Doctor J

Who else can keep a beat? Here's mine, an old Pearl Export kit (22", 11", 12", 16" - proper 80's sizes ) I bought off the drummer in my first real band. I upgraded to a Pearl Masters 14" birch snare about ten years ago though the original Export steel snare sounded great, it kept detuning. Cymbals are Sabian AA apart from the XS crash and HH Ride.

What's that pointy headed Tele?

[quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1325799086' post='1488091'] I did hear about the 800 but never got to see one. I am interested now in seeing what they look like. The only other 400 I saw in the flesh was at a studio I was recording at. It was baby blue and fretless. [/quote]Ha ha found a Tele version on ebay [i]That[/i] in jazz bass form!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1325797811' post='1488050'] As you can see from the other thread I play guitar as well as bass. However for most of the 80s I was in an all synth band. This is me on stage in 1986 with my customised Yamaha KX5 MIDI controller which I used to play a Casio CZ5000 synth. [/quote] Were there any controls under your left hand or was that area purely for hanging on? Genuine question.

Indeed, thanks Ped.

When you're letting the side down, what do you do it with? I got a guitar about a year after I started on bass and took up drums about six years later. I'm not good at either but they're nice to knock about on. What about you?

Oooooey?

The bat guitar kicks ass

Go on then... Eggle Tony Iommi sig, bought this in 1995, now has a pair of Gibson Iommi pickups in it. Black home made strat - Warmoth neck, ebay body, Duncan JB and a Kahler trem. Used this for every Acrid Nebula gig tuned to dropped A. Yowzers. Bacchus Empire. Picked this up second hand off the ubox. It has the best coil tap you'll ever hear and is pretty swish in superstrat mode too. Another well gigged guitar. Bacchus Duke. Again, bought from Japan a few years ago. I love this guitar more than is healthy. Bacchus T Master. Another u-box steal. This has the nicest neck of any guitar in the world. Tokai ES130. Bought on the strength of playing a mates ES120. Gorgeous tone and a really nice player. Bacchus strat in whiteburst finish, now with a set of Van Zandt pickups. Lovely player too. Ibanez RG550. Every home should have one. The original pickups were gack but it really shines with some EMGs.

It never had the headstock serial, I knew the guy who owned it first, so saw it from new, pretty much I really want to get an 800 Series. Did you ever see them? Ash body, translucent purple with gold hardware, otherwise pretty much the same (possibly ebony fretboard?). Amazing looking things. I saw one once. Once.

[quote name='merello' timestamp='1325761852' post='1487121'] BIrmingham ....Alabama? [/quote] [quote name='daz' timestamp='1325772699' post='1487416'] Huh dont laugh it could be. I once sent a parcel to New york, it went all the way to the USA then turned around again and got delivered to my return address that i'd written on the back in small letters! [/quote] Yeah, don't laugh. I once ordered a bass from Music123 in the states which got delivered to some punter in Alabama due to a "clerical error" - not because the Ship To address mysteriously changed after they had received my payment and didn't bother their hole to stop it being delivered even though I called them several times to alert them to the fact that the Ship To address had mysteriously changed after they received my payment. Wow, I still have that chip on my shoulder

Mine doesn't have the headstock serial or Made In Japan anywhere. Just the ESP logo and the serial on the neck plate.

When there is some 400 Series loving going on, I will be there First things first, here's my one Legend has it that some early 400s were assembled in New York from Japanese made parts, I think I saw a thread on talkbass a few years back where a fella had a similar neck plate. I asked ESP about my one many years ago, they said that a lot of records from that era were destroyed in a fire, the closest they could date mine was somewhere between 87 and 89. I've had it since early 93. There's an ESP uk forum and one of the mods there seems to have the ear of ESP Japan. I've long lost the url but it should be out there on google. I'd say give them a shot, they'd be your best bet.

Can anyone please explain to me what the attraction of a small sub-forum would be to a guitarist in a forum full of bassists? Please. Please

New strings.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1325779524' post='1487560'] Waiting for further input from other moderators, but it looks like the most effective thing to do would be to open a subforum and if it gets really popular we can always migrate it to a dedicated site. [/quote] A creepy amount of common sense there. Get yourself a cup of tea and sit down for a while

The 2024x is top of my GAS list. I've played the 1024x and it was really nice. The tone with both pickups on almost made me weep with joy. Still want to get the 2024x though

I don't think any [i]real[/i] guitarist would stick around long enough to wave his whammy bar at you

What is it about a small guitar (or instruments which aren't bass) sub-forum hidden deep in a forum full of bass players which you think will be so attractive to guitarists that we'll end up [i]swamped[/i] with them?

Topics would just disappear among everything else. It's not general discussion, it's several topics related to a specific instrument, rather than the random subject matter of the open forums.

I'd support this. I played guitar in my last band for about 5 years. The only reason I decided to play guitar was because I didn't want to be in a band with a guitarist. Sending someone off to a guitar forum is like sending an innocent man to prison. If there were a small sub forum here for discussion of the instrument in a rational and sensible manner, as seems beyond the grasp of your average guitariste, I think it would be a good thing. It could be incognito, so as not to attract unwanted attention and anyone who doesn't want to visit it shouldn't be forced. Guitars aren't the problem, it's guitarists.

You played the two Ps with heavier attack downstrokes than the J and Warwick where you played upstrokes, that's going to sound different for a start. Perhaps this is part of the meatier sound?

Eubassix posted my two Godlykes over without a hardcase. Necks removed, everything meticulously bubble wrapped and labelled and all fitting into a box easily managable for even the laziest delivery guy. In truth, probably the safest any instrument has ever been getting posted overseas to here.

[quote name='lee4' timestamp='1325015252' post='1479171'] [b]When was the last time any of us had an audience member make [i]any[/i][/b][b]comment about our tone?[/b] [/quote]Quite frequently, actually, over the past few years when I've been gigging on guitar but had a few comments on my bass tone, too - most memorably when a fella told me he was on a different floor and couldn't hear the band, but he could [i]feel[/i] my bass

I only keep basses I like the tone of straight into a DI. I usually bypass the amp EQ anyway so if I can't get the sound I want out of my hands and the bass I tend to move it on or else start changing out the electronics to see if I can get to where I think it should be. I don't have one fixed tone for everything and I don't expect one bass to do it all. My ESP jazz sounds like I want a jazz to sound. My P sounds like a P should, etc and I use the appropriate bass for what I think the appropriate sound should be. I don't crave mega-versatility in one instrument anymore, I'm happy that it can do it's own thing superbly, rather than passable imitations of everything. So, it sounds good on its own or it finds a new home.