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Sorry another point, I had one of those traben neo basses, it was fretted by the local retard, I am sure of it, so I pulled them, filled the gaps and black ebony varnished the board and it is now the most wonderful frettess, plays and sounds like it should have been from day one.

On a "real fretless" the side dots are where the frets would be, confuses the hell out of most players, hence why many went back to putting them centre fret, but if you can get a real fretless and learn the dots, it becomes very easy indeed.

It was transcribed in B flat, the track sounded vary speeded, wonder if he played in A where its quite easy with open strings to octave from or in b flat. I do remember the Nick kershaw transcribe having the most glaring error, until I learnt about key signatures....

Mr Cowel states he can pick up a telephone and have 50 musicians of the highest possible standard on stage within the hour. The people he is looking for can not be found by picking up the phone book... Wan*er ...

Have you tried another bass ? The copy may have poor pick ups, they are built to emulate looks rather than working basses. The real Ricks do have a very odd quirk almost unique to them in that the bass does not roll off when you turn the tone pots up, it stays on unlike most basses and this can overwhelm amps. I find precisions cut much sharper as they have a fuller sound, almost the perfect output signal in that it is not scooped Like the Rick and the bass roll off with the tone up makes them cut through far better.

I would say have a look at the TC bg500 210, I have never heard an amp as loud , they will hear that, I guarentee it.

they do some software on the zoom site, you can plug the usb in and play around on the PC, much easier.

Never thought of any bass as an "investment" I can think of far better things to invest in. My basses are instruments that I saved up and bought because I liked them, gig money and months in without beer and nights out to buy each one. Nothing snobbish or protective, but something in life cost and if you want them you are far better going without for a while than wasting money on overpriced copies, especially ones that cost £500 and come out of the box like a carriage clock thrown from the Eiffel tower.

The reality is these are poor copies, yet they sell for a vastly inflated price over other copies as they are a copy of a sought after instrument (debatable) I have seen them at circa £500, if they were not a copy, they would be £150 instuments, they certainly have the build quality. Just My opinion, but I would rather have a nice genuine fender badged precision at that money than a poor copy of a Rick, Your still the bloke with the copy on stage and that is not worth £500 of anyones cash. As for the price of Ricks, well they are a bespoke minor scale manufactuer of a quirky instrument and the market is purely supply and demand. same with anything, I own far more other basses than Ricks including 5 Fenders, but I have never been a copy happy owner. Bit like having a fake porsche . At the price they shift these copies for they should at least take time to make sure they play out of the box. The argument on Budget line, why should they, they have a 30 month waiting list, they are in proffit and they enjoy what they do.

There is a reason the "real ones" are so expensive...

You can import a brand new one, pay the taxes and vat and still have £200 in the bank on our treasure island prices.

I bought one of these bg500 210as it looked like a good practice room combo to avoid hugging the rig. Jesus ******* christ. just how loud are these damned amps. I have a firebird 700w head, a 4x10 and a 1x15 and this ruddy combo hammers the rig, really hammers it !. I now have a real bass rig dilema, the rig looks great, but this silly little practice combo I bought, is louder, sounds cleaner and I can put it in the carboot with the seats still up. Anyone else use one for gigging where you had a big rig before. Looks like something Tandy would sell, but ruddy nora, does it crack out some power.

You would at least get the Logo straight.

Sale of Goods act trumps any warranty.

Baloney to talk up the price. ? However if the story is true, the title to the instrument may mean it is stolen goods. Instructed to take by a manager. Unless the bass was the property of this manager, it was not his to sell. Thats the law. My opinion, just one of the many hundreds of Clash basses with accompanying stories.

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' timestamp='1371316493' post='2112565'] 1. My sister fancied Alan Longmuir of the Bay City Rollers - so it made me notice "the guitar with only 4 knobs" 2. Bruce Foxton - his sound blew me away. Still does. 3. My first band didn't have a bass player, so I bought myself one and taught myself to play it. [/quote] Agree, I was a guitar player, then on TV came the jam and played When your young and eton Rifles, this dull warm fuzzy flatwound bass that every song had was been replaced by this nasty aggressive clanking tone of foxtons bass, sh*t I thought replaying the vhs, I want to do that. He may seem old hat now, but at the time he turned the bass from part of the percussion section in to an instrument along with several other players at the time.

A very long lead, play out front in soundcheck , go back on stage and alter the amp, go back out front. Once happy, try to live with the "on stage sound". Often when you get that tone on stage, it sounds dull out front.

Mark was a real pick player, bass picking is sometimes frowned upon by bass snobs, usually because they can not do it right, its an art-form of picking on harmonic spots to get that magic tone. Become a forgotten art reserved to the old masters these days , bass picking is to the bass what broken chords are to guitarists.

From John entwhistle in a bar in Leeds Learn to re-play with your thumb in the middle of the back of neck, if it's uncomfortable, you have the wrong bass .

Punk was discovered, it was always there and still is today, all you had to be to be punk was yourself. No phoney American accents, no overdubs, just play with youth and energy.

I knew a player with a Wal that left it in the case and the case fell over pushing the volume knob through the wood. They appear to be so delicate, must add something to the sound ?

I doubt you could do any of this with modern recording, there is just no room left in the track for the bass tone once they have finished with the zero db compressor. basses were instruments in those days.