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[quote name='EBS_freak' post='289855' date='Sep 23 2008, 12:17 PM']There are... but I don't think shapes have developed much from what came from the 60s... apart from completely radical ones and the single cuts. Basically, everything is derived from strat shapes, tele shapes, les paul (single cut and double cut), flying v ,sg and the ric. Maybe Warwick-esque designs can be defined as original... but then, even Warwick nicked their shape from Spector... it would seem to me that coming up with original shapes is quite difficult.. and I think that there is something in our minds which expects shapes to conform to those original deisngs.[/quote] Yeah I agree, Deep inside when poeple think of bass they're likley to think of one of the "big" shapes. Still though, I hanker for either the original or something different but just as good.

[quote name='Waldo' post='289824' date='Sep 23 2008, 12:01 PM']Thankyou, they'd better not mess the film up like they did with V For Vendetta [/quote] Well the trailer looks bloody good, Pumpkins backing track and all that. Zack Snyder made a good job of 300 in my opinion, but it’s going to be very hard to do a decent job of watchman. They’ll be riots of socially awkward young men if they ruin it.

I've been thinking about this a lot as of late. I like the fender shapes, I believe the clone bodies can offer better quality, better value for money etc, but there’s always this thing in the back of my mind that it’s still a copy (even if it’s a better version). For me, what I’d really like to see is someone coming up with a really decent bass, but with individual looks and sounds but still works. Warwicks, Rickenbackers, Thunderbirds (though the same thing applies for borrowed guitar shapes – ignore my ASATs tele shape), singlecuts, the lakland basic shape, a lot of the hollowbodies, MMs There must be tonnes more shapes around than Jazz/Precision

Slightly off topic but props to you Avatar Waldo. PRS guitars, basses: They sure do look pretty.

Now thats a good idea

원 is won

but If I buy this really expensive bit of kit I'll be better at playing bass!

I have to say I've got a hankering for one of these after playing one in the gallery (same colour as well, though the 5 string version). The gallery had it at 950 second hand so at the moment it looks to be a right old bargin, I imagine the bidding will shoot up at the end.

This is well under budget and I've only heard good things: [url="http://www.chamberlainmusic.com/ProductDetail.asp?ProductID=GWB35"]http://www.chamberlainmusic.com/ProductDet...ProductID=GWB35[/url] There's a more expensive version too

[quote name='Protium' post='280613' date='Sep 9 2008, 07:13 PM']You're right, all shops should ban browsing FOREVER lmao. Maybe they should rename it "The Buy Something Or Get Out Cellar" [/quote] Now come on, thats not what I said is it, I just expressed empathy for their situation.

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='280047' date='Sep 8 2008, 10:41 PM']am i the only one that's thinking "who gives a f***"? Fair play to the guy for telling everyone exactly what he wants rather than fobbing off people with sh*t excuses as to why they're "not right" for his band, if only everyone were so honest To the OP - Mclusky are a f***ing great band! [/quote] I kinda agree to be honest, bands are about image too, Also Mclusky were great, Future of the left arn't too shabby either

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='279647' date='Sep 8 2008, 12:54 PM']How can you justify/qualify that? Have you read the rest of this thread?[/quote] sigh yes I can't quantify it and yes I've read and commented in the rest of the thread, It's an opinion based on going down denmark street for the last 5 years.

To be fair to the cellar though, 99.99% of the people in there have no intention of buying, just herds of scruffy kids with no money wanting to try out £1000 basses, I reckon after dunno 5 years of dealing with that day in day out I might put up a sign too.

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='279363' date='Sep 7 2008, 09:53 PM']Excuse my cynicism, but couldn’t this possibly be a case of good service for a well dressed city business man? I wonder what the service would have been like if you were wearing jeans and a t-shirt and were soaked through by the rain.[/quote] I've had good service from them, been allowed to try anything I want out etc. Now, I am a city business man I guess, but I go in wearing jeans and t-shirts and I'm in m 20's. Having said that I went to the gallery this weekend and that was something else....blows everything else out the water

I've gone from thomastic jazz flats (about 1/5 years same set) to La bellas and at the moment I think I prefer the thomastics. Though I got deep talking mediums, which as a lot thicker that the thomastics, Also, the jazz flats have red bindings, the la bellas light blue,

About £550 I'd say. If you can find one.

[quote name='Rasta' post='276721' date='Sep 4 2008, 09:12 AM']Gwan play dem reggae dub riddim wid tone....cha bumbaclot = No tone fe sure.. for me it's just phat belly gully slinking resonance through a giant sound system...there's a lot to be said for just a note thats very loud and very bassy indeed....apparently the earth resonates in Eb-thats just one note - Don't get me wrong i love 'Portrait of Tracy' (thats lots of notes) with tone, but there is a lot to be said for just the bass, big dub tents aka jah Shaka, a Jazz or precision with tone rolled off and a natural smoke machine and 1000's of festinutters-pure and obese bass tone...they're grrrrreeeattt! Irie What am i talking about-try a SUBDUB night (Iration Steppaz)-footlong with reggae reggae bass food Sauce in Leeds! [/quote] Ah subdub, I used to go that when I was at Uni, cabbage and SUBDUB still going?

It takes some of the voodoo out of it, makes it a bit easier, I find it interesting. But thats not the same as just learning the notes on the fretboard, that would be really boring. Learn the major scale in C, it's easy, C D E F G A B, learn how to play the shape starting on 3rd fret A string. Then try the same thing on the other 3 "c"s. If you're still really bored, then just don't do it.

You know I'm almost tempted to say mine, so that I could buy the white sei up for sale here, I suspect it'd be one of those regrets for ever things though, Ah it's already sold, oh well

Funny how everyone wants low action I'm not 100% sure why... IMO if you hit heavy and with a pick, don't worry about getting the strings as low as possible.