NancyJohnson

Amy also uses a Waterstone Tom Petersson 12-string bass...I've one of those babies. Monster tone. P

Have a looksie at this link: [url="http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/index.html"]Gibson Les Paul 'Robot' Guitar[/url]. Scroll to the video page and down to the instructions button. Christ! Soon to be appearing on a bass or are guitarists just too anal? P

[quote name='The Burpster' post='86196' date='Nov 9 2007, 07:55 PM']P, Jeeeeaaaysus, is that for real? does it have pics? Some breat suggestions bud, "Walk this way" is on the short list, as is "beyond the bass clef" [/quote] A couple of years back I bought a few books at Gatwick just before flying out to Skiathos for a week - the JJ book was one of them. It was so quiet I was literally bored shitless. I read a book a day and the JJ one twice. Yes, there's pictures. That said, The Dirt is the best music bio I've ever read. P

Motley Crue - The Dirt Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries Dvid Lee Roth - Crazy From The Heat Ian Christie - Everybody Wants Some (the Van Halen Saga) Chris Salewicz - Redemption Song (Joe Strummer bio) Giles Smith - Lost In Music Caroline Sullivan - Bye Bye Baby Seb Hunter - Hell Bent For Leather Chuck Klosterman - Fargo Rock City Stuart Maconie - Cider With Roadies There's a fantastic bio of Aerosmith called 'Walk This Way' Ian Hunter - Diary Of A Rock'n'Roll Star Not at all musically related. Michael J Fox - Lucky Man - this is an amazing read Pete Brown - Three Sheets To the Wind - one man's quest for the perfect pint Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair Jenna Jameson/Neil Strauss - How To Make Love Like A Porn Star

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='85782' date='Nov 9 2007, 08:46 AM']Ta for the link! Hmm... I find it a bit hard to believe that any member of Rush's crew would be allowed to post willy-nilly on a forum. I'd like to be proved wrong, though..[/quote] That was my thought exactly. I was a little surprised that this guy didn't know some of the most basic details of the signature model (ie the neckplate) and even with a nod from his employer would actually have the audacity to post saying 'Hi. I'm Geddy Lee's tech and I'm searching for a '72.'. <sound of cash registers chinging!> I mean, let's face it, Mr Lee probably isn't short of a few bob, so why would he instruct anyone on his staff to go searching so publicly on a forum like that? Surely if there was any urgency, he'd have his channels for obtaining an instrument - I'm also sure that Fender would have a few stock models from that period kicking around for a high-profile endorsee. Plus, there's always Gmall or Elderly, eBay etc. P

[quote name='El_JimBob' post='85626' date='Nov 8 2007, 07:34 PM']That's funny - I see a lake of blood with the fire of death approaching from the left - do i have to go to therapy??[/quote] Yes...yes, I think you do.

Over on Talkbass there's a Geddy Lee for sale (LINK: [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=376764"]Talkbass[/url] It looks like a poster called Russ Ryan (purportedly Geddy Lee's tech) chipped in on the thread about his involvement with the signature Jazz and how 'Geddy asked me to source him another '72'. I would point out I haven't a clue whether this guy Russ is the genuine article or not (take it on face value...he's only been a Talkbass member for four days), but it would be interesting if he was as he's largely ignorant about the 'limited edition' neck plate etc. and he comes across as dumb as a box of hair. P

Now listen up, I know a lot of shots here are all basses reclining on feather quilts and things that look like furniture on expensive stands, but this shot was taken of me (well more specifically my bass...a 1979 Precision, black/rosewood board) at a gig a couple of weeks back. 'The camera didn't feel like it had fired', my mate said on his e-mail, 'but I realised I had [it] set to the B(ulb) setting, so it was a long exposure.' Personally, I love it. It's a weird picture, and so anti anything that's posted here, but it's great porn. I can't stop looking at it. P

OK reading into this, the M-Audio PCI card looks ideal...remember this is just for very basic recording. I can achieve an awful lot in Audition, which I know backwards. P

In answer to one question here, I just want to keep it as basic and as simple as possible...I neither have the money nor inclination to throw loads of money at this (my guitarist co-owns a studio so go figure), I just want to be able to put ideas down on the PC, play around with them in Audition and then cut a CD of any end product mixdown. P

Nice article in todays Daily Telegraph about buying from the US. One interesting piece in the article made an instant connection with me about buying stuff from US sellers (a la Talkbass) who will only ship to 'the lower 48 states', or, more to the point, sellers who offer free-shipping to the lower 48. You can now register a US mailto address through [url="http://www.myus.com"]'My US'[/url], who are based in Bradenton, which is south of Tampa on the gulf coast of Florida. [i]My US[/i] will then forward the package to anywhere worldwide. Prices? A 20kg box costs $177.50 to forward the the UK...30kg is $212.50, so roughly £80-£100. Obviously you're gonna be responsible to pay duties. Hope this helps! P

