NancyJohnson

Opinions on headstock tuners please. Bought a Reverb branded one a couple of years back, which is great (but no longer available) then recently bought a D'Addario/Planet Waves one which is pretty poor (it struggles on the E&B strings). Cheers.

Opinions on headstock tuners please. Bought a Reverb branded one a couple of years back, which is great (but no longer available) then recently bought a D'Addario/Planet Waves one which is pretty poor (it struggles on the E&B strings). Cheers.

I used it for the last gig I did with my old band, kind of knew that was it...I was shouting my way through the last chorus, took it off midway and threw it across the stage. It had been a fairly rowdy punky gig, a few boisterous punters. I remember seeing it fly through the air and clatter onto the floor, thinking OMFG. It was like slow motion. There were people watching who were just gasping. It just lie there, the strings vibrating nastily. No big damage. The thing is breakproof.

My old Aria Primary. Gumtree find. I've done stuff to it...Dunlop Straploks, Hipshot Kickass bridge, Delano pickup, scratchplate and controls. Every time I take it out of the house I make sure I ding it somewhere. This photo is a bit old, it's in even worse condition now.

If you want versatility of the unit, go to Spotify and dial up Lutz/Nowherebound. It's a combination of me going through a BDDI and the dUg. There's a stripped back version of the album coming next week which is insanely good and the bass is even more up front.

While he has decent chops, Tim Starace kind of represents everything I absolutely detest about these guys who are, in the nicest possible way, just playing someone else's lines. That smugness on his face, the look that shouts either look-at-me-I-am-so-in-the-groove-it-hurts or did-someone-just-fart?-oh-that-was-me-and-doesn't-it-smell-awesome? Sigh. I would sooner see Geddy (although understandably he's dealing with the loss of the new guy at the moment) or at least see ol' Timmy doing his own lines rather than gurning his way through whatever he's playing. Anyhow. Go buy a dUg. It'll do everything here and more.

8. Levy's extra long.

There's an inevitability that the coating may come off, they last ages and as a pick player there's a short length around the bridge pickup that will deteriorate. To be honest though, what they look like is unimportant; the longevity of the strings far outweighs the way they look.

Honestly don't understand why Tech21 didn't bring out the Ged2112 in this sized unit to start out with! Two or three years of reinventing. Anyhoo, just buy a dUg, folks. It'll do pretty much everything a GED will do and a load more.

He'll do anything you want if you have enough swag.

I wasn't really playing the game, but the Sandberg sounded the better by a country mile to my ears.

If you're looking to shield the cavity, honestly, go to your local garden centre and find some adhesive copper tape; it's identical to the stuff sold as musical cavity shielding and horticulturaly used to keep slugs off your planters. Fraction of the price too.

Any fans here? A while back picked up his biography, just saw it by chance in Waterstones. Finally picked it up about 48 hours ago and it's a joy.

Rush.

For Christmas, my wife was kind enough to swing for a John East preamp; I knew it was going on one of my Lulls and ultimately decided it was going on the five string. The bass was fairly lively beforehand, but man alive, the instrument has come alive. Considering the money I shelled out for the bass, I profess to being a bit miffed that the control cavity wasn't shielded already (not that this caused any issue previously), so I had to wait for the arrival of some copper tape before fitting (Top tip: much to my chagrin, the tape is identical to the stuff we use for keeping slugs off our planters, so get it from a garden centre if you need any). I had a bass previously that had a J-Retro on it and all was well with that, so really no point in looking elsewhere really. Only nervous moment was having to drill the body for the active/passive switch. It's a wonderful bit of kit, I can cut and boost the tone, sweep me mids etc. Lovely. Highly recommended.

I rarely visit instrument shops, large or small, Andertons is OK but once a year is enough. Moving to my singular experience, quite a few years back I was asked to help out selecting Telecaster for a mate's kid (it was reward for good exam results), had to be new and had to have a guarantee. Against my better judgement, we schlepped off to Dawsons Music in Reading. The place was staffed by a bunch of dead-behind-the-eyes teenagers whose sole remit was to try and push Epiphones or pointy trash onto us. While mate and kid were looking, I sauntered off to some dark corner to check whatever new basses they had in stock. Pretty much everything I picked up was unplayable, worst of the bunch being one of the Gibson Grabber reissues; horrible front bow on the neck and I swear the action midway was about 3/4" off the board, dead strings, didn't intonate. I did question to myself at the time how it could even have left the factory this way, or why Dawsons wouldn't at least have given the instrument a once over, but all they're doing is just moving stock and it's just an SKU; I could well have buying a drill in B&Q as far as the business was concerned.

I've often wondered, thought it been stolen. Today the question was answered; Steve Jansen has it in safekeeping. This kind of makes me happy.

I do like them a lot, however one observation. Two years ago I took delivery of a Mike Lull bass that appears to be strung with D'Addarios (coloured ball-ends). These still sound as zingy now as when the bass arrived. It's not had a ton of use, but even so, two years...they should be dead by now.

I haven't watched this, but (from a trivia perspective), I do recall my mum correctly identifying P J Proby as the Masked Singer on Opportunity Knocks 40-odd years ago. Reading his bio, it does seem quite shocking now how his career nosedived after two on-stage trouser splitting incidents, especially considering how Flea did a good chunk of a show I saw at Wembley wearing nothing at all.

We are bass players! If I was waiting for paying gigs to support my GAS, I'd probably still be playing a Columbus Jazz Bass copy.

I saw them once with Elliot Coleman (this the other guy?), tiny club in Bracknell. Jay used to do the door at gigs I was doing years ago and was keen for us to use one of his rehearsal rooms - he had two, but then upped this to four (unsure whether he still owns them since his move to Austin; Tesseract used to rehearse there). If you're interested, check out Heights. It's quite wonderful. It's instrumental stuff; Jay on drums, plus another two guys I know; Al Heslop/guitar (he's a great producer too, did some of my old recordings) and John Hopkin on bass (I think JH is a member here).