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I briefly owned the bass player by the guy from morcheeba. It had a neck like a banana - took eight full turns to tame the action to something even approaching normality. He still sounded better playing it in front of me as it was than I did once I'd sorted it out. Lesson .....

You don't ask, you don't get

I have a peavey millennium av BXP 5er I was about to list

[quote name='inthedoghouse' timestamp='1414668202' post='2591978'] I'm happy with my P with the old original bit of bent metal :-) [/quote] Tried it -there are some practical / ergonomic advantages but I don't think it makes any realistic difference to sound

I didn't try it but I read notation and it doesn't look as hard as I thiught. Tracy wormworth at her finest

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1415385842' post='2599878'] In all seriousness, I found the Bass Guitar for Dummies book to be really good at helping with those light-bulb moments. It really set the foundation for me to start understanding chords, chord structures, the scales within those chords and how a bass fits in with all that. For example, if my guitarist was playing an E, then a D then an A chord, what bass notes can I play along with that? It helped answer that which meant that I only need to know the chord structure of song in order to write a bass line to it, or even jam to it, making up a bass line on the spot. Info on it here: http://eu.dummies.com/store/product/Bass-Guitar-For-Dummies-Book-Online-Video-Audio-Instruction-3rd-Edition.productCd-1118748808.html (of course you can buy it from whichever book shop you usually use, I just don't like promoting Amazon ) [/quote] One lightbulb moment for me in that book was the way it explains exactly what chord tones will work well over given chords.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415387074' post='2599889'] That'll work until some wag says something like "I'll give you £5 for it 'lol' " Programmes don't have a sense of humour. [/quote] I know:) I meant in the title only

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415288146' post='2598821'] I'm not against the idea, but there's a bit of a limitation. Something might be advertised at £549 on day one and it's perfectly reasonable to expect to see that in the header. The catch is going to come some time later when the price is reduced to £499. There's no easy way we can capture that programmatically so it's going to need the advertiser to change it manually - which kinda brings us back to where we already are. [/quote] Dead easy programmatically. See if there's a £ sign, see if anything that follows it can be parsed into a sensible number.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1415287438' post='2598802'] I think I know where you're coming from here. The uneditable price field we use is a trade off needed to allow the 'free advert under £50' model. We can't edit it either. If it was editable then someone could simply value a bass at £5, get their free advert up and then edit the price up to £500 to hide what they'd done. Trying this sort of thing wouldn't occur to most of us, but we regularly identify people thinking they're smart enough to 'beat the system' in various ways and that annoying little uneditable price tag plays a big part in stopping that. [/quote] Oh sure - doesn't take a lot of effort to modify a title when you drop the price though, does it ?

[quote name='Stompbox' timestamp='1415220523' post='2598132'] Well I started something there! I'm not unghappy with the market place, just, like I said it seems to have gravitated to high price stuff......... I'm more than pleased with the site, and I paid the £20 fee with no qualms, but maybe a price box at the front end/title would be good. [/quote] But it needs to be one that can be edited ..,

I don't use an amp - I just use Jamup on my iPhone so it's totally silent plus you can play along with music and record the results. It also has a metronome and a tuner

That's slright mama - elvis Wicked game - Chris isaak

Yes - should be instant

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1415194000' post='2597680'] I'd leave it as it is, i like to browse and see whats about, its also nice to see some oddities, and things we havent seen for years, and it doesnt take long. If you browse every 3 days, theres normally only two pages to scroll, which can take about 45 seconds, no biggy. Having said that, a price box in the title would be great, so if you see a 1969 Fender Precision (For example),a nd the price is £8000, you can keep scrolling, but if its more in line with something that may interest you, you can open it up. This would certainly make browsing more efficient, which, reading others' comments, would be a welcome addition. You already have to enter a figure anyway to proceed when selling, so the users work is already done? Other than that, I think £20 a year, is a bargain, whether you buy/sell or just use the forum, its a small price to pay (IMHO), to keep this thing on the road. [/quote] Indeed , to all points except that the price should be up to date, and the price that you HAVE to enter cannot be changed

I bought a little foldup porter trolley from Costco for peanuts

Indeed - of course they should, but some new folks won't know he had a long bout of illness. He should, if he can, post something here and defend his position. In my humble opinion of course.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1415146353' post='2597304'] I've had nothing but greatness from Uncle Horrid, great comms and great work. Unerringly helpful too. But I've only had custom designed pickguards from him, not a whole bass or big work. I just hope he's ok and in good health. [/quote] I've had both and he was awesome

it was my understanding that he was having respiratory issues and working with basses and accessories was not helpful to that. Several times in 2013 my build was delayed to ill health and his advice that this was so, did coincide with him going very quiet on the forum. He still delivered pretty much as promised, without even taking that ill-health into account so he always seemed pretty honourable to me. He must be really quite unwell.

I for one am sorry to see him leave here, he was awesomely good at his job and I love the P he built for me above any other bass I've owned

Maybe an up to date asking price in the title should be a requirement - then people can easily filter out bands they aren't intersted in. Can't see what subdivision will achieve

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1414930352' post='2594723'] Ive got 2 fender P basses, whats the point in that ? [/quote] Two ponies doing the same one trick ?

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1414952712' post='2595003'] In summary:[list] [*]Some of us will buy signature basses but only if we like the actual bass, the signature itself is immaterial [*]We all like Dee Dee Ramone [*]None of us like Adam Clayton [/list] I agree with all of the above. [/quote] In order Wouldn't even think of it - it's just silly Sorry - have never heard any Ramones He's not popular around here, but he did make me want to take up bass so he's not all bad, and the sunburst 70s p in total relic is an iconic image so maybe that should be the sig model with some tweaks ? I did read an interview where he expressed fondness for that bass above all others. Equally, he did to be fair, play the green jazz on Live Aid in front of 18 squillion people and in the New Years Day video, so its probably not a bad choice for a sig

Took me about five minutes (I'm seriously below par on ability) and I was able to swap easily Even my then three year old was able to play fanned frets

Surely that was an actual Jazz bass neck, not an A type Jazz width neck ?