Cairobill

My old bass

Ramp from Martin at the bass gallery

Bump for this LMii

Also, happy to part ex for an Aguilar TH500 or AG700 

Indeed, Bryants are lovely - was just down in Hastings this afternoon and recalled my visit to Paul's old house to pick up my Solo bass. I miss it!

On this tip, the legendary Brown Mark (of the Revolution...one of my favourite bassists) is now doing YouTube tutorials on the 'Prince Style'. Being a lot younger than Prince, he was very much a protege and Prince used to teach him the lines to the songs. So these YouTube lessons are a bit like having a bass lesson with Prince. Gold Dust for those of us who loved the sound of the Revolution
 

These are amazing basses - I have an identical bass from '89 and it's Ray perfection. The necks are the best - just right IMHO

GLWTS!

Seeing this really, really has me missing my JP1.

These early Yamaha six-strings are the best... GLWTS!

On 29/03/2021 at 14:39, Kazan said:

I've owned way too many genuine vintage Fenders and think the Bravewoods get much closer to the 'vibe' of the real ones than the Nashs and the aging looks far more authentic. Also Bravewood scratch builds his necks and bodies where, so far as I'm aware, Nash has been off the shelf parts - like Allparts, etc - and then finishes and assembles.

Yup - I've had a couple of Nash instruments (a JB and a tele) and Bravewoods (again, JB and a tele). I don't want to be mean about Nash guitars, but Bravewoods are in a different league. 

Yep - as a kid in the mid 80s I would 'work the racks' at the Wapping Bass Centre and play the latest offerings from Pangbourne, Wal, Wilkes, Jaydee etc one after the other

I used to enjoy the Wilkes 'slap plate' fretless. Feelwise, the Wal wouldn't have screamed 'I'm worth 20X what the Wilkes is' back in the day...which is quite amusing. 

I'm Mac based and have been using logic since the EMagic days (it's great but obvs not for PC) but have migrated to Ableton Live over the last 5 yrs. It's amazing but does demand a bit of a reset in how one approaches composition to get the most out of it. It also leans heavily towards electronic music but I've been using it very happily indeed for more guitar/bass/drums stuff as well. 

Ableton has been absorbing the best things about Logic (take lanes for example) while Logic seemed a bit weird the last time I used it so I can't see myself going back.

So, thumbs up from me for Ableton Live if a) you have the time and b) interest in an absorbing learning curve.

Not sure if anyone has shared this yet.

Brownmark (legendary Revolution bassist) gets into the Minneapolis style on a great vid here. Start of a series I think. Loads of good stuff here.

In my humble opinion, if you’re going to hit a bass with your thumb, you could do worse than do it this way. And you might end up drenching your bandmates in purple chicken grease...

13 hours ago, Phil Mann said:

 

Cariobill? That names rings a bell...did you buy a 75Ri Jazz bass off me a long time ago...?

Yes indeed. Lovely bass, but lost to what I have come to describe as the ‘jazz bass churn’. 

On 04/02/2021 at 11:37, SumOne said:

Thanks for the SBL Functional Theory and Sight reading lessons, I keep going back to them when I feel I should be focussing my practice and knowledge rather aimlessly playing riffs and noodling!

Seconded - those drills revolving arp inversions of all the main chord structures along the cycle of 5ths are possibly the best bass exercises I've picked up.
 

They're lovely basses. I had a classic, but I really wanted the update J like this one. Sold it on but if the stars align I'll jump back in on an update if I can find one. 

Cheers all - does seem it works better the more expensive an instrument is...

Wonder if anyone knows the VAT/Duty percentage cost on an import from Ishibashi right now?

Looking at a bass going for 350 quid. Shipping comes to a hefty 160 (estimated on the page)

So if it's 510 for the purchase, what will be whacked on?

Cheers, Nick

Lovely!

Bumpatron

Ah I miss my old Bravewood Jaco fretless. We compared photos of the Hejira-era scratches and dings and he did a fantastic job. WONDERFUL sounding j bass.  

I had a passive one; the neck was rock solid and needed a tiny truss tweak and was good to go. Solid construction and yup, Matsumoku 

I sold mine for about 225.

I had one of these recently. They're thumpy! Japan made if I remember correctly. 

I think Andy Partridge uses one to track bass in his home studio (I noticed one in a recent-ish  pic). They do record well.



 

My favourite 'Legend on a cheap bass' is The The's James Eller playing his old modded Kay bass.

Just an incredible sounding bass. He used it to great effect on Julian Cope's 'World Shut Your Mouth' as well.
 

13 hours ago, mike f said:

Diehard Prince fan here. I agree. The run from 1980, the album “Prince” to 1988 with “Lovesexy” is golden to me however I clearly recall my disappointment with the 1989 Batman soundtrack and the start of said patchiness. 

Thereafter only “Come” from 1994 and “The Rainbow Children” from 2002 did it for me, with maybe “Exodus” from 1995 at a push. Lots of stuff from the 90s by Prince which I find unlistenable.

That said, Prince & the Revolution era, mid 80s, to my ears anyway, were just the best.

Yup - seconded. I was a huge fan from about 82 until Lovesexy. Had a ticket to SoTT at Wembley and was gutted when he pulled out. Saw Lovesexy, was blown away. Saw him again on the Batman tour and fell asleep. After that I dipped in every few years but the music never connected with me in the same way. The Revolution were amazing too. Just a perfect band. 
 

But that run of albums up to LS...what a run. Shockingly good!

An old Boss CS-2

Hi All

Back up for sale is this MK EUB. It's the studio passive version (with the tuners on the bottom end of the string length).

This is up for a lot less than the price these usually go for as there's some luthier tweaking needed to the nut (there's a schonky shim in there at the moment). But it looks pretty straightforward.

Generally needs a set up but it works, plays well and it sounds good to me. I actually get on with it better than a Yam SLB200 I owned a while back.

Reason for selling? I need some studio gear and my imagined jazz trio adventures have been impinged upon by Covid so it's on the chopping board.

It comes with soft case and stand. no posting possible I'm afraid so it's either come to my gaff to meet in a nearby car park (socially distanced of course) or somewhere nearish to me (nr Tunbridge Wells).

Here are some basic walkies in a vid to show that it's a working EUB
 

Cheers, N