CamdenRob

[quote name='TolerancEJ' timestamp='1412008324' post='2564798'] I might be interested if I ever saw a used one listed at a decent price. [/quote] Thats what I was thinking... [quote name='visog' timestamp='1412018121' post='2564975'] Yours for £1,930! [/quote] Thats not what I was thinking...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411997847' post='2564662'] The bloke's only just joined, though. All the numbers are not going to be ditched until equal contributions can be made, surely..? It's very common, when taking on board new members, to have a 'transitional' period. Probably a mix of old and new, whilst he gets his feet into the slippers. I've been in or around many an originals band, and I've never seen a major conflict of the sort. If the OP has been selected to play with them, they've seen (or heard..?) something in his playing that they like. If the existing lines are good, that's fine. If the OP can improve the act with different lines, that's fine too. That's all there is to it, really. No big sweat, I'd have thought. [/quote] Yeah fair enough... Guess I'm judging it by what I would want rather than what the OP wants. I just feel that a bass player is a major part of a bands sound and having someone new come in you would have to except that things were going to change... I'd rather be told my lines arent good enough / suitable and be replaced than stand there playing something I didn't think was any good.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411997260' post='2564650'] I suspect that, if the band are playing 'Message in a Bottle', most folks know that you didn't write Sting's bass line (other examples are available...). I also suspect that those out there beyond the projectors don't know, or care, who 'wrote' what. If it's good, it's good, isn't it..? Not sayin', of course, that your bass lines are not important to you, but I don't understand this disdain for playing other folk's good music. Never mind. [/quote] Yeah but this is an originals band not a covers band... Obviously when playing covers you'd want to remain faithful to the original song. I would have though the point of being in an originals band would be to write original music? If the bass player is playing someone elses basslines then it's not really a band of equal members and equal contributions is it.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411996860' post='2564643'] What if they were good? Everyone watching would think you'd written them. [/quote] That would be even worse....

If your joining an originals band and playing exactly the same as the original bassist then it's the same as joining a covers band really.... I could never be happy standing on a stage and playing someone elses basslines... what if they were crap? everyone watching would think you'd written them.

[quote name='mikeswals' timestamp='1411959051' post='2564313'] Rob, a year will pass before you know it. I may get in line for a new order since I already just sold that recently acquired fretless, and cannot find a used MkIII 4-banger. [/quote] I know but I've been waiting for nine months already and it's killing me... Neck is done and fingerboard has gone on, running through various top wood options at the moment. I had to go new in the end too as I got fed up of waiting for a MKIII sixer to come up used.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1411742894' post='2562468'] So what happened to the myth that you can tell the bassist in the band - "he's the moody one..."? [/quote] I wouldn't say I'm moody... Mrs C says things like 'morally disengaged' and 'unempathhic' when she's telling me what's wrong with my personality...

I don't think all bassists are nice people by default..... I'm a bassist and I'm not nice at all.

I seem to remember saying this before on a similar previous thread, but here goes anyway.... I would love to be one of those players whom without knowing any theory whatsoever can just instinctively choose the right passing notes and create melodies to compliment the overall theme of a given piece of music... but sadly I am not that naturally gifted and scales / chord theory gives me the tools to create interesting basslines without them I'd just be playing root notes....

Anyone played one of these?

[quote name='mikeswals' timestamp='1411550096' post='2560506'] Wal #6 in the fold. [/quote] [quote name='kulit17' timestamp='1411661434' post='2561690'] here are all my kids! [/quote] Damn you both... I still have a year to wait for mine and you guys have 11 between you...

It looks kinda unhappy to me....

I find this thread both wonderful and painful in equal measure....

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411047751' post='2555920'] Good gracious, no..! The very idea..! Doesn't bear thinking about. Where's my brain soap..? I feel soiled, somehow. Whatever next, eh..? [/quote] Yes quite right... thought I was going to have to march you round to BC HQ for reconditioning there for a minute...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1410806791' post='2553440'] ...bass alone is not the be-all and end-all to reading. The world is larger than that... [/quote] Are you suggesting that there may be more to life than bass guitars and arguing with people on the internet about which bass guitar is best?... preposterous...

[quote name='Pete Academy' timestamp='1411045068' post='2555875'] My theory is that there isn't a bass hero for the kids. The players in the current bands are faceless, with little technique to fire people up.. [/quote] Sounds like a good theory to me...

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1410962784' post='2555083'] I'm surprised, those little Hondas get great reviews. [/quote] Maybe I should put it in Autotrader instead.... must be where I'm going wrong.

It's a delicate balance for sellers... you want to sell it so you drop the price, but someone else might turn up the day after you've sold it who would have paid the original asking price. Guess it depends how desperate you are to sell something... My CAR jazz has been up for five months

Harley Benton appear to support the cheaper end of the market pretty well.. load of options here; [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_electric_basses.html"]http://www.thomann.d...ric_basses.html[/url] No heard anything about the Oregon basses...

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1410891447' post='2554430'] I think that BC is fast becoming the place to buy but not necessarily the place to sell.... [/quote] This...

Has anyone mentioned OBBM yet?

Think it's just more competition for kids attention these days... xboxes etc. That and the fact that most kids lives are spent on facebook trying to make themselves look interesting to other people....

I don't think I've ever impressed a woman in my life....

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1410811495' post='2553528'] My Washburn status has a truss rod. Thing about status necks, is that the bright sound doesn't hide the clanking sound IMHO .very bright [/quote] hmmm... maybe I'd better try it before taking a blind punt on it. I don't mind bright but I don't want strings clanking on the fretboard...

Thanks gents... Depending on how things work out over the next couple of weeks think I'll take a punt on it.