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[quote name='TRBboy' timestamp='1330086599' post='1552445'] You wouldn't go and buy a brand new car from the showroom with rust, scratches and dents! [/quote] Actually, I might if the price was right, you should see the state of my 3 year old ex repmobile Vectra. Wouldnt pay MORE for somebody to do it though. I have a P bitsa that the previous owner has tried to relic the body with sandpaper etc, and it just dont look right. But I play it, not look at it so I'm not really that bothered.

Not far short of ten grand..with a fag burn on the headstock, Much as I love Normans playing, its obviously not from a smoke free home so I think I'll have to pass.

Better to use the continuity check I reckon (diode check with some meters) or try an analogue meter, even a battery and bulb would do. Not often you get a 0.00 reading on low ohms, theres always a little resistance in practice. Looking at your O.P it pops buzzes and crackles when you touch earthed parts. So i get the impression that either the 'earthed' parts are not earthed, or your not, and theres a potential difference, which is why I suggested check your mains earthing. Can you measure anything, Volts or ohms - try both - between your radiator and the amp metalwork ? it can get cofusing with a high OPV digital multimeter though, this is wnere analogue wins out, Are you sure theres nothing else electrical in the house running ? TV on standby ? anything with a power supply on, like a laptop charger, try it in another house if you can, not next door though. lights with dimmer switches cause some funny buzzes and crackles,

[quote name='Jungle VIP' timestamp='1329926839' post='1549890'] Oh dear... I just tried the static theory by earthing myself on the radiator whilst touching the bridge, control plate and strings... It's SIGNIFICANTLY reduced. Nothing from anywhere but the bridge which has a small pop... I am Static Man! Wow. Thanks for you help guys and congrats to Bod2 for getting it. Now just to figure out how I can earth myself! [/quote] Well at least you know now that the strings are not live cos of a really serious earth problem with your mains wiring. Otherwise you could well be dead now. Seriously...NEVER NEVER NEVER earth yourself with one hand while touching something faulty with the other. One possibility that struck me was that your mains isnt earthed very well, and something else in the house is faulty. That way the sockets earth could well have been live, through a high resistance path, but still live..

Hope its not too daft a question, but is this just in one building ? If it is, very dodgy mains earthing might be something to do with it.

Gonna be a while before I use mine. I'd just fitted Warwick Reds Nickels to my two favourite Basses, and they seem to be lasting well, Not many gigs coming up till late March either.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1329827710' post='1547938'] 'Wrist Slashing'... is that a genre? [/quote] Yeah, Have you never heard The Smiths ??

I dont play in a straight covers band anymore. But back when I used to, yep, I hated em all usually, and found it hard to hide. I found people who expected me to smile especially irritating. The odd punch up or drunk nutter at least made it interesting, and theyre the ones I remember best. I wouldnt go so far as to say I wouldnt do it again ( probably too old now ) or that I didnt ever enjoy it. But I would only do it if the money was very good, which tbh in my case at least, it never really was after the usual overheads.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1329672186' post='1545636'] How many knobs have you got? [/quote] I used to have two, but one came off in my hand.. Errr been here before I think.

Cant you solder the wires to the tags ?

You couldnt play it standing up, nor could you play it sitting down cos of the knobs. Best thing to do with the thing is use it to beat the asshole who made it over the head.

Orrible. Best offer ? ........Might offer him a fiver. lol

Heating them up is only conclusive if it makes the noise worse, or less often makes it go away. I'd still be inclined to swap the chips if theyre generic numbers and not surface mount anyway.

Not everyones bag I know, but there was some really great Rock n Roll around in the mid - late 70s Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, Ian Dury, the Feelgoods, Kursall Flyers etc. plus what I thin of as the Rockpile stuff. Like Kirsty McColl, etc that had the same basic lineup of Billy Bremner / Nick Lowe etc driving it. All on TOTP at the time. Although they were already around, if the Punky style of 3 minute singles hadn’t caught on, a lot of these bands would never have got the airplay.

