sunburstjazz1967

Drummers tend be either using public transport or driving it ime!

It's stuffed then :-( I get confused with the models, I once had a mag evo and that did have a valve.

Thinking out loud here but could it just have blown the preamp valve by trying to power the speaker cab? Cheap and easy fix if it's possible.

That's what people with no theory always think I'm afraid.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1452772242' post='2953261']
I think considering how easily you can pick up a used StingRay for around £800 on here, the new ones represent poor value.
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You can say that about anything including all the basses in your signature, if no one buys new you can't buy used.

The cheaper ones without the hard case also have Poplar bodies which is cheaper and softer than the typical ash used on the normal ones.

Actually if you look at them the endorsers tend to be the least loyal users of kit, I'm sure someone more educated than me could list the kit Dave swift has endorsed likewise Clayton. The real endorsements are proven by those players that have just stuck by a brand for years without an official endorsement in place aren't they?

I think what the op is asking though is do buyers come through the door asking specifically for a Dave swift signature bass (which changes monthly anyway!) rather than a buyer trying out some indeed very good gear and being informed by the shop assistant that
"Dave swift uses these you know"
"who"
"Dave Swift, swifty, DS!"
"Who's he?"
"The tall bald guy behind Jools Holland"
"Oh right, never seen him but he must be good to play with him, I'll take it".

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1452726466' post='2952993']
I think Flea's contribution is the Stingray. You really have to be on your game to know he played a Wal on Blood Sugar and only select tracks where everything else was done on a Stingray 5. At no other time has he used a Wal bass - I don't think he has used one live. Common knowledge this!!
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Reminds me of how to get the killer Stuart Zender 'distinctive Warwick tone' that he had, use the pink stingray 5 that he used!

That Leo F bloke has put his name on a few instruments and he couldn't even play! No Adam Clayton jokes please.

^yep that was me.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452687162' post='2952372']


How about this, if there was no Beatles there never would have been a Motorhead.

Plus, the Beatles did what takes most bands decades in a few short years.

Blue
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So what? You do know you were not in the Beatles and had no influence in anything they did don't you?

There is a difference between a band or artist passing you by as in the OPs case and hearing a band or artist and deliberately giving them a swerve, personally I'm not really a Beatles fan as it doesn't stir my soul how other bands do and I find Jaco stuff to be aimless noodling! I have become more of a fan of Fleetwood Mac recently than I was when they were more current, they passed me by rather than me not liking them the first time.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1452607752' post='2951552']
People keep mentioning top quality equipment. Off the top of my head, 4 of my tutors at uni were most definitely pro, they played Fenders, musicman, cort and aria basses.

It's how you play what you play.
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Musicman,aria and fender are certainly professional basses in that well they are largely used by professional musicians, fender probably by more than any other brand even if that musician has a Roscoe or whatever at home too.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1452605012' post='2951500']
If you can get a mortgage on your books as a musician, that must count..

But by the same token, there is pro and Pro..
and the 3 piece that charge top dollar in pubs because that is their 'living'
doesn't really cut it, YMMV
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If those three guys are getting asked back often enough to be able to charge full price and they are paying tax on their income plus running a van, pat testing, insurance etc etc rather than cash in hand and it is their main source of income with books to prove they are professional musicians wether you like it or not.

So if you don't work for a living and did a £150 wedding gig with a Sue Ryder P bass and a Di box you would be a pro!

There is no answer without a specific job in mind, is Adam Clayton a professional musician? Could he sight read a 3 hour show on Broadway TONIGHT!? I don't know maybe he could but you get the idea.

Do you not know what any of the notes on the finger board are?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1452340272' post='2948998']
Quite a few of those examples would have disqualified it as best ever
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Which ones?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1452339092' post='2948983']
I still own it...if it was the best ever, why would I have sold it?
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Theft
Damage
Divorce
Marriage
Lack of storage
Illness
Injury
Money troubles
Gas
Not loud enough
Unreliable
Upgraded to the next model up
Gone to in ears
Moved to a city and travel on the tube

How's that for a start?

The bridge lines up with f hole notches and sits at 90 degrees to the front of the bass. Strings are going to be £80 a set minimum for a set worth fitting imo, plus the bridge. I'd be tempted to fix the neck and then get a luthier to fit and shape the bridge,nut, locate the sound post properly and string it. You can ruin the silks and the £80 strings very easily! Getting the detail done by an expert and some good strings over a badly fitted bridge with dirt cheap strings might be the difference between you sticking at playing it or selling it on at a loss imo?

Probably worth getting a water tight insurance policy organised if the gear will be left back down there in future?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1452021595' post='2945661']


Sorry but this is cobblers - I've been playing for 36 years & I still could not play you a single scale,
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Point is you can and you are, unless you sound rubbish? You just don't know which scale or parts of it do you.

Jam night, "12 bar in G" , who honestly cant follow that as a minimum?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1452026401' post='2945722']

What are you on about? Who said anything about inventing a new musical system?
The post I replied to said you couldn't play without a knowledge of certain things, which I disagree with.
If for some reason I unknowingly use one of those things I still don't have any knowledge of it, do I?
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You are using theory rather than something unknown is what I'm saying, I could unpick your part and explain it to a band that has never heard you play in a common language, you couldn't.

You know what to do but not how to convey it to others, doesn't matter if you don't need to.