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  1. Paul S
    That tele - looks like the exact same one all the way through - was it?
  2. Paul S
    The Pirates! I saw them *fairly* recently - this century, rather than the the last, so maybe +/-2005 - and they were not quite as frantic but still on the money.
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    Some pics! [attachment=115424:fury1.jpg][attachment=115425:fury2.jpg][attachment=115426:fury3.jpg][attachment=115427:fury4.jpg][attachment=115428:fury5.jpg][attachment=115429:fury6.jpg][attachment=115430:fury7.jpg][attachment=115431:fury8.jpg][attachment=115432:fury9.jpg]
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    Pictures! [attachment=115415:MM1.jpg][attachment=115416:MM2.jpg][attachment=115417:MM3.jpg][attachment=115418:MM4.jpg][attachment=115419:MM5.jpg][attachment=115420:MM6.jpg][attachment=115421:MM7.jpg][attachment=115422:MM8.jpg][attachment=115423:MM9.jpg]
  5. Paul S
    Considering I am such an ugly [email="b@stard"]b@stard[/email] I am surprisingly concerned about appearances. My basses, anyway - nowt I can do about me. The yellow tint was an itch I couldn't scratch! But maybe I can now - PM sent, Pete.
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    On the off chance - I have a P-bass fitted with a Mightly Mite Jazz neck MM2909 sprayed with the vintage nitro finish and would prefer the same neck finished in clear satin. Anyone out there with reverse preferences? It is a bit too turmeric for me. Pictures later.
  7. Paul S
    Forgotten bands alright. Kursaal Flyers at the Blue Boar! Be Bop Deluxe! Class act. Maid in Heaven - superb track [url="http://youtu.be/FzZUyTpmy3g"]http://youtu.be/FzZUyTpmy3g[/url]
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    I am thinking of selling my Peavey Fury II as I have too many basses. It is black with maple neck and rosewood fretboard. One VFL pickup (vertical flux loading, whatever the heck that means, but they get quite good reviews), active 3 band eq that gives a decent enough range of tones - the mid control is especially useful. Jazz width neck (38mm) that is VERY shallow with 20 frets. Weighs around 8.5lbs. Hardware is Peavey version of a high mass bridge and enclosed Schaller-type tuners in a kind of satin finish gunmetal colour. Serial number on neck plate reads 00410204, sticker on neck reads 00386360 - no idea why they are different! No firm idea how old this is - mid 90s? - I believe they were made in Korea. Overall it is in pretty good nick except for a dink in the lower horn. I have the action set pretty low and it has no issues that I am aware of. I bought it purely out of curiosity and was surprised how good it was when it finally turned up - a far better instrument than, say, the Peavey Milestone III. My intention was to pimp it with a better eq, which I would consider to be the weak point, but then it not exactly a boutique bass! This would result in a pretty damned good bass. However I subsequently bought a SBMM SB-14 which kind of trumps it in the single pup/3-band eq department. I would like just £80 for this, which is stupidly cheap and priced to go in a buyers market. Collect from South Benfleet in Essex or packed in a tatty hard case and posted for around £15. Welcome any trial. No pics for now - I'll take some later - but here is one from somewhere on the internet.
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    On hold, pending etc etc Edit - and sold.
  10. Paul S
    I bought a Hipshot BT1, recommended for musicman basses, direct from the USA for around $52 to put on my Sterling by Musicman SB14. But it didn't fit on the smaller headstock of that particular that model. So - I sold it to a fellow basschatter. When he tried to fit it to his stingray he said it was defective - that the tuning peg mechanism caught and wouldn't turn. He returned it to me, I gave him his money back. I contacted the seller, who has since replaced it as defective, free of charge, and with a BT7. Back to the BT1 - it didn't look odd at all when it came back so I jerry-rigged it to my SB-14 and I was surprised to find that it apparently was in order - the bassplate didn't fit, overlapping with that of the next tuner and also the screws didn't all line up, but the actual gear mechanism seemed to work perfectly well and also the detuner. So, there it is. It either works or it doesn't! To recoup my postage costs from to-ing and fro-ing I offer it for sale for £20 posted on the condition that you pay me once you have received it, fitted it and are happy with it. Worst case you waste time fitting it and have an interesting paperweight. At best you get a virtually band new BT1 detuner for £20!!
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    Final update on this - Best Bass Gear sent me a replacement foc once it was back in stock, marked value was $1 so as to slip through the duty net. BT7 is a straight fit for the Sterling size headstock. Sorted!!
