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Well the pickups and controls are different but that's pretty close. I like it!

[quote name='bassmanAzz' post='899629' date='Jul 20 2010, 12:31 AM']looks like an SG with a fender head :S [/quote] Yeah it's like a Gibbo Jazz or something, I love it.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxL9dHStGdM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxL9dHStGdM[/url] I need one of those because it looks COOL. What is it?

My worst one would be the time we rolled a minibus down the side of a mountain. The worst injury was a bump on the head but the van was written off, and the interior completely redecorated with beer and pizza which thankfully the insurance people didn't know about. Our singer had been running down road signs and chasing rabbits through frozen ploughed fields just prior to our "off". Oh and there was the time I lost consciousness for about two days. I wouldn't want to call it a coma because that makes it sound more dramatic than it really was, although to be fair I was unconscious so I suppose I wouldn't have appreciated the drama would I. When I came to, the whole band was sitting around me. I said "What time is it?", they said "8pm", I said "What day is it?", they said "Saturday". I said "Is anyone going to the pub?".

[quote name='OldGit' post='899592' date='Jul 19 2010, 11:30 PM']No. Castor Canadensis or Castor Fiber? You aren't confusing it with thumping a Capybara are you? I find they sound rather lika a Warwick. I guess it's the wood.[/quote] I can't say I'm familiar with beaver-punching timbres either, I suppose we don't have that particular rite-of-passage here in Yorkshire. But I did once kick an alsatian in the nuts and that sounded like a low-pass filter in a feedback loop.

They do bother me but I've brought it up before and made a mockery of it and the concensus was that I was moaning about nothing. I think people like their ego sigs too much to give them up. Even when it means they take up half a screen on an average monitor.

What about that pope eh? j/k. Another benefit of higher action is if you play with envelope-following effects, you can get a much broader range out of them without ending up with manky string noise.

[quote name='Tait' post='899548' date='Jul 19 2010, 10:52 PM']I was wondering if it was because of the "time to be a man" comment.[/quote] Maybe one of the mods is currently going through gender reassignment surgery and it was a bit too close to the bone. No pun intended.

I never had super-low action because I always had lousy amps and I had to pick too hard to hear myself. These days I do have nice amps but I am old so I'm not interested in twangy string noises or playing fast.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='899389' date='Jul 19 2010, 08:46 PM']Anyway, if Doctor Who can make bow ties cool... Nah, scratch that idea![/quote] I saw a band last week, full of sixth formers by the look of them and I could tell they were cool because they smoked, and the bass player was wearing a bow tie. OK to be fair the bow tie will only be cool when it's the lead singer or guitarist who's wearing one, but it's a start!

I do quite like the look of these but I reckon I'd only ever use the neck pickup, and I think I'd have to get one with less contrast between the pickguard and body, but I do like the design overall. [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='899241' date='Jul 19 2010, 06:37 PM']Someone call the taste police! You're missing out on a seriously cool looking bass here, mate. Last time I looked, it was 2010, not 1951... [/quote] Yeah but "futuristic" was a '50s look wasn't it. Brief resurgence in the '80s while ET was in cinemas and Status basses were cool, then back to ironic T-shirts where it belongs.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='898838' date='Jul 19 2010, 12:41 PM']I have nothing with Miller on - don't really like his 'thing' and seeing his name on a cd cover puts me off buying. Great player, crap music [/quote] Steady on Bilbo you can get blackballed around here for saying stuff like that.

[quote name='liamcapleton' post='898846' date='Jul 19 2010, 12:47 PM']I figured! There's always got to be one wind up merchant on a forum, just glad I know who it is now.[/quote] Heaven forbid anyone should ever disagree with you. What a bastard. Incidentally you appear to have been here for 18 months. Well done on working out who is the "wind-up merchant" in such a short time.

Lots of power and lots of speakers, it doesn't need to be refined. If your bass is going through the PA, which already has lots of power and speakers, you don't need a big amp at all. I use a Squier Jazz strung with flats into a Hartke 500W head and a Schroeder 2x12. Works great for that old Studio One sound. It wouldn't be loud enough to fill a big room but show me a big room without a PA.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='898672' date='Jul 19 2010, 10:06 AM']Reason - flats on one bass, rounds on the other![/quote] This man has cracked it.

