Woodinblack

You reckon? Maybe it was from the period where fender ran out of logos and required a member of staff to paint the fender logo by hand, but this was one of the first ones he did?

If you have two factor authentication with something, if you want to change your password or log into your account, you log in, and they send you a code to your phone or your email normally with a big disclaimer saying not to share it with someone. If they do get that number, they can log into your account and do whatever they want, the first thing is turning off 2 factor and changing the email / password - the account is now theres.

I love army of me and her earlier stuff, I am guessing it is the acapella element, I couldn’t get through it, I was waiting for the tracks to start, it seemed very self indulgent even for bjork

Yes, that code thing is the two factor authentication, one of the big scams that they try at the moment. Its a real pain but at least it isn't your bank account.

I never used that when I had mine although it sounds useful. I guess you could get round it with a patch switcher.

So did John Dillinger, although he didn't have much say in the matter

Clearly he wasn't. if you put a fill in and can't do it, you have messed the song up, ie, you couldn't do the fill. If you can't do something, dont do it.

Impressive - how is it bolted on and could it take the weight of an ipad (or for that matter, a drunk pub goer falling over it!)

Its symptomatic of a shorted tone capacitor As the value of an older fender bass is more in its age and originality rather than it being an instrument, I would say that this would be the right thing to do.

Looks great - I guess it is down to what sort of price it lands at. Guessing from its feature set and other devices that they do that it will be quite a lot.

I remember buying that when it first came out, it was very heavily played.

OK, so that is not like they used to be, faking it, doing 45 minutes badly and then storming off. I guess some people get better. Nope - There are some that you can laugh at like Motley crue, who I didn't care about in the first place, others like rush and genesis I really did, and Bon Jovi, they were good.

ok, yes that looks like a broken pot, or a pot that has come away from the board. It should be easy to turn but should do a bit more than that

Well, she is someones mum, wonder how they feel! I have heard peter Gabriel recently and yes, he sounds good, but not as good as he used to. He still puts on a great show and is still writing, and I would still happily go and see him if the ticket price was in any way reasonable (which it never is), but it isn't quite the same.

Was there no gain change in all of its travel? Its just that if it is a single turn pot, there is a gap right in the middle which would make it cut out, but the rest of the travel should work. Thinking about it, I beleive I have a tone pump in a box somewhere, I will see how that one is.

Odd weekend. We were supposed to be doing a gig in a village sat night, but when we went to confim last week were informed the LL had had a heart attack and was taking it easy now and they thought thye had told us but not. Well, fair enough, they probably had other things on their minds. Then we got a notification of a local pub that is closing and up for sale wanted us on a sunday night 7-10. A bit odd, most places dont do sunday nights but whatever. Went down there in the rain to setup, and turns out the landlord had got drunk, forgot he booked us and hadn't advertised or anything. There were about 10 people there, but we went ahead anyway. Easy setup as there was noone in the way, the pub is good for live music, and the guitarist wasn't in the way, so we could get setup before he got there. Did a sound check, sounded fine. Started the gig, had now got to about 12 people, sounded awful, loads of feedback, levels all over the place, no idea why. First song sounded weird, second song we missed half of it, sounds like a trainwreck but on the plus side, noone really there to hear it. After the 3rd song, things fell into place, and continued the first half ok. A few other people drifted in, and it picked up a bit but not much, a few tracks went down ok, like the streets and Linkin park. I am playing a fretless bass, a gwb35, as I just got it and thought I would see how it did, it did fine, better for some tracks a bit trickier for others. During the second half a few more people came in and there was a bit of dancing, but not that much. Got to the end, people obviously called for one more song, even though they hadn't really noticed we were there, so we did. Easy packup and load, and nice to get back before 11. The landlord was actually really happy for whatever reason (I am sure he couldn't have made money from it) and the landlord of another venue was tehre who wanted to book us too, so I guess it was positive, and it was a paid practice which was also good, but not going to go down in the list as something to be remembered! Ironically (and maybe because there weren't many people there), some tracks I think we did better than ever, including my singing ones like "Feel it still" etc. so I enjoyed that. And the GWB35 is certainly a pretty easily giggable bass.

So as promised, I did. Not the gig on saturday, that was cancelled, but we picked up another gig for sunday, which I am back from. I figured as I normally play the acrylic bass in the second half, i only needed it for the first half which is mainly the blues and rock bits before we get on to the party stuff int he second half. Well, turns out I enjoyed playing it so much I just carried on, and as there weren't many people there, didn't seem much point using the acrylic as it is largely for show. Some songs I found it actually seemed to make easier. There were a few that were tricky, the ones I normally use a plectrum for, not using that on a GWB35, anything that needed a longer sustain not as good. but most where, and the ones I thought might be tricky - all right now top bit at the 17th fret up was actually pretty good. In the end was good too - as I play the piano with one hand and the bass with the other, it was handy that it was actually up more because of the lighter pressure thing.

Well, yes, you have been hitting the inspirational posters too hard!

Urgh - did you read that on a new age inspirational picture? Or an MBA course about giving 110%

spin it back to where it came from and see if it comes back?

It gives me more speed in reality. Not only that it is more comfortable. However, if you currently use 2 I doubt it is easy to learn to use 3, I started with 3, so 2 seems a bit uncomfortable.

Yep, online on the parcelforce.com site, which is where I noticed where you but it it mentions it will appear on your statement as parcel2go.com. Ironically I had previously gone to parcel2go, where the cost was £18, which is why I thought i would check parcelforces site.

Ah - sorry missed that, I thought it was for a full bass! I got 3 big knobs and 6 sliders plus postage from ashdown including postage for £2.50

Not sure why you would go to a music teacher who wasn't teaching you what you wanted to learn in a manner that is convenient to you? Its not like bass is a rare instrument or that you are in the sticks, you must have a huge choice of options (try chapman stick teachers)

I use 3, my two fingers are not really fast enough for whatever reason and they don't seem to be getting faster, so when I first got a bass when I was a kid i used 3 fingers and thats what stuck, one fingernail like a pick, one finger both sides (like geddy lee but not as good), two for medium paced stuff, 3 for everything else. In no fixed reason, just whatver my hand decides to do.