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I have the est96a stingray copy and it's a very solid bass

[quote name='leroydiamond' timestamp='1398077081' post='2430091'] Rudy's shop is well worth a visit. A few years back I had all but purchased a boutique bass there, but when I turned up to collect it and pay it became apparent that the agreed selling price did not include sales tax, inflating the price considerably. Not sure if this is standard sales practice in NY, so be sure if you are making a purchase that the price being quoted is the full sales price, avoiding any nasty surprises. [/quote] Yes it's normal here in the US I'm in Orlando ATM

Sadly doesn't work on iPhone

I may have missed the cost ? Interested in red tort for a p bass

Bit of a thread hijack - sorry to the OP. Maybe you should start a club thread, ead. We can take numbers like on TalkBass

Me too it's a head thing, not a talent thing

Took me about five minutes

You can get them for less than that, I'm sure

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1397637639' post='2425817'] I'm happy that the OP was delighted with the music coming out of the radio and the bass tone contained within. And it seemed to be a self contained, non-projecting personal opinion too. Why some knuckleheads can't resist turning it into a P vs. J thing then a P vs. everything else thing is beyond me [/quote] Yes indeed, non projecting, just saying. "Poor" Mr Clayton gets knocked a lot but his tone is spot on on this album Marooned here by a medical emergency, sadly. Going home soon for work reasons but will have to return to collect partner

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1397246470' post='2422287'] It doesn't, if it did everyone would play a Jazz and the Precision would be redundant. [/quote] Yep, can be made to sound similar possibly, but no more Put some foam under the strings and you'll be close Bob Babbitt played a 62 precision with flats as far as I know , but I think he did change them from time to time unlike Jamerson

When The Joshua Tree came out in 1987 I was working in the US and I bought a copy. I played it all summer. Right now I'm in Orlando, Florida and I was driving down the interstate road today in a big SUV with station WMMO on the radio and they played a few tracks from the Tree. I turned up the radio to hear that lovely Precision Bass tone. It just made total sense. Good nostalgia moment too.

Surely there are cheaper tryouts than a stingray ?

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1397135109' post='2421014'] I saw this at the London Bass show.... it looked amazing... [/quote] Although I'm sure it's lovely to play, and undoubtedly superbly made, it looks like someone threw up on it IMHO •• yes I know I have boring and conventional tastes

[quote name='2004gdavi' timestamp='1397117580' post='2420723'] Well spotted that man fcgdaeb it is. Bit of a fat finger moment on hand held phone. Apologies but hope you get the drift. [/quote] NP Just doing my bored, on holiday, being a pedant best

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1397119190' post='2420752'] FFS, guys. There are only 12 of them (24 if you include relative minors). Can you remember an 11 digit telephone number? Of course you can (your own, if nothing else). The lyrics to Bohemian rhapsody contains 390 words. How many of us know them all? I bet most of us do. You just have to make learning them a priority for a short time (a day or two, a week at the most). [/quote] Yep - way simpler than learning to read English.

Precision bass. Maybe a jazz bass if you're listening to Verdine. As Samuel l Jackson said, "accept no substitute" , it's simple and it works. Mine is the best bass I've ever played anywhere, I keep trying to find a jazz bass that matches it

Surely FCGDAEB ?

The screens do seem to get tired after a couple of years (possibly just an iPad 1 issue) but ours has been pretty much fine, partner uses it all day for all sorts of things and it never misses a beat.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1396962151' post='2419126'] Doesn't all depend on if you read music or not? If you're simply looking to find the root note and play from the heart n' soul using "the box" for the major scale, then I guess you don't need the keys. What you would then need is the circle of 5ths to know where to go to when you want to go up/down a key. [/quote] Yes - worked for me. I only started learning them after I started using circle of fifths to learn major scales in all keys. I'm in Disneyland right now and in the "be our guest" restaurant there is some sheet music. I was chuffed to spot the key signature straight away. If you see four flats you just count round the flats cycle till you get to the one with four. There's only 12 possibilities so it's not that hard to learn

[quote name='police squad' timestamp='1396534037' post='2414780'] can't beat that colour combo, but it's needs a black guard [/quote] There's a typo there - you typed black but actually intended to type "tort"

Known problem - even the mods can't do it Just change the title or update the description