Jean-Luc Pickguard

Jeebuz - Perhaps the website is meant as a metaphor for the basses - looks OK on the surface, as long as you don't look any deeper than the surface. Welcome screen, table based layout & framed redirect - what is it 1996? Does flea not want people with visual disabilities to visit his website? Does he not care about SEO? trojan dropper - (I'm running noscript, so I didn't see this for myself, so I'll take the others' word for it) This is unforgivable - they should take the site down until it's restored from a clean backup and tested

is the nut glued in? I bought a pack of 'fake ivory' plastic chopsticks and used a microsaw & files to make a nut when I built my fretless precision. There's enough material in the thickest part of each chopstick to make two nuts and I had a big pack for pennies so I had plenty of practice before I made the real one. Once made I put three tiny dabs of superglue on the underside and stuck it in place - the idea being that it will hold but a solid strike from the edge should break the bond cleanly if it does ever need to come out for replacement. Its never popped out in the six or so years since I made it. You cousin does sound a bit daft. If it did make a difference, it probably wouldn't be a lot & you'll look look like a guitarist from an 80s mullet-rock band.

The Pennfab ebay a/c seems to be run by the same peeps as stagebox.com website who don't seem to list any Penn stuff at all which seems a bit strange. I've just found [url="http://www.proaudiostash.co.uk"]http://www.proaudiostash.co.uk[/url], so I can give them a shout as well - they seem to have at least the corners & handles, but only list a few different connector dishes - looks like I need a D023K to take neutrik 'D-series' speakon & jack connectors

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='983662' date='Oct 10 2010, 07:19 PM']I think it's possible to buy direct from Penn - they've got a depot just down the road from me in Washington Tyne and Wear. A mate of mine has definitely bought from them by arranging to pop in after phoning ahead with an order.[/quote] Thanks that's good to know - that sounds like the phone number I've found on the Penn website. Hopefully they're set up for mail-order without P&P costing more than the goods for a small order.

I need some cab hardware of specific size which is only made by Penn Elcom: 8x corners: C1568 2x Handles: H1105 1x Punched Dish Plate: [s]D2101K-NLT4[/s] D023K Any ideas for a UK supplier who does Penn Elcom stuff? I've sent an email to Penn Elcom - there's a UK Phone number which I'll try during office hours, but wondered if anyone know of any UK companies who stock this stuff.

Looks nice, but "this bass is the bomb. Tone is just SO much better than that $10,000 plus pre-CBS Fender...and mojo for days! " makes the seller look a little daft to me.

I'd tell the guitarist to make him a chord chart so he can play his own bass line. Or failing that. they should get a bass player who can actually play. He sounds like a bit of a numpty

I like my BDi21 a lot, but I tend to use the acoustic version the ADi21 more. The eq sounds fantastic with an acoustic bass or electric upright bass & makes my cheapo chinese fender stratacoustic guitar sound a lot more classy on recordings. After trying many different compressors, I finally found exactly what I was looking for in their BLE100 limiter/enhancer - not quite a compressor, but it turns out I needed a limiter all along.

use it for 40 years

Call me a cynical old cnut (please do!) but is is it possible he's doing this by detuning his bass, playing along with the track slowed down and then speeding it up on the video? There just seems to be a bit of Benny Hillness From about 1:40ish on Coffee Shop Of course fair play to him however he did it.

Not me - If I wanted to hear something that sounded like a dustbin full of spoons being rolled down a hill, I'd roll a dustbin full of spoons down a hill.

Don't know why, but this thread reminded me of this

[quote name='pietruszka' post='977363' date='Oct 4 2010, 04:54 PM']Really? I didnt know, Ive seen pics of him playing double bass and he's standing. Oh well, shows what I know!! Dan[/quote] Um... The story was that he couldn't stand or sit for that particular session due to the amount of alcohol/substances consumed prior to being called in. He didn't have a problem standing otherwise

Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike contest: [url="http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/chaplin2.asp"]http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/chaplin2.asp[/url]

I love his effortless way of playing - he's hardly moving at all on that video

Aren't those picture frames things for people who can't play to display an instrument which cost a lot of money and is for looking at not playing?

Brandoni probably might a neck to fit [url="http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/necks.asp"]http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/necks.asp[/url] give 'em a shout

O5B once did a gig where we did the first set as a three piece. The singer did the usual 'introduce the members of the band' bit & introduced me & the drummer, then ten indicating the empty space normally occupied by the second guitarist said "The other member of the band would have been the Late Nick Guitarist" then a pause followed by "He's not dead, just running a bit late late"

Willie Weeks played bass on 'its only Rock n Roll' - kind of obvious it isn't Bill as that song has a proper bassline rather than a typical Wyman rumbly mumble.

Not sure where I heard this, but I recall hearing a tip to use a soldering iron to heatup each fret & it should come out cleaner - or is this BS anyone?

Most double bass pickups are based on piezos as well as the pickup in my ashborys. Also of course acoustic bass guitars and things like godin & rob allen basses which look acoustic, but are more like solid bodies. I made a cheap & cheerful banjo pickup for Pete, o5b's guitarist using a lid from a colman's mustard jar, a cheapo piezo disk element from Maplins, double sided car-trim tape, a chunk of mousemat, a few inches of mic cable and an inline 1/4" jack. It also Sounded Pretty good mounted on my precision when I tried it out at home. Here a live recording of it on it's first tryout - click the MP3 thingy: [url="http://www.o5b.co.uk/petes-banjo/"]http://www.o5b.co.uk/petes-banjo/[/url] I was pretty chuffed that it sounded OK and didn't feedback - I don't think we even used a preamp - it went straight into the guitar amp if I recall correctly.

Its been so long since I've bought anything bass-related, that I have no idea what it would have been.

I came out after playing a multi-band charity gig at the Grove in South Wimbledon on a Sunday evening to find my car had been broken into. A bass rig for all bands to use was setup onstage before I got there and no storage area in the venue meant I had to reluctantly leave my Ashdown rig in the car. I originally though I'd lost my rig but it was still in the car. There are still scratch marks around the CD player though where the daft b'stards tried to nick it - why anyone would want that old piece of junk is beyond me but they didn't get it as its bolted in from the back. Blummin' nuisance to get the glass cleaned up & replaced.