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Cream had broken up before the likes of Led Zep and Deep Purple etc were formed so Bonzo and the others were following and building on what Baker started.

In his prime Baker was a great drummer. The trouble is he hasn't been in a band that could use his skills since Cream split and that's a very long time to be fed up, frustrated and broke! Add a lack of social skills and this is what you get. Cream totally changed what was possible with 3 musicians and, along with Jeff Beck opened the door to what would become Rock. Ginger Baker forged a new path in rock drumming. Don't look at him now look at him back then and judge his playing against the drummers that were "tip tapping" their way politely around their kits. He blew most of them into the weeds.

I don't know this bridge, but I had what sounds like the same problem with my Wal. The B string wouldn't go into the slot on the bridge. What I had to do was to lay the string away from the neck with the ball end where it should be by the bridge slot and then rotate the the string around on to the fret board so it slipped into the slot. That might not be explained very well, but whatever you do you shouldn't damage either the string or bridge. There will be a way that they slot together. As a last resort email Warwick, but don't follow any advice about drilling or filing your bass.

Spell checking was always switched on as far as I could see. It was working on Talkbass but not on BC, which is why I thought is was a BC problem. Anyway, I switched several instances from US English to UK English and didn't intentionally change anything else and this morning it's all working again! Poxy PC's. I hate them. Thanks for the help.

How heavy is your 5 string bass?

I practice numbers sitting down. My hands don't know if I'm sitting or standing. I've been doing this long enough to be able to play any which way after it's in my head.

Chaps, Are you replacing a floor/rack tuner or another clip tuner? Did you try any other clip tuners before you bought the TC one? Cheers

Thanks for the info. I'm trying to work on it.

I can switch spell check on and off for emails via Firefox but it doesn't seem to activate at all on Basschat!

Chaps, I don't seem to be getting spell checking on posts. Has anything changed? Can I put it back on? Cheers

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No you're not missing anything. I don't see any benefit in playing a PJ. I have 2 and don't use the J on either. I understand why people think that a more versitile P bass is a good thing, but then I don't understand why people don't appreciate a P bass for the unique thing that it does. If you think your P bass is missing something, get a better one. A Jazz or any other 2 pickup bass seems to be a much better platform for getting a versatile sound. I added a J to a P bass and it didn't improve the tone half as much as I was expecting/hoping. In the end it was a waste of money and effort. My Lakland gets a much better and more impressive range of tones. Just my 2 p.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1436178946' post='2815554'] My rig is a Tecamp Puma 900 and brace of Bergantino AE112s. I've used it without problems for quite a few gigs, and one day I may play a venue big enough to need the master volume turned past 10 o'clock. Just thought that some advice based on actual experience might be helpful, though I realise that that doesn't conform to BC standards. [/quote] I have a few stupidly loud gigs so I just added a third AE112. I already had a 2 ohm amp so I knew it would easily run at 2.6 ohms. This is for an SRV type guitar trio. Do you play that loud? Most people I know don't. These days I'm using a CN212 and an AE112, while I'm looking for a CN112 to go with it. 2 AE112 cabs covered all my other gigs for about 5 years, so the Puma and Berg cabs will be fine.

Early Jamerson and all Babbitt bass lines are pretty straightforward. You should be able to work out a lot of the Motown bass lines. Most people need help with the Jamerson "golden period", but I'd work up to those. Duck Dunn was on Stax, not Motown, but you should be able to work out his bass lines pretty easily.

After rather a long time on Basschat I've seen that all anyone needs to criticise is an opinion. But life is like that, isn't it? You get to know whose opinions are worth listening to and whose aren't, but expertise generally isn't a prerequisite to telling someone they're doing it wrong. I tend to tell people I prefer [i]xyz[/i] rather than your [i]abc[/i] is crap. That way you can discuss differences in opinion.

No lessons. . . . but search YouTube for Stax, Chess, Pye International and Checker records. They are all great songs and pretty easy to pick up.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1436188911' post='2815710'] Can't be more vacuous than Metro, can it? [/quote] It always was. . . .

I'm lucky enough to be able to buy before I've sell. I have to because I gig every week. I've had good and bad experiences from Melody Maker, Exchange and Mart and Loot, eBay and Gumtree. BC has not been without fault but it's been the best so far.

What's your definition of RnB? The original RnB from the 60's or the new RnB from the last few years?

I'm not sure this is going to work for Alex. Most guitarists I've played with and seen in the last 30 years have used Fender combo's. A couple have used Mashall or Mesa half stacks, but IME the valve combo by Fender is the one that gets used on most gigs. I can't see guitarists buying a cab, then trying to work out what amp to buy to go with it.

I could read muisc when I left school. Self taught, the school was no help at all. I even did a couple of sessions reading the dots, in the early days, but all that disappeared over the years through lack of use.

Most guitarists I play with are stuck in 1957 and slightly later, 1968, for the predals. Nearly all the keyboard players I know are switching to Nord's. The drummers are a mixture. I played with a guy who has a modern custom "coffe table" drum kit. Sounded pretty good. Some of them are using double bass drum pedals but mostly the kits are pretty conventional. I played with one drummer who had a fantastic kit. 3 hi-hats, full drum and cymbal compliiment and pink sparkle. Brilliant drummer and a great sound. But it's the bass players who are moving ahead with the quality of their sound and the technology of their gear. Well mostly. There are still a lot who are equally stuck in the 60's, which isn't always a bad thing, if you can lift the gear.

I shouldn't have looked. I'll never get to sleep now!!!

This isn't a problem. For 5 years I ran a 500 watt amp through 2 AE112 cabs and never got to half way on the volume controls, and we wern't quiet. I doubt you'd get to the point of doing any damage unless you try to go to 11. And why would you do that? This should give yo lots of nice headroom for a great sound.

I don't try to recreate sounds of bygone times. All the gear was different, the amps, cabs, our ears and memories, all different. I don't see much hope of recreating an old sound with modern gear. Either get the old gear or get a good sound out of something modern. Have you tried an Aguilar TH500 or Ampeg SVT3 PRO? Or an Ampeg 115, Bergantino HD series or Barefaced Retro Two10?