Doctor J

Is it ok if I swap virtuosos for people whose music I can actually enjoy without seeing them do it? If so, Troy Gregory Bernard Edwards Cliff Williams Tony Choy Roger Patterson Dan Berglund Doug Wimbish Colin Hodgkinson Geddy Lee Sean Malone Yeah, that will do for today.

Just listening to Off The Wall and I'm once again struck by how much it [i]swings[/i], you know what I mean? Real drums, real bass, you just can't beat it [size=1][i](sorry)[/i][/size]. Jacko got heavily into electronic rhythm and left bass riffs behind as he went on but this stuff is where it truly is at as far as I'm concerned. Dangerous onwards just leaves me cold. In fact, I even struggle with Bad. Any fans of the later material out there? Help me out, I just don't get it. With a kicking band behind him he really was operating at an entirely different level.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank whoever invented the individual signature ignore button on the right there. I don't mind signatures in general as they can be quite humorous and interesting, just the life story ones which take up half the page are irritating to say the least. Now I just turn off the ones I don't like. Thank you, mysterious programmer, thank you so much. I have not been paid for this endorsement.

It's an intriguing one, looks like it has the multi-laminate neck too though the top of the neck curves the other way from a real Kubicki. I read there are around 25 of them?

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1339348582' post='1687223'] Great advice there Schnozzalee.... but rather than a Bacchus stat maybe you could find a Fender American Vintage Series '57 Reissue stat (I hear 2011 is a good vintage) and then track down a Yam SG....... [/quote]He's looking for a [i]good[/i] guitar, though, not a Fender

[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1339338848' post='1687022'] I'm probably going for something HSS or Humbuckers with a Coil Tap, alternatively i'm open to P90s because it'll give me the grunt if I need it but some articulation. It's a really difficult one i'm afraid, I like blues, classic rock & 80's metal. I don't think PRS have much character about them personally but i've never played, only listened. [/quote]Which is why, if I were you, I'd go for two There is no one-size fits all in the world of guitars. You should be able to pick up two great guitars for a grand each and, having owned a PRS in the past, there's no way on Earth I'd spend two grand on one (or a Gibson for that matter). If I were in your position, I'd look pick up a couple of Japanese made beauties, something like an early 80's Yamaha SG and a Bacchus strat. Tokai's Japanese 335 style guitars are very nice too. That would comfortably cover all the sonic ground you'd want to. Something like this - I have something similar, amazing guitars http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bacchus-G-PLAYER-ALD-M-3TS-/370546493836?pt=Guitar&hash=item56464ac98c And you should comfortably find an SG1000 or SG2000 with the change

What kind of guitar are you looking for? Hardtail or vibrato? Single coils or humbuckers? What kind of music are you looking to play?

I saw this tune played a couple of months after this video was taken and the 14 year old me thought bass was the coolest instrument in the world and that I had to play it. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUAAbO1-jjU[/media] Obviously, I was way off but I've really enjoyed playing bass all the same.

A Blaster bass has materialised on the u-box, very very rare 80s beast. If anyone is looking to get Kubicki looks fairly cheap this would probably cost about 500 of your Queen pounds.

That riff in BU2B is doing it for me.

Three very different instruments there, do you know what you're actually looking for from this bass?

There's physical technique and there's musical sense. One you get from repeating exercises, the other you get from not playing at all, instead it involves years of listening to all the other instruments apart from your own. One is more important than the other. Youtube is chock full of people with astounding physical technique but that's not the important one, imo. Of course, you've got to be able to play the killer bassline but the real skill is having the vision to put the right notes, rhythm and feel to create it in the first place.

Most of my best purchases have been untried, importing from abroad. I don't have any qualms about doing it and I've been able to pick up some wonderful and rare instruments as a result, which wouldn't have been possible if I had restricted myself to trying before buying. I wouldn't do it with a Fender though

I actually bought the cd at the weekend, haven't heard it since whenever my mum last played the tape in the 80's Vibrator is a cracking album too. I'm glad that I didn't imagine that bass

Very nice indeed.

Cool. I'm interested to see how you get on. I have something l2000 shaped heading this way in the post as we speak

To me, they look like something not properly thought out clumsily shoehorned into the bass guitar design template. I wouldn't classify them as bass guitars, they are guitars but bass notes are a very small part of what they do. The fretboard being so wide it's impossible to fret the bass strings higher up the fretboard rules them out as being playable with a standard bass technique. They're a different instrument to me and I've yet to hear something I like being played on one. Bass tapping sounds sh*te to my ears, not pleasing in a musical way.

Does lowering the pickups not solve two problems for you, both in terms of output and magnetic pull? Pickups don't need to be close to the strings, set them wherever works.

Matching shoes and curly lead. Tasteful

Bought an ACG EQ02 from John. Top man, great communication, swift postage, everything you want from a seller. Thanks again, John. Justin.

Starting the second listen now, I like this album I must say. It's not the return of 2112 but I've found nothing I feel the need to complain about so far. I feel many repeated listens in my future.

No, I'm in Ireland, it was delivered today.

I ordered direct from Classic Rock too. Nigel, what's your surname? If your name is on the poster that should mean it's on the way.

Follow your muse wherever she may take you, you'll have more fun that way. Basses aren't going to disappear and, who knows, you may rekindle the fire in the future and find a new appreciation for all things bass.

It has arrived. Mug o' scaldy just brewed, time to sit back and crank it (and I do mean [i]crank[/i] it,I do love living in the sticks, no neighbours for about 50 metres ). Magazine looks nice, found my name in the poster, all is well in the world.