Jean-Luc Pickguard

Things don't change. In 1986 when the Hohner B2A "Steinbergers" were first available I went to Denmark St to buy one. One shop had one in the Window, but when I asked to try it I was told that they'd be changing the window display on Monday, so come back then. I said that I wanted to try it and possibly buy it straight away but this didn't help.

I looked in the other shops and found one hanging up, tried it and bought it. I was told the hard cases for them would be available in about a month, so I just took it in the original cardboard box.

On the way down the street I went back into the first shop where the chap had since been joined by a colleague, I took my B2A out of the box held it up and asked Mr lazy "Do you have a case for my new bass?" - knowing that he wouldn't, but enjoying the look on his face.

Well, the list of Dean Stockists is here: [url="http://www.deanguitars.uk.com/retail.htm"]http://www.deanguitars.uk.com/retail.htm[/url], & there's a link on that page to locate any guitar.

A quick googling found one at £359 in Nottingham: [url="http://www.lifeismusic.co.uk/guitar/Dean-DGB-JBB-Jeff-Berlin-Basic-6459.aspx"]http://www.lifeismusic.co.uk/guitar/Dean-D...Basic-6459.aspx[/url](but probably not actually in stock)

It looks like some of the Dean prices have dropped - certainly the pace bass seems to have dropped a lot since I bought one. have you discussed the price issue with the chaps at the bass merchant? I'm sure they'll do their best to give you a good deal - and will change their price if it is incorrect.

This Frontline Distribution or is there another one?

Frontline Distribution Ltd
Hampshire House
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 8PL

Tel: +44 (0) 1256 463344
Fax: +44 (0) 1256 479461

Nothing wrong with the current system. Nothing wrong with feeler posts. Charging for placing for sale items will not help. I agree with the sentiment of Wayne's post, but maybe with less of the "punk" attittude

I use the tascam MP3 guitar trainer with headphones - I bought it as soon as it was available so the bass version wasn't available at the time. I'll probably upgrade to the new recording version as it takes SD cards so I'll be able to keep everything on one big card and it has both guitar & bass fx - the guitar fx on the one I have don't work on bass at all, so I don't use them.

[quote name='lwtait' post='241019' date='Jul 16 2008, 04:15 PM']with an amp... till my dad tells me to turn it down!

he's a member[/quote]
That's not a very nice thing to call your old man

... Oh - you mean he's a basschatter

I think a smaller cab might be more appropriate.

+1 on the hearing protection as well

Just about everytime I play my Fender Stratacoustic I wish I also had an acoustic Precision bass to go with it. A fretless sunburst acoustic precision with an F hole would be perfect, and even more so if it had five strings.

[quote name='Josh' post='262629' date='Aug 14 2008, 07:03 PM']Am I the only one who thinks the head stock design is pretty ugly?[/quote]
Nope - I agree its fugly.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='263148' date='Aug 15 2008, 03:20 PM']Ah, I remember it now, don't know what they were fussing about:



(The following song is a new one - nice groove but rather messy at the moment..)

Alex[/quote]


That venue looks familiar - is it the Hare & Hounds in Brighton? I played there last weekend.

probably needs a tweak of the trussrod. With the bass in the normal playing position tuned as normal. Press the E string at the first & last frets. the distance between the 8th fret and the string should be about the thickness of a couple of business cards. Any less than that and the truss rod needs to be loosened to allow the strings to pull some relief into the neck and any more means it needs to be tightened to counteract the pull of the strings. A little goes a long way. I think setups are fully documented on the wiki (I haven't checked though).

Not my cup of tea at all. It's the polar opposite to what I look for in a bass. I'd sooner have a bongo.

They need a better web site. Who uses table layout these days? and a big picture of text on each page instead of actual body text? I hope their basses are better made. The Google spider probably takes one look at the site and says - "nothing to see here, move along"

My daughter became a teenager today and she already owns three basses - a lilac '71 music master, a princess purple DaisyRock Heartbreaker and a violetburst pearloid-topped DaisyRock Elite. She also thinks she has a half share in my trans purple Peavey millenium 5. I'm a bit worried she'll be the world's most prolific collector of purple basses by the time she's old enough to buy her own instruments. Oh Well.

Anything that looks as fugly as this Bongo Six had better sound fantastic.



