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Primal Scream doing "Country Girl" at the 6 Music Festival. Starts off OK at 58mins in, then all goes horribly wrong at about 58:30 when the bass and keys come in. Cue lots of confused / amused looks back and forth across the stage, but they plough on regardless and eventually sort things out (drop capo one fret by the looks of it) during the clap-along bit. Afterwards Bobby G describes it as the "the Sonic Youth tuning...... avant-rock"... [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03hj15l/the-6-music-festival-2016-primal-scream#group=p03j19ln"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...#group=p03j19ln[/url]

Sky Valley Mistress at their sold-out "Hell Ain't Got Your Hound" single launch at Gullivers in Manklechester on Saturday. Great young band, hopefully destined for bigger things!

I come on here pretty much every day, but very rarely sign in unless there's a thread I feel the need to comment on. Guess I'm predominantly a lurker...

Better dig out "Rising" and "On Stage" and give 'em some...

Probably not the best, possibly the worst, definitely summat a bit different from Preston's be-masked bass marauders, Evil Blizzard... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSIdpz7y79I[/media]

Don't think this one's been posted yet, check it out before it gets dropped! [url="https://www.facebook.com/bassplayersunited/photos/a.103359063082133.6994.103346473083392/950326021718762/?type=3&theater"]https://www.facebook...?type=3[/url]

"The Fender Bass - An Illustrated History" suggests it should be a block / transition logo, with either 4 or 5 (from the end of 1964) patent numbers underneath it. There's an example on this page here... http://www2.fender.com/experience/guitarchive/the-precision-bass-in-the-1960s/

The mighty Eureka Machines doing a shakedown gig for their current tour, great band and lovely chaps to boot. The next gigs will be my Other Half's daughter's band, The Bara Bara Band, this coming Friday in Lancaster, then a "Battle of the Bands" thing in Preston next week featuring Sky Valley Mistress, who as their debut ep states are "the best thing you've never heard".

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1443472748' post='2875112'] Hang on, 4 basses ? Is that Evil Blizzard? [/quote] Yep, it is - hadn't spotted Filthy Dirty on here before! As for short-scale basses, there's a new kid on the (short-scale) block - lefties will be available to order apparently... [url="http://www.shortscalebass.co.uk/"]http://www.shortscalebass.co.uk/[/url] Not me / no affiliation etc.

Are You Evil? Evil Blizzard [url="https://youtu.be/_gjgfQ4yjgM"]https://youtu.be/_gjgfQ4yjgM[/url]

Just the one bass (Squier CV60's P), but also a couple of combos, a cab, a tuner, a drive pedal, a set of pickups, a case and a scratchplate.

If the two campaigns by Eureka Machines I've pledged on are anything to go by, it can work stunningly well, as they've smashed through the 100% mark on each in hours and gone on to hit 526% and 392% of target in total. I guess it probably helps that they've got a pretty fanatical fanbase!

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1429274162' post='2749916'] Wow... a thread about tonal differences between basses on BC and 50 posts in so far noone has trotted out "it's all in the fingers anyway" yet [/quote] Or "What fingerboard material for Metal?"...

Just relieved Gareth of a minty green scratchplate for my Squier CV60s P. In perfect / as new condition (still got it's placky film on), great comms throughout, solidly wrapped / stickered to stop postie bending it and sent securely asap after the holiday weekend. An all round top-notch transaction, highly recommended!

Niiiiice......

And now the ultimate accolade, an RB tribute band courtesy of our local serial-band-former Hector... [url="http://www.gigwise.com/features/99281/royal-blood-tribute-band-interview#.VRWD510Q7VA.facebook"]http://www.gigwise.c...10Q7VA.facebook[/url]

If your taste is for "classic" / NWOBHM-style metal, then [b]Ascalon[/b] might just fit the bill. Here's a description I've nicked from a live review... [i]Preston based Ascalon take the stage next and they’ve brought a good following with them. Old school heavy metal in the vein of Iron Maiden is the order of the day here but with a modern thrashier twist. They deliver it well and inject a good bit of humour along with their catchy melodies. Clearly having fun, the band run through their set, bantering with the fans and coming across as genuinely nice people. It’s infectious and they go down a storm. Special kudos goes to the guitarist with the broken arm. It’s the perfect warm up for tonight’s headliners and after their set closes they join the rest of the crowd to enjoy…… (the headliners)[/i] Here's a vid from that same gig.. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqLRReA37r0&feature=youtu.be"]https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url] And yes, that is a Fender Musicmaster the bass player's using - sounded pretty darn good when I saw them supporting Evil Blizzard last year. Don't think they're on iTunes, but they do have a Bandcamp page... [url="https://ascalon.bandcamp.com/releases"]https://ascalon.bandcamp.com/releases[/url] And here they are on FB... https://www.facebook.com/Ascalonmetal

I can confirm that the Strat set alight by Graham Oliver at Nottingham in 1983 was a Squier rather than the Fender he used the rest of the time, 'cos me and my mate, accompanied by a roadie, were dispatched to Carlsboro Music in Leicester to collect the poor thing for him before the show. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-lyxqHzNM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=wY-lyxqHzNM[/url] 37:14 I guess these days it'd probably be regarded as a "vintage classic" rather than a cheap sacrificial substitute......

Another top quality obbm instrument cable added to the gear box, a pleasure to deal with Dave as always!

Absolutely gorgeous! Think that has to be my all-time favourite model and look for a Jazz - I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing a CIJ / MIJ lookalike that came up for sale on here about the time I joined...

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1424711855' post='2699473'] These are the basses I currently own: [i]{pics snipped}[/i] [/quote] Blimey, you must also have an interesting selection of cases to go with them!

[quote name='Johnm93' timestamp='1424023524' post='2691671'] A Festy sounds like the way to go, Tony M. Our drummist has some Go-pro footage of the set. There are "..a few jazz.chords.." apparently. I think he means busking bass lines.... [/quote] Yeah, I occasionally take our stuff in a slight "jazz" direction, but usually manage to find my way back to normality before there's too much damage done!

Nice one! We're still just messing about at the local open mic each week (honing our craft, I think it's called... ), but are angling for a spot at a local festival some time during the Summer for my first "proper" gig.

Welcome phaty, but be warned - you will indeed soon have more basses than singlespeeds!!!