silverfoxnik

Hi Folks I was doing a gig yesterday at The Beer festival in Southwick near Brighton last night and when we'd finished setting up before our soundcheck, I wandered outside to see what else was going on and there was a great band playing some Bobbie Gentry tunes (amongst others) and they great! In particular, there was a guy playing what looked like a fretless P Bass special and an EUB and he was really, really good! Great timing, lovely sound and held the whole band together! Anyway, I didn't get a chance to speak to him as their set must have finished when we started our soundcheck, so I thought I'd put up a post here to see if he's a fellow Basschatter? Cheers Nik

[quote name='stinson' post='494462' date='May 21 2009, 04:54 PM']Sounds bloody great![/quote] +1 Paul that's fantastic; great bass line too (Shalamar??) and nice playing.. As OTPJ says, why pay more!

[quote name='ben604' post='494221' date='May 21 2009, 01:35 PM']Jesus! Where do you practice?! Wembly?[/quote] Nice set-up....

That's a very gorgeous looking bass!!

[quote name='Clarky' post='492703' date='May 19 2009, 09:10 PM']Beautiful bass, mate - and your photography is second only to Lysdexia on this website![/quote] +1

This is not a thread for the faint-hearted!! Far too many beautiful basses, just on this page alone!! Very enjoyable though...

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='492059' date='May 19 2009, 06:30 AM']It is Nik, and a happier bass player am for it methinks. The C64S and CS 4001's came out yesterday too. I forget how nice they sound.[/quote] Ah, of course - I'd forgotten that you had those beauties as well Peter! Be good to see them out too...

Nice collection Peter, as per usual! Is that all that is left of the once mighty GreeneKing herd, now you've sorted out the wheat from the chaff?

[quote name='deaver' post='491727' date='May 18 2009, 07:00 PM']Cheers. It's definitely something different, I'll try and get some more photos up soon. The credit really has to go to Bassassin for finding this though, it just happened to be near enough to me to collect. I don't know how long I'll hold on to it, hopefully they'll be a bass bash to bring it to soon - it's well worth a look.[/quote] That'd be good.. Look forward to it when there's a Bash and if you still have it (which hopefully you will)...

Very cool looking pair of basses!

That looks fantastic! Congratulations on picking up something a little different from the usual....

[quote name='josh3184' post='490719' date='May 17 2009, 05:58 PM']yum! Now that's a nice relic![/quote] +1

[quote name='mcc' post='490308' date='May 17 2009, 01:47 AM']Man, I cant even imagine spending 4k on a bass.... imagine hitting it against something in a gig.... you are planing on giggin it, right? Just how much can a bass improve over £800. From your list of gear you are probably fairly aware on what all those basses do and don't do for you, so just try as many instruments as you can without looking at the price tag and get the one that fulfills your requirements.... who knows, maybe it is an old battered squire and you will have about £3800 to spare.[/quote] That's like the story about Geddy Lee... His favourite bass, in amongst the hundreds he has, is a $200 J-bass that he bought in a pawn shop somewhere in the States.. And apparently, he even tried to knock the dealer down on price for that!

[quote name='Clarky' post='489984' date='May 16 2009, 05:46 PM']The colour on the Bacchus is really cool. Nice pair indeed.[/quote] +1

[quote name='The Burpster' post='489898' date='May 16 2009, 04:15 PM']You're not a member of Parliament are you, by any chance.....?[/quote]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='489175' date='May 15 2009, 06:31 PM']Still not a good enough reason to keep the "Jamster" on the forum.[/quote] Agreed!

With a rig and bases like that, plus your other half looking like she does, you should be banned from this site immediately!

It's probably true that almost all producers and engineers will compress a bass signal when recording it or when mixing it, so if it makes sense to use compression then, why not at at other times too...?

Excellent news!