Apologies to anyone who does not see it as fugly

My basses are called:
[list]
[*]the mustang
[*]the jazz
[*]the fretless precision
[*]the jamerson (MIJ '62 RI)
[*]The red precison
[*]the peavey (millenium 5)
[*]the blue ashbory
[*]the black ashbory
[*]the doghouse (Stentor 1950 3/4)
[*]the ned (NS-Design CR5M)
[*]the dano (longhorn)
[*]the cricket bat ('86 Hohner B2A)
[*]the blue musicmaster
[*]the pink musicmaster
[/list]
I sold the Dean Pace - that was always called "the banister".

I think I read that Paul used to play high up the neck as he didn't think it sounded as good lower down. Maybe that was due to limitations of the amp he was using though. I haven't played a hofner for a while, but I recall the sound was similar to my danelectro longhorn in a way and I play that on all kinds of things.

That one looks cool in a white finish.

Last nights gig had a PA provided, so we didn't bring ours - we just brought our own mics & stands. When we got there it was nowhere to be seen & we had to ask where it was. A few boxes were brought out with a case of cables there was no beary-man to set up & operate it. I learned that Ashton the company than manage to make the worst ukulules available today also make mixer amps. Oh Dear. As I'm the only member of the band with any kind of beard its naturally assumed I know about these things, so instead of warming up and chilling out I'm getting stressed out about guessing how it all connects up. Eventually found all the bits & bobs - including guitar cables to connect the monitors to the power amp. It sounds fine for the soundcheck - Steely Dan's "Do it again". Then when we start playing I get stressed out for half of the first set fiddling with the PA while playing (but doing most of the fiddling between songs) as the vocals kept cutting out making it sound like Norman Collier is guesting with us. Eventually after swapping lead & BV mics/ swapping the monitor channel with the main channel and turning off the reverb & limiter I eventually realise its the drummers monitor thats somehow causing everything to cut out. So I can only unplug it to remedy the sh*tty sound.

Started actually enjoying the gig when we did Pink Floyd's "Money" The guitarist's new all-valve Laney combo sounded fantastic, but I missed the wah pedal he usually has controlling the fx his Line 6 amp on "Stir it up". We got punters up & dancing to our original songs which is aways nice. When we finished it only felt like we'd only been playing 15mins.

Long drive home with my new [url="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131342"]Sat Nav[/url], so mrs Pickguard was relieved of map-reading duties and we enjoyed having John Cleese directing us home, especially when we reached home and he said "You can get out now, but I'm not helping you carry your bags", perhaps he should have said "I'm not helping you carry your cab".

Luckily my local music shop only has seems to have cheapie beginner basses. I can never get out without buying the kids some new pleckies for their geetars though.

As far as Denmark Street goes, The bass Cellar make you feel as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit, and last time I went there their policy was to have no prices marked on anything.

Vintage & rare usually has some cool stuff. Wunjo have some good stuff and some that look like they came straight out of a US pawnshop and went straight on display - so would probably be OK after a setup/new strings/refret. No real bargains in either though (

Its worth the trip to Camden to check out the gallery. Al & Martin are always welcoming and have great gear - and everything seems to be well set up. Don't worry if the shop looks closed when you get there, just ring the doorbell and you'll be buzzed in.

[url="http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/"]http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/[/url] should have the bits you need, or something very similar. They have a bridge listed as a "Violin bass tune-a-matic, Eko, chrome" @ £10.00 that might do the job.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='258470' date='Aug 8 2008, 08:18 PM']Ok here's some we do:

Do It Again - Steely Dan
Up on Cripple Creek - the Band
Tumbling Dice - Stones
The Weight - the Band
Big Yellow Taxi - joni Mitchell
Heart of Gold -Neil Young
Long Black Veil - the band
Waterloo Sunset - kinks
Money - pink Floyd
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
The Shape I’m In - the Band
We’ve Got To Get Out Of This Place - Animals
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
Six Days on the Road - Taj Mahal
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Under My Thumb -Stones
Stir It Up - Bob Marley
Mr Tambourine Man - Byrds
I Fought the Law - bobby fuller 4
California Dreaming - mamas & paps
Brown Eyed Girl - van the man
Take It Easy - eagles
Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
It’s All Over Now -Stones
Route 66 - Chuck Berry
Guitar Man / Whole Lotta Shakin’ - Elvis[/quote]
Here are some more we've done and may do again:

