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[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1411898632' post='2563575'] I wonder how bad the singer gets it in U2 tribute bands? [/quote] Drunkard, at the top of his voice: - "But I don't want the new tribute band album on my phone :-("

I think the essence is in how the communication went when, after the toy throwing, you told him/them: - I'm not playing there anymore - I'm not booking any gigs - I need time off If, at that point, he/they said. "C'mon, PS, let's think this one through, yeah!?!?", then yes, they should've told you. If, however, they said: "Sorry to see you go, PS", then no. You resigned, and they started looking for someone else.

[quote name='StinkingBass' timestamp='1411814878' post='2563015'] Is this Absolute guitars in Backwell Near Bristol? [/quote] What are your reasons for getting an account and asking this question on a thread that... ...er... ...well... [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/Threadresurrection_zps7c109ddd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/Threadresurrection_zps7c109ddd.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

That's maxiporn! Fond memories. I think my Philicorda was exactly like that one, or yours may even be my old one: I seem to recognise the finger wear around the knobs. :-) Great space for a synth on top too. I think I've alreayd commented on the Phat one on another forum. Congrats with both!

Ha! Finally something where I can beat RhysP. Three books, and I've looked at a page in one of them.

Nope. Didn't know about it, and wouldn't have had the money either back then. I just trawled Europe and the US for unsold ones.

Here are them pics. Sorry for their belatedness, or rather my belatedness in taking them: [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/IMG_1230_zpsd0485cda.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/IMG_1230_zpsd0485cda.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/IMG_1232_zpsaf1d8eab.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/IMG_1232_zpsaf1d8eab.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/IMG_1233_zps4ba1bf2b.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/IMG_1233_zps4ba1bf2b.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1411764513' post='2562679'] you should post a pic of your Neptune blue SR's headstock - droolworthy neck - when's the Bongo due? [/quote] Hadn't I done so? I'm sure I had in that I-never-understood-people-and-their-NBDs thread. The Bongo is said to be due in December.

@AT: Today's spam day, you see. Some of the same stuff goes on at the Dutch bass forum. I guess these sellers have been to a weekend course in forum manipulation.

Neptune Blue and a flamed, roasted maple neck? I don't understand the taste that some people have... But each to their own, I guess. Congrats, Dr. T! That's one of the finest ones right there. PS for the uninitiated: I'm a sucker for these, as Dr. T knows very well.

Thanks, mate.

[quote name='lucky' timestamp='1411477539' post='2559862'] If the humbucker was placed further up (towards the neck) than 53cm, is there any way to guestimate how that will affect the sound? [/quote] Not much scientific study has been done into this, but it's a concept that I feel deserves some looking into. That is: IF you are able to pull it off without routing away the truss rod, and given that the pup is indeed not wider than the neck up there. Cool idea! Good luck with this! (Sorry. Couldn't resist.)

Hei Åsmund, og velkommen! Do you know the RS 212 at all? I mean, have you heard it with other heads? You see, I think it's a little risky to buy it untried, as it has this rough edgeness to it that might or might not fit the TH OR your taste, though this edge may well disappear in a band mix. I've only heard them with TC heads, and without a band. Exciting cab though, in my mind, and one well worth trying out. Where did you get the TH? I don't see them in Norway anymore.

I admit to being a sucker for this kind of I-IV-V-I stuff, and enjoyed it despite the truth in 4 Strings' words, and I lurv it when you get to hear two or three bass tones at the same time like this. What did they do to that singer's voice though? Electro Harmonix Pet Shop Boy pedal in the studio?

Thanks, Unca P! Sadly, the cover I mean certainly didn't have the Andy Warhol thing in any form or colour setting, It was a cover like a female singer in the fifties or sixties, with doubt, could have. I vividly remember contemplating the possibility that it indeed was a Marilyn Monroe album, and concluding that it might be. Thanks though! ...but I feel inspired to relate a little story from when I entered a shop with that exact portrait printed on my t-shirt some years later. Upon seeing me with it, the shop owner gladly exclaimed: "Andy Warhol!" Her assistant then bursted out: "You're nuts! That's Jayne Mansfield!"