I want to set up a very basic (cheap - heh) recording set up on a PC running XP Home...I want to throw as little money at this as possible...this is just for track building and ideas. Additionally, if I have to buy any external hardware, I need to be able to break it down easily. I've got, and am adept at, Adobe Audition 2.0 (I have a friend who works for Adobe...); I generally use this for editing of existing tracks recorded elsewhere, so I'd like to keep using this. Gearwise, I have an Alessis SR16 drum machine - which for the purpose of this, I will fire fills and stop it via a footswitches...I don't want to program it - and a Line 6 bass POD, Line 6 guitar POD which I will DI and guitars. All I want to do is plug something into my PC (preferably via the USB), and play along with the drum machine, then add bass and vocals later. Can someone let me know what I need to do (or buy) and what I need to set the PC to do. Keep it simple! Cheers P

Some years back I spoke with a guy called Mark Plunkett (no pun) who was the bass player for Little Angels (remember them?) - who had just had a #1 album 'Jam' - about the Fender Precision. I asked why it was that he was using a Fender Precision over the Spectors and other furniture that he had in backup. He simply answered that they don't go wrong and a million buyers couldn't all be wrong. That stayed with me. A short time later I got my '79 in a trade deal and I've used it ever since. Aside from the original pickup failing a couple of years back and then one of the pots going, I've never done anything to it - it's a very reliable machine. Doesn't need adjusting or tweaking, it looks better the older it gets and it sounds just beautiful - I gigged with it Friday and two guys in the crowd remarked after how [i]clanky[/i] it sounded. I play it every day and have jammed/gigged with it maybe 500 times since I got it. With this in mind the only thing it lacks is a low-B...hopefully a Lakland DJ5 will be mine in the new year and my Precision can go off and have a well-earned semi-retirement. P

[quote name='metaltime' post='76227' date='Oct 18 2007, 10:28 PM']now we are talking i think of you compared your brain and einsteins there may be similarities warning warning im a 1/3 of a bottle o jack down may no longer b talking sense[/quote] One evening my drummer and me drank half a litre of Jack and then started on a bottle of Four Roses Bourbon. I have never been so drunk (or sick during the night for that matter), but I have to say, more credit to you Mr Metaltime...I did it on a Saturday, not a Thursday. P

My E was a bit dead, so I whipped off the whole set, put them into circles (ie in shipping condition) and put them on the top shelf with the cups and knives etc. Incidentally, if we're gonna start keeping records, they are D'Addarios EXL220s or 170s. My good lady hates me using the saucepans to eke(?) another week or so from them, so I just figured 'what the hell, they're going to be in the recycling end of next week anyway' and stuck em in. Corker. P

I put my old kernackered strings in the dishwasher this morning. Jeepers, this is much better than boiling [i]and[/i] they're lemony fresh! P

My band Last Three Standing make our live debut on 26/10/07 at The Catseye Studio, Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire. It's a free event to promote the facility where we rehearse (our frontman co-owns the place) - if you want to come along, please let me know off list as numbers are limited. There'll be a few bands playing. Please visit [url="http://www.lastthreestanding.co.uk"]www.lastthreestanding.co.uk [/url] for the full skinny. Thanks P

I know this isn't musical, but got a beautiful black bodied Olympus OM1. It's trashed - much in the same way as an old peeling Fender Jazz - the brass was showing through the black finish, it's dinged and the seals needed replacing, but it's lovely. £40.00. A place in Reading had a double cutaway Gibson Les Paul junior on sale for £120.00 one time about five years ago. It was wrecked, but played great. I literally sprinted to the cashpoint but it was gone when I got back. Damn damn damn. P

[quote name='Buzz' post='71957' date='Oct 10 2007, 01:53 AM']Check NancyJohnson's most recent thread, he did his own banner: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6680"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6680[/url] Looks quite swish actually[/quote] I thank you. We're gigging 26/10/07 at Catseye Studios in leafy Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire (where we rehearse). The banner (plus my Waterstone 12 and 79 Precision will be on show. P

[quote name='Hamster' post='70717' date='Oct 7 2007, 06:13 PM']I went to Dawsons in Reading last night to the free Fender clinic with Greg Koch and Reggie Hamilton. It was very hard to keep the plastic in my pocket after such an enjoyable free gig. Had a long chat with Reggie - such a nice guy. I liked his tribute bass, very easy to play, wide range of tones and a D tuner. I just made do with some strings and a signed CD from the master of gristle Hamster[/quote] Hamster Where do you live in the Runnymede? Windlesham born, raised in Egham (or Pooley Green to be more precise). Moved away about twenty years ago (along with Bill Bryson!). P