Sean

Hi Mike. Welcome to Basschat!

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='341036' date='Nov 30 2008, 12:22 PM']men don't seem to enjoy soul as much as women.[/quote] Possibly a northern thing? We do quite a few soul numbers (Take Me to the River, Mustang Sally, Do You Love Me, Heatwave, Sugar Pie, etc) and it might be me but I've never noticed that. We've never had a discussion about as a band either and have always believed that the "usual suspect" soul songs are universal no-brainers for getting everyone up dancing. Cynical ploy but hey, we're cheese merchants. I wonder if there's a proper term for a cheese merchant.

We played for a sailing club's annual dinner dance on Friday night at the beautiful Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. We had to lug all the gear up two big flights of stairs and it made really quite smug about my LMK and Berg cabs. We were a bit wary of the crowd as they were not (how shall I say this?) from the demographic that we usually play to but by god they got into it and had a whale of a time. Our encore of Love Shack was sadly ditched due to a post-midnight fire alarm prank. Good gig, good audience and good money. Bloody cold though and very foggy on the drive back to Gloucester down the A419.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='341032' date='Nov 30 2008, 12:18 PM']My Skyline Decade is leaving Chicago tomorrow. I'll let you know.[/quote] Chi humbuckers on it? Active or passive?

Anyone know the winning buyer?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='340324' date='Nov 29 2008, 10:15 AM']I played a new Lakland JO 4-stringer the other week. Lovely bass with through body stringing, etc., but it had very narrow string spacing. Definitely not 19mm. Is this normal on Lakland jazz models?[/quote] I'd respectfully suggest an error in the measurement. Another possibility would be that it had a replacement bridge.

Nope, never had it but I think if I did I would adopt a pseudo Swiss/German accent and say, "So tell me about your childhood and your relationship with your mother..." This approach usually has people weeping like Sicilian grandmothers at a funeral within twenty minutes ;-)

[quote name='bremen' post='335457' date='Nov 24 2008, 01:37 PM']I tried to visit his site and got this: Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer! Suggestions: Return to the previous page and pick another result. Try another search to find what you're looking for. Or you can continue to [url="http://www.davemarks.com/"]http://www.davemarks.com/[/url] at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site. For more information about how to protect yourself from harmful software online, you can visit StopBadware.org. If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google's Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.[/quote] I've emailed Dave about that issue a few days ago. Not heard from him yet.

[quote name='Currrls' post='335876' date='Nov 24 2008, 10:13 PM']thanks for that. would there be any difficulty with changing the pups?[/quote] No. Check my post above, I put Fralins in mine.

[quote name='Chris1127' post='332735' date='Nov 19 2008, 11:00 PM']Was almost a bit gutted when I saw they had relaunched the range as I'm sure people will start seeing more of them now [/quote] The new ones lack something that the old ones have. I played one in a shop recently and it feels very different to mine. the truss rod adjustment has moved so it's now more like that of a Stingray and they now have 22 frets instead of 24. Another thing that seems to have changed is that the bridge plate is the same on all models now whereas before the 300/305 one was tapered and the higher models were squared off, now they are all tapered.

I had one and the build quality and feel of it were top notch. For my taste the pickups were a little thin so I put some Fralins in and then it was fantastic. I ended up getting shot of it as I found that it was a bit uncomfortable to play for long gigs, other than that it was fine. Aren't you playing one in your avatar?

Hi My band need to get together this week to rehearse and for the first time in years we don't have our rehearsal space available. Does anyone know of somewhere we could try maybe for Wednesday this week. Contact number and name much appreciated by PM. Newport/Cardiff/Pontypridd would be ideal. Cheers Sean

[quote name='4000' post='335197' date='Nov 23 2008, 10:40 PM']If I had a pound for every time that's happened to me, and like he says, if you say no suddenly you're the bad guy....[/quote] Exactly this has happened to me, I refused to let some oik use my rig as I just wasn't getting good vibes from him and later on I heard him stressing out telling someone that the **** with the rig wouldn't let him use it. He ended up going through the PA and I ended up getting filthy looks all day.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGSEgRgkSU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGSEgRgkSU[/url] I think this says in three minutes what we've taken 100+ posts to say in threads in the past.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='334718' date='Nov 23 2008, 09:02 AM']A near miss for me... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180305668863&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=008[/url] In the end I didn't bid, so admittedly the final price may have been higher but £200 for a 12 string Hamer is pretty damn cheap. Had it been the TP model I'd have been all over it.[/quote] I was sitting there hovering over that when it finished. We play I Want You to Want Me and I love Pearl Jam so it was a close call. There was just something a bit scummy looking about it all though.

You'd need your head fixin' if you bought one of those over a Mesa 400+

Well, he got his £400. Someone really got burned bad there. I got this when I asked about the logo on the neck and the extra pup "hi there i don't no it just how i got it but sound great"

Looks like Sterling's been dodging the pies of late. It looks short scale in that pic but I can't imagine for one minute it is. Does it have a name?

My DJ4 in natural, that way I'd be the first to be saved if the rescue party was manned by U2 fans!

If you download this pdf to music software which is free, it'll play the pdf bass line solo. You can slow it down too. [url="http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm"]http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm[/url]

Some more help if anyone needs it is [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLu0V8FDUw"]here...[/url] Not perfect but it's a good help as you can hear him over the mix.

Just in case anyone can't wait... I found this [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRh-yX4o98c"]taster[/url] the other day and added it to my faves. I love Sting's sound on this, it's so different from his Spector days. I also have [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wMe9ZNm54"]this[/url] on my faves and I think it proves that Copeland [i]is[/i] the man! When people talk about playing ahead of and behind the beat they can't go far wrong listening to this stuff to get a feel for it.

Nice one, Tim! Production's really nice on that - loving Infection too. Which songs did you use the Blazer on?

[quote name='bassmansky' post='330053' date='Nov 16 2008, 12:28 PM']my opinion is on ashdown gear . if its older gear it is uk built which was exspensive to buy new and is a lot better than prc made so anyone who is into ashdown gear will buy /sell at a price they now they could get or are prepared to pay.i would pay £400 for uk built 4years old than i would £500 new made in prc for example.same with ampeg,peavey etc.mainly applies to heads and combo's.[/quote] Dude, some punctuation and a nod toward standard English syntax would be much appreciated. That post is utter garbage.