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Still there's always the Competition to do, you can win an Upright! On a different note, can I be the first to complain about all the Tattoos on view this month? It's like a Hell Angels meeting in there... Still the Fender Black Top Jazz Bass looks interesting although I won't be rushing out to buy the new Bass by well known Queen Bassist Brian May.....

As mentioned elsewhere, Idle Hands are looking for new guitarist. We've just taken on a new singer with a great voice and will be moving more into "soully" material. Some Pub gigs booked and hopefully moving back into the Function scene now. This is what we looked and sounded like prior to all the departures and arrivals.....http://www.myspace.com/idlehandstrio

Was visiting the kids last week in London and the eldest took me along Denmark St on Saturday pm. I was too scared to go into the shops given all the negative things said about some establishments...well actually, we were too busy to stop but they did not look bad from the outside! Caught the Brand New Heavies at Ronnies too, Andrew Levy is still a cool bassist!

Quick update, singer is up for the challenge and wants to bring in new guitarist, so off we go!

[quote name='farmer61' post='1292475' date='Jul 4 2011, 05:35 PM']Just do the gigs you've booked until November, while all of you have time to sort out your next musical moves. Why worry if it was never going to be your problem post Novemeber?[/quote] Cos I'm a Bassist and that's what we do....! Good advice anyway, just need to see if the Singer will invest the time required.....

Just got back from a weekend away to receive an unexpected email from the guitarist saying he wants to quit. This is 6 months after we have taken him on and a week after we jointly auditioned new singers after the last one gave notice she wanted to leave and ultimately left. Guitarist says he will honour exisiting gigs but it's a bit more complicated than that... We have around 8 pub gigs booked until November and the idea was we rehearse up the new singer and then move back into doing Weddings and Corporate gigs, an area we neglected when the last singer gave notice and I did not want to commit us to gigs we could not fulfil. So the Guitarist says he will honour existing gigs but we need to learn at least half a new repetoire with the new singer. Additionally my house is up for sale and I am moving away from the area at the latest by November this year. New Singer is really good and my idea was we rehearsed her and she, the guitarist and drummer ( we still need to get) could bring in a new Bass player when I left. Having organised all the auditions ( and previously all the gigs etc etc) on the one hand I feel I should not waste this effort and keep the band going until I leave, on the other hand I feel quite pissed off that the guitarist has decided now to walk away and equally the Singer may decide it's not worth the effort to bother to learn the new material ( which incidentally is of her musical choice). So do I say f*ck it, fold the band now and cancel the remaining gigs, and feel miserable on the nights when I should have been out gigging or am I just clutching at straws by trying to keep things going, given I'm moving on later this year anyway?

Anyone seen the Ritter Sport..............?

Did you make yours or bought?

Just bought some of this [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110699115062&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...:EOIBSA:GB:1123[/url] earlier in the week to make this. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142653"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142653[/url] Best value on the 'Bay, I got 2 Jazz Bass plates out of it and enough left for a Les Paul too!

If I met you at a Motorway Services, could you leave something in the back of my car? My boot would easily fit a 1900 German flatback no trouble......

Here's a picture of my newly acquired VM Squier Jazz Bass. [attachment=83333:S5000753.JPG] I thought the standard fingerguard looked a bit plain ( 3 ply black/white) so tried to ape the pearl block markers in a new fingerguard which I made myself..... [attachment=83334:S5000754.JPG]

Dealers will offer £3000 to sell it on for £6,000, so what they offered was broadly about right at the time but good he got a whole lot more in the end ( minus auction fees)!

The US population is around 310 million, ours is 60 million. That means their market is a lot bigger as much more musical equipment is sold. There is more competition too so prices are lower, what they sell for $100 costs £100 here. I remember someone in shop telling me 10 years ago that the internet had ruined if for them, as now everyone knows the real price of everything where as beforehand many people just paid full retail price.

You could use a grain filler if the pores on the wood were quite open but unless you go for a contrast colour, as you wipe most of it off anyway you will not see much of it. However as has been previously posted, Jon Shuker does a Satinline Jazz Bass where he wipes in a contrasting dark stain into the wood which accentuates the grain before a final translucent coat. As I'm sure you'd do anyway, try some different things on some offcuts and see how they look.? Don't know if you've searched under the "Build Diaires" Lounge, someone may have asked this question before? PS Bass looks v nice!

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1276045' date='Jun 20 2011, 04:43 PM']That amounts to just about every set at every wedding played by a jazz trio this side of 1970 I've gotta get me a better gig Glad to hear you enjoyed it, though.[/quote] What , no "Moondance"?

Did our first gig as a Jazz Trio on Saturday at a very posh wedding in Northants, providing background music as the guests sipped their Canapes.....! Been a steep learning curve on the Stagg ( even though some of the tunes are not really jazz) but very enjoyable playing with a good jazz Guitarist. We did save "Isn't She Lovely" to the end as the Bride went past us into the Marquee ( we were playing in a "Tent" outside). Here's our set list, lots of songs chosen for their relevance... Tin Tin Deo Bewitched Someday My Prince will Come Here’s that Rainy Day My One and Only Love I’ve got you under my Skin Fly Me to the Moon Gentle Rain Girl from Ipanema Summertime (based on Four on Six) Love For Sale Blue Bossa Let There Be Love Days of Wine and Roses Yesterdays Autumn Leaves My Funny Valentine Blue Monk Isn’t She Lovely? Roxanne All Blues Song for my Father April in Paris Almost like being in Love Autumn in New York

Axesrus are pretty good too

Made in Batley, Yorkshire.......

Bought his VM Squier Jazz some time ago and only just collected it,, he even threw in a gig bag! Top Man!

[quote name='misrule' post='1272970' date='Jun 17 2011, 05:15 PM']I was going to mention this but I thought it might break advertising rules. It costs £1.50 to enter, though. Many of the senior Sun staff are metal fans -- at least four play guitar to a high standard. One runs a three-piece blues band in Hastings, another fronts a punk metal band in Kent. There is even a Sun covers band -- Ten Bananas. Cheers Mark[/quote] Do they open their set with "Here comes the Sun" followed with "House of the Rising Sun" etc etc ?

Can I be the first to complain about BGM. my July edition has just arrived, 13 days early.........!

One of these but a fiver? [url="http://www.tradetang.com/for-sale/Wholesale-cheap-New-Arrival-Precision-Wooden-Color-Jazz-Bass-Guitar/135299-2173300.html"]http://www.tradetang.com/for-sale/Wholesal...99-2173300.html[/url]

Reminds me of when I made my nut on the Shuker Course. I asked him what we were going to use, he reached down to the floor and handed me one of Ruby's bones and said "here you are"! First one I made was too small but the raw material costs pence! +1 for a couple of blobs of superglue, then if it needs to come off again you won't pull off half the neck with it!