect far too much from a shop when it comes to set up. I have played (or tried to play) basses which belonged to friends of mine. There is no way I could live with their set up. If I had tried the same bass with same set up of the hook in a shop would it be fair to say that the bass in unplayable. I don't think so. It just didn't suit me. If a bass is so bad in a shop that there are obvious problems then I wouldn't touch it anyway but I do feel at times we expect too much from our retailers. Excuse me now whilst I go and put on my suit of armour. [/quote] I do agree with you about set up of course. But if there is a problem with neck alignment or the bridge being in the wrong place then to me it makes sense to get the retailer to deal with it as it's not really a set up issue but rather poor quality control.