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  1. Geek99
    An old one, long-held and utterly immovable vintage, if you will.... 🍿
  2. Geek99
    But Does the tone come from entrenched positions, or is it the metal in the devices that show us the comments?
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    I’m unfollowing - btw @Killed_by_Death I don’t fit into your “most” criteria back there and I don’t think this topic should rear it’s head again. Not for the next ten minutes at least
  4. Geek99
    Yes, but what vintage, and what were you wearing when drinking the fitou? Hmm? These factors are extremely important ... 🍿
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    Luna Bass

    Geek99 replied to stewblack's topic in Build Diaries

    Yes - a lack of any particular care - so it relics up nicely edit: added clarification
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    I must be just plain stupid then
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    Chowny?

    Geek99 replied to 2020Jazz's topic in Bass Guitars

    @Chownybass is a member here
  8. Geek99
    Too many strings..... 😣but if I was suffering a disease of the mind called “being a guitarist” I’d probably buy one
  9. Geek99
    Yes, true, but that would suggest the OP is a mucky pup and likely to make it dirty and not clean it afterwards. I would hope that we are a clean bunch in this parish
  10. Geek99
    I think i missed the naphtha thing but pretty much what I said
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    I used a thin strip of metal to scrape along frets lengthways to get gunk out and fine wire wool on the wood itself, then baby wipes and finally lemon oil
  12. Geek99
    Ohh I’m flattered that never happens ... it was actually something that @Stuart Clayton said in his fine, fine bass tuition book**, albeit about two octave scales, that turned my head. He made me realise that knowing a box is okay as a crutch but you need to know the fingerboard well enough to see the notes from those boxes all over, even as fragments, rather than shift up to 11 frets just to get to your safe start point for (say) G mixolydian I think subconsciously this is the problem I was seeing with my teachers insistance that I learn boxes for pentatonic scales. It seemed a bit limiting although I’m certain I could not have expressed it in an intelligible way at the time. ** the one with pale blue writing on the cover
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    I run through it in my head using the construction formula - then i remember major scales. Also better for sleep induction than counting sheep for me it did unlock some stuff
  14. Geek99
    Sympathy for the devil - hope you can guess it
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    Yes but I’m the kind of person that likes to take things apart and then put them back together; I have to understand why
  16. Geek99
    I’ve always used wd40 or electrical contact cleaner with no issues whatsoever
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    Yes, thank you @Reggaebass, but I think it’s the “why” really. 30 years ago a teacher said to me “just learn the shapes” and then you can end formulaically playing in the same positions for each chord in each key; and possibly also avoiding certain keys due to an unwillingness to play certain positions. Learning boxes isn’t the answer in my very humble opinion
  18. Geek99
    Modes ....
  19. Geek99
    The German brand might be Musima?
  20. Geek99
    Tort and natural was a thing once, you know - now, in my new found role of Satan I’m off to recruit some guitarists to join here 😈
  21. Geek99
    Needs tort ....
  22. Geek99
    Yes, couid also be a blob of paint or some other debris
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    Welcome - you’ve been here long enough now not to have to even mention the American thing - we have American members who still live there - shhhh! You’ll wake them up early and they’ll be all grumpy
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    Pictures ? Of what you see looking down the neck might help
  25. Geek99
    Did you tell them they were playing it wrong ?
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