NancyJohnson

[quote name='bootleg' timestamp='1489148720' post='3254746'] Of course, Rush's induction speech was all blah-blah-blah [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_waN3sAGw4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=O_waN3sAGw4[/url] [/quote] At least someone knew what I was alluding to...

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1489061575' post='3254026'] I was in Andertons a couple of weeks ago. Couldn't see what I fancied, but the assistant urged me to come back in a couple of months as they were going all out to increase their bass department. I also noted that the bass amps weren't downstairs like they used to be, and there was a few amps dotted around in the bass "saloon". Is that "it" at the moment? [/quote] The bass stuff has been up on the ground floor for quite a while. When you consider that bass players generally make up a third or half of the guitarists in a band, the size of retail space set aside for bassists has always been a bit despairing.

Years ago in retirement, and alongside his bowler hat duties at Ascot Racecourse, my father in law took a job hand delivering, door knocking and verifying electoral roll documents on Wentworth. I suppose as a keen golfer he was drawn to the estate generally, enjoyed the walking and the occasional running into (the golfing fraternity) residents (Faldo etc.). Via me, he knew who Chris Squire was (I used to look at his visit list) and he met him a a couple of times over the years, saying he was always rushing off somewhere, but came over as a thoroughly decent bloke. What you want to hear I suppose.

Well this should get your juices flowing. Skip past all the blah-blah-blah and start reading from paragraph #5. [url="https://www.yahoo.com/music/well-just-together-fun-yes-singer-jon-anderson-180505967.html"]https://www.yahoo.com/music/well-just-together-fun-yes-singer-jon-anderson-180505967.html[/url]

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1488714639' post='3251187'] Strangely, no. Is there a Fender UK? [/quote] They were in East Grinstead. Good luck trying to buy direct...they'll point you to a shop (Andertons) who'll (understandably) hike up the price. Alternately, eBay is your friend; you can get a whole loaded plate (with a DH1, plus middle and neck pickups) for £55.00 from the US.

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1488966260' post='3253254'] I am still very puzzled as to why the vintage model shown earlier in the thread is still not showing on the epiphone web site under news or new products. Surely it would have been announced by now! I am planning a new purchase in the summer and this was high on my list of ones to try. [/quote] I wouldn't get too worried...apparently it's not due until summer anyhow and given that Epiphone promoted the last reissue by doctoring photos of the then current Gibson model, don't believe anything until until you see it hanging in your local musical store.

I keep promising myself that I'll attend one of these auctions. I love that site. There's a Hamer Futura up. Ooooh.

We're originals, so it'll mean zero to anyone reading this unless it's Andy or MacDaddy. The whole set just belts along, but we close with a song called 'Stay Out Late'...I wouldn't even say it's the whole song really either, we just drop back into a final verse and it's a delicious key change. The guitar reverts from powerchords to the song's intro riff and it just drives. It gives me goosepimples just writing this.

I think I'll be getting one of these. Despite already running a racked RBI, the option to run this into a two-channel set up is kind of dreamy...fundamentally, it's doing what my (other) outboard is doing (cleanish set BDDI and a GT2). If anyone from Tech21 is reading this, is there any plan to integrate this unit with a poweramp, like the dUg model?

[quote name='julesb' timestamp='1488727243' post='3251321'] It's just supposed to be a bit of fun. We all played this gear back then so of course there are fond memories associated with the times when we started playing but I was trying to make the point of how universally good the cheap gear seems to be at the moment. Got to go, I have to call Daddy to see if he landed that '62 Jazz for me. Shall I add some smileys? [/quote] No need for smileys, no! I think as kids we all watched Top of the Pops and analysed the gear bands were using...as part of Team Bass Player, we all collectively aspired to one of three major brands, but in all probability moved through Columbus, Shaftesbury and Ibanez gear before landing the metaphorical big one, only to discover the anticipation and expectation of ownership outweighed ownership itself. Kids nowadays don't realise how good cheap gear actually is either.

Harsh on Carlsboro. I ran a Stingray Bass Combo (like the one below) for a long time and it was pretty damn epic considering I was only 14 or 15 years old; the guitarist in my band at the time used a Carlsboro Scorpion combo and I'd honestly have zero qualms about using either now. I think in these days, when gear is relatively affordable, it's too easy for people to say that 30 years ago Hondo guitars wrecked this, that, or another, but we all had to start somewhere and unless daddy works in the city, it's quite unlikely that you were going to start out on a Rickenbacker through an Ampeg SVT. I have very fond memories of the stuff I started out on; it was perfectly acceptable to me to be playing a paper round funded CBS/Arbiter bass through whatever my first amplifier was...that I'd paid for it myself made me cherish it even more. If I'd wanted Fender bass in the 70s, the Bell Catalogue price for a Jazz was likely 10-15 times what I paid for my Arbiter. The only thing that playing these cheap basses and amplifiers was to make the hunger for a better, more playable instrument all the more evident.

