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Happens to us all, with me its getting worse as I get older.The ratio between gigs where I feel great afterwards and the ones where I feel like packing it in isnt shifting though funnily enough. Definitely not as brash and cant do things how I could even ten years ago. Lately, mid gig i forget bits and runs in numbers that I have been gigging regularly for years. Best to try and not worry about it and press on.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1371574821' post='2115760'] Some brands pay [b]BIG[/b] money to get product placement. Just look at the Bond movies. Bond now drinks Heineken beer and wears Omega watches as a direct result of deals made with the producers. [/quote] Yeah, I realise that. What I was suggesting was a way to make a point and maybe even nudge Fender, and perhaps others into paying, or at least supplying instruments, where at the moment they are apparently refusing that would be more effective than covering logos. Not much point in covering the logo if everybody in the world will know its a Fender Bass anyway, is there ?

Masking the logo on a Precision seems to be a bit pointless really. Its so easily recognised, and Precisions are a sort of industry standard. So I cant see Fender giving a flying f*** really. Just drives home the point that, long term, Fender, unlike most boutique brands, are a bigger name than the artistes who play them. Surely tfor a biggish name bassplayer to be seen playing a Precision copy would be much mre effective c/w logo, and say, a Westfield , or well known copy brand T shirt would hit Fender harder. That way kids, who will choose what their heroes play at first, maybe wouldnt be so quick to aspire to owning Fenders. I'm not suggesting Westfields in particular, nor that they are as good bty ( although once set up nicely, some of em are much better than you would expect for the price)

1, Bass lines on my older brothers records, especially Platters records (yeah I know, they just caught my ear) 2, McCartney ab it, but more so Entwhistle 3, In my first job I worked directly above a west indians cafe in Brum, All day Prince Buster coming up through the floor from their jukebox.

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1371413810' post='2113670'] Yup - i'm with you on this one. I suspect the majority of people pick out the melody, or the drum beat, but it's only us [i][b]slightly weird people who pick out the baseline...[/b][/i] [/quote] This. When I was a little kid here was always music around the house,but I can remember the bass lines always stood out to me. I even tried to make a tea chest bass like I'd seen the skiffle bands I saw on TV used..

[i]'Write a bass hook that makes 5000 teen age girls scream in ecstasy'[/i] According to a previous thread, you just need to keep playing F#

Dunno anythig about soundproofing, but whatever you do, dont fit dimmer switches when you put thelighting in. They cause all sorts of buzzes and hums.

Way way back in time around 1993 , one of the larger shops in Brum ( Jones & Crossland iirc) had a Fender Jazz for sale that had a loaded strat scrachplate / pickups fitted. I played it and it sounded OK., at least in the shop. and I was almost tempted. So the answer is yes, it works sometimes anyway. Cant help but wonder about how it got to be that way, who would do such a thing ?

Done with it. Mykes next.

Dab it with a used tea bag till you get the colour you want.

Heard "Flying doctor to Walaboola base" a few times. Myself I try and be proffessional about it, and just sing Some enchanted evening, loud and vey badly.

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1369216175' post='2086313'] "Chance of rain" in this country means, yip, its gonna! [/quote] In my life I played outside probably a dozen times in all, and I cant remember one where it didnt rain at some point.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1369179493' post='2086091'] As long as it beats any reserve. Seems that people also bid because they are stupid, because I've seen bids on items that have a buy it now the same as opening bid. [/quote] Doesnt the buy it now have to be at least 40% more than the start price ? There is a point in making low bids, a guy near me won a mint Carlsbro Bass Combo for 99p, nobody else had bid on. Ok its not worth a fortune, but still cheap, I sold a tatty similar one for £150 a few months before. I'm sure people do it and hope to 'steal' the item so they can re list it later.

