Jean-Luc Pickguard

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='452383' date='Apr 2 2009, 01:13 PM']I found an old head of mine in a cupboard ...[/quote] I read that and thought of Worzel Gummage

Just found this clip of the Noisettes with Shingai playing bass on their current single. [url="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/article2334489.ece"]http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...icle2334489.ece[/url] Great to see a proper band doing well in the charts for a change.

[quote name='KevB' post='449605' date='Mar 30 2009, 04:21 PM']A guy that plays regularly at my local jam session often uses a Shine Hofner type violin copy. He said he'd tried a few violin types and that was the best sounding and construction of the lot. Sounded good through his Hartke rig. I would have had a go myself but he's a leftie. Mind you if I could get a deal like this; [url="http://www.incredibid.co.uk/acatalog/Shine_WVEB883_Violin_Bass_.html"]http://www.incredibid.co.uk/acatalog/Shine...olin_Bass_.html[/url] I'd be tempted anyway from the sound quality of the one I heard, don't think he'd modded it in any way.[/quote] like this? A fiver more - looks pretty similar to me. [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_beatbass.htm"]Thomann violin bass[/url]

Didn't know they made them in this shape Naughty Naughty [quote]Sarah5string had a Shine but she is MIA.[/quote] Made in America?

Don't put long scales on - you'd probably get away with it with rounds, but when I put an old set of rotosound flats on a musicmaster the winding broke & came away at the tuner, exposing the core. It looked like it had the potential to twang & take my eye out. I've bought from stringbusters.co.uk & stringsdirect.co.uk Rotosound do a short scale flat set, I have them on a danelectro longhorn & a musicmaster LaBella do some nice deep talkin' flats in short scale with a choice of gauges. I put some on my daughters Musicmaster & 30" daisyrock. My favourites though are Thomastik JF 324. They are 32" so may be too long for some shortie basses, but are perfect for my daughter's daisyrock elite (32" scale) plus mine which is identical and my CIJ Mustang.

I had a Dean Pace 4 string before upgrading to my NS CR5M. The dean didn't have any eq controls apart from trimpots inside the control cavity, so I always used mine with a behringer ADI-21 acoustic preamp which really made it growl. If you get your hands on one of those to try witht he dean, you may like it - I did. Cheap as chips, but sounded fantastic.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='448698' date='Mar 29 2009, 02:36 PM']Cute and attractive members of the audience always want to touch my instrument after the gig [/quote] If thats the main criteria, the only bass guitar its happened with for me was my 1971 daphne blue Fender musicmaster - its so damn pretty. Also have had people (of both genders and not always attractive) after gigs intrigued by my ashborys and wanting to touch the rubbery strings.

£500! I thought it was supposed to be a budget instrument! Any £500 bass will blow a johnson or axl out of the water easily, but would a beginner be able to or want to spend twice as much as a Squier VM-series for an ugly-shaped pukey-coloured bass just because its has Flea's name on it? I think something went badly wrong between concept and execution. It is simply priced out of the reach of its target market. I wouldn't be surprised if a few will be sold to hardcore flea/RHCP fans then the rest of the first batch will hang around until they're sold off at clearance prices then there won't be second batch. I wonder if the free DVD that comes with it is as good as his 'adventures in spontaneous jamming and techniques' one? What a totally pointless waste of £15 that was.

blue pop you say? Tempting... but too far North for me I'm afraid.