[quote name='hairyhaw' timestamp='1329421934' post='1542353'] Really? [url="http://themusicalbox.net/"]http://themusicalbox.net/[/url] They seem to be doing alright. And a quick cursory look on youtube shows that plenty prog still getting played by other people. I'm glad punk came along, otherwise there'd be no Joy Division or Slaughter & The Dogs and it sharpened a lot of senses in the prog community. Keep praising punk for its own sake. But stop talking kak and talking pot-shots about music you know hee haw about. [/quote] Takes all sorts I s'pose.

[quote name='bengreen49' timestamp='1329402193' post='1541905'] I live along the road from Fish out of Marrilion. Anyone for tenuous? [/quote] Tenous - [i]Tenous.[/i] Spencer Davis was my wifes teacher in primary school, probably..... [i]Thats[/i] tenuous.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1329404195' post='1541954'] frequent references to Top of the Pops to illustrate how bad music was. People seem to forget Led Zeppelin were still kicking ass, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were around, and Motorhead were getting started. Not to mention all the stateside funk involving Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins. [/quote] To be honest, to my mind, the singles from the early 70s have, on the whole outlasted the album tracks which os surprising when you cosider that singles bands like Slade and the Faces were looked down on by the groovy people, myself included, who only bought albums back then. I still have the albums, but cant really get into them, theyre just so dated. There are of course the odd album tracks that still sound good. As evidenced by what covers bands are still playing 30, or sometimes 40 years on. None of em are by Genesis, or Yes, or the Van Fer Graff boring ol fart generators though.

School I went to was approved, Nobody famous went there afaik except Eddie Golga out of Blackfoot Sue, and i only vaguely remember him.

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1329390620' post='1541610'] There is a place for all music [i][b](except R&B of course)[/b][/i] [/quote] Thats just a label, a lot of it was R&B really..or was Dr Feelgood - for example - not punky enough for you then ??

[quote name='bassmachine2112' timestamp='1329381698' post='1541402'] [b][i] it seemed you had to be some gifted musician who had insights into the middle earth and knew elfs and goblins personally.[/i][/b] [/quote]

Mine arrived today, thanks Jason. I was getting worried, My cousin got his last week - It was him who contacted Jason and told him about the thread by the way, bit of a forum lurker on the quiet. .

I'm convinced that Punk made a huge difference to the way things have turned out, At the time it certainly got me, and thousands of others like me away from trying to be a serious musician and put the fun back into it. And woke up a lot of the boring old fart musos who were getting too far up their own arses at the same time Wasnt really all that new though I dont reckon, in the early 60s bands like the Stones and tha Yardbirds stopped dressing in identical suits and grew their hair. That shocked the older folks. but it dragged on and the same once outrageous people went off the 3 chords for 3 minutes formula and started making 'concept albums' some called emselves the Cream and played 20 minute solos, things like that. Just think how music could have ended without the new wave bands of the mid 70s. .

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1329240994' post='1539452'] A quick glance at the charts from the first half of the 1970s should be more than enough to convince all but the most cloth-eared that punk was completely and utterly [u][i][b]essential[/b][/i][/u]. [/quote] Speaking as somebody who was there at the time - This post says it all. Absolutely on the money. Rock and Roll had lost its way, not just the singles charts, but programs like the ogwt, John Peel and such were playing, and talking utter drivel,...man

I bought a Squier Jazz a few of years ago as a present for someone. I was surprised at how nicely it plays and how well set up it was, Really Really great for the price. I used it myself in a rehearsal last month. It just dont cut through in a loud band situation like a Fender. Just pickups I expect, but if cheapo guitars like Westfield can fit [i]useable[/i] pickups to a £100 Bass, I dont see why fender cant do the same with Squiers. An extra few yards of copper wire is probably all it would need after all.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1329207282' post='1538615'] Followed by a warning light and siren coming on? [/quote] You do stuff like this.. Always wanted to play this, cant understand why more covers bands dont do it, could even become the new Alright Now. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgrYf7VWASE[/media]