BrunoBass

I played one of these today in GuitarGuitar Birmingham. I really liked it and am thinking about ways of making it, or one like it, mine. I thought it played nicely and sounded thumpy and tight. The relic'ing (which I'm not usually a fan of) looked subtle and realistic I thought, but the pickup covers where uneven to the point of looking like they weren't installed properly. The price has gone up too, £900+ now, for a MIM... Am I right in saying that tbese are also available in non-roadworn finish?

I spent about an hour in the new bass room at the Birmingham branch today. Very impressive actually, with a very good selection of basses. Quite Fender heavy, but lots of other instruments including some just arrived Ricks. Good selection of Mark Bass amps and cabs too, if that's your thing. Friendly, helpful staff as usual, nothing too much trouble and happy to let me try anything (a very nice roadworn Nate Mendell Sig took my eye) and easy parking too. I think with PMT, and the new GuitarGuitar and Fair Deal stores within an hour's drive from me I'm pretty well served bass wise.

[quote name='police squad' timestamp='1502095782' post='3349204'] They know the job is to entertain the masses and have fun doing it. [/quote] Which is what it's all about. Sounds like a lot of fun.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1502014893' post='3348727'] Wasn't he most know for playing a copy though until near the end of the jam? [/quote] He had an Ibanez copy in the very early days but once The Jam got signed Foxton and Weller got real Ricks.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1501999763' post='3348639'] Gritty? Bruce Foxton's sound was anyway. [attachment=250711:BruceFoxton.png] [/quote] He used a Precision on most, if not all the records, the Ricky was largely a prop for live use.

Yep, we've just added one of their songs ('No Good') to our set. My instinct is usually to resist adding anything that isn't familiar to a pub crowd, but this song has won us over and will get its live debut in a week. Our frontman suggested it, along with another song we've added, which I wasn't aware of previously but is going down really well, by Canadian band The Blue Stones: http://youtu.be/51PsDVIjaRE

The new remastered 30th anniversary reissue of Def Leppard's 'Hysteria'. Absolute rock / pop genius. Great songs and amazing production from a band who weren't afraid to want to be massive and make a multi million seller. It's very much if it's time, very 'eighties' but hasn't dated one bit. Fantastic stuff.

New interview with Joe http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2017/08/03/groove-episode-32-joe-dart/

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1501627836' post='3346131'] Speak for yourself I'm still Class-D'ing it, and still perfectly happy. And most importantly, my back loves me. [/quote] +1

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1501024807' post='3341946'] What bass do you use ? I'm recently on a jazz and I love it. Tends to be both pickups on full and roll the treble off for a plec but I'm toying with the idea of rolling the bridge pickup off to play with a plec hoping that will give me the extra bass I want. [/quote] A Jazz and a Stingray. On the Jazz I have neck pickup 100%, bridge pickup just coming in til it bites, around 30% but adjusted depending on the song, and the tone around 40% for fingers and 30% for a pick. On the Stingray it's bass 100%, and treble backed off to about 75% (it's a 2eq) and slightly less for a pick. I'm pretty happy with those settings as a starting point for the way I play.

I recently made a bass purchase from DV247. For a cheap bass there was a lot that could've gone wrong, but it arrived well packed and nicely set up gig ready, and the customer service was exemplary.

Look out Lemmy fans. Not my cup of tea, but it's a stunning looking bass. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=932916936847647&id=202825416523473

Our local 'coke' pub now has carpet firmly glued to any useable surface, including the cistern lids. Still, where there's a will there's a way...

Blue, does your band do weddings, functions, corporates etc? Are are you purely a bar band, with the occasional summer festival or fair gig?

Our final two summer festival appearances are both coming up in August; on the 19th we're headlining Horleyfest at The Red Lion in Horley, near Banbury and on the 26th we're playing Vaultstock, at my excellent local The Wine Vaults in Banbury town centre.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1500912661' post='3341037'] It's been tough in me, because it's summer we do more festivals which are usually a little over an hour. I got use to it but then last Friday we're back to reality, 4 hour bar gig.😣 Blue [/quote] I get that. We haven't done a full length set for weeks (although our 2-2.5 hour gigs aren't quite up to your set lengths Blue!) as it's all been 45-60 minute festival slots just lately. We're going to have to get used to doing pub gigs again.

Years ago I had a client in Croydon, one of the office girls was called Electra Peachy.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1500996107' post='3341606'] I just have two decent as I can get sounds, one with my fingers and one with a plec and go with that to be honest. Never had any adverse comments or thought that the sound doesn't fit with the song we're covering. Les [/quote] That's exactly what I do too. My band is a rock covers band so I have a nice, slightly overdrive tone for everything. If the original is played fingerstyle I play it fingerstyle, if it's played with a pick I roll off a bit of treble and use a pick. My one concession to closely replicating a sound is on the one Muse song we play, which needs a synthy fuzz tone.

I visited Fair Deal's new shop on Holloway Head this morning for the first time. Impressed; friendly welcome, offers to try anything I wanted, decent bass selection (very Fender/Squier heavy) - all good.

[quote name='bobbytodd' timestamp='1500809683' post='3340268'] no it was just a plate off amazon [/quote] Thanks.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1500894326' post='3340848'] Marlins had the worst hardware ever. It was made out of cheese and then painted black. [/quote] I borrowed one once. We were opening for another band at a rugby club do in 1993. The other bassist was using my amp so he said I could use his Sidewinder. I handed it back after one song, it was terrible. The other bassist smashed it at the end of their set. A fitting end.

A school mate of mine had one of these, i recall he got it mail order from an advert in the back of Kerrang in the mid '80s. Most of the aspiring bass players I knew around that time had AXE basses or Marlin Sidewinders.

I just popped into a well known Birmingham independent store that has just moved to new premises (I won't say which in case it's considered promoting the sale of Fakers!) and they had a load of Rockinbetters on the wall for £399 (in-store only...) two of which were white with checkerboard effect binding. I recently traded my Fireglo Rockinbetter due to it's weight and I mistakenly thought I'd got the whole Faker thing out of my system. Having seen the white ones I'm now not so sure. Probably a good thing I left my credit card at home...

[quote name='bobbytodd' timestamp='1500743307' post='3339936'] fitted right on theres about a 1mm gap between the control plate and the pick guard [/quote] Thanks. Is it a Fender plate?