Thanks, Clarky! Another great call, that, and sadly another one I think it isn't. I must admit I had no idea Marilyn Monroe was so omnipresent in punk, post punk, new romantic and whatnot. Or had forgotten, rather. The search continues. From experience, I know these things can take a lot of time. I've investigated some stuff on and off for decades before recently finding the info I had been after all that time (this in a larger project designed to activate my memory and fill out the blanks - after a stroke in '94 and resulting memory loss). Thanks for the help so far! bert

Thanks, guys! I didn't want to lock both my memory and your thinking too much, but as I recall it, the cover had the look of an album that just could have been made by Marilyn Monroe herself. I showed it to the shopkeeper, asking whether it was in the wrong section, uponwhich he played it for me so as to "prove" it wasn't. As I'm aware the human memory is evil, I can't be too certain about every detail - or anything really. Dandelion's solution seems charmingly close, but I'm still convinced it was close to 1985, and definitely punk (possibly anarcho). For the time being I'm impressed we even got this far. The Glenn Danzig record was known to me, but I'd never even heard about the Java Jel Band one.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1411380915' post='2558855'] am a bit concerned about it apparently only having a gain control, no volume. [/quote] Er... the volume switch is clearly and visibly to the right of the Treble knob. Glad to be of help!

I'd say that you could still do that one gig, but only after clearly and factually having communicated to the rest of the band exactly what the trouble is with the internet bullying and the animosity, and that the band has to take measures so that one final gig becomes a possibility for you - like for example that these girls are kept away. I feel that if you walk away without giving the band this narrow escape, you may feel guilty for a long time, and you may feel they have reasons for any criticism towards you. But: the band must abide by your demands. If not, then walk away - even if it's five minutes before the gig. One has some self respect to take care of, and needs to be able to ook into a mirror at the end of the day. All the best! bert Edit: in writing! Communicate to the band in writing. Just my halfquadrupence.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411325844' post='2558472'] Return my library books a week later..? [/quote] In Norway, if you want to wreak havoc and bring The System down, you return your library books in time.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1411336771' post='2558619'] It's probably some suffocatingly rare vinyl-only release that sold 22 copies. [/quote] Thank you! That gives hope: 50 copies pressed, 22 sold, another 20 taken by band members of which 4 went to their mothers and 1 to the drummer's dad's new girlfriend - meaning there are still 13 mint, unplayed copies floating about somewhere, of which 10 probably are available given that the guitarist's mother denounced him a few years later. Success!

Hey Judy, and welcome! I hope you'll find BC a friendly and informative place, and if you do, you might as well know that the ToU of BC include some lines about not really having to unsubscribe when one leaves that London again. As to meeting others, enough bassists are expected to stand in line to meet a wine goddess, but if not, as London is close to water, you could swim some and meet me here in Norway. It's not really a long swim. Just keep the bass over your head so it keeps dry. I have two amps, so you should be OK in that department. Enjoy BC and that London! bert PS In the mean time, here's an oldie I still love, possibly about your town: http://youtu.be/vgO6kOEdB2s

Thank you, o Laird of Bollocks, Dunans and Glencoe! Sadly, that's not the one, or should I say "happily, that's not the one", as I thoroughly dislike both that song and anything to do with the Misfits? Great call though. As I was into Flux of Pink Indians and the like back then, I'd guess we're more likely talking anarcho-punk or similar, though this is not certain. Also, there's a good chance the cover used overtly "girly" colours like pink and light blue, so I'd guess the band behind it liked some irony.

Story: in the mid eighties (not earlier than '83, but more probably around '85), I saw this album with the words "Marilyn Monroe" on the cover in the punk/hardcore department of the local record shop. I don't know whether this just were two words on a cover, or the album title or the band name. Got to hear some of it, and liked the stuff, but didn't buy it that day. Haven't seen it since. Anyone know of such an album? Just to be sure: I'm (of course) not referring to Brian Hugh Warner, that intelligent and educated purveyor of very boring music.

Don't listen to Grangur, Alessio! He knows nothing of these things. Those EAPs are terrible. Better take my advice: If you like active soapbars then the ESP LTD basses are amazing value for money they're about 380 new. You should be able to get a used one for about 200. The neck is really smooth and fast and the sound is great.