NancyJohnson

I had seen these. Tonally, I'm very much in the Geddy/dUg area, so I guess my preference is for something with a little more top end frequency capability, to adequately pick up the dirt. The Big Baby II has (allegedly!) a usable frequency range 30hz-20khz, the non-tweetered/horn TKS give more rumble but feel the highs would be restricting.

When I see headstocks like this, I always wonder whether the first thing that goes through people's minds is to sand off the logo and re-shape it on a drum sander to something more Fenderesque.

The things that hit me immediately and observations are (just talke these as a whole, not individual points): i) I didn't like the Two Ten (but...), ii) I really wanted the Super Compact to 'win' this, but the Big Baby 2 sounded better when Alex switched to it, although as the BB2 pieces went on, I felt there was little to distinguish between the Super Compact and the BB2. My feeling was that in a band context, the nuances that make the cabinets what they are would maybe be lost on the mix, iii) I would have liked Alex to perhaps change the rotation of cabinets. It's feasible that had he played through the Super Compact, then gone to the Two Ten, my ears would have registered what the cabinet was doing differently.

The only things that irritate me about this whole torrid issue (aside from the stupidity of Frances Bean Cobain giving the guitar away as a marriage present and Courtney Love, generally), is that the whole guitar thing pretty much stopped Cobain's daughter's ex-husband Isiah Silva's band The Eeries dead in their tracks. They were on a sharp ascendency, possibly because of the Cobain connection and were (or perhaps still are), a wonderful band.

As I'm doing less and less *proper* band stuff, long been on the backline downsizing route and currently run a Darkglass A/O head into the Barefaced Big One prototype that I snagged in the SE Bash a few years back. Been thinking of going with a pair of 1x12s fulltime; actually bought a pair of Aguilars a couple of years ago, but felt they lacked the aggression I was looking for. I ran my gear through a pair of @graemeross Barefaced Super Compacts, but didn't really feel the benefits were enough to warrant moving the Big One along and/or throwing £1.5k+ at a similar enclosure set up. So now Darkglass. They look nice. Size is good. Weight is good. Umm, beyond that, that's it. Until I can get out and try them, no idea how they would sound. Anyone?

I was just perusing Talkbass and there's a thread up there about this bass. There's a degree of conjecture, but it appears it's a 1978 model, built for John Glascock of Jethro Tull. Serial number 0119. The bass was shown on the Hamer stand at the 1978 British Musical Instrument Trade Show, before it was passed over to John (John died in 1979, aged 28, of heart failure). Somewhere along the line, it changed hands and the owner was the late Paul Raven of Killing Joke/Prong/Ministry (also deceased, also of heart failure); someone on Talkbass found a video of him using the bass when he was with The Hellfire Club. The guy who got it appears to be a dealer (there's photos of the bass in a shop) and only joined TB in March looking for information on the instrument. Given the questions he's been asking, reckon he's pinching himself at his good fortune and didn't know anything about what he was buying...he's already mentioned on TB that he's going to flip it ('It'll be on sale soon'). How that bass ended up on eBay for £800 is still beyond me, but given two of its previous owners died of heart failure, I don't know whether it's jinxed! *The owner has a Reverb page. https://reverb.com/shop/homzs

Isn't like like saying, 'I'm a vegan, but I bloody love a bacon sandwich once in a while!'

Bears are caniforms. Mods! Do we let anyone in here? lol

This is the colour you want: Incidentally, and this may be a case of word blindness considering I used to refer to the much loved Beano comic caniform Biffo The Bear as Boof the Bear until quite recently (I'm a very youthful 50+ years old, BTW), imagine my horror at discovering the colour Daphne Blue was pronounced Daff-nee and not Dow-fan as I had been reading it for just about ever. This probably explains why I used to get stared at blankly when I was talking about the colour dow-fan blue to halpess guitar shop employees. /anyhow. Damp Squibb. That's what you need to ask for.

Ha! When he bought the place, I genuinely thought there was a bit of Tom and Barbara going on, but he's already done some phenominal work at self-sufficiency, organic vegetarian farming, going off-grid and trying to get the land back to how it was about 500 years ago (chemical free and ploppy). The natural hollow that this bit of land lies in is great; it's triangular, about 250 a side, good (possible) staging area, plus a field for camping. He's always been a man with a plan.

