Frank Blank

Heh, I’m a two bass chap, all I want is the above bass that @Jabba_the_gut is finishing for me and a fretless that is as similar looking to this bass as possible. Mind you, I do love the very short headless basses and I must admit the idea of a five str... ...oh.

You don’t have to apologise for anything, the non-bass related things are your life! Don’t build a bloody five string version of this, I’ll have to buy that too... 👍

I have two basses, a fretted and a fretless, I write on both at home and in rehearsals. I play both live. I also have an Ibanez SRC6 that I noodle on but if I wrote on that I’d use it live too.

I’m literally (almost) speechless. I’ve said it before but you build the basses that live in my brain. It’s actually perfect!

If you’ve got £1200 lying around a Grace Designs Felix would do the job, in fact I think @owen still has one for sale on here...

I have the QSC K12.2 and it’s lush, I went for the 12 rather than the 10 just because in my band situation I can use it as a monitor when I play with PA support and as backline when I don’t. Having said this @Bridgehouse seems perfectly happy with his 10”, ha ha, and after all he started all this... ...where are you located @1976fenderhead? You are welcome to try my K12.2 out.

Hello Sir!

This is so true, the vibe at the time was very much ‘we can all start bands and play like [insert band here]’, which was great but I think the bands that inspired that sense only sounded achievable in comparison to the incredible virtuosity of the prog bands that came before. As you say, when you listen back now, the craft is much more than I certainly realised at the time. Still a good song is a good song and a bad song a bad song, if it’s 8three chords and the truth’ or twenty four times more notes than Bach’s entire output with seven difficult time signature changes.

Cheers Lozz, I wasn’t aware of the Player series, similar price to the Modern Players. The sunburst would be ideal I think.

Ok. I used to own a Fender Modern Player Jazz, it was a Mk1 and came in an excellent matte sunburst finish. I had it set up and at the same time had all the hardware replaced with black equivalents, it looked awesome and sounded great too. So what did I do? You guessed it, I sold it, granted, to get a Godin A4 which is great but man I regret selling that Jazz. So here is the question, if you were as foolish as me and wanting another Fender Jazz but with the intention of changing all the hardware (and I mean down to screws) including replacing the pickups, which model would you choose, new or second hand for such a project?

Same as me, my first serious bass was a black Jaydee Supernatural that I very much regret selling, damn. Welcome btw.

On again now.

This is so interesting, hearing how other folk use their alt.rigs.

I’m with @Greg Edwards69, both rig wise and geographically! I don’t use amp modelling at all. I run into a Fishman pre for tone shaping then straight into a QRC K12.2 and live I DI out the back of the QRC. I’m thinking about a helix but really I wouldn’t use a fraction of its functionality. Because I use acoustic basses what I want is the tone of the bass itself so as little in the signal chain for me as possible, which is now making me wonder why I posted this on an Amp Modelling thread, ahem... *shuts up*

As you were soldier...

Yes, I went from a musically broad minded 15 year old to a ‘Punk fascist’ almost overnight. I can remember slagging people off for listening to bands I hadn’t even listened to! As I did in private but in public I was a bit of a silly curmudgeon. I hope I didn’t appear as if I am still that way? I did write that ...the silly orthodoxy wore off with age... but anyway, yessir *salutes*

Indeed so but Fragile is my favourite Yes album simply because that was the first Yes album played to me by my brother. My favourite track however is Sound Chaser from Relayer. I’ve only recently been remembering how influential Chris Squire has been, I loved his playing, as did my brother, that mad metallic tone and the distinctive Rickenbacker. He was important also as something to kick back against when Punk happened as I would listen to the incredible virtuosity of Yes and think I’d never play music or be in a band but then Punk happened and that was my music rather than the hand-me-down prog from my brother. Obviously Punk made lots of us suddenly realise we could play, form bands, gob at each other and suddenly all that widdly-woo prog indulgence was sneered at by the new Punk orthodoxy. I still listened to Yes, Genesis, Steely Dan but in private! Thank lord the silly orthodoxy wore off with age and now I listen to Crass alongside Yes, Genesis alongside Sleaford Mods. I’m rambling...

Ha ha, obviously I disagree about slang as an evolution of (a part) of language being a dumbing down as such and, slang aside, they were perfectly erudite and reasonably intelligent young gentlemen. I suspect they might cut your throat for an ‘enry. Equally, as a old man who enjoys a good rant, why not.

Absolutely (if I can briefly derail it further) this flexibility is vital to the development and indeed survival of a language. I like that there are extensive formal linguistic rules but that is balanced by the rich and deep rabbit warren of slang. I referred to the police as Five-O the other day and was tutted at by a youth, “Feds?” I offered, more tutting. I was informed that the current nomenclature round these parts is Po-Po. Not in my yard, flatfoot or rozzers... innit.

Frank Blank’s Idiotic Facts #2 Having just looked up the words Movie and Film (in its cinematographic sense) it turns out that the first recorded use of the term movie was in 1909 and the first recorded use of the word film, in this sense... A representation of a story or event recorded on film or, in later use, in digital form, and shown as moving images in a cinema or (latterly) on television, video, the internet, etc.; a motion picture, a movie. ...was in 1905.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway... ...oh.

Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (2017) - a documentary about the Bataclan shootings and the after affects on the band, a difficult watch but an excellent documentary. Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) - interviews with fans outside a Judas Priest concert, much, much better than it sounds. Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2008) - funny and heartwarming. Lemmy (2010) - a documentary about the guv’nor, full of his sardonic yet incisive wisdom, what a dude. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005) - another tough watch, you will have to decide if he’s a bona fire genius or an exploited madman. Intensely interesting but challenging in several ways. Stop Making Sense (1984) - imho the best concert film ever made, Talking Heads at their absolute best, funky as f***. Oil City Confidential (2009) - Essex innit, Julien Temple’s documentary about Dr Feelgood. One More Time With Feeling (2016) - another tough watch (I’m seeing a pattern) Nick Cave recording his first album after the death of his son, painful but superb.

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I only ever wore my own band’s t-shirts in the sack.

I’ve now put myself in your shoes and reverted to option #1.