Apart from the cheapo smaller spline shafted pots on MIM, I havent noticed any difference in component quality tbh. I tried at least a dozen new USA ones. before I bought the current one, and they did vary quite a bit. At least enough for me, with my heavy handed lack of technique, to notice.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1369169548' post='2085867'] That is doing it properly from the end that I am interested in... Isn't upto me to design their stage area or build it... just that we would tell them what we needed and if it made sense we'd do the date. They could have a stage plan with a technical rider. Anymore than that, I'd only be willing to advise from the bands POV... I wouldn't be doing the risk assessment, comply with lisensing officials or speccing the power required... They could have the name of a few companies that do the lights and P.A..and a few that build floor stages and a few scaffold teams and generator suppliers How much more would I want to be involved..?? [/quote] I'd mention all of that next time we play in a field on a covered lorry trailer in a bit of drizzle, at a gig organised by the local parks department./council/pub landlord/rugby club or whatever. Far as I'm concerned, if the stage isnt flooded, and rain aint actually blowing in my face, and me feet are dry, I'm happy.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1369164159' post='2085745'] You agree in advance that the stage must be weather-proof and there is a contingency venue if not.. You get the fee paid in advance and you turn up and evaluate the stage and the weather. You do it this way as in this country the weather is too often a factor. No one wants an event rained off but they don't want a law-suit or worse either.. We take a deposit for outside venues after we booked out dates for two of them to fold at the last minute... I agreed with the organisers pulling the plug before we did... [/quote] Not arguin that. I meant how do yo DO IT properly. Not how do you not do it at all.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1369146099' post='2085414'] As I understand it an RCD measures the difference between the current in the live and the current in the neutral. Any difference greater than an amount (generally 30mA) will cause it to trip. That difference might be current going through you to ground. It doesn't measure the current going to ground directly. What an RCD won't protect you against is if you connect yourself between live and neutral (with no leakage to earth) cause you'll just look like a small extra load. [/quote] This.

I have a 92 MIM Precision, bought new in 1993 been trouble free except for the volume pot which I replaced last year, and even that may have been damaged rather than faulty. Anybody know if theres any truth in the theory that earlier MIMs were USA ones as the Mexico factory were not up and running at full tilt early on ? I was told something to that effect at the time. I also have a 2012 Precision, identical colour, which I have had to send back as the paint started flaking off after 5 months. Yet to see whether Fender sort it satisfactorily. MIM one definitely sounds better to me, but that might be the orrible mudbucket tone control they fit now, which I will try changeing to the old cct when I get round to it.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1369121243' post='2084944'] Do it properly or not at all.. [/quote] Describe how to do it properly. You turn up, punters are standing in the rain waiting... Then what ?

Did one last summer where the truck that was going to be the stage got stuck so the organisers put up about 6 cheapo gazeebos. Had to make sure I stood directly under one cos all the joins leaked and rain was pissin in. But the punters were still dancing in the rain and the mud. Sometimes you just have to get on with it. Wipe yer bass with a towel afterwards and put it somwhere dry when you get home. Be British about it, stop worrying and enjoy it. Wheres your Dunkirk spirit .?..

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1368965114' post='2083419'] It's a fair point and I've heard it said before [b]but[/b] isn't that the same of any time period / genre? [/quote] Yes, course it is. The point I was trying to make is that then, as now, 99% of music isnt what you'd call great. Now and then theres a classic, album/track/single which will be remembered, and in 30 years such classics are what will be remembered. But even the drivel will influence others, so itsn necessary and it has its place , doesnt it ? Theres also an age factor, what an 18 year old listens to, mightbe a classic track defining the era to him, but might not be the same to a 40 year old who has gone through the angst and whatever that the youth is going through.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1368964043' post='2083405'] I would have liked to have been a teenager in the early 70s and seen all the great bands - Bolan, Bowie, Roxy, Sweet, Slade etc. Then I would have also got the benefit of being around to have seen bands like the Pistols, Clash, Jam, Stranglers etc when punk came out. [/quote] Hindsight is a wonderfull thing. I was there, it wasnt so great. As well as the bands your thinking of there was just so much drivel. it was the time of The Osmonds and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. as well. Just have a look at the charts from the time, or listen to Tony Blackburn on saturday afternoons. I did get to see some great bands for noraloramoney though.Like The Who for £2.45, and countless bands just before they made it at clubs in Brum.. Mself, I'd have liked to be playing Bass in the early 60s, which is when I first started to take notice. There were loads of gigs to be had back then and the better musos from that time became the class acts of the 70s [attachment=135074:charlton-poster76.jpg]

Tried changing the string with new ? Have you adjusted the pickup height ? just a thought, but are the foam pads in place, doing their job, or have they gone flat and hard ? Probably prove it by loosening the screws a bit and pushing the pups down to see if they spring back

Just taken my 2012 MIA Precision back to the shop as the finish is flaking off near the neck joint. The shop are returning it to Fender to get it sorted. So far so good, What concerns me though, is this a common problem, and if they re finish is the problem likely come back on a different part of the body in 6 months time ? If it was older tbh, I wouldnt be all that bothered. I bought it to play it not admire it but havent really taken to it, so might want to sell before long, and it would affect the value.

Not being fnny mate, but if he needs ideas of the general sort, such as would be passed on in that manner from this type of forum. Your best bet is to get it back and see if you can find somebody who does know what he's doing and who is prepared to get involved now its been got at. "skilled with internal wiring and circuit boards" just aint enough.