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You won't regret trying flats on a Lull - those pickups really respond well to them. I have GHS on my 5-string and TI on the 4-string. Those two sets are so wildly different in performance and feel that I try to avoid moving straight from one to the other. The GHS are firm, will take any amount of digging in, and work well playing a rock gig in a decent pub. The TI are [i][b]very [/b][/i]compliant, soft under the fingers, and respond well to a very light touch. Disclaimer: I don't slap, tap or sweep. I just play bass. YMMV.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1474294314' post='3136885'] And that's exactly it. It is history. [/quote] I read history, for pleasure and to learn things. I listen to history for much the same reason. I listen to Bach and Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Cole Porter, Sinatra and Elvis, The Beatles and David Bowie. It's pleasant and I learn things.

Feels like it's trying too hard ...

Surprised to see we've got this far without anyone mentioning John Entwistle. He owned literally hundreds of basses, the vast majority of which never made it near a stage, probably never even got played by him. So, pre-owned by famous bass player = lots of extra dosh? I don't think so. Incidentally, Trev it was Silverfoxnik, Clarky and me who between us owned the Wal Pro that Nick Beggs played on Too Shy. It's only fair to point out that I would never have bought it had I realised. At the time that bass was in Beggs' hands, I absolutely detested bands like Kajagoogoo and I loathed that song! Edit - just remembered that Nik still uses that bass as his avatar photo.

I had #001 of the production series ...

That guy who stood in on bass when Paul died was pretty good though.

Where's Bottle when you need him? His cheap-as-chips Maplins PA rig was the surprise star of the rig shoot-out a little while back ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RENAISSANCE-LUCITE-BASS-1978-SMOKED-EXTREMELY-RARE-THUNDER-BASS-TONES-GREAT-/112108826749?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

Weirdly enough, 29 years ago is roughly the point at which I gave up on 'modern music' ... crushed between the twin juggernauts of rap and synth-bass. I withdrew into my Beatles and my Stones, Yes and Pink Floyd, Bach and Beethoven, and didn't re-emerge until my daughter became a teenager and I took her to see Foo Fighters at Earl's Court.

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1473692807' post='3132312'] I bought one of the auralex foam and wood speaker stand thignies for just this reason. [/quote] I use Auralex stands routinely, and they're a great cure for 'boom' off a hollow floor or stage. Not sure they can do much about resonant frequencies though. If the room is going to ring when it hears a particular frequency, then allowing that frequency (along with all the others of course) to be heard more clearly is not necessarily the solution.

I saw the latest incarnation of Doctor Feelgood at the Half Moon in Putney about five years ago. Yet again, it was the 'A'. Every time the bass player hit it, the whole room just rang. A few months later I saw The Jetsonics (feat. Low End Bee) play the support slot at the same venue and warned Adam about the rogue A. Didn't make a blind bit of difference, the whole room just rang. Again.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1470080802' post='3103191'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el3XNuBTy_Q[/media] RIP Mick [/quote] Thank you! Thank you so much! I've been bombarded with people praising MK ever since I first got involved with this forum, and I never really got what the fuss was all about - tons of talent, but also tons of fx and basslines that only worked with a very idiosyncratic style of music. As regular gigger with pub rock bands, modern originals bands, blues bands, northern soul bands, etc. I could never see (hear) what it was that I could take from his playing. This track, on the other hand, oh yes - there are licks, riffs and note choices there that make MK sound like a regular bass player who just happens to be really, really good. Now that's something I can at least aspire to.

If you get nowhere playing gigs at military bases, try playing basses at military gigs.

I travel as far as the pub. Why would I go any further? And not much point in stopping before I get there.

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1473372529' post='3129666'] Yes. If reading music somehow interferes with the groove, it's because you suck at reading. [/quote] As a non-reader myself I'm quite happy to be told that this is the case, but for yer average pub rock band (like wot I play in mainly) there's more to it than the musical groove. It's essential to interact with your fellow band members, and with the audience, and to appear to be having a great time even if you're not. Eyes and teeth, boys, eye and teeth! If we all spend the gig either staring at our fretting hand or - even worse - staring at bits of paper, then no one will be listening to our groove. They will, quite rightly, assume that we are as dull as we look and take their custom elsewhere. YMMV of course.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1473336489' post='3129226'] but then you get Keith Moon. [/quote]

I recently bought a Sandblasted Precision, the only new Fender I've ever bought. I went to look at it simply it was so pretty. I bought it because it sounds so good.

I use either a PJB Bass Buddy or a PJB Big Head through PJB headphones. Yes, I know, [i]fanboi [/i]and all that, but PJB kit does sound astonishingly good, especially in this sort of rig. My rig(s) don't include the drum machine/metronome thang, but that's because I invariably along with mp3s. If I need a metronome, I have an app on my phone. The Bass Buddy ain't cheap, but has the advantage that it's a real Swiss army knife of a device and can be used a very high-quality pre-amp or EQ device or DI box or ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRUBAKER-K-4B-XTREME-2003-10-/222219061347?hash=item33bd49c863:g:uVwAAOSwHoFXsVSr Anyone got a harpoon?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESP-GrassRoots-G-NS-70-Sho-Ryu-Ken-Nightmare-SAKITO-model-guitar-VERY-RARE-/122116016924?hash=item1c6eae8b1c:g:gdUAAOSweWVXclb8 I don't even [i]play [/i]guitar, but I want to buy this ...

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A drummer who's a psychopath ... surely not? Bwahahahahaha!!!!

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1472997022' post='3125859'] ... he's a lovely bloke and would say that on a friend only basis, we'd all get on with him famously. [/quote] [quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1473174108' post='3127676'] If the guy is a bit of a psychopath then its very awkward. [/quote] Well it didn't take long for "he's a lovely bloke" to get re-interpreted as "a bit of a psychopath". Do people actually [i][b]read [/b][/i]threads before jumping in?

Far Canal ... £425. Someone did well there.