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I also share jons love of nip firewood and other oddities, I,ve just picked up a Hohner 'Arbor series' str*t copy, three color sunburst, rosewood board, looks and plays like a tokai goldstar but with a body made from one o, them plywood trees!

WOW! Loved it!!!

Back in the days of 'live tv' and such great televisual milestones such as 'topless darts', there was a show called 'the spanish archer' and a friend of mine got a chance to appear as a friend of hers had backed out at the last minute( I wonder why!!!). Anyway , she was a violinist and she asked me if I would accompany her on guitar with a fellow bass playing friend of mine doing a rocked out version of the south bank show/ paganini concerto no24 tune. The show turned out to be a very corny talent show where the acts were either 'elbowed' of the stage or won an orange each and a chance to be outright winner for the day, we went on and did indeed win an orange each and were in the running to be the winners but we were beaten at the end by a juggling Frank spencer!!!!.

Grab it before the ric police do.. [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/1975-IBANEZ-VINTAGE-LAWSUIT-BASS-GUITAR-2363R-2363-R_W0QQitemZ130243343187QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130243343187&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318"]http://cgi.ebay.com/1975-IBANEZ-VINTAGE-LA...86.c0.m14.l1318[/url]

I,ve just read this thread thru and I can,t believe no one,s posted this yet..... I,m sorry!..... I can,t resist the urge any longer!!... Don,t eat the yellow snow. ok ok I,m gettin, my hat!

Hope you enjoy these as much as we had fun making them. [url="http://www.limeshark.com/video.htm"]http://www.limeshark.com/video.htm[/url] Paul.

[quote name='dood' post='241435' date='Jul 17 2008, 12:54 AM']my mate would do the same with his estate car, but used both sides of the PA and subs hooked up to his car amps. Ya know, I have to admit, it really did sound amazing and clear... so very loud, but it never hurt your ears. Strange! Infact, it was so loud, you actually couldnt hear yourself talk![/quote] Cool!! I,m looking at my 8x10,s and thinking they,ll fit in the volvo 940.

A gu1t4rist friend of mine used to carry his Soldano 4x12 cab in the back of his car and used to hook it up to a car sub bass power amp when not using it for gigs.

[quote name='lowhand_mike' post='240241' date='Jul 15 2008, 05:42 PM']this of any use as to what it is like, also completely nuts [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzmyTn_PfE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzmyTn_PfE[/url][/quote] Blast it!!! I,m gonna have to learn that now!!!! I,m hooked, listened to it a dozen times already!!!!

[quote name='cheddatom' post='235757' date='Jul 9 2008, 02:52 PM']Everyone agreed, at least by 1995 that the 80s was the worse ever decade for style.[/quote] Well I never agreed!!! I loved the eighties, the music and styles that were around. If you take anything from the eighties you can immediatly recognise it, it was the last decade of any recognisable style regardless of wether it was good or bad, everything since has had no definable look or sound that was ever so clear, sure loads of good stuff has come since but If I had a time machine I,d love to go back to 1980 and do it all again, and probably the late 60,s and early 70,s. I still have my drop sleeved leather jacket. :-)

How are you getting the amp shipped? They are a little on the weighty side!.

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='232483' date='Jul 4 2008, 09:53 AM']Lol, nice one. IIRC last time I saw your rig, you had 4 8*10s, did you feel that wasn't enough so needed the extra pair? Which mug helps you lift/move those?[/quote] Hehe! I borrowed a couple from ampegs hire stock to compete with the 24 Marshall cabs that tony and nick had got planned for their side of the stage. Hopefully the video that we used them for for 'blindside' will be finished soon and up with the others on our site. We did a really funny scene with me using a body harness slipping across the stage trying to play into the blast from the backline. Paul. The whole kit and caboodle.

[quote name='ped' post='109042' date='Dec 24 2007, 08:05 PM']..Go on then![/quote] Does anyone know a good ear surgeon?

+1 for the voodoo lab psu and try a palmer line isolation box in line between the two offending items.

A lot of my sound comes from the way I fret notes on my left hand, I always press very hard I use a lot of string vibrato wether it be pressing the string hard against the back of the fret or pulling the bugger across the board and have a tendency to really bend a note up prior to fretting one higher. I also use a very hard to find pick, hi modulus graphite picks ( the ones with the little cannabis logo,s on them) the original factory burned down (apparently) in the late eighties and i went round all the guitar shops buying up all the 1.00mm thick ones, still have around thirty original unused ones for gigs and recording and I used the pick boy copies for rehearsal.

Go for it man!! you never know you may find it,s the thing you always wanted... I learned to play on a ric copy and now I own the real thing it has convinced me that it,s the sound I,ve been trying for years to attain. If only they made a six string with an f#......

Hi jon. how,s the bass coming along?

Hugh Manson has been around building guitars as far as I can remember since back in the early eighties. I first met him around 1985 and his guitars are some of the finest I,ve ever seen. He is the man behind all those wonderfully technical guitars used by Matt Bellamy from Muse. I,d be very suprised if you were not completely happy with anything done by him. Hope this helps.

Say when and I,ll bring a good camera.

I learnt to play on a borrowed hondo ric copy. Even tho I own a ric now I still love copies.

Back in the early ninties I was working as a sound engineer at Samurai rehearsal studios in london and had the pleasure of meeting manfred mann and used to hear the singer ( I can,t remember who he was) sing revved up....... every day for a week.

I think you,ll find it,s 'revved up like a deuce another runner in the night'

Hi Nick! When are we going to see the whole lineup?. You are an inspiration ( One day I,m gonna have loads of basses like that ):-)

I was going to post this yesterday but i wasn,t too sure about wether I was right or not but ahh here goes.. I think the reason the 'skunk stripe' is there is because some of the rosewood boards are much thinner than some of the boards known as 'slab' boards that are more of a slab than a veneer so the truss rods are fitted thru the back as a veneer board would not cover the routed channel of the truss rod. does this make sense. I,ve been in the pub all day!!