jezzaboy

Just finished the book and found it an intresting read. It is the story of Jerry`s life rather than his life as a bassist. If I want to read about P basses, I can come on here It is now on it`s way to Mickeyboro. Thanks to HJ for buying it in the first place.

BTW whatever happend to Sarah5string who started this thread? She hasn`t been here since 2010.

Motorhead No sleep to Hammersmith deluxe edition. Disc 2 has live outtakes and is much nastier. Like finding a pickle in a tunnocks teacake.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1360159713' post='1965830'] I wish I hadn't bothered! [/quote] I`m glad you did. Off to put on some Gazzza right now!

They are both very differnet in subtle ways that I will explain below. The Yammy is good. The Epiphone is crap. There you go.

Looking from it from the other sde. I told a guy that I would buy the bass at the price he asked for it and asked how he was wanting paid. I never heard from him again. And the bass is still for sale. But at the end of the day it is up to him who he sells his bass too. All my other sales/purchases have been great and doing the biz on here is far better than e bay or gumtree.

A couple of years ago I pluged a Sansamp into a Wharfdale 12" powered monitor and it was..........guff. It started making farty noises right away at low volumes and I had to turn the bass, drive and volume down a good bit. No use for gigging. I recall it was rated about 250 watts but I think that was rather optomistic. Mabye a classD would be better but I wouldn`t like to shell out for a powered cab and find out it was no use unless you could pick up something suitable 2nd hand? It will be intresting to find out if this works, especially if you are paying!

Re 5th fret. I seem to recall that a punk/ska bandmember whose name escapes me for now, turned up at Aston "famly man" Barrett house for a bass lesson. He opened his front door and said to the guy "nothing above the 5th fret!" and promptly shut the door. And here endeth the lesson Grasshopper. Apologies for the thread diversion.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1359703668' post='1958937'] Good point. It might well be a mix of both. Stick a cheapish set of rounds on in the factory & the player will bond with that type of string & have a fear of trying flats as the MD can tell everyone that they're very dull sounding & have no top end, which some folk take as being "you can't hear anything above the 7th fret"! [/quote] Above the 7th fret!!!! Are you insane????? There is [i]nothing [/i]above the 7th fret. The world will end there. I have Status flats (damm good value, about £20 delivered) on a P and D`addario on the Yam and Ibby so get the best of both worlds. I agree with the earlier posts regarding flats. Mine have been on a few different basses, are about 18 months old and they sound the same as when I bought them so what`s in it for the manufacturers?

An Epi EB O followed by an Epi EB3. Both sounde like a plie of cack and had an awful finish. Which makes me wonder why I bought them as well!!

I know a drummer who actuallys owns a kit!! But he has a Mazda mx5 and can`t move the kit around. And he had the kit before the car!!

Welcome to the world of Gumtree / Joinmyband / Bandmix etc. I too have existed in this twighlight world for around a year now and would not wish it on anybody. Hopefully my time in the world of people-who-mess-you-about is over!!

Merello has/had one. Gve hm a shout.

If anyone else was offended by my 'mistake', please accept my unreserved apologies. I know what I must do - I'll be out in the stables with a revolver, tell Daphne I loved her........... Who`s that? Her out of Scooby Doo?

What an intresting man LS is. Ta for the link.