I have a mate who owns 40 acres near Dolton, part of his land forms a bowl and he currently has a farmer's cattle graze on it as it's unusable. Last summer he said he was thinking about using it for a music festival, with camping in an adjacent field. Watch this space.

I've been fitting Josi's pickups to various guitars for years and currently have a pair of humbucker sized P90s in my Epiphone Phant-o-matic. The old Epiphone humbuckers were just too muchy and phat, these just do what I want...there's just a cleanness to the dirt if this makes sense. I rarely use the neck position one...was thinking about taking it out and putting an action figure in the hole, a la Phil X. As an aside, this guitar has a six position rotary varitone switch on it...I suppose this may have some bearing on tone when compaired to a regular pot, but it does what I want it to do.

It looks like a stripped Status/Washburn? I love playing what's-that-bass?

I was going to suggest adding the Sterling by Musicman RAY4HH, but was staggered to see these retail for over a grand. Thought this was a budget range! Sterling SUB maybe? There is a 4HH model that retails at £450.00. Reverend Guitars? The Thundergun is a wonderful thing, so is the Mercalli. Might be able to get a secondhand one for under £500.00.

Not a she BTW.

I've got an Epiphone FT140 acoustic, new in the late 1970s. My mum was left some money from her mother, they really didn't get on so she passed it along to me and my brother. No idea of how much it cost...certainly not as much as £100. I rarely play it, but couldn't sell it. It plays OK, but tonally it's not that good... I'd say it's not really contributed to my playing in the slightest and if anything has had more of a detrimental effect. I would like to get a decent acoustic at some point...a Taylor or Takamine, just to see what I've been missing out on.

Big hands, big, umm, cough, err... allegedly.

I have this. Aria Primary Bass, 1978. The bass was in pretty poor condition when I bought it, but it had Schallers fitted, although beyond that is was just a body and neck. Everything that's screwed into the body is new. I just decided that every time I took it out of the house I needed to put a ding in it. It's way worse than this now.

Let me tell you a story. There's a Star Trek analogy, but don't let that deter you from reading. The scene below is from the first Generations film. Data has had the emotion chip installed and is laughing at a joke that someone said seven years previously: Why, pray are you asking, are you showing me this clip? A few years ago, I was playing with an incredible guitarist called Pete. His wife told me he was wired slightly different to anyone else I would meet, so shouldn't feel bad if I were to say anything to upset him if he ever weirded me out. He had a memory like nobody else I'd ever met, but it was just the way he applied those memories that made me recall the above clip when it happened the first time. We'd been playing two or three years by this stage and he started recalling little guitar parts from rehearsals years previously and expected me to know what he was going on about. Our singer pulled up recordings and boom, there they were. And again. And again. He had an incredible memory; he works in some sort of paint place, I called in on him one lunchtime and he was literally having a conversation with some bloke that had been in to buy paint months beforehand and it kind of went: 'So you're asking me for ts five litres of blah blah blah in satin, but you actuallu ordered the vinyl silk and the reference code was 12Y55-GGa.' I saw him do this sort of thing regularly. It was jaw-droppingly astonishing. He could navigate anywhere from memory...just glance at a map, photographic recall, venues we'd never been to that me and the drummer couldn't find even when we were going off a sat-nav. I suppose my point here is that yes, he did remember everything.

This is like saying if I attach a lump of bacon to a fillet of beef, it all becomes some delicious baconybeefy thing.

I bought a £4.00 four-string set branded as 'Soldier' primarily for the purpose of putting them on a mate's bass during a full set up; they were going to be on and off a few times, so just needed something cheap. They were in the same packaging as the OPs and were really pretty good. My mate doesn't play much bass, but I know they're still on his Jazz a couple of years later.

I used to forget songs while we were actually playing them live. Little panic. It's an age thing. Amazingly I can remember every note of the old songs I played 30+ years ago.

I prefer the visual aesthetic of a BadAss or whatever the Hipshot is called (KickAss). These feel nicer under your palm - I've never been cut on the wrist by a BadAss/KickAss. Better (and possibly more stable) adjustability. Beyond that, I honestly doubt they provide anything more, tonally or otherwise.