Kiwi

If you go to 6:38 you can see a Pro4000 head and matching cab though. If any of you have Burman stories, particularly involving Gregg that he might not remember, feel free to share too.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='790704' date='Mar 30 2010, 02:36 PM']As to the legendary 4x18 cab, the top of the door frame (fixed window type) had to be taken out to enable the cab to leave the shop - I'm sure it did actually gig at some point.[/quote] Howard, I asked Gregg about that cab and this was his reply which I felt compelled to share (with his permission): [b]So did you remember making that 4x18 cab for Bumper Brown? Did it ever get an airing at a gig? [/b] [i]Where do I start? We built it in our first workshop in Handyside arcade, no 59. It had a inch and a half front and the same for the back which was built like a safe door. We fitted the loudspeakers with the cab lying on the floor of the workshop and fitted the "safe door" back. We could feel the pressurised air in the cab hissing out as the back slowly seated in. We then realised that we couldn't lift it! We had to wait until the next day when 6 arcade workmen could help us lift it upright and then we tested it. We used a Burman SL100 powerpack, pre amp and a Fender Precision bass. We connected everything and I hit the bottom open E string and the whole system went dead. (Were the loudspeakers too much for the amp or what? The amp was still on so what was the problem?) Then we could all smell gas! The pressure of air escaping from the sealed cab had 'spat' the jack plug out of the socket on the back of the cab! I think we were then one of the first companies to use EP series XLR connectors to our big cabs. The high pressured stream of air had blown out an industrial gas fire about 8 feet away in one split second long, quarter inch wide jet of air. By the way, try and get a copy of 'The Nice' book, Keith Emerson's bass player mentions his 4x12 and 4x15 in 1 cab as well! The cab was his idea but I got the blame from their roadies! When they were on tour I would get calls in the middle of the night from Baz Ward (tour manager) obviously at the gig. The phone would ring, wake me up, and all he would say was "Burman, you're a bastard", and then he would hang up! Anyway, a local band called 'This Years Girl' wanted to try it so they took it to the Lacarno Ballroom in Sunderland for a gig. I gave strict instructions DO NOT SWITCH IT ON UNTIL I GET THERE! As I arrived the bass player had switched on the amp, plugged in his bass and was about to pluck the bottom E string. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! Everything went slow motion as i moved towards him. He hit the string and all the glasses of the previous nights drinking just disappeared from the top of a grand piano. I don't mean vibrated off the top, they actually disappeared and smashed to the floor!! Light fittings in the ceiling fell out and crashed to the floor! Worse still, people standing by the bar at the back of the room looked like they were vomiting beer!! I turned from the stage area and ran towards these people. As i ran from the stage to the bar, an distance of about 20 yards, i could feel the air waves of low frequency going up and down my body which made me feel nauseous. At the bar, the bass was punching and hitting everyone including me in the throat! I discovered that the people at the bar weren't being sick as such, they were physically incapable of swallowing their beer! I managed to reach the main switch behind the bar and everthing came to an abrupt end. Of course the bass player turned round oblivious to the mayhem and destruction that had happened. To him the sound on stage had sounded normal but the cab was producing ultra low frequency that is unaudible to the human ear but can destroy your internal organs at high volumes! I can't remember Bumper Brown taking delivery of the cab! In fact I can't remember much at all after that episode - it's a blank.[/i]

I had three as many people know but they're going to stay in the past.

Hello Jex, you weren't scared off then?

they're not that cheesy Japanese band who have achieved Level 41.63 are they?

FWIW isopropyl alcohol does a similar job. However no amount of meths is going to prevent the wearing of flatspots on roundwounds or the stretching of the core. All strings go flat eventually.

aaaaah, its back.

That website has been around since 2004, before Gregg had his health problems. Then it went offline for a number of years while Gregg was recuperating. Interesting to see that its back and in a very very slightly more complete state than when I last saw it. I've sent him an email asking about it.

[i]"You can go a long way with a gun. You can go a lot farther with a gun and a sing-song."[/i]

[i]"What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, some Hollywood finnochio that cries like a woman?"[/i]

definitely sounds like an Aria

I did! Thanks for sharing

thankee soir

LOL, which site is that?

Chucksten says he will be releasing a calendar next year too, because he says that's what successful musicians do. Bob Carroll's boys over the other side of Sh*t Creek heard about it and say they aim to be there first because they've been practicing their pouts and poses already: Anyways, this thread is going off topic...jeez you guys need to watch that too. Don't be so easily distracted.

This is Jabner, Edwise, Chucksten, Old Mama Whelper and down in front is Biscuits. They're all members of my country band. We've cultivated the authentic Appalacian look as you can see and the band is called The Two Tootin' Toonzers. Yep, I know there's more than two of them, but folks around here got so excited about someone coming up with four words all beginning with the same letter than the name more or less stuck. We aren't going to set the world on fire in terms of technique but Jabner and Old Mama learned how to play washboard and spoons when they were young and still brother and sister. Edwise plays the kettle and Biscuits fitted him with a special mouth piece so he can blow into it through his belly button if he can't spit his baccy out in time. We do mostly township festivals, christenings and church fund raisers but Jabner reckons there might be some money at the lawnmower races.

it doesn't have a jazz neck though

Oh, that'll be a nice pair!

I find a touch of perfume and little bit of cleavage helps.

Giving this one a bump as it seems to have sunk...

Yeah Nik, mustn't grumble. I have a decent job here and a good lifestyle although my salary is half what I was on the UK. So won't be buying any expensive pieces of kit in the forseeable. Good job I set myself up before I left the UK.

I'm not sure that slanted pickups will give meaningful amounts of extra bass (at least in comparison to different windings or using the bass control on the eq), but the higher strings in your description would tend to have a slightly softer attack

Ummmmm, there's an audio track of me playing the Skarbye bass here: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNbijc-UHg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNbijc-UHg[/url] And a couple of shots of us in the studio recording it: [attachment=46207:4655_184...181280_n.jpg] [attachment=46208:4655_184...431670_n.jpg] But nothing of the other two yet. My recording set up has been in disarray since emigrating and with all the other things, I'm only just getting around to finalising the set up this weekend.