SICbass

Sexyyyyy!????? can I go and play now? ????

[quote name='El_JimBob' timestamp='1510221807' post='3404680'] Perhaps for elegance and aesthetics' sake, something like [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhlWTD1htQ"]THIS[/url] from Haeussel... [/quote] That‘s very impressive on a fretless. Close to Jaco‘s and Pino‘s sounds in one instrument.

„But as SICbass says, it's a pretty straightforward job, if you can use a soldering iron....“ In the interests of fairness, it was nilebodgers said that, not me 😊. By the way, I‘m still fantasising about your cv precision which I see is back up on sale. If you were in Berlin like this pro-tone is I‘d have given in by now.

Thanks very much for the rapid response.

I‘ve got a fair offer to buy one of these. The tone pot looks like it may be damaged (it turns unendlessly). Anyone here know what spec the pot is and what it may cost to replace? To be more specific, it‘s a squier pro-tone V, p/j set up.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1509992174' post='3403108'] As amusing as that would be, the ensemble is mostly kids. And the show is in December. Ahem. [/quote] A festive tube-sock perhaps? ...coat.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1509842125' post='3402079'] ....the best bit is that both my kids play in that ensemble too. I have the chance to massively embarrass them... [/quote] So it looks like Christmas came early for YOU this year then, eh? 😘

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1509551295' post='3399846'] Stanley clarke does it on schooldays. [/quote] He had a Bigsby tremolo bridge and did the bending the strings at the tuning-post thing described above.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1509536612' post='3399663'] The year was 1963. Jet Harris had left the Shadows and I'd just seen Little Richard and a few other artists at a show in Slough. I decided that I wanted to play a bass so I set about building myself one because real basses were just far too expensive, about 8 times the average weekly wage and I was still a poor schoolboy. My first bass was made out of one piece of plywood with no form of truss rod - I had no idea about such things as a 16 year old. The frets were inverted pieces of model railway track and the spacing was calculated using logarithmic tables. I needed a pick-up and remembered that during WW2 when my father was in the anti-aircraft artillery, one of his spoils was a German flying helmet. I'd used this as a headphone however needs must so I removed the ear-pieces and used them as the pick-ups. I saved up to to buy some tuners, a bridge and strings from a local music shop put it all together and amazingly it worked although the neck was like a banana and the action appalling. The second bass was made from a 1-inch thick piece of Pirana Pine and used most of the components from the original. I bought a cheap pick-up for this one. I had no amplifier so I got inside the family radiogram and soldered a screened cable to the volume pot. It worked but wasn't loud enough so I had to use my tape recorder to boost the signal. All very Heath Robinson but it worked and it meant that I could play along with records. Having played the trombone at school I had some understanding of music fundamentals however there were no tutors or internet back in 1963 so I bought just about the only tutorial book available and set out to learn some scales. Eventually I persuaded my mother to lend me £45 to buy a Framus Star bass, saved up and bought a Linear 30 amplifier and got a cabinet maker to build me a copy of a Marshall 4x12 which was fitted with Bakers Group 25 speakers from shop in Croydon. This rig served me well for several years. [/quote] That is absolutely briliant. For a moment there, I thought it was going to be one of skankdelvar's (a most excellent BCer) imaginative pieces of work á la Monty Python's "Luxury - t't kids uv tuday" etc. and then it turns out the whole thing is real. Or it least I hope it is and I'm not just a gullible prat, because it makes super reading. My beginnings in the late 70s were pretty humble, but pure luxury compared to that. Congratulations for all your initiative and thanks for sharing a cracking bit of history.

Can a plug-in sue for non-support?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1509283478' post='3397752'] I wuz gonna 'fix' this post, but thought better of it. [/quote] That illustrates herculian self-restraint on your part.

[quote name='plumbob' timestamp='1508001995' post='3389292'] Been loving this very talented family lately http://youtu.be/rWah6plGip4 [/quote] The version is just a super accurate copy of the original. Don‘t get me wrong, that‘s a huge achievement in itself, but I prefer cover versions which are different to the original. Having said that, the quality of the vocals and the playing really is superb. Reminiscent of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Indeed on their website, which I felt obliged to go and look up, there‘s a quote from Dave Crosby praising them very highly.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1508608517' post='3393332'] Tina Weymouth's work with Talling Heads especially 'Once in a lifetime'. [/quote] +1

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1508538652' post='3392906'] I now have to sacrifice most of my bottom because I can hear low frequencies. Blue [/quote] Alright everybody let’s just step back from the obvious gags here and go about our business.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1508452423' post='3392383'] Trying to keep up with Wooten, probably..! ... [/quote] 👍👏👍👏👍

Yep, he plays a fretless pbass when on tour.

This might be worth taking a look at. It claims to cover a load of 80s/ lo-fi/ synthbass sounds http://youtu.be/Hy1hdf03crQ

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1507746773' post='3387734'] The problem is, there's tort and there's tort. Most modern tort is rubbish and looks like sliced salami. The only acceptable tort is genuine period vintage tort OR Spitfire tort. The 3-D tort that looks as if you could lose yourself in it... Mmmm, real tort... [url="https://spitfiretortoiseshellpickguards.wordpress.com/pictures-and-styles/"]https://spitfiretort...res-and-styles/[/url] And then only on a white, cream, vintage white or sunburst bass... and possibly Shoreline or Firemist Gold under certain circumstances. Tort should never be seen on any sort of blue, black, green, purple or red bass. With the possible exception of Fiesta Red, but only if its VERY faded. Edit. IMHO, of course. [/quote] Fetishist? Who, me? Matron bring more medication and plenty of vinegar! I‘ve been a very, VERY naughty boy!

http://youtu.be/V9-ltPsbw9g

[quote name='Meypelnek' timestamp='1507639531' post='3386894'] Perhaps we now see why they separated some years ago. [/quote] I could still kick myself for not trading for that SB5000 with you. What I fool I am 😡

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1507133236' post='3383551'] If we buy it collectively I vote that we use it to beat to death whoever came up with this travesty.... [/quote] ...,so you're saying..... we DON'T like it....right?

[quote name='jacko' timestamp='1507110653' post='3383322'] In the flecktones 'live at the quick' dvd, victor changes his cycling shirt just about every time the camera pans away. Guess it was recorded on consecutive nights and they've cut the best bits of the video into a single song but it's very strange to watch. [/quote] Given his level of chops, he may in fact be changing shirts on the fly with no noticable effect on his playing.

I work in shows with dancers all the time. They hate this kind of crap but tend to just take it as an occupational hazard. As for "loving it", no, not ever. They have to earn a living just like we do and almost never have any say as to what they have to wear. Di@kheads are unfortunately universal and, as someone said previously, trying to reason with their non-existent conscience won't go well or achieve positive results.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1505403555' post='3371678'] I always thought of it as a wise precaution against weirdos. [/quote] I beg your pardon!? Sad a@ses maybe, but weirdos? How so very dare you!?

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1505200240' post='3370074'] We need images complete with testicles. [/quote] This now leaves me with a mix of fear and morbid fascination every time I open this thread.