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Welcome Iain! Yup: nice intro, nice gear, nice obligatory cat-in-avatar... BC stamp of approval applied. Enjoy! Bert

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1402590907' post='2475126'] Those Tyler headstocks are pretty abominable. The Bongo headstock & the G&L ones with the stupidly impractical pointy/wavy bit would be on my list too. [/quote] +1, especially the 6-string Bongo. Still want one though. [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/MMBongo6headstock_zps6fed6d1a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1170.photobucket.com/albums/r525/basstractor1/MMBongo6headstock_zps6fed6d1a.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Unless you need the extra knobs of the 112, the 208 seems like the necessary choice as long as its the only one they make with the speaker ourput. Sfar as I remember, all the other ones come with the many knobs amp, and only the 208 comes with the trimmed down version, but I may remember incorrectly.

That sounds like a good outcome. Congrats for now!

[quote name='Fozza' timestamp='1402498977' post='2474163'] All the children cry, "Mummy, why did the tone pot die?" [/quote] Great track! I love Todd Rundgren.

Nice stuff. How did you find out, Hiram? Just remembered it? I liked this recurring drummer on the bass drum. What a lovely idea! So what one needs live is some sensors on the drummer, some electronics and a projector. I'd do that! [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/TheHeavy-HowYouLikeMeNow-232_zpse2d54b56.jpg.html"][/url]

The way I read it is that they take that $180 fee on top of the federal fees, and I hope I'm wrong but they also do not say that that includes the federal fee. Maybe best to make sure before reaching a decision.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1402476210' post='2473822'] @ Betafunk - Why has this thread had much more interest than one about Jaco's new video? Well, from my perspective, although I own and occasionally enjoy Weather Report/Jaco music, I have limited interest in exploring bootlegs/previously unrealeased material. However, I've found this thread interesting as it raises some issues around forum etiquette/psychology. It highlights the variety of what people are thinking when they post, and I've found it a useful avenue of getting to know others in this community that bit more. I know enough about Basschat that some members won't give a sh*t about that, but that knowledge in itself is useful for knowing who to engage with on certain topic, and how to go about it. [/quote] + <high number> This is what I could not express, expressed a lot better than I could've expressed it if I could've expressed it. BTW, I do not understand the meaning of BetaFunk's last sentence, but hope it just means he's staying away from this topic, and not staying away from BC. This is the second time I have to say this in few hours, but to me it seems BetaFunk is an asset to BC, and I hope he stays.

Rich, you have just cost me fifty quid. Thanks for that very helpful post. Twas what I needed to read.

That sounds very sad to me (but realise I do not totally understand your text and its implications), and I hope you're not doing this in a sudden attack of depression or something like it. I hope you're doing OK. If you do persist in this choice, I just hope that you made the right decision for you, and also that you will be OK in the time ahead. Yes, please do indeed stay here with us! It's more cozy that way! I think you're an asset to BC. Whatever happens: All the best! bert

[quote name='planer' timestamp='1402420224' post='2473327'] that *points upwards* is a corker. [/quote] Would you please explain what that means? Merriam-Webster didn't help me, and the Urban Dictionary indicates wildly varying meanings.

[quote name='hairychris' timestamp='1402418035' post='2473299'] Unmodded Muff? Is this some sort of swear word/entity? [/quote] Hehehe. No, not really. Twas just an attempt at a joke containing a cry-out for the mods due to the "muff" word (which means "vagina", right?), and in the next line it appears the crying was not about the vagina after all, but about some rather non-important technical details. You probably know this a lot better than I do, but just in case: the original Big Muff has been modded for four decades or so, and a plethora of different fuzzes exist that are basically variants over the original Big Muff. I get the impression there are hundreds by now. As to the Rickenbacker rumpus, in essence it's just about BC not being able to accept responsibility for sales ads for Ricks as these ads might instead contain unlawful imitations of some sort or another. So BC is not a Rick free zone, even if BC has worded it that way, and one is free to discuss and show both Ricks, Rick copies, Rick imitations, Rick covers and Rick tributes. Hope this helps. BC is basically a friendly, tolerant place. Have fun! Bert

Sfar as I've understood up to now, they're used for many different things: - lyrics - notes or tabs - virtual amps with - effects processing - looping etc. - playing pre-recorded stuff - as synths - with the screen as input device rather than a keyboard or other MIDI controller and probably a lot more.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1402406957' post='2473106'] Fixed [/quote] Demn you! That was MY line!

