squire5

The phrase 'The proof is in the pudding'.The correct phrase being 'The proof of the pudding is in the eating'. Just sayin' is all!

On Monday night at a gig,me and our guitarist were listening to The Stealer during our break (we put some tracks on thru the PA to keep punters) and discussing how Andy used that tone so effectively,especially during Kossof's solo.Amazing.And then on Tuesday...this.So sad.RIP

Nice one Mark.T'aint much wrong there that I can see or hear.

The intro to 'Drive My Car' by the Beatles.It seems to be a mish-mash of lead,bass and drums,in that order.We still have trouble with it.With 'Sex on Fire' if you get the timing of the opening riff right,its deceptively simple.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1422536660' post='2673785'] I just point blank refused to play Alright Now Its the height of naff. [/quote]

Not musically related,but Luke Skywalker of 'Star Wars' fame was known as Luke Skytoddler when he was much younger.

LOL Heres mine.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1409511967' post='2540382'] Yep, can't go wrong with a bit of CCR. Theirs is my favourite version of 'heard it through the grapevine' [/quote] You mean ''hoyd' it through the grapevine' don't you? Strange pronounciation as Fogerty was Californian.

On hearing 'Bouree' I spent the best part of 2 days learning that bassline,note for note including the solo.I can still play it from memory.Such a melodic line,played on an EB0 iirc?

6 string sex right there.Beautiful instrument.Good luck with it.

Thats nuthin! I thought the chap had injured his pendant 'gentlemans' area due to an inadvertent liason with a trolley.

I usually like to announce a song by giving a bit of background to it (who wrote it,what album its from etc).I only recently started doing this since me and our lead player started going out as a 2-piece (acoustic guitar and bass + 2 vocals) a la Mike Masse.(check him out on Youtube).I took it on myself to instigate a bit of banter just for the sake of keeping people interested in what we were doing.In N.Ireland there are many folk duos about who insist in giving each song,or tune,the full works IE who wrote it,why they wrote it,what they were thinking about after they wrote it and tend to go a bit far.I just think a little bit of insight,and hey,maybe a bit of trivia about the music helps to build a bit of closeness with your punters. PS if you're ever unfortunate enough to have just one person applaud after a song,just say "Thank you for the clap".Usually raises a titter.

Yeah I thought that this would stir a few memories.I cant remember how it was possible to get the catalogue in the first place.Whether it was mail order or whatever,but I do remember having recurring editions.I know it was during the 60s when I used to read it because I was still at school at the time, and I would always have it in my schoolbag and me and other kids would pore over it during breaks.Ah heady days!

Remember when you could spend hours poring over this?Wishing,hoping that maybe one day............? Look at the price of Fender basses. [url="http://personal.inet.fi/surf/lorse/bellcatalogue/bellcatalogue.html"]http://personal.inet...lcatalogue.html[/url]

Found this little item in my travels today.Its a page fro an old Bells Musical Instruments catalogue from the 60s.That looks a little like your bass in the lower right hand corner.

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1365669885' post='2042502'] CAPTION? [/quote]So this NOT what you meant by Double Bass then? Oh well,do you like my moustache by the way?

Check out his 'other items'.A goldmine of information.

I noticed the words 'Ibanez Guitars' at the bottom left of the ad.Would reinforce what bassassin said.

It does look weird I admit.On mine I have a chrome cover on the neck pup so from a distance it looks like a 5 string P bass with an extra Jazz pup mounted at the bridge,as per the pic.I also installed an Artec 2-band preamp in mine and I use it all the time now.After a god setup she sounds great and plays even better although that neck is w-i-d-e.I would recommend these basses to anyone and if you can get this one sorta cheap,give it a good setup,check out the pups ( they may be basic 4-pole Jazz pups and therefore useless for a wide 5 string) then go for it..Tell them to forget about strings.They're personal.

Squier5, sorry that I don't know everything and have upset you by asking such an obvious question. .Y'know Si600 sometimes when I read back over some of my posts I think to myself 'you pompous tw4t!' I apologise for coming over as such.I think it was the night I had 3 screaming grandkids for a sleepover.As you can probably tell from my name,I use one of the aforementioned basses all the time and love it,although a previous one that I had was equipped with 4-pole Jazz pups which were next to useless.There have been numerous threads on the forum about these however,and odd as they look,they're not really that uncommon.

Its a bloody Squier P5! There are hundreds of them about.I have 2 myself.Yes they have Jazz pickups,yes they have Precision bodies and they have wide necks and YES,there are other threads on this forum about them,but they're nothing new.

Its a strange one right enough.I'm not sure what type tuner it was and I'll probably not see him till our next gig,whenever that may be.But I'd be interested to know how he sorted it out.Thanx for the input.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1385907113' post='2293395'] I think the transpose button has been pressed on his tuner. He needs to read the instructions, and reset it, or buy another tuner. [/quote] He has been playing guitar for as long as I can remember and knows how to use a tuner.Besides if the Transpose button had been pressed,the other guitars would not have showed normal tuning.