yorks5stringer

IBTL!

Looks like they got rumbled...

I had a 5 string Squier version that was active and long scale but still sounded like a P. The Jazz side not as much, as you effectively get half a Jazz pickup and the bridge one too. Great for the Jaco sound however...

Not sure if he's still doing the Bass duties, bit if so he must have his hands full with 3 drummers in the band!

I would have thought it would be useful to have stones on a desert island, otherwise there is just sand and trees...

Didn't there used to be a Beware of Scammers Thread somewhere and people used to list the email addresses of miscreants? There seem to be a few people who watch the 'Wanted Threads' and then say they have the item the poster is after, but it usually obvious by the style of reply that they are chancers.

In the USA they call them 'Hill-Billy cases'

Just checking, if you went into a jewish or muslim Bakers and asked for a Pork Pie Hat, would you be refused?

Good to know, having removed the scratchplate at least 5 times already I'm going to leave it as my wrists are starting to complain!

Theatre Gig tonight in Street backing a local singer- keyboard player. It was a Christian event and had the use of an Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 and Barefaced 2x12 cab which sounded nice on its own and great through the house PA. Slightly incongruous set: Smooth Operator, Watermelon Man, I'm Coming Home Baby and Let's Twist Again! This may be contentious but after hearing the worship band (who were very good) I think William Booth was right however.......!

Had my monthly 'LIve at the Wharf' gig last night. House Band did 7 numbers, then a Ceilidh Band (Banned from the Moor) came on and did 6 , followed by a Jazz Singer Pianist (Kylie Borg) who did one song solo then the rest with the house band. House Band did Blue Chicken a 12 bar, Sweet Pea by Amos Lee, Billie Jean (Civil Wars version),Teach me Tonight by Phoebe Snow, Yeh Yeh -Georgie Fame, Don't think Twice (it's alright Hailey Tuck version), Jolene by Ray Lamontagne, Nightingale-Norah Jones. and a big finale with both bands, This Train in bound for Glory-Old Crow Medicine Show et al. I love the variety of the material, we have 2 quick rehearsals, a soundcheck and then live. Oh and a well-known 'Dragon' was in the audience too!

Life is never perfect, there's always a new Amp or Bass that is tantalisingly out of reach...

Move the handle?

Ditto apologies if I've caused offence😟

You didn't finish the sentence.. are you going to leave me hanging?

Crimson Guitars?

Wonder what's the best wood to hang yourself from?

Something weird going on: a B stock Cub 100 is £505 and a new one is £398!

I've shielded the whole reverse scratchplate with copper slug tape (from the £1.00 shop) and that's sorted the static issue, I can live with not touching the poles.

Not sure I am metrosexual enough to go into Boots and choose a bottle of clear nail varnish! Good to hear it is a known issue however.

Are you suggesting I'm dead? I'm not a Norwegian Blue....

Just got a s/h but virtually new Player P Bass. It came with a non-standard pearloid scratch plate and I swapped it out with a black one I had lying around. Since then I've noticed ( and it might have been there before the swap) that when I touch the pole pieces on the bridge side pickups that there is a buzz and also if I rub my finger on the scratchplate (near where the pickup wires go) I hear a crackle. The area under the pots on the scratch plate has foil although the one I replaced did not. The OEM pickups were replaced with Fender CS ones by the previous owner, the internal bass cavity is graphite paint shielded and the pickups have brass plates underneath. There is also an earth wire to the pots from the shielded cavity and the bridge earth wire is intact. I've re-soldered a couple of the joints but all seems OK (although I have not checked all the wires go the right place!) However both pickups work and the volumes and tone do as expected. The earth wires all seem to be connected too. Any ideas please , am I missing something obvious?

Obvs really , 'it's a Tone Machine'. Beats his knackered old speaker with a split in the diaphram

Tamworth depot to Bristol depot, then the leaf-strewn lanes of Somerset, so I guess not?

Sorry, but could not resist.....