WHUFC BASS

Who in their right mind would buy a hunk of crap like that???

Hello mate, been to your neck of the woods a while back. We played the Rock Cafe 2000 there back in January last year.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxw2QsoDX7E"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxw2QsoDX7E[/url] I think I'd sh*t in my knickers if someone offered me $1,000,000....

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-IBANEZ-CHERRY-SUNBURST-W-W_W0QQitemZ220344825375QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item220344825375&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1298|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-ELECTRIC-BAS...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url] I reckon this'll go for a few bob if it isn't pulled first.

Bacchus make some fantastic basses. The quality is top notch, Japanese guitar making at its best.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='380001' date='Jan 14 2009, 09:39 AM']If it wasn't fretless my missus wouldn't be getting her Wii.[/quote] Ha! My missus has got one of them. I tried the boxing game. Nearly had a f***ing coronary after one round. f*** that for a game of soldiers. Guitar Hero is pony as well.

The best guitar for the money out there that I've tried is the Washburn Idol. I own 4 of them and they are the dogs. I think I've found my perfect guitar.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MIM-Fretless-Fender-Jazz-Bass_W0QQitemZ260346604676QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item260346604676&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MIM-Fretless-Fender-...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url] I'll pull the auction if anyone wants it on here...

Price is ridiculous. You could get a lot better for that price, even a custom job with select woods. You're just paying for the name on that thing as is the case with most of the stuff Gibson do nowadays. Has nobody told Fender there's a recession on.

[quote name='The Funk' post='379109' date='Jan 13 2009, 03:03 PM']Does he listen to it backwards and then kill himself afterwards? I was going to say I'm quite familiar with Rob Halford but I didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. [/quote] LOL! Yeah, apparently if you play their music backwards you can hear the words "Do It". I don't know which is funnier, the people who claimed that this was actually a valid reason to go court over this or the courts for taking the claim seriously - only in America! LOL!

[quote name='geilerbass' post='378636' date='Jan 13 2009, 09:13 AM']If you ain't got the balls to take it, you can leave the hall...[/quote] I saw the UK Subs at the weekend... now that was scary!

Never owned a Tele - would never want to either...

[quote name='The Funk' post='378971' date='Jan 13 2009, 01:23 PM']It'd be a bit weird if his favourite music in the world to listen to was his own - and even if that was true, it'd come across as obnoxiously arrogant to say so in public![/quote] You obviously haven't heard of Rob Halford of Judas Priest - he only listens to his own band's music.

If you're in East London or Essex then this bloke right here does a great job: [url="http://www.martinsguitars.co.uk/index.html"]http://www.martinsguitars.co.uk/index.html[/url] He's a bass player too!

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='378598' date='Jan 13 2009, 07:46 AM']and I've got the gas for a Telecaster Guitar as a result... Picked up my daughter's Encore electric guitar over the break and I've been playing it more than my basses... I've had so much fun going back to stuff I used to do... power chords, blues licks... It's so much easier now having been playing bass... I now know where the notes are and what I'm doing rather than just blindly repeating licks out of a guitar magazine... I can come up with my own and they sound good as well... [/quote] Thats how I started 3 years ago. I know play guitar in two bands. Still looking for a band to play bass in !

This sounds like the bloke I bought a guitar off way back. It was a real nice PRS Copy. It was identical to the one made by Harley-Benton but the action was the lowest I'd ever seen on a guitar. Frets were all nicely stoned and dressed, and the sound was ok too. The body was mahogany but it was about a 5 piece body,this was my only gripe. The rest was great for the money.

As mentioned you can't generalise but I think the far-east come in for a lot of undeserved stick. I would put Japanese instruments up against anything coming out of the U.S. or Europe. They have been consistently good since the 70s - so much so that Gibson and Fender used their plants for manufacturing their guitars. As for Korea, again, some very high quality instruments come out of Korea. They are well made, and yes, they do use quality parts too. From experience Washburn and Schecter make cheap quality instruments. As for the Korean Rockbasses, they are quality. They use MEC pickups and Warwick tuners and play fantastically. I have a 5 String Corvette and I love it. It has the best neck on a 5-string I have ever played. It sounds great too. They use quality swamp as and maple on it too. I think the Chinese models that are in production now just aren't as good.

[quote name='4000' post='378109' date='Jan 12 2009, 07:03 PM']But seriously, all I can say is "may each note I play be a black arrow of death to all those who play False Metal". Or something like that. [/quote] I saw Manowar in the late 80s and they were a great band, shame all this false metal sh*t was lost on a British audience. It might wash with the yanks but for f***s sake, get a grip Joey.

[quote name='simon1964' post='377107' date='Jan 11 2009, 08:16 PM']LOL! As it happens, I played one of these at a local music shop a couple of weeks ago, and didn't like it at all. Got a decent review in BGM though.[/quote] Me too, tried one at the Bass Centre. Horrible I thought. The neck was probably the worst 5string neck I've ever played.

Geezer for me all the way. I didn't play the bass properly until I started listening to Sabbath way back. Probably the biggest influence on my playing.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQrGtCxcwY"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQrGtCxcwY[/url] Some great bass tones in there... I really like Robert Trujillo bass sound on here. probably the tone I've been trying to achieve for a while. Geddy Lee reminds me of an anorexic Mrs Doubtfire.