Like it says.

[quote name='danbowskill' timestamp='1488578389' post='3250320'] What amp do you normally play? ...Just out a curiosity :-) [/quote] Posted above...generally a Sansamp RBI into a (Matrix) poweramp into Hartke or Barefaced enclosure(s). Also have an option of a dual channel set up based around a Sansamp BDDI & VTBass DI. Plenty of grit via emulators.

Well, tubes or otherwise, it's in the past and normal service will resume tomorrow when the Johnson machine rolls into Newbury.

Sansamp RBI into one side of a Matrix poweramp here. Best set up I've ever used and I'd never go back to a one box amplifier. The poweramp also gives me the option to run dual channels via a floorboard as well.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1488545556' post='3249870'] Now I've got a bass from this lot myself and it's really good. But I have to say these gumby looking things on the end of the necks aren't pretty. Especially as a 5er [/quote] I always thought the headstocks were OK, but find the angled machines offputting. Banjo tuners would be good.

I'm conflicted and not actually certain whether I should be getting moist over a console. It looks like something from a 50s sci-fi movie. Sure, it has [i]provenance[/i] but that doesn't mean if you plug The Dead Kennedys into it they're going to make Dark Side Of The Moon II. My money is on the purchaser coming from the new rock money. Grohl. Billie-Joe. I love that they're throwing in a vintage photo of Pink Floyd promoting DSOTM. Hardly, a pound of free sausage meat with every turkey, is it?

I've just been looking through Google for images! The SVT logo on the fascia was italicised and coloured; it had a red V in the middle of SVT; it looked like the one below, although I don't recall there being Ultra Hi/Lo buttons on it and I thought there was a knob marked as being 'presence' (although looking at the plethora of online images, I guess there probably wasn't). The standby and power switches, while similar, were a bit bigger/squarer. Rightly or wrongly, I went into the 0db input. I had about five minutes to try and get an agreeable tone and found it very difficult to dial up anything decent; my regular signal chain is fairly simple, Sansamp RBI into a power amp...I just thought the Ampeg would replicate this easily. No growl, no dirt, nada. It almost sounded like I was playing with flats.

[quote name='James Nada' timestamp='1488487353' post='3249465'] Not the winner, but... [URL=http://s712.photobucket.com/user/badgerpigdog/media/Gibson-Steinberger-20_20-ad.jpg.html][IMG]http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww127/badgerpigdog/Gibson-Steinberger-20_20-ad.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/quote] I've had a slow burn for a 20/20 for a while now. I think Gibson only made about 150.

Gigged last night and after schlepping my quite modest Barefaced/rack through narrow corriders and up five flights of stairs, I'm told the first band on were supplying the bass ampage. My eyes beheld an Ampeg rig; an old SVT nestling atop a pair of tatty cabinets. Compared to the gear around it, it looked like Chicago's Willis Tower viewed from Lake Michigan. Never even touched an Ampeg in 30 years of playing and on the orders of the sounds guy, I returned my amps to my car. You know, the name of Ampeg is surrounded by legends...didn't Geddy use Ampeg? Great, I thought, let's drive this motherf*cker and see what my Thunderbird sounds like. Or not. I had about five minutes with it before our set and couldn't get any kind of drive or dirt out of it, the tone/presence controls barely did anything and it didn't seem to own it's frequency if that makes sense or 'throw' in the slightest. Sure it was loud, but that was about it...there was none of this monsterous tone that has been alluded to in the countless articles I've read over the years. Having used the same bass for recording via DI, it has a pretty acceptable tone recorded flat, but I couldnt actually accept that it could have sounded worse when amplified. It's difficult to describe the experience as anything other than underwhelming.

Amazon are selling 14077 sets for £32.00 at the moment...that's about a tenner or so off. You're welcome. Px

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1488357605' post='3248109'] Oh... I didn't know about. It must be these? Thanks for the heads up. [/quote] That's them. I think there's more mixes...years ago I went to a record fair in Reading and saw a promo CD that had at least four bass/drum/vocal mixes, but I was all spent up, so couldn't but it. Damn you Alice In Chains bootlegs.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1488308253' post='3247796'] Are you talking about this (Among others), NancyJohnson? [/quote] Nope! I just checked on my NAS. On tge CD single for Snowblind, there's isolated bass/drum/vocal mixes of Snowblind and Trans-Island Skyway.

Just on the Fagan/bass thing, I'd highly recommend the bass and drum mixes that turned up on the b-sides of some of the Kamakiriad period singles. Beautiful stuff.