MODS! He said "muff"! ...without adding "Russian" or "modded" or "Sovtek" or "Myrtle" or .... !!! Welcome, Chris! Nice introduction too. As I like Melvins and Nile, it's your fault I have to check out the other ones you mention - stuff I've never even heard about. Anyway, enjoy the banter! Bert

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1402395965' post='2472929'] Well it was good enough for James Joyce: [/quote] Good one! [quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1402397154' post='2472950'] lets meet outside the bike sheds at 4pm. [/quote] Which one: the Kawa shed or the HD shed? Unkind regards, Arthur Twosheds

Congrats! Do I owe you flowers now, or a fruit basket or sumtin?

..... I'd be afraid to take it into my house - in case of damage That's stunning! You MUST tell us all about how it plays 'n' stuff. I command you.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1402349420' post='2472600'] I'd rather listen to the isolated bas track from it for an entire day on repeat than listen to another 1:33 with the rest of the band! [/quote] Yeah, I know. It is really quite insufferable even with that bass, isn't it? I was being too nouveau-British for a moment. Those slow movements with simple musical themes divided in two: duh duh duuuuh, duh duh duh duuuuh... BTW, you promised to commit seppuku (harakiri)! You promised!

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1402309721' post='2471862'] [/quote] That's a classic. My daughter recently taught me: "Notice that XKCD [b]always[/b] is relevant...". I wouldn't know, but I tend to believe her. [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1402323493' post='2472124'] who knows what they are talking about and who has just nicked it from an earlier thread or forum and is just repeating it to belong in some sort of clique or sound like some sort of 'authority' [/quote] Sounds like too much of a simplification to me, and on the verge of false dichotomy. People can have so many reasons for repeating stuff that others have said earlier. It's often part of learning and of internalising new knowledge. E.g. when all of the cab specialists agree on certain aspects of cab building, it's not strange that people believe it, and start spreading the good word. Also, in my few years on here, I've several times read that people state they repeat what others have said before just so as to make sure that the same people won't have to answer the same questions over and over again. In that case it's part of a forum awareness and willingness to contribute what little one can. Laudable in my book.

Have had very good experiences with GAK, Dolphin, Andertons and Gear4Music, and a very special mention for MusicMatter in Preston, Lancs - a firm I never see mentioned here (they have no basses at all, mind), but who have been great to deal with for me - very personal and serviceminded. Same with Thomann. Exactly how things should be. (BTW, they were like that in the sixties as well, when my parents took me there. A pleasure to deal with.) No experience with Guitarstoreonline. Edit to say that sadly, none of the shops local to me have had the same level of quality and service.

HowieBass and others nailed it, I think. This bass part is the very essence of the whole song, IMNTHO, and without it, the song would be insufferable.

Gear4Music have taken good care of me several times, and I'm totally and pleasantly surprised of what I had expected to be a simple box shifter. For example, I once got an e-mail asking whether I'd noticed that there was a rift in the Tolex of a cab I'd ordered, and whether I wanted pix of it to evaluate better. Also received quick and good answers to my questions.

One aspect I never see mentioned, but which I believe is important, is that of speed. Writing takes a lot more time than reading, and a hasty reading of text that was produced at a totally different pace, may convey quite different "emotional" content than what was felt by the one who wrote it. Someone trying to remain factual and precise probably will "suffer" from this effect to even larger degree, and may easily be interpreted as being snotty, whilst maybe being very lighthearted and friendly when writing. Then there's the classic bit of people automatically assuming that the person on the other end resembles themselves to quite some degree - thus totally disregarding likely differences in culture, age, education, background etc., and too easily concluding from that shared "likeness" that the other one then MUST be an arsehole if they write something very "wrong". On YouTube, I saw som flogging that went on and on before somebody finally said something along the lines of "You guys know nothing about her. Maybe she's is a 12 year old girl from a third world country, who has just gained access to the web". (Yes, I do stay away from YT comments normally.)