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I used to love the guy, he is an amazing player but i just cant listen to the music anymore...unless it's Mr Pink!! [quote name='marcus bell' post='632011' date='Oct 21 2009, 01:01 AM']happy 51st mark, ill still have to say hes my favourite musician of all time i dont care about how many times people knock hi and his tone and his music i think he is great regardless what i always thought was great about mark was how cool he made it all look so comfortable and relaxed whereas some players like wooten clarke e.t.c. Are like all hunched over their instrument all the time and they dont even sing! Well neither do i but thats a different matter. I just think mark king and level 42 are excellent and easily my favourite band. Mark king is the reason i started bass playing my dad started because of mark king and all the other brit funk stuff that was around in the early ninetys and got himself a jaydee roadie in the early 1990s a 1980 model with two pickups and passive electronics in tobacco sunburst which he had finished in cherry red and activized if thats a word lol. He then got a series 1 brand new made for him and the roadie got put in the cupboard for a few years. In the meantime my dad bought me a precision bass special which i learnt on later which then got traded in for a jazz and then when i got better he gave me the jaydee and ive studied it hard ever since....love to dad! x[/quote] Christ! I can't read that without getting a stitch!

[quote name='The Funk' post='618127' date='Oct 5 2009, 11:57 PM']Don't take the Shuker. Get a cheapo Jazz of some kind. Nothing wrong with taking a well set-up Squier. Congratulations btw! You're going to have such a great time![/quote] +1 Plus i think your avatar is funking awesome

Everyone outside. We is gonna have ourselves a fight.

Damn there some sh*t hot players on here

[quote name='Protium' post='613426' date='Sep 30 2009, 11:18 PM']We once played a friend of a friends party at our local conservative club where we were offered free drinks all night. We take advantage of this. We start and immediately get complaints from neighbours either side about the noise, one of whom claimed pictures were falling off her wall. After 2 songs the bartender literally runs over and asks me to tell everyone to turn down... Guitarist asks "what did he say?", my reply "can't hear the guitar mate", set continues at fult tilt. Next thing the singer has spat a gobful of beer/spit/phlegm into a ceiling fan and soaked everyone/everything in a 10m radius, cue call to the police, our departure and 'aftershow party' at a nearby friends house. Pretty much the best gig I've played.[/quote] Thats sounds like a fudging good gig

id think about muso finder. found a few musicians in my area on there. [url="http://www.musofinder.co.uk/"]http://www.musofinder.co.uk/[/url]

too many times. One i remember (barely) was at a venue above a pub, and we were fairly close to the audience, and it was packed. Hitting someone over the head with your headstock isnt a nice feeling...or sound. Lets say [i]she[/i] didnt see the rest of the show

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='607347' date='Sep 24 2009, 06:49 AM']There's a lot of it about.... here's one I noticed yesterday: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-electric-bass-TRB-1005_W0QQitemZ200386945757QQ"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-electric-bass...Z200386945757QQ[/url] How much are/were TRB1005s new?[/quote] what a schmuck. I bought my 1004 under £300 new. But that was because the sales assistants didn't have a clue

My old guitarist had one made for him a couple of years ago. Its bloodt brilliant. I'd reccomend it.

[quote name='Greene-Mann' post='607262' date='Sep 23 2009, 11:54 PM']Thats what i meant lol...thats the tuning i played with aswell; i would recommend the Boomers[/quote] Excellent. Ill keep a look out for those. They seem to be pretty cheap

That is lush. What kind of music are you playing?

that looks terrible. Id be more satisfied with my ear stuck to the body of my bass

It's not drop C!!!! It's - C-F-B♭-E♭- actually 2 steps down

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='606588' date='Sep 23 2009, 12:18 PM']Easiest/cheapest is a 50-110 set for drop C. With a 35" scale you'll be fine unless you're into very high tension.[/quote] Nah i hate high tension thats why i love lighter strings. Keep in mind though it isnt drop C, its C standard. 3 steps down. But i think thats the best option. [quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='606668' date='Sep 23 2009, 02:26 PM']Get newtone to make some for it, no more expensive than hunting down funny heavy strings or a 5 set, and made ideal for you.[/quote] I never heard of this "Newtone". Ill have a gander

HAHA cheers for that. So, a light 5 string set on a 4 string bass in C standard would be fine dya think?

Sup. I have just joined a stoner/doom band that uses C standard tuning. It has been bugging me for a while, I have a selection of basses, and i think i want to use my trb with has a longer scale neck. I think if i even use 50 guage strings it won't be good enough to cope with the tuning. What about if i get a 40 gauge 5 string set, use the lower 4 and tune them up a step? Risky? Or would it be fine? Im not sure. Another thing aswell, do i risk making the grooves in the nut bigger by using heavier strings and will that effect it if i replace them with standard strings in the future? Cheers