[quote name='neilb' post='448016' date='Mar 28 2009, 12:31 PM']I don't think the 20 somethings of today can do [i]ANYTHING[/i] as well as their counterparts 20 yrs ago, whether it be socially, academically or whatever. If I could have a quid for everytime I hear a spotty oik say the word "like" in one sentence, I could avoid the recession altogether. eg. "Well, I was like walking down the road and this like, bloke came up to me and said like "Have you got the time please?" I thought , like, what? Like, Im the sort to wear a watch!"[/quote] Why do they like do that? And then there are those that put a rising inflection at the end of every phrase? So everything they say turns into into a question? It probably used to be just the losers that watched Aussie soaps? But it seems to have spread? Then there are the chavs that don't consider a sentence complete unless it contains a f**k, f**ker or f**king in between every other pair of words.

but all the funk is in the dirt

Jam night from 8.30pm then a set by The Buffalo Bill Blues Band at Mama Ks Friday 27th March 2009 Admission £2 (£1 for unwaged) & cheap bar. Mama Ks is Every Friday at Ruskin House 23 Coombe Road Croydon Surrey CR0 1BD‎ [url="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3a%6ffficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=ruskin+house+croydon&fb=1&split=1&gl=uk&cid=0,0,16225257193667777257&ei=BJbKSeWANoPLjAfpl9DNAw&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image"]Google Map[/url] If you're not gigging on Friday and are close to Croydon, bring your bandmates and bass/guitar/drumsicks and don't forget to say hello to the chap that looks like my avatar.

since you'll be playing with a light touch maybe you'll like Thomastik flatwound strings.

Pluck me! I bought my black one in 1986 & still have it the same case as shown in that listing. Its a nice bass, but wish it was really worth that much.

I wish I hung on to the one I had which I sold for £80. I was chuffed a the time as I only paid £50 for it though.

Cheers Subaudio I've just uploaded some stuff recorded on the H4 at last night's rehearsal with another band I recently joined. As I now have the 8gb card, I recorded it at 96k/24bit and left it running for the whole session. The sound quality came out quite well I think. even if the bass playing is a bit ragged in places. [url="http://www.buffaloblues.co.uk/rehearsal-23-march-2009/"]MP3s of The Buffalo Bill Blues Band[/url] Mostly blues standards, but a few were made up as we went along.

One of the Jonas Brothers seems to like his...

I'm happy with my LMII.

[quote name='ARGH' post='440199' date='Mar 20 2009, 12:18 PM']A big fat shut the f*** up to the antiSheehan collective. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49yndQKoFE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49yndQKoFE...feature=related[/url][/quote] Isn't that David St Hubbins?

[quote name='matt_citizenbass' post='415905' date='Feb 21 2009, 12:12 AM']there must be something else i can take off my bass?[/quote] You see those screws at each corner of the neckplate...

[quote name='Delberthot' post='440863' date='Mar 21 2009, 08:48 AM']Don't have one but always fancied one of the Mandobirds [url="http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=42177p5280605.jpg"][/url] Very folk 'n roll[/quote] and unfortunately these days very Jonas Brothers...

I know some fellow BCers have an H4, so this is a heads-up for those that still have v1 of the firmware on theirs. I recently upgraded the obviously 5 believers mobile recording studio (aka, the wax cylinder) to the latest version, v2.30, of the firmware. It now works with an 8gb SDHC card I got for £10 from amazon. Now with a set of 2700mAh NiMH batteries I can leave the H4 running for over five hours (when the batteries give up) and record everything at 24bit - even longer if running off the PSU. Before the upgrade, the largest cards we had that worked with the H4 were 2GB SD - We'd have to change cards between sets to be sure of not losing anything. Another new feature is a battery capacity/ recording time indicator on the stereo mode recording screen. If you have an H4 with the original v1 firmware, I'd definitely recommend this free upgrade. [url="http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/download/software/h4.php"]http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/download/software/h4.php[/url]

We're opening for Stan Webb's Chicken Shack at the Boom Boom Club (@ Sutton United FC) This evening Friday 20/3/09. Our set will be showcasing songs off our recent CD. Our good friend Bill Smith (ex Deluxe Blues Band & now leading Buffalo Bills Blues Band) will be guesting with us on harmonica. [url="http://www.o5b.co.uk/gigs/"]more here[/url] [url="http://www.boomboomlive.co.uk"]and here[/url]