Sean

My old boss is very dyslexic and from what she used to say text speak is nearly impossible for her to understand as what you get are a jumble of letters that don't make sense in the first place. I smell BS and it's not from me living in Gloucestershire either!

What colour do you reckon this is (hard to tell under the lights I suppose) brown, red, black cherry?

Stonking looking instrument [i]and[/i] loads of mini-toggles, you can't go wrong! Nice one, Matt.

[quote name='paul, the' post='93498' date='Nov 23 2007, 07:41 PM']I already like it more on second viewing. And that binding gives me quivers [/quote] Pervert! Seriously though, it's definitely a contrast thing as you say. I was initially going to go for red or brown tort as the man himself has on his blue one but then I thought, hey, why not be different? And now what I have learned? That the classic combinations are classics for a reason . Oh well, it's being gigged tomorrow night ( at a Conservative Club - oh give me strength!) so I'm sure the band will give their unrestrained opinions.

[quote name='Stewart' post='93473' date='Nov 23 2007, 06:42 PM']You're worried about the pickguard colour with THOSE STRINGS!? [/quote] [quote name='Paul Cooke' post='93479' date='Nov 23 2007, 06:56 PM']it's fine on that bass... but you really need to get blue or black strings...[/quote] I ordered Purple Passion which are very dark but they got lost in the post and the replacement set that was sent was Hot Pink as they were the only colour left in stock

It's from Jeannie's and it's blue/grey pearl which, well, er, I don't know really... Maybe on a black or white bass? What do you reckon? And updated to... You just have to look past those pink strings! The colour maybe a not to everyone's taste (including mine) but I love these DR Long Life. For me a better feel than Elixirs.

Is that #005? I nearly made a play for that a while back and something came up which meant I was temporarily insolvent. Possibly the nicest P bass I've ever seen.

Carol Kaye said in one of here emails that she has a rule of doing a fill every eight bars if needed, otherwise stick to the groove. JD1's comment is spot on and this is what I try to do now after being guilty over some serious overplaying in the past

[quote name='Tone le Bone' post='91904' date='Nov 20 2007, 11:16 PM']Oh my God have bass martians suddenly landed and taken up residence in Surrey?? Have had a look around the site and I love it, just what us bassists need, a pool of unlimited knowledge. Whoohoo! I have been playing bass for the last 5 years, having dabbled in guitar, I decided to be more constructive with the bass, so I took my London College of Music exams up to grade 5. From there, a good friend who is a drummer, and I went to the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford Surrey on a part time course. (Fantastic value for money, highly recommended). From there the two of us met up with two guitarists and formed a band. That was 18 momths ago. We play Red Hot Chillies, Stereophonics, Rolling Stones, Green Day, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Feeder, Josh Kelly, Hendrix, Paul Weller and The Cure! Pretty diverse set! I am lucky (or mad enough) to play a Warwick Streamer Stage 1, a 4 string Musicman Singray, and my latest aquisition as of last Saturday is a G&L 5 string L2500 which sounds sooooooooooo nice! I play this through a Warwick Profet 5.1 head linked to a Warwick 4x11 cab. Laters Dudes, Tone Le Bone[/quote] Martians are everywhere and yes, they do play bass. Sounds like a great mix of covers you have there. Welcome to basschat especially to your new G&L, they are lovely!

Morning! Nice gear

Welcome. I'm sure you'll get a ribbing about the Ashbory!

From my delvings into studying walking bass it seems that it is relatively easy to go from unconscious incompetance to conscious incompetance and then with perseverence one can get to a reasonable standard of conscious competance but the top level of unconscious competance seems like an impossible goal and the whole thing becomes a journey not a destination. And what pepper do we pick out of this flyshit? Practise, practise, practise. Dave Marks has some good foundation exercises for walking bass on his website and one can assume that there are more on the way. My lines are definitely becoming more fluid now that I have some of the basics sorted and this is a great motivator.

You certainly sound like a busy guy. Welcome to the machine.

[quote name='spoo_bass' post='89053' date='Nov 15 2007, 06:20 PM']Anywhoo too much information maybe, but hey, i was in the mood for writing![/quote] Don't hold back, you go for it. Welcome to our Multi User Dungeon!

HI. I'm an ex-pat too. Just moved to Gloucestershire from Wales. Welcome to Basschat!

Someone ought to post that link on the EBMM forum and see what response it gets :ph34r: I think those villagers will storm the castle with torches and pitchforks if they see that through their blinkers. I can hear Colin Clive now, "It's Alive..."

[quote name='ped' post='73351' date='Oct 12 2007, 01:15 PM']He's camp?! Lol, lets see a clip![/quote] I can't find anything on YouTube of him talking but when he's interviewed on Classic Albums it's quite a suprise as you expect a real macho southern air to him but he's as camp as the proverbial row of tents. He's like martin Lawrence doing Big Mamma (apparently, it's not something I've seen, obviously, you understand )

Apparently Nate Watts taught thi sbird how to dance... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D888RaAMtIU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D888RaAMtIU[/url]

Welcome, Paul. Nice gear btw.

[quote name='BOD2' post='88941' date='Nov 15 2007, 02:02 PM']and lets not forget... TLA - Three Letter Acronym[/quote] [b]Pedant alert:[/b] Strictly speaking, TLA is not an acronym it is an initialism. LASER, MODEM, AIDS, RoSPA, OPEC and WAC are acronyms whereas IBM, WWF and BBC are initialisms. And I suppose that makes me a GOM, amongst other things!

[quote name='bassbloke' post='87621' date='Nov 12 2007, 10:34 PM']read it and weep [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7245&hl="]undefined[/url][/quote] I was off the net that week with my house move! I'd have had that just to noodle about on. What a shame!

[quote name='bassbloke' post='86959' date='Nov 11 2007, 06:01 PM']Not asmuch of a steal as the £225 one contributor to this forum was asking for a ATK405.[/quote]

[quote name='Jam' post='86063' date='Nov 9 2007, 05:13 PM']Let's hear about your equipment![/quote] And by that we mean your instrument, amplification and accessories and absolutely not any part of your body!

A pre-EB Stingray, eh? You can stick around, Terry!

Welcome to basschat. I played in a rockabilly band for a few months once - good times. Great choice of weaponry too.