SpondonBassed

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1509904387' post='3402504'] It's the use of MOST influential that I object to. They were influenced by Dylan to write more interesting lyrics; Dylan was influenced by them (and many others!) to go electric. They would have been influenced by the psychedelia of the likes of the Electric Prunes to produce their later stuff (see the Nuggets and Pebbles albums series for examples). It's not like they invented rock'n'roll! Meanwhile you've got the whole of black music to ignore as the MOST influential on rock and pop; I spose Chuck Berry, Little Richard et al had no influence on anybody. Or for that matter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, or Robert Johnson or a host of other blues men did nowt to change music. Or James Brown, Motown, Hendrix, George Clinton/Bootsy, Sly and the Family Stone, Africa Bambaata etc. It's ridiculous to say someone is the MOST influential; it's like saying Dali is the most influential artist, or Charles Dickens the most influential author; Everybody is influenced by all sorts of stuff, including the Beatles; nobody lives in a bubble, and most importantly, it's not a bleedin' competition! [/quote] Great post. You are the [i]most[/i] influential poster in this topic.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1509823229' post='3401922'] I assume because I've looked at this Reverb listing, I'm now gettting Tony Levin's for sale ads popping up in my FB feed. Amongst them, I found this. One for blue I think.... [url="https://reverb.com/item/5902739-vox-george-harrison-sergeant-pepper-ul730-amplifier"]https://reverb.com/i...ul730-amplifier[/url] [/quote] Is there an advert with two funk fingers coming at yer?

A finger of funk is just enough, to get you through your day... [color=#33ffcc][i][b]La-la. La-la. La-la. La! La! La![/b][/i][/color] Sorry. I was in La la land just for a moment.

Seeing the cross section in the pick-up cavities is nice.

[quote name='Bridgehouse' timestamp='1509871838' post='3402151'] Not at the moment, but it would be an easy fix to do so. Once I've wielded it in anger a bit I will see how the hum situation is. Mind you, the Dimarzio DP 126 set has a rather handy split coil J pickup.. [/quote] How does a split coil J work then? I always thought they were single coil.

Welcome Alvaro.

If we're doing controversial dinner parties, I'd like to be a fly on the wall at a W.I. dinner to which Oliver Reed has been booked as the guest speaker.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1509823621' post='3401930'] And rightly so. Interesting, because I see more of the " I don't get what the big deal was' sentiment than your rightous and astute position. Agreed Blue [/quote] It's okay Blue. The silent majority just [i]knows[/i] what a big deal it was. Many world changing things happened as a result of the sixties though. Lots more things were happening in the world that drove the youth towards self-empowerment after years of post-war austerity. You have to remember that what passes for common knowledge these days is influenced heavily by social media. I mean EVERYONE knows who "came up with" the word [i]fake[/i] don't they? I feel so [i]phony[/i] right now. [url="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/02/fake-news-collins-dictionarys-word-year-2017/"]http://www.breitbart...word-year-2017/[/url] (I would advise anyone following the link above to look up Breitbart News before, during and after you read the article.)

Just don't do a "jazz hands" opener and you might get away with it. On the other hand if you actually do want to embarrass your offspring...

[quote name='Bridgehouse' timestamp='1509840529' post='3402076'] Bit more progress made. Totally changed my mind on the controls. Went stack knob after a lot of too'ing and fro'ing. Don't really know why either, other than I just think it will be the most adaptable setup for live work... [/quote] I've heard it said in this forum that stacked controls are more susceptible to hum than separate ones. I have no experience to confirm or deny this however. Is the cavity shielded?

It's great to see you're on this phase of he build. When you wet sand with the tru oil, do you wipe off the slurry often and freshen the tru oil?

Good to see you back up on this project Honza. Have you tried wetting it?

[quote name='SimonEdward' timestamp='1509789430' post='3401615'] From memory, this was the 3rd instrument I had as a kid ~ after a recorder and violin. I chose to do music GCSE as an option at school in the mid 1980's, and my parents got me this; A Yamaha Portasound PSS 270. FM synth with a fixed arpeggiator - "auto accompaniment" on the lower two octaves, and some use able patches (Bass, strings and brass). No midi. In the 90's, I traded it for a DX7 MK2 ~ frankly, the PSS 270 might actually have been better?! [/quote] I still have my Yamaha PSR21s. Two because Dad had one as well. Referencing the OP, there's nothing makeshift about them. Because they were released when MIDI was in the transition between advanced wizardry and industry standard, a lot of people by-passed them for fully digital keyboards with samplers and modules. The PSRs were very much a beginner's tool. I still jammed with mine on occasion. My other guilty pleasure is ownership of a Roland TR606. How I wish I'd sprung for the 808. Thanks for the memory jogger.

Welcome Kriss [i]and[/i] Mrs Kriss.

I was about to say I liked the Dave channel because it was funny then I looked up DaveTV. Mistake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5N32loMnY [size=2]Your Dave search results may vary.[/size]

I heard yesterday on BBC 6music that the Beatles' Christmas messages to their fan club members is to be included in another package. I think there were six in total. The word "holiday" was used instead of Christmas on the recordings themselves. I think that shows how open-minded they or their marketing people were were for their time. I think the way they looked after their fans was good. Was that unique for the time? I mean, they used to post out flexi-discs. Were many bands doing that then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI22vpZ5ztQ

Hahahahaha!

Once again, a BC member goes the extra mile for the love of music. Good one NJ

It must be part of the collector's mentality to see additional value in hardware because of who owned it previously. I have no time for that.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1509747640' post='3401451'] Oh wow! I did the same!! Mine was a kit from one of the electronics magazines. Not sure which, Elektor, Practical Electronics or Maplin. I tweaked an ‘FM Bug’ schematic to take the level of my bass and demonstrated it in my 4th year CDT classes.. Year 10 in new money. It’s was great, if you didn’t stray from the room! [/quote] I was a regular subscriber to Practical Wireless magazine as a teenager. I never built any of the projects though. Rural Ireland wasn't the best of places to source new components. Luckily, my aunt and uncle had a television and radio shop that did repairs. Their resident technician let me sit in the workshop and soak up whatever knowledge he cared to impart. At the back of the place was a mountain of discarded televisions and radios. I started collecting 10 inch speakers and making my own enclosures for them at home. Even then I was seeking that fullness in the bass range that was so lacking in domestic systems.

Welcome Ian.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1509727465' post='3401252'] Now I'm confused: thought he was Dave not Blue Peter.... [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6TL1jYfGE

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1509717884' post='3401164'] I suspect there's quite a few converted guitarists on here, I'm one for a start, no evidence for this but we usually give the game away by playing with a pick, could be a poll in there somewhere [/quote] Of course playing with a pole is best done from a distance...

He's fine. The way he talks you'd have to take everything he says with a pinch of salt. That or you'd need to declare yourself incurably gullible. If he spoke with received pronunciation then he'd be dangerous. Heeheehee, like Valerie Singleton with a blunderbuss. I do agree though that it is worrying if people take what they see on YT seriously, your good self excepted.