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Just come across this angry article on a coin collecting site.

http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/bewarebuyingsovereignonebay.html

Same problems, eBay don't care about all the fakes.

Looks to me like someone took a damaged bass and just cut the body down.

Sing along with the words, makes the band seem really into the song.

If counting try and visualise a large number right there on the fretboard.

The whole point of bass is to mesh in with the drums and become one big groove engine.

Two pints of cider, free minibus home with the rest of the band. That was last night!

Liked new Beady Eye tracks alot more than when I previewed them on YouTube. However album buyers are in for a shock as some of Be is close to Prog with Liam singing a strange high range.

Deap Valley must be using a sub-octaver effect as I could hear bass notes paralleling the Jagstang guitar.

Two simple songs. Dakota by the Stereophonics and You Are All I Have by Snow Patrol. No fireworks required just consistent eights and smart changes.

Sounds like you need to learn some easy songs. The trick is learning which songs are easy. Learn the 12 bar blues form, then look for it in popular songs. Good way to build up recognition.

If you know the major scale trying playing melodies. Hymns, national anthems, folk songs often just work up and down the scale.

Always try and work out a song for yourself before looking at the tab. I think I only really understood the minor scale after pieceing together 'Stranded On The Wrong Beach' by Noel Gallagher. The bass ascends a minor scale missing out the 5th on the verses. On the chorus the 5th comes into play. Working out this song gave me a deeper understanding than just knowing shapes and positions.

How's your band's PA?

Music Inn - has alot of R*ckinbetters but most interesting bass was a mango wood Yamaha . I check it every so often as they do pat ex. so occasionaly have interesting second hand items. The place for childrens starter instruments and those on a budget.

Fuzz - Tanglewaters, Squier and Fender basses, Epiphone Zenith. Much better on the electric guitar side as a large Gibson order came in.

Guitar Spot - to the West in Beeston, collectors shop but pleasant staff. One Music Man and some unusual guitars. Street it's on is being dug up for tram, so not an easy visit.

Dare I mention modern active basses?

Think I tried it a few weeks ago, piezo only setting gives a very close, deep 'double bass' sound.

Mission accomplished Dougal. You got them dancing.

I used to sing and play acoustic guitar. But the singing/playing bass conundrum has made me realise that the guitar was a poor second when I self accompanied. Has made me less happy-go-down the folk club.

I reckon most of us can only put our all into one musical focus. Those who can do both... respect and awe from me.

Has to be 'Express Yourself' by Charles Wright and the 103rd Watts Street Band.

I once was having a whinge about our singer running about the stage, almost impaling himself on my bass's pointy headstock. Soundchap (a fellow bassist) told me 'No, that's good. It gives the audience licence to have a good time too.'

Must be working as I remember seven drunken women on stage with us on Saturday. All yelling 'Ride Sally Ride!' :-)

I gave up wearing a watch several years ago. I realised it was aggravating by left hand, not just when practising but in my day job. Pulling cables under desks doesn't sound too hard but the watch would ride up onto my wrist when stretching. Now I just get time off my mobile.

The other thing I've found is that our hands are just part of a whole chain of muscles running through the arm to the shoulder. I took up jogging as light exercise to help with on stage stamina and the unexpected pay off is better wrists and fingers. Even though running hardly uses the upper body muscles, it's enough.

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Really enjoyed it. Some oddly funny moments. Love the catalogue of Sound City artists; Ratt, Dio, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails... and then up pops Barry Manilow.

It's a bass. It's meant to look earthy, down and dirty, f ugly.

To me the Hagstrom's problem is that pristine white finish.

Music is getting fragmented into genres. There was a time you could have played Fleetwood Mac, Steeleye Span and Led Zeppelin's latest without being ironic or eclectic. Now they are locked down as Blues, Folk and Metal.

One of the things with 'super stars' is they crossover. Prince covers funk, soul, pop and rock; sometimes in one song.

And yet Cloud Flare itself is available... Epic fail for Stophaus hackers.

Looks like someone has counterattacked Cyberbunker. Their website unavailable this morning.

Jeff Beck's playing seems to respond to a female bass player. Is she his on stage muse? Well, the relationship obviously works.

Thanks chaps, what really sold it was a great action, the perfect neck profile and easy preamp controls, boost and cut aren't dramatic so it's hard to mess up the all round _good_ tone.