pete.young

Well, i wonder, what colour the sky is in this guy's world. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilson-Rapier-Bass-Guitar-Vintage-Rare-WEM-Watkins-/300537659255?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item45f970bf77"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilson-Rapier-Bass-G...=item45f970bf77[/url] This is really worth 50 quid more than AndyTravis fretless CIJ PB70 ? Well this one is worth nearly as much, apparently. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vintage-wem-rapier-watkins-retro-60s-1970s-bass-guitar-/200588487103?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2eb40169bf"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vintage-wem-rapier-w...=item2eb40169bf[/url] Unbelievable. These were horrible pieces of firewood - has everyone lost their minds?

[quote name='eubassix' post='1175815' date='Mar 25 2011, 12:35 PM']What's the usual commissioned-sale rate these days, from the music shops?[/quote] Hobgoblin is 33%

[quote name='Geester' post='1173541' date='Mar 23 2011, 05:04 PM']Anyone else heard of this?[/quote] I'm wondering exactly what items would fall into this category - most modern consumer electronics will happily accept voltages from 110 to 240.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1170496' date='Mar 21 2011, 11:28 AM']No-one around here can afford a flat cap. The last one I'm aware of was burned for fuel during the winter.[/quote] Have you ever tried setting fire to a whippet?

Arbiter. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ARBITER-BASS-GUITAR-stereo-hard-case-/160561700132?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2562391d24"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ARBITER-BASS-GUITAR-...=item2562391d24[/url] Don't think this listing will be there for long due to the 'R' word being used again!

[quote name='BottomE' post='1169001' date='Mar 19 2011, 11:20 PM']Wow. One of my bands is cover band. Do you use your effects to achieve a sound as close as possible to the original bass sound or is it to change the sound of your basses regardless of song?[/quote] Guilty as charged. I use a V-Bass with my covers band, which is playing stuff from the '70s up to the present day. Originally this was because I heard Ped play some great synth sounds at a bass bash with absolutely no tracking or technique issues (mind you he does have pretty good technique!). And we have quite a few things which sound better with synths, either analog or more modern. I also have a really neat little Novastation which does great bass sounds, but it's just more convenient to have it all in one place and I haven't got around to trying that instead with the band. I quickly found that it was also useful to be able to switch between stingray, jazz, precision and T-Bird sounds and if you want to experiment you can also emulate specific sounds, for example the dreaded 'Dont Stop' which I think has a great and very distinctive bass sound. All at the flick of a footswitch. And then there are things like the Muse version of 'Feelin Good', which call for a bass, a fretless bass and a double bass all in one song. No problem. As for the technique comments, I think you have that bass-ackwards. Anyone using a synth or octave pedal needs to have really clean and precise technique or it sounds like a horrible mess.

You don't see these very often. Well, I do - I've got one and I'm looking at it now, but there aren't many about. For once an auction which really deserves the soubriquet mega rare, and I thought I'd post it here because the listing is so well written and funny. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180640463489"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=180640463489[/url]

[quote name='Randy_Marsh' post='1164949' date='Mar 16 2011, 08:32 PM']Hi guys, Like the title says I have an EA CXL 112. Great cab, but muggins here has managed to blow the driver... I have emailed EA and they no longer make this cab, and only know of one place that will re-cone the driver for me... which is in Ohio They said the easiest thing to do is buy the new Wizzy 12" driver and install that. It costs about £80 but then I'd have to ship it from the USA. Or just get another 12" driver and install that Just wondering what you guys would do, as im a bit stuck really[/quote] Well, when I blew the driver in my VL110, EA sold me a recone kit and I got someone local to fit it. Is that an option?

If anyone is at a loose end on Thursday night in Ipswich (ye gods, what a prospect!) my other band Waxies Dargle are playing in McGinty's Bar on the outside stage. Please come along and have a riotous evening. Waxies play the music of the Pogues, and there will be bagpipes and Irish dancing too. I'm not on bass for this one: mandolin, bouzouki and fiddle is the order of the day.

So what do you think was in the set list? Locomotion Anything by Lou Rawls Take the 'A' strain Dump (van Halen cover)

As played by The Motions? [url="http://www.alexgitlin.com/motions.htm"]http://www.alexgitlin.com/motions.htm[/url]

[quote name='Paul S' post='1160991' date='Mar 13 2011, 08:34 PM']All are MIJ,[/quote] You certain about that? I'm not. The Yamaha is made in China these days and I seem to recall that the cheaper Ibbys are made in Indonesia. I played an SR505 in Bass Merchant, it felt like a really comfortable bass but the build quality is nowhere near my Bass Collections. Try and find an SB460. There was one sold on here not long ago.

[quote name='Sean' post='1160481' date='Mar 13 2011, 02:10 PM']And, if that P was reversed it wouldn't do an authentic P sound thereby alienating many.[/quote] My BB800 has a reversed pickup and it does a very authentic P sound. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and a fender in a blind test. I'm also very happy with my TRB5P - the build quality is superb and it has a lovely through-neck. You've got to hand it to Yamaha, I've had many of their instruments over the years, not just basses, and I don't think I've ever seen a duff anything with Yamaha written on it.

Not crap - a Bass Collection SGC Nanyo lined fretless - this looks to be a factory fretless rather than a defret, since the dots on the side of the neck are lined up with the fret markers. I have one of these , unlined, and it's brilliant. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-String-Fretless-Bass-Collection-SGC-Nanyo-SB320-/180637153372?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a0ed0385c"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-String-Fretless-Ba...=item2a0ed0385c[/url]

I seem to be experiencing serious delays using the site tonight (11th March, 10.30 - 10.45) . Time-outs trying to load roughly every other page. No other sites seem to be suffering. Is it just me?

If it is for sale, you need to state a price according to forum rules. If it isn't for sale, you should get the mods to move it somewhere else.

I'm a no - gigging on Saturday and no trains between Ipswich and London on Sunday :-(

[quote name='kurcatovium' post='1148771' date='Mar 3 2011, 07:18 PM']Could this SGC be considered japcrap? Or just crap?[/quote] Agh! That would have been a nice bass once.

[quote name='icastle' post='1149089' date='Mar 3 2011, 11:39 PM']+1 Only one thing worse than a bodhran and that's a bodhran with someone smacking it![/quote] + another one. The only thing to play on a bodhran is a flamethrower. I got fired from a Country and Western band once for playing the reggae version of 'Help me make it through the night'. It was well worth it.

Blimey, are they still alive? I haven't seen these guys for a while, but I did see varous line-ups with Sandy Denny, Swarb, Richard Thompson and Jerry Donahue in the '70s. Happy days. Maybe it's time to check them out again. I didn't go to the Newark school of violinmaking, but I had a friend who did (and he smuggled me in to the woodwind tutor Louie's lecture where he made drills out of piano wire, something which has stayed with me ever since). An extraordinary place and you guys are privileged to have studied there, you must really know your stuff.