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[quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1393335919' post='2378859'] I don't get why people don't like the SR5 scratchplate. I think it looks great (even - dare I say it? - better than the normal one) ! [/quote] Me, I dislike both. Have never liked the MM pickguards, but have just gotten used to them. I've always thought the idea was great, as pickguards tended to be fugly, but not how they really looked. I forgot the Stealth. Now that is really black, and it hides the pickguard quite well, I think: [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/MMStingRay5-HHStealth_zps6201f7ed.jpg.html"][/url]

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1393331509' post='2378751'] If you really don't like the pickguard then a black bass with black guard will camouflage it well! [/quote] Aye, but then maybe beware of the black with white pickguard that I think is the regular one. I think it does outline the ugliness of the pickguard shape quite well. This is my own SR5, and it's from 1995. I don't know if totally black pickguards can be had now. [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/mmstingray5-hfretlessblack-bb-p8-30012-df-1352_zps0bb2138e.jpg.html"][/url] However, if I'm not mistaken, there's an alternative in the Classic: [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/MMStingRay5-HClassic2-band_zpsc4dabbaf.jpg.html"][/url] IMS the Classic only comes in the 2EQ version. Me, I like the Bongo's 4EQ, and it may be the only thing that keeps the SR5 from becoming my fave bass. That and that the Bongo is a bog seat of course. Nothing can compete with that! Edit: I now see you don't not want no Classic. Sorry.

Nowt wrong with the SR5 pickguard! I find it hardly has any impact on the design of the bass: [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/MMStingRay5wopickguard_zps38faab99.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/MMStingRay5wopickguard_zps38faab99.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Welcome, CC low end provider! Hohner? Yamaha? Squier? Warwick? StingRay? You must have impeccable taste! Enjoy the forum! bert

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1393184395' post='2377130'] I also have a "custom built" mandolin with the octave marker at 13! [/quote] Genius! Also, it's how experimental music was invented.

Hey David, Welcome! I'd cuddle with the llama, but it looks like one that might want to kiss me. Enjoy the banter! bert

Great work, man, and that was an inspiring read as well. Thanks for posting it, and congrats on the result!

Do you mean more classy metal, or rather cloth?

The Kinks: Rats [media]http://youtu.be/-LAkd0hS1LE[/media]

Welcome, Callum! bert

Hey Jimbo, Welcome! I too am known for my walks around the block. You'll feel right at home. best, bert

Hey Deepalma, Welcome to BC from Bitches Glue! bert

Welcome, Keef! bert

Ultra cool, Chris. Congrats! Haven't got the footage to work yet, but will try again. (May also be they do not offer it abroad but without telling so.) Now I always knew you had a brain, but never imagined you got there by just telling your brain that you had a brain.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1392637462' post='2370835'] Here's a pic of the one stolen from a gig I did last year: [/quote] Probably easily hid it under His robe, unsuspecting standers-by not realizing His wood was actually tonewood.

Luddite!

[s]Hey Bishop![/s] Good evening, Your Grace, Welcome! Twas about time this sinful place got some clericalization. Enjoy! bert

Thanks, Pete! I do like The Shipbuilders indeed. Nicely written! It's not that specific style I'm trying to find out about right now, but in its most subdued bars it does get fairly close.

Hey Greg, Welcome! Practise just two more days, and you'll be a lot better than me (roughly 3/4 years worth of better). Enjoy the forum! bert

Hey Confresh, Welcome! Great to read in 2014 about a youngster getting into Gentle Giant. I hope that phase will last long for you. They're worth it. Enjoy! bert

Done, but only because you deserve it!

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1392319987' post='2367410'] I can never get the imbedding to work - any chance of a sticky thread in one of the forums on how to do it? [/quote] IMS, there is a sticky already, but embedding is easy, depending on forum software: First of all, often one can use the SHARE button on video sites, which copies the correct code to paste into the forum post. Secondly, you can embed the link to the video page by having the words "media" and "/media" [b]in square brackets[/b] before and after the link. Not always necessary, but may work, and it works here on BC.

Thanks very much, guys! Together, you not only were able to narrow down the search, but also convinced my wallet to be less strict with me. Several musics are now on order that I've long known I had to buy, such as Richard Rodney Bennett, Kenny Wheelers "Music for Large & Small Ensembles, Peter Gabriel's "Up", as well as some Mogwai. Thanks! My wallet though hates you right now. As to the narrowing down, Graham's proposition of Frank Turner surprisingly came closest to the style that I am after right now, so I'd be very grateful or any pointers as to composers or names of certain styles. Just as surprising was that Barber's Adagio came so close. I do have several versions of the Adagio already, but would never have thought of using it as an example of what I roughly am after. However, an example I did find in my head would be Pat Metheney's "Last Train Home" if played subduedly by a bass ensemble. Not exactly like this English style, but close enough to give an impression. WoT, genius! Atom Heart Mother must have been the first album that taught me I could like brass music a lot, and for decades I used to smuggle little tidbits of AHM into my church organ improvs. BetaFunk, I guess you're right about the term "test pieces", Idunno. It's just the boasty stuff with a lot of bling and effects that they tend to play in competitions, and then the Corys win again. Really not what I'm after right now. As said, I long for simple, subdued, slow music right now. I hope you find it as funny as I did that your assuming I may need to open my ears maybe is a trifle assuming too much, seeing as that I'm a former electronic music teacher at music college, and had people like Penderecki and Xenakis as teachers myself. Gareth, good question. I failed to say something about that. The music I'm after is probably typically not written by classical composers, but is firmly based in tradition, as in 4/4, strictly diatonic, limited rhythmic scope, limited chord structures, limited in dissonance. More like the non Christmas music one could still play in a Christmas setting as it were. In fact one of the clearest memories I have of such music was in a Miss Marple style crime drama set at Christmas time. Again, thanks a lot to all of you! If anyone can come up with a pointer as per the Frank Turner example, you have my [s]eternal[/s] limited time offer gratitude! bert

Occasionaly, one can hear beeeoootiful brass music as the background music in British tv series. Sadly, up to now, I've been unable to find out about that stuff, and now I'd like some help. The style I'm after is that which is most definitely distantiated from these boringly boasty brass band competition compositions, where shrill, strident soloes are persistently played on tuneless trumpets. Alliteration Away! What I'm after is the very well arranged, warm sounding, slow stuff that seems often played by smaller ensembles or even just quartets or quintets - not that the ensemble size is a prerequisite. I guess it's mainly written in the 20th century, but is not like classical new music or other more experimental music. It's more conservative and less demanding without being old music (like by Byrd or Purcell). I have found some stuff that gets close in parts, like for example Elgar's Nimrod as played on CD 2 of this set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Brass-Bands-Various-Artists/dp/B00076SJ9G/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1392305876&sr=1-8&keywords=best+brass , but have yet to hit the bull's eye. I'm convinced the style I'm after is British though. Any ideas that could help me narrowing the field down?

Ernie Ball? Sociopath? ... [cogs in brain turning and turning] ... ... Ah! Now I get it! You're from the Ernie Ball forum, aren't you? Welcome, Erni3ball! Enjoy the forum! This one! bert