BigRedX

My dream bass gig would be in any of my current or previous bands if they were actually popular enough for me make a living out of them.

Failing that I'll settle for being Hooky's replacement if New Order were to re-form.

Basically though it's just a CIJ P-bass with about £100 of after-market parts and some scribble on the headstock.

I've played the fretless one that was in the Bass Centre in London when it was still a real shop on a couple of occasions. By far the nicest sounding and playing Warwick, I've ever had my hands on. However it's not at all like 'normal' Warwicks in sound, looks or playability, so if you're a fan of the more common Warwick basses you might not get on at all with this. I normally can't stand Warwicks. but this one pretty much ticked all the boxes for me. The one box it didn't tick was value for money. The Bass Centre wanted just under £4k for theirs and it was starting to show some signs of shop wear. Bear in mind that for that kind of money you can get pretty much any bass you want except for a few of the very high-end makes or a really good original vintage Fender (if that floats your boat). In the end I said nice but not nice enough at that price for an 'off-the-peg' instrument and had a custom Sei made instead for quite a bit less money.

[quote name='Brother Jones' post='383069' date='Jan 17 2009, 10:48 AM']It's a fashion thing - like block inlays. Hard to get away from the fact that they serve no function at all, other than adding weight and getting in the way of adjustment.[/quote]

Doesn't the bridge cover hold the bit of foam to mute the strings in place for that extra dead sound?

Read any interview with a bass player in the 70s and they all said the first thing they did when getting a new Fender bass was to remove the covers and chuck them away...

TC studio stuff is truly wonderful. I've owned a Finalizer since they first came out and were extremely expensive rather than just expensive, but it's probably the most-used piece of outboard kit I own, and if the compressor in this amp is based on the same technology then I'll be very interested in trying this.

I've got Barts on my Sei - although they're the custom Gary Willis ones - and combined with the ACG gives me everything I want tonally out of mine.

.047µF or .047nF?

[url="http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=bassen&BassenID=14"]I take it you've seen this?[/url]

What value are they?

Here's my first bass (which I still own)



It's a Burns Sonic Bass
Bought second hand from Groops in Loughborough in 1981
Cost £55 including the OHSC and a free Fender strap
In today's money that's £162.25

Before I bought this bass the band I was in made do without bass on a lot of our songs and when we really needed one borrowed one of two from people in our year at school, either a nasty medium-scale Kay with a Mosrite-ish shape or a vaguely P-bass shaped this that it's owner had made in Woodwork class with very narrow string spacing and a humbucker pickup mounted at an angle so the pole-pieces lined up with the strings...

Am I alone in thinking that these are the ugliest TBirds yet?

Just look at that photo of the headstocks and the way the neck laminations appear behind the headstock facing - yuk!

IMO Gibson haven't made a decent looking TBird since the re-issues in 1976...

Agreed. There's one on my Kramer XKB-10 at the bridge and the pole-pieces don't line up with the strings at all.

Last time I looked SZ was playing Gibson Les Paul basses...

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='374610' date='Jan 8 2009, 11:16 PM']Hey BRX, photos are on page 24. They're Vern's, but very clear images of the bass. Totally unmarked [/quote]

Thanks! Anyone got any pictures of the back of the neck when it meets the 'single cut' body?

I find angled pickups incredibly ugly as well as uncomfortable for resting your thumb on when playing finger style, so unless there is a very good and provable reason for doing this (ie you can hear a significant improvement in tone with them at an angle) I'd go with them straightened up.

Photos please OtPJ!

The I really want to try a Streamline at some point...

C is the most interesting because it's the least derivative. I'd smooth out some of the lines and make it a bit more curvy though if it was me.

That's nicest newer TBird I think I've seen...

Got me GASing for a Gibson Bass of some description now!

How easily did you find Sadowsky? When I went, if I hadn't written down the exact address I'd have never found it, even then it wasn't until I saw the sign on the door to the workshop that I was sure I was in the right place!

Did you get to see any other Brooklyn luthiers - Fodera, Pelosi?

While I don't personally have a problem with QuickTime (being a Mac user) you should use a format that the majority of users can view without needing to download extra players codecs etc.

Having said that I'd upload to YouTube and then link that back to your site. If your uploaded source footage is good enough you can even link back a higher quality stream that the standard YouTube one. Although YouTube uses Flash to play the videos everyone interested in viewing video will already have all the components needed to view it already installed, something that can't be said for .mov .wmv or many of the .avi codecs.

[quote name='Prosebass' post='369808' date='Jan 4 2009, 11:47 AM']...but again headless is not universally accepted...[/quote]

You may well find that shorter than 30" is even less desirable than headless.

And what exactly is wrong with the colour?

I'll have one next time if you're going to get some made in small size...

If being a musician is what you want to do with your life then in my (limited) experience playing in a (even only moderately) successful band is far more useful than the college course. It gets you out there showing people that you can play and work as part of a band. You'll probably get to meet far more useful people as well.

Go on.

You know you want to!

And don't forget to post the results here as well at TB.

IMO not at all. You use both hands fairly equally playing bass so which ever way around you play it you're going to have to train the 'less able' hand to do some fairly complex stuff. There are plenty of left-handed musicians who play right handed (and who are rather good) Wilco Johnson of Dr Feelgood comes immediately to mind.

If he sticks with the instrument he'll thank you for it in the long run.