Paul Cooke

[quote name='tauzero' post='139454' date='Feb 13 2008, 01:05 PM']Looks like there wouldn't be any problem in getting it [url="http://www.bassisbodacious.com"]here[/url] (although the [url="http://www.duckdunn.com/what_duck_done.html"]official website[/url] seems to be sold out of them).[/quote] nice, with S&H came to £17.28... thanks a bunch

well, that current winning bidder floyd0132 sure looks like a shill to me... joined two days ago and 0 feedback... what's the bet's he cancels just before the finish? and I get stiffed with my highest bid instead of a lower valid bid...

*£$*"&$£^$%")!")" I had a max bid of £30 in there for all of two seconds... I ain't going higher...

drill right through the headstock and use a long shafted bolt with a washer and nut on the back side of the headstock...

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='137025' date='Feb 9 2008, 10:58 AM']It certainly is... if that's your cup of tea![/quote] My daughter thought it looked good... she's into that "Gothic" sort of rock... Nightwish, Evanescence, etc.

some guy named *4music* got it for £1028... was that a good price?

[quote name='Davetbass' post='135283' date='Feb 6 2008, 08:16 PM']You dont have to skin yourself either! There was a thread about the Squire Vintage Modified Jazz. £220 and it`s got everything you could want or need. Active pups, nice upgraded bridge and natural finish that looks cool! Anyone got any pic`s of their own models? I`m seriously thinking about getting one myself [/quote] Squier VMJ pups are passive, not active... the bridge is a stock "Fender" style bridge... not upgraded and here's a piccy of mine I changed the control-plate assembly to one out of a Fender Geddy-Lee, put Schaller straplocks and Picato flats on it...

fatter longer screws... at least half an inch longer and only just a little bit fatter... you might need a drill to ream out the hole in the Schaller button a little bit... and you may have to "modify" the screw head so that it fits inside the Schaller button...

[quote name='neptunehealer' post='134912' date='Feb 6 2008, 11:39 AM']Haha the welcome to the world of GAS comment made me chuckle as that is too true and i thought i was one of them players that would'nt get it. Well my bass is a 4 string 22 fret Vintage. Thats all it says on the headstock is Vintage i don't know if this helps at all.[/quote] can you identify it from this list of suspects??? [url="http://www.jhs.co.uk/vintagebass.html"]http://www.jhs.co.uk/vintagebass.html[/url] oh, by the way, Vintage are not cheap nasty basses... I have the V950B and it's very nice...

you fail to define what your cheap nasty bass is... your cheap nasty bass may be another's fine and dandy bass...

Well one of them at the very least is telling porkies... unbelievably fishy...

so what would you recommend to get the gunge and other general stuff off with first before I finish it? I have Lem-oil, but am not sure if that would preclude me from using beeswax to polish it with...

OK, after getting back from Sheffield with a nice bubinga bodied bass in my clutches... I'm wondering how to clean it. It appears to be a natural finish as there are open pores. Can I get away with using Mr Sheen or Pledge on it? or have I got to use something fancy? PS. Yes I did use the search function and nothing came up...

[quote name='ARGH' post='132445' date='Feb 2 2008, 10:33 AM']With sessions dying off (one music school tutor admitted to me he had not 'done one' in 3 years),VST plug ins,and producers just playing the Bass on their tracks themselves(my opinion here,but what do they know about playing Bass in a creative sense)....as things stand,we are ..or in danger of, having run out of ideas. We have to move forward....[/quote] no, sorry... don't follow you here... I'm perfectly happy supplying the groove for blues and CC and gospel. I am completely uninterested in any form of tapping, slapping, popping or whatever... can't be jiggered to solo... a VST can't work off and feed the crowd... pre-recorded tracks similarly can't do it either... there's always a place for a Bassist and Drummer to get things going... the only reason you're upset is because of the cult of the DJ and nightclubs... and the resulting lack of venues in the UK for proper live playing... [quote name='ARGH' post='132445' date='Feb 2 2008, 10:33 AM']Our jobs have to change,as do our instruments.[/quote] no they don't... our job is to hold down the bottom end and supply the platform for everyone else to work on...

[quote name='uptonmark' post='130166' date='Jan 29 2008, 05:19 PM']was jamming along to freakout by chic the other day and noticed that when i was playing along to the middle eight section, my bass sounded out of tune, yet during verse and chorus it sounded fine. would this be an intonation issue[/quote] not necessarily... they might have changed key or mode for the middle 8 and you got caught out... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APtTBODUfd8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APtTBODUfd8[/url] you decide... he doesn't shift up the bass much... a few frets that's all... it's not like he's going up from below the 5th to around the 12th... anyway... he really makes that funk look easy...

I went over the handlebars of my motorbike 25 years ago and the thumb on my left hand was badly dislocated... it still gives me problems now when playing... I sometimes have to wear a splint when playing to support the joint where the webbed bit starts as it can go back on itself...

bestpractice... [url="http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/"]http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/[/url] [quote]BestPractice is a musician's practice tool, to slow down or speed up music, either from an MP3 file or directly from a CD. Ordinarily the sound is distorted when slowed down our sped up - you get the effect like when playing a 33 rpm record on 45 rpm speed (remember the Chipmunks?). BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music, while keeping the original pitch. It is also possible to change the pitch of the music without affecting its tempo. Play along with for instance Eb tuned guitars without retuning your own, or slow down that high-speed guitar solo on a CD that you like to learn.[/quote] open source and completely free

the book Bass Fitness... [url="http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/09/details.html"]http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/09/details.html[/url] real killer workouts... very boring to do though... and they really stretch you...