[quote name='4000' post='898585' date='Jul 19 2010, 08:09 AM']EDIT2: I think we all know my thoughts on Mr. Miller. I wont bother reiterating. FWIW, he'd sound terrible in Motorhead. [/quote] You're just assuming he'd sound terrible in Motorhead based on his career made up of playing slap on '80s soul records. I think he would sound perfectly at home in Motorhead because that's his job - to be versatile - and I am shocked and appalled that anyone would suggest otherwise. Praise Him.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='898197' date='Jul 18 2010, 05:15 PM']How do you know they would sound ridiculous? I'd brt Marcus especially could comfortably fit in.[/quote] You're crazy. I know you have a big boner for Marcus Miller (and Doddy does too, even to the point of buying the same hat) but there's a reason why not everybody plays like him, and it's not because they can't. [quote name='Pete Academy' post='898197' date='Jul 18 2010, 05:15 PM']You've labelled him a slap merchant without even listening to what else he did.[/quote] Are you about to tell me he hardly ever plays slap and he's been [i]unfairly[/i] labeled as a slap merchant? This is getting stupid.

[quote name='liamcapleton' post='898167' date='Jul 18 2010, 04:32 PM']Skill isn't synonymous with musicianship, I completely subscribe to that. Only had difficulty with you thinking session players are soulless... it works both ways, musicians shouldn't be disregarded because of their choice of career either.[/quote] The premise of the thread is too basic though, that's how we end up in these scenarios where we're talking about players in simple terms and the generalisations don't fit. Look at a player like Flea and you might judge him on his playing on RHCP's most recent record which is very bland, or you might judge him on that Hotlicks video he did in the early '90s which is just dire and makes him look like a simplistic slapper, unimaginative and ignorant. But then listen to BSSM again and, well, he's pretty good on that isn't he. And he's played with other people and he's played trumpet with other people, so is he still a one trick pony? Similarly, Marcus Miller seems to always play fusion or R&B and I'm judging him based on Luther Vandross singles from the '80s. From my angle he doesn't look that versatile, he's dipped into a couple of quite similar-sounding genres and played slap on everything, so how's he different from Flea? It's all bollocks really isn't it. That's what I think. Someone might make a living as a studio musician and because of that they're considered more "versatile" than a guy who had some success in a pop band, but put them both in a situation where they have to cop half a dozen different styles and chances are they'll both sound uncomfortable and out of their depth unless it's music they enjoy and listen to. Actually put either Marcus Miller or Flea in my band and they would each sound bloody ridiculous I guarantee it.

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='898106' date='Jul 18 2010, 03:10 PM']I know a singer who is the quintessential "aging rocker" - long, thinning grey hair, beads, denim etc, zero people skills, terrible singer, yet he is always getting gigs and always puts on a good show. I only realised how bad he was when I heard him without seeing him.[/quote] I know a guy like that too. He was gigging when I was a nipper and he's still gigging now. In the same venues it has to be said! I was always terrified of him because he looked mental. He takes a LOT of drugs. Turned out he was my mate's uncle which was funny.

[quote name='liamcapleton' post='898134' date='Jul 18 2010, 03:54 PM']Out of interest what DO you like listening to? Purely out of curiosity. It seems daft to make conclusions on players based on assumptions.[/quote] These days, mostly unsigned bands. They tend to have a bit more honesty and charm about them. And ultimately that's always what hooks me with bands; the feeling that they're being straight up with you and you're hearing the best music they can make at the moment, either played with vim or recorded as well as they can afford. I don't listen to slick pop, fusion, prog, metal, I've never seen a band in a stadium, I've never got an autograph, I suppose I don't have the same sense of occasion that some people have. So when I see big names I think I just judge them on what they sound like to be honest.

I don't think age is a critical factor, really. If you look right standing still then you'll look right moving about. In that eBay ad I would say the gentleman in question is a bit on the portly side for a rock star, but mostly it's that nobody should put their foot on a monitor at waist height, it just looks like a warm-up exercise.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='897978' date='Jul 18 2010, 12:30 PM']Here's a Marcus Miller discography from Wikipedia to get you started:[/quote] Cheers but I don't like his sound or his solo stuff, and I was never a fan of Luther Vandross either tbh! I know he's a skilled player but I don't listen to songs because the bass player's good.

[quote name='Doddy' post='897933' date='Jul 18 2010, 11:52 AM']Yes they are on hundreds of records,but why the assumption that most of them are bad?[/quote] Law of averages.

I have heard of those players but beyond their most famous output I can't listen to them because I don't know what records they're on. If they've made a living doing this then presumably they're on hundreds of records? Most of them bad records?