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My 1983 Roadstar - had to change the machine heads as one was damaged when I bought it, it had a few scratches in the paintwork which I had to touch up and I resprayed the bridge silver again.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='1205288' date='Apr 19 2011, 10:23 PM']You mean Trouble as in the christian, Black Sabbath sound alikes?[/quote] Great band - I love their self titled 1990 album.

I do miss my Schecter Stiletto Elite 4 - I paid £360 for it and gigged it for years before I sold it to fund a Corvette $$. The Hellraiser has a mean rock/metal look that I appreciate but it might not be for everyone.

I think maybe the RBX range is what most people think of when they think of Yamaha's. I mean lots of pros have played Yamahas over the years so it's not as if they haven't tried to market the upper level instruments with signature models etc.

I paid £150 for my Roadstar Series II bass back in December and it's one of the best basses I've ever played. I did some research and checked out all the reviews on harmony central and all the reviews were very positive, which was very encouraging. The machine heads aren't original unfortunately.

A lot of my gigging was done with Yamaha and Schecter basses which cost me less than £400 each so I've never been over protective. I wouldn't want to play a vintage Fender or Alembic in a rowdy pub though

Just had to go away and play Aenima - forgot how good that album is. Great band to listen to on headphones too.

Some of the 90's Bass Collection basses will find their way onto ebay from time to time, IMO they're well worth a look. As they're not exactly a household name, they don't command a great deal of interest.

I've owned the BBN4, BBN5 and the BBG5S and they are well made and fairly inexpensive, the BBG5S I gigged for about three years and it never let me down. I know these are the cheaper end of the BB range but they still work well as gigging instruments.

[quote name='hubrad' post='1156910' date='Mar 10 2011, 05:10 PM']A soldering iron? [/quote] The hot soldering iron held on the fret wire should melt the glue that holds the fret in place, it should make your life easier when you try to pull the frets out.

[quote name='grayn' post='1151109' date='Mar 6 2011, 05:56 AM']The SR1200 is within your budget and looks an amazing bass. Even has Nordtrand pickups.[/quote] That looks a lot like the Schecter Stiletto Custom 4

[quote name='Quoth'd' post='1147967' date='Mar 3 2011, 07:34 AM']I think I have to hold my hand up and say that I'm guilty of this. Way back when . . . I was 16, I decided to treat myself after I passed my GCSEs and decided that I'd like to learn an instrument & wanted it to be something different - so I walked into my local music store and took a look around. I settled on a bass that I liked the look of & after waiting half an hour whilst the owner creamed over a punter who just walked in to play albatros before walking out again, I finally got served. I picked my new instrument some metallic blue thing by a company I'd never heard of called Fender, paid my £70 & took it home. After playing with it a while I got together with some friends & we started a band - I picked it up fairly quickly & was soon looking for a better instrument as I didn't want to be seen with a bass made by a company called Fender - surely they had something to do with cars & wouldn't know anything about quality musical instruments. Oh and the 2 long pickups looked cheap as you could see the metal bits of the poles - whilst all my mates had cool guitars which were all black or looked like BC Rich / Les Paul etc. I ended up doing lots of nasty things with that instrument that ranged from numerous resprays to planing a chunk off the body (by accident) to deciding to take it fretless (lets not even talk about nearly frying the pickups when trying to tinker with the electronics). I finally took it apart & it was left in my wardrobe for years until finally found a new home at the local tip. It wasn't till years later that I actually came across a picture in google, did some research & found out that my first bass was an original, late 60's metallic blue, Fender Jazz bass. The shame Perhaps there should be a test that you have to pass before your allowed to buy instruments - if your too young or dumb - to prevent you harming innocent instruments lol[/quote] Great story - thanks for posting!

[quote name='gary mac' post='1146627' date='Mar 2 2011, 12:18 AM']I thought Bass masta was infested with all sorts of bad stuff, has it been sorted? Personally I wouldn't go near it after what it did to my daughters computer. Guess you're ok if using a mac.[/quote] Last time I used it an ad for free virus scan software popped up and told me I had several potentialy dangerous viruses on my pc and I would need to buy their software to clean my computer , I can't see me using it again

I'd try a few Yamaha 5 string basses if I were you - generous string spacing but the necks aren't too wide for someone looking to make the transition from 4 stringers. Plus if you look to trade them in further down the road, they hold their value quite well in the second hand market.