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    [quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1343864332' post='1756700'] I bought this stand for no money, its my third one. It folds flat and goes into my gig bag pocket. Not good for Jazzes. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310138457604?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_998wt_946"]http://www.ebay.co.u...49#ht_998wt_946[/url] Perfect [/quote] I bought one as well - and yes, perfect!
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343745635' post='1754512'] Cost is all relative too, really... I borrowed a BF S12 and it's everything I could ever hope for, but I can't afford one - so it's down the 4X10 route and ongoing back pain for me! [/quote] I decided that once I'd factored in visits to an osteopath at £40 a go Barefaced cabs are saving me a fortune! The crystal clear sound is a happy by-product.
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343741172' post='1754428'] Given that the topic title is 'I have my new bass head...' But I do agree with you entirely, rig choice should be about which amp and cab works best together for you. Among other factors of course, such as cost, portability, genre, design and so on... [/quote] Well, yes, for the OP it is a less than useful observation - which was aimed more at folks who are struggling with BF cabs generally. Given their transparency I don't see how blame for a 'bad tone' could ever be laid at their feet, really - I suspect it brings out something in amps that was previously unheard. But sound is very subjective - all I know is I am increasingly impressed with my BF rig, I must say, and teaming it with the Genz Benz vs TC 450 has made a huge step forward as far as my ears are concerned. Again, not an observation the OP would find useful.
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    I used my TC Classic 450 through a Barefaced Compact and Midget used singly and in combination and thought it all sounded great. I now have a GB Streamliner 600 paired with the same cabs and this sounds *more than* great - the contrast is quite marked, in fact. It seems to have opened up a range of sounds that the TC hid somehow - is this the compressed squishing people talk of? I have read on here many times that the BF cabs are transparent and will only articulate what goes in there - this has been my, albeit limited, experience, so maybe folks that are trying BF cabs should look at their amps, rather than the cabs, if they aren't happy with the sound.
  16. Paul S
    A picture would help at this early stage as the description of the controls doesn't sound right. There should be neck pup vol knob, bridge pup vol knob, a stacked knob for bass (outer/lower ring) and treble (inner/upper) plus the active on/off switch with red light to indicate it is active. I did have one that was different to this which was apparently a very early model.
  17. Paul S
    Amp, too, but that could go straight back onto eBay. 99p no bids as yet. No pics, says it has been bumped, but there is not much can go wrong with these. Beautifully made instruments imo - superb necks - and just ripe for pimping. I have one with a J. East P-Retro and Kent Amrstrong pup and it sounds the mutts. Lightweight, too. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320953277307?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320953277307?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649[/url]
  18. Paul S
    Another vote for KiOgon - hardly worth getting the soldering iron out when you have a drop straight in, top quality bit of kit for not a lot of money. Check out his feedback!
  19. Paul S
    Are we the same person? This is getting scary.
  20. Paul S
    Have a 'these are really good basses for the money' type bump. I had one for a while and enjoyed playing it on my own away from the mirror. great active tones, skinny neck, real pose value. But I am too old and too fat and just looked (or at least felt) plain silly wearing it.
  21. Paul S
    Only if it is you that I hear with the crap playing, not me. Love that emoticon btw, never looked at the expanded list before!
  22. Paul S
    There some great covers on that Metallica album! I like their version of Queen's Stone Cold Crazy. Can we include people covering thier own numbers - one of the best I have heard recently is Tom Jones singing Delilah mariachi style at the Jubilee concert. Brilliant. [url="http://youtu.be/5gXEnYrPrMI"]http://youtu.be/5gXEnYrPrMI[/url]
  23. Paul S
    Our singer usually says at some point during the gig 'if you have any requests let us know. If it is on our list, we'll play it' which usually gets a titter and the message across. I don't get the whole 'the crowd are paying so you should play what they ask' thing. You've only got to read the threads on here to see how diverse music is and it is totally unrealistic imo to expect a band to be able to play *anything*. We play what we play, based on what we are capable of playing to a decent enough standard. We aren't professional musos, just a bunch of middle aged guys having a laugh who just happen to make a lot of people happy when they come to see us. As far as I can see the whole pub band thing is pretty Darwinian and if people didn't like what we do we wouldn't get booked again.
  24. Paul S
    Pink Turtle do jazz and swing version of rock classics, here is 'Smoke on the Water' [url="http://youtu.be/OeQ2GgGivPo"]http://youtu.be/OeQ2GgGivPo[/url]
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    Taking of Hendrix covers, this a great version of what I consider to be a really weak original - Freedom, covered by Steve Lukather [url="http://youtu.be/jOmgg-1B85A"]http://youtu.be/jOmgg-1B85A[/url]
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