Big River - Johnny cash
Promised Land - Chuck Berry / Elvis
The Joker - Steve Miller band
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
Key To The Highway - Big Bill broonzy
All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan
Almost Grown - Chuck Berry
Further on up the Road - eric Clapton
Get Out of Denver - Bob Seger
I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan
Knocking On Heaven’s Door - Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Love in Vain - Robert Johnson
Money (That’s What I Want) - Barratt Strong
Move it on Over - Hank williams
Obviously 5 Believers - Bob Dylan
On a Night Like This - Bob dylan
Afterglow - Small faces
Boom Boom - john lee Hooker
Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
Cocaine Blues - johnny Cash
Come Together - Beatles
Crossroads - Cream
Don’t Look Down - Irma thomas
For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
From Small Things Big Things Come - Bruce Springsteen
Get Off My Cloud - Rolling Stones
Hard To Handle - Otis Redding
I am a Man of Constant Sorrow - O Brother Soundtrack
I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better - byrds
Itchycoo park - Small Faces
Killing Floor - Howling Wolf
Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd
Leopardskin Pillbox Hat - Bob dylan
Lets Work Together - Canned heat
New Pony - Bob Dylan
Ohio - neil Young
Positively 4th Street - bob Dylan
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Rocking In The Free World - neil Young
Señor - bob Dylan
Shakin’ All Over - Pirates
She Belongs To Me - bob dylan
Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
Stand by Me - Ben E King
Substitute - who
Taxman - Beatles
Tell Me Momma - bob Dylan
The Dark End of the Street - Clarence Carter
Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Elvis
Wha’cha Gonna Do About It - Small Faces

[quote name='pete.young' post='258693' date='Aug 9 2008, 09:47 AM']Our list is written in html that's too difficult to disentangle, so here's a link.
[url="http://www.crossoverband.co.uk/id1.html"]http://www.crossoverband.co.uk/id1.html[/url][/quote]
Copy & Paste from the page:

1000 miles – Vanessa Carlton
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Fergie
Black Velvet – Allanah Myles
Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
Celebrity Skin – Hole
Denis – Blondie
Distant Sun - Crowded House
DOA - Foo Fighters
Don’t Let Me Get Me- Pink
Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
Every Day Is A Winding Road – Sheryl Crow
Every You Every Me – Placebo
Fall To Pieces – Avril Lavigne
Feeling Good – Muse
First Cut Is The Deepest – Sheryl Crow
Glorious – Natalie Imbruglia
Good Enough – Dodgy
Hanging On The Telephone – Blondie
Have A Nice Day – Bon Jovi
Hedonism – Skunk Anansie
Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Pat Benatar
I Do – Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
I Don’t Wanna Know – The Donnas
I Love Rock And Roll – Joan Jett
I’m Still Standing – Elton John
In The Shadows – The Rasmus
It’s My Life – No Doubt/Talk Talk
Just Like A Pill – Pink
Keep Me Hanging On – Kim Wilde
Leave Me Alone – Pink
Lithium – Nirvana
Love It When You Call – The Feeling
Love Song – Sara Bareilles
Monster – The Automatic
My Favourite Mistake – Sheryl Crow
My Immortal- Evanescence
No Tomorrow - Orson
One – U2
Other Side Of The World – KT Tunstall
Paint It Black – Vanessa Carlton
Piece Of My Heart – Janis Joplin
Ready To Go – Republica
Road Rage – Catatonia
Roam – B-52’s
Sale Of The Century - Sleeper
Saving My Face – KT Tunstall
Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight – REM
Slight Return – Bluetones
Song 2 – Blur
Soulmate – Natasha Bedingfield
Standing In The Way Of Control – The Gossip
Stay – Lisa Loeb
Starlight – Muse
Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones/Soft Cell
Think – Aretha Franklin
Town Called Malice – The Jam
Twisted – Skunk Anansie
Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
Weak – Skunk Anansie
Worried About Ray – The Hoosiers
You Learn – Alanis Morissette
You’re No Good – Linda Ronstadt

We (o5b) are very happy with our last album which was done by [url="http://www.cdsourcing.com/"]cdsourcing[/url].

Ok here's some we do:

Do It Again - Steely Dan
Up on Cripple Creek - the Band
Tumbling Dice - Stones
The Weight - the Band
Big Yellow Taxi - joni Mitchell
Heart of Gold -Neil Young
Long Black Veil - the band
Waterloo Sunset - kinks
Money - pink Floyd
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
The Shape I’m In - the Band
We’ve Got To Get Out Of This Place - Animals
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
Six Days on the Road - Taj Mahal
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Under My Thumb -Stones
Stir It Up - Bob Marley
Mr Tambourine Man - Byrds
I Fought the Law - bobby fuller 4
California Dreaming - mamas & paps
Brown Eyed Girl - van the man
Take It Easy - eagles
Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
It’s All Over Now -Stones
Route 66 - Chuck Berry
Guitar Man / Whole Lotta Shakin’ - Elvis

Reminds me of the time I went up to town to buy a bass & came home with nothing but six new pairs of socks.