[quote name='bluesparky' post='1142717' date='Feb 26 2011, 07:36 PM']Here you go, here are the first few. I'll post some more later. I've had to delete a ton of photos / attachments that i've put on basschat over the years to let me upload these (who'd of thought they'd have all added up to so much) so if you click on an old pic etc and it's not there, that's why! Let me know if you want any more. Cheers.[/quote] Thanks for uploading these, just working through them now and they look and sound great

You can't go far wrong with an old Yamaha, if it was my £300 and I was looking for a backup for MM/Fender type basses I'd be considering an Ibanez Roadster bass. I have a Roadstar bass and it does a pretty good Precision impression but the neck dimensions are somewhere inbetween Jazz and Precision.

[quote name='paul_5' post='1142391' date='Feb 26 2011, 02:57 PM']I remember this when it first came out, lovely arrangement, perfect for a quiet evening's practice. Also this piece taught me nearly everything I know about bass chords up the dusty end. Win. Thanks for posting, I'll take a stroll down memory lane tonight.[/quote] LOL - when I first came across this transcription and saw four note chords I was bit itimidated but they do sound really nice

[quote name='daz' post='1142050' date='Feb 26 2011, 06:23 AM']Hmm? yes [b]Megallica [/b] thanks for the link but i'm well aware of Stranglers tab websites. I could evedn show you better ones for Stranglers tunes such as [url="http://www.johnrosk.btinternet.co.uk/strangindex.html"]this one[/url]: But as been mentioned here in this thread, they are often wrong. The reason i wanted a Songbook was to see the sheet music for the bass, or maybe even the entire bands individual music (guitar, organ etc) I know this is pushing it a bit, but i do have songbooks like that for the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley or Black Sabbath, amongst others, so its not as if they aren't some out there. Also a songbook could be put on a music stand in front of me, which is my preferred method of reading whilst (trying) to play.[/quote] No worries Daz, if I do see one I'll give you a shout

[quote name='daz' post='1139519' date='Feb 24 2011, 05:16 AM']Indeed it was. To his family and friends he's just [i]John[/i] Fair enough, however the Ramones don't put Dee Dee right in the front of the mix, and his sixteenth and eighth note rooting isn't exactly inventive. So its much less likely to be put out in songbook format. ( not knocking them, the first 3 albums were great, and i was lucky enough to see them at their peak over 30 years ago.) The Stranglers on the other hand have a famous bass driven sound, not to mention that the first bass heavy song most of us heard by them in the summer of 1977 was what inspired many of us to pick up a bass in the first place. Indeed is often the first thing a [i]bass neophyte[/i] tries or wants to learn. (Well for bass players of my generation anyway) The really puzzling thing is that there are no alternatives. As far as i can ascertain The Stranglers have [i]never[/i] put out a songbook with bass in. Indeed this is the only songbook of any form i can find for the band.? I found a server with over 500 songbooks on it, most of them either by bands id never heard of. Else by Metalica or Megadeath or some-such who appeared to have about ten each! But not a one by The Stranglers.[/quote] [url="http://www.bassmasta.net/s/stranglers,_the/"]http://www.bassmasta.net/s/stranglers,_the/[/url]

At least it's not just me then I've gotten a lot worse since browsing this website though - I used to be able to keep a bass for at least a couple of years at a time, now I usually start trading them in after six months.

I scanned this from an old issue of Bassist magazine - I've always had fun playing it and wanted to share it with my fellow basschatters.

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1134062' date='Feb 20 2011, 09:19 AM']It's sounds really mellow through my Orange amp. I bought a low B from the local music shop and will get it fitted today. I will stick with the roundwounds for now as the flats I want cost nearly half as much as the guitar! The misses and kids said it sounds good but could I 'PLEASE TURN IT DOWN' [/quote] I've had a quick google for flatwounds and they do seem quite expensive, I suppose they will last longer as they should retain their smooth sound for longer If I had a pound for each time I've been asked to turn it down I could afford that Ampeg 8 x 10 cabinet I've always wanted

The novelty of having a new bass wears off after a few weeks for me and then I start A/B ing the different sounds of my basses. This is all hypothetical at the moment as I have only got my trusty Ibanez Roadstar until I receive my new (to me) Yamaha. Glad to hear you're enjoying the fretless five string Blademan_98 and a pleasure to meet you