CamdenRob

Piece of Wal history there Not many sixers in existence and this being the first it's something a little bit special How many sixers do you think there out there Trevor? 20 maybe?

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1486684224' post='3233912'] Not been yer but there's the new big GuitarGuitar in Camden. [/quote] Is there? 😕 ... off to google... ... blimey your right there is, it's just off the high street behind sports direct, how the hell have I missed that... How long has it been open? I'll pop down when it opens this morning

I keep telling myself I need a P bass in the stable, it's a classic sound etc etc... and it felt odd not having one the last time I sold one, but to be honest despite the "classic tone" In reality I never find myself choosing it over the Wal, which does everything I need and makes me sound the way I want to sound. I have a beautiful Moollon Classic P which sits in the corner and gets the occasional noodle... silly really.

Alcohol helps...

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1485116411' post='3221292'] Also Phil Taylor , drummer in the iconic line up, just hung up his sticks... [/quote] To be fair to him though he did go on to have a very successful darts career... 😐

98% Dad Rock...

Me surely... 😐 Bald and tubby is never out of fashion is it.

I usually drive around London in the van until I see someone carrying a guitar, bass drum etc. Then I just bundle them in the back... ...I use a similar strategy for meeting women...

Trace gear has always left me a bit disappointed be honest... I've never heard anything I've liked. However if that elf is anywhere near gigable and doesn't sound totally sh*t I'll be getting one. If I can fit my amp in the pocket of my gigbag that is one less thing to carry. I travel to every gig and every rehearsal on the tube with my cabs on a little trolley and bass on my back. Portability trumps everything else... my rig is only ever backline anyway, DI to the PA out front.

The problem (and the best bit) of getting a full custom build (designed to your specs from the ground up) is that you really need to know what it is you want... what sound and feel you are looking for from the instrument. if you don't know what it is you want you're likey to end up with something worse than an equivalent bass off the shelf. If you do go for a full custom it is difficult to look past ACG for quality, price and choice of options

Took me a good few years to discover that Wal were the basses for me... Waited 18 months for my first one to be built and I'm currently 14 months into a 22 month wait for it's fretless sibling... Worth every second of the wait though... zero regrets

Anything by Oasis, Radiohead or The Smiths... among others...

Hopefully the new brochure will feature a man lunging in a waistcoat...

I had a CN210 for a while and it was awesome... I only changed it for a pair of barefaced One10s as they are easier to transport and I also have the option of using just one.

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1483961168' post='3211367'] ...too bald, fat and talentless to ever become famous! [/quote] I fear we share similar barriers to success...

One amp and a pair of cabs. Epifani Piccolo and 2x Barefaced One10s. Does everything I need at the volume I need with a total weight of 16kg so I can actually get it to the gig... If I had a van / someone to carry my stuff, I'd also have a full fat Glock rig.... but i don't... so i don't...

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1483489440' post='3207692'] must remember to tell our singer he's a bigot, he thinks that anybody that votes UKIP is a **** [/quote] Mrs C thinks anyone who hasn't abandoned capitalism, given away their house and moved into a yurt is a **** Unless your White, Straight and Male, in which case you are an irredeemable super **** regardless of whether you live in a yurt or not...

Fretless Wal sixer due in the summer... also quite fancy the new Glock class D.

I don't think I can name ten bass players...

It's Glockenklang... it'll be awesome.

Have you looked into the Moollon classic series? Excellent pre-CBS replicas made to order.

The problem with bands is that they contain other people...

Wouldn't say I'm precious about my gear but I don't see anything wrong with looking after it... I have a small ding on the underside of my Wal from putting the gigbag down too vigorously on one of those weird knobbly bits of paving they have on tube platforms... Was pretty annoyed at the time, but no-one can see it and it has zero effect on the bass so I've come to accept it... still rather I hadn't done it though and I'm certainly not now in the mindset that I'm now happy for it to end up battered just because it has an imperfection.

Loads in my youth when I was slapping the sh*t out of my bass in a metal band, boiling my strings before every rehearsal / gig as I was too poor to buy new ones... ... None since taking up the bass again a few years ago Not much experience of the influence of a pick on string breakage as I was a life long finger style snob until I recently discovered Bobby Vega......

My setup is driven entirely by what I can get to gigs on the tube / bus, so essentially the smallest/lightest possible gigable rig. I've arrived at a pair of Barefaced One10s and an Epifani Piccollo (16kg in total) and I think that's about as small as I can go whilst still managing to sound like I'm playing a bass. The whole lot fits on a trolley and getting it to gigs is a breeze I did have Glockenklang class D before the Eipfani which to be honest sounded miles better, but it was more than twice the weight ... It's all about convenience for me.