Steve Browning

Has to be Queen.

David Gilmour seemed happy enough.

Help other players improve? Do they ask you to or do you take it upon yourself to critique these people?

As you see from my signature I have a number of MIJ basses. They are all, without exception, extremely well made instruments and exceed any expectations based on the cost. I remember a member posting that they had cut through the copper strip between the bridge pickup and the bridge. Don't do that! Buy the MIJ and enjoy a great bass.

Classic and Cool is run from a private home but, having been there twice, Mark is only too happy to meet arranged visitors and puts no pressure on you to buy at all. A thoroughly decent bloke.

I might be inclined to get to a music shop and try out a Jazz bass to see if you are likely to get on with the bass at all. You may hate the thing when you strap one on.

I hand you my crown. Father of the bride trumps member of the audience. Must have been awful. In my case the chap had had open heart surgery and been told to take it easy or risk just dropping and he decided to carry on and dropped.

Classic and Cool has the occasional vintage piece - including a beautiful 1970 sunburst Precision at the moment. Guitar Village in Farnham New Kings Road Guitars Wunjo's have some vintage stuff

I watched it a fair old time ago. It's a collection (well put together) of stuff already around so there's nothing new in it. That said, it is a good attempt to shine a spotlight onto one of the reasons Queen were the band they were. An absolute master of playing exactly what was wanted with the discipline to pull it off.

Yup, you're dealing with a man who has literally got away with murder!

It's quite a nadir I admit. Who knows, maybe Blue has been involved in a gunfight during Freebird?

Oh I don't know. I'm keen to read the post that can top that though (no pun intended!!). I'm sure someone can. Maybe Joe Dolce is a lurker!

This is easy, for two reasons. Reason 1 - The Birdies Song (Portsmouth Radical Club 24/12/1978) Reason 2 (same night) - a member of the audience (dancing to the same number) died on the dance floor. Over to you, everyone! :-)

[quote name='chrisanthony1211' timestamp='1510310526' post='3405458'] Ah, so using a standard unbalanced XLR cable, but using the pad on the desk to reduce the input signal? And what advantage does the DI box give you over using the DI from the Amp? [/quote] The DI output will convert the signal to (effectively) a mic signal. You won't need any pad on the input. An xlr to xlr is (usually) balanced which allows for the long cable run. Just plug into the xlr input on the desk and treat it as if it were a mic.

Is there not an xlr that the DI box could use (on the desk)? This would allow the use of a standard mic cable and have the advantage of not being length-restricted (and one less specialist cable to cart around).

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1509920377' post='3402669'] Me neither. Do people think that if they buy a bass (for example) that was owned by a famous bass player that they will somehow, by osmosis, suddenly be able to play and sound like said player and instantly enjoy the fame and success of that player? Or what..? Buying a phase pedal previously owned by [ROCK STAR] at an extortionate price isn't going to help you record and produce a million-selling album, is it? Unless you were on your way to recording such an album anyway, of course... Anyway, I like Behringer pedals. They're nineteen quid. [/quote] I like to think I once bought 3 of John Entwistle's basses to save them from sounding like him. ;-)

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1509807202' post='3401792'] Quite tempted by the "hard foam" gig bag/cases. They offer the protection of a hard case, with the weight of a gig bag. [/quote] I had one for for a while, having bought it for the reason you state. I got rid fairly quickly because they have all the inconvenience of a case that you want a gig bag for. I stuck to as gig bag in the end.

https://shop.warwick.de/en/Cases+and+Bags/Bass+Bags/E+-+Bass++Bags/RockBag+Deluxe+Line+-+Electric+Bass+Gig+Bag Had one of these for years and it is excellent, even secures the neck too. almost 10% of the price.

This is why I have always favoured 15s. It's just my opinion, but I think 10s react far quicker than 15s and so they tend to capture a lot of the noise made by your physically playing the bass. In my experience, 15s are a lot more forgiving. There is absolutely no science behind that at all but I never enjoy playing through 10s for the very reason you describe.

My 66 P-bass. From the first second I picked it up in the shop (about 1986 I think) I knew I had found the best bass for me. It has the easiest neck to play and it just sounds perfect for everything I do (and want to do). It is semi-retired now because it has a fair bit of playing wear on it and I don;t want to make it worse but it saw me through my years of touring and never fails to make me smile when I play it. It has changed tuners (Gotoh reverse tuners) because one of the originals broke while on tour in Germany in the early 90's and it also has a Gotoh 203 bridge because I have always preferred them for the tracks in which the bridge grub screws sit. Aside from that, it's exactly as it was when I handed over the 260 quid it cost in Tiger Music in Brighton. It is the material possession I prize above everything else.

........... and there are a fair few of us around Pompey.

Look seriously at a Japanese Fender. Go for the US version (it will have US in the model number). Ishibashi is a Japanese shop that has a huge range of s/h P-basses. You can buy with confidence from them and Japanese basses are excellent quality.

[quote name='lou24d53' timestamp='1508487939' post='3392476'] As one who has mainly played and owned Jazzes over the years, my only concern is the thickness and width of the neck...... [/quote] You may end up hailing a taxi to get from one side to the other!!

GReat bases, I love mine. Re the scratchplate. My own view is that tort works best on a 3 tone sunburst where you have some red in the colour of the bass to work with the red of the tort. I am possibly the world's biggest sunburst tort fan but I will be keeping the gold plate.