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[quote name='magcom1977' timestamp='1364412597' post='2026201'] All of the above are gorgeous so there will be no winner based on looks alone. [/quote] I'll have to disagree with you on the Dingwall I'm afraid, that fretboard looks like a melted chocolate ladder! Not for me. My vote goes to the Lull looks wise, I think it nails it and whilst I'm not completely sold on the looks of the Xotic, I must admit it looks quite cool I think. Plus if it sounds like this then you're winning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrovlaxtU1o

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1364292724' post='2024317'] Maybe some consider it a bad idea but I always thought Billy Sheehan would have been a good alternative... not the tapping Sheehan but the rock solid bass player he has proven to be in some occasions. [/quote] Spot on actually, if you were looking for a bit more of a dead ringer type fit.

When I asked for a bass guitar when I was 12 for Christmas, my dad was advised by his then bandmate who was a lefty to get me, also a lefty, a right-handed instrument. I do thank god I learnt the way I have, although I've got a lot of respect for left-handed players as I know it can be tough finding instruments.

Really great and lovely to watch but the original tracks are nearly 10 years old now. edit - Adam Blackstone gets all the best gigs right now!

Pino is my favourite bass player by a long shot, he's incredible. He kind of echoes most closely the kind of bass player I'd really love to be if I could do it. He's probably the most in demand bass player in the world right now as well, which I'm sure has its perks. As for Entwhistle, he was totally unique and I've learnt to appreciate his playing over time, he really was an extraordinary musician with his own pace on the bass that no one really ever matched in rock music. He and Pino are almost at total opposite ends of the spectrum playing wise, I don't think Pino fits the role of Entwhistle well but if we're being totally honest then basically no one would have filled the role capably, so why not ask Pino to fill in in his own capacity? He's going to do a better job at bass playing than anyone else out there, and who wants to hear a copycat Entwhistle anyway, his tone was dire in later life.

Absolutely love the spirit of this forum. A lot of really intelligent people that post some fascinating stuff I personally could never fully understand but love reading.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1363893397' post='2019111'] Hated flats first time around but have in the last few months fallen in love with halfwounds [/quote] How are you getting on with your halfwounds out of interest? Not tried 'em myself but would might like to.

I love those Status Hotwires! Excellent, glad you like them.

Played a Behringer head at the weekend through a no name cab at a gig (it was their back line stuff) and thought it was pretty naff, so I switched it out for my TC RH750 head which is handily portable. I don't have anything major against Behringer but I have suffered their quality control issues in the past and it does make me think twice about using their stuff. It's all about expectations though and what you're using it for, we're all different in this respect.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1363833909' post='2018421'] You can deny it all you want. [/quote] Cheers, I will.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1363824734' post='2018373'] But there are musicians, engineers, band leaders, who will all make assumptions based on what they see. [/quote] Definitely, not the decent ones. If you're a good enough player then you can expect to get calls from people who will want to work with you regardless of the instrument you're using. Engineers and producers may have their own ideas about what kind of bass they'd like you to play, but the good ones won't discriminate providing the end result is there, that's their job. I know countless players that use cheap instruments in professional environments with big names that you wouldn't dream of pulling from a gig for the sake of their choice of guitar/bass.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1363821630' post='2018330'] Incorrect. [/quote] Then talk me through your thinking on this one. Here's mine. For starters, 99% of an audience don't give a rat's ass about what bass you're using full stop, and in fact depending on the audience they probably aren't even aware of your musical function in a live situation. Those that do care/might care about what bass you're using and might turn their noses up at the fact you're using a cheap/inferior/smalltime brand instrument (delete as applicable) are so low down on the scale by this stage that not only is their presumption totally ignorant, it actually pales into almost total insignificance.

Love that documentary! Really great album.

It's fun, I like most of what I play, I can keep my live playing sharp, it's taken me all over Europe and I can pay some of the bills.

Sold a Stingray 5 to [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Ferenc, it was the first time I've sold to anyone outside of the U.K and things just could not have been easier (actually easier than a lot of the UK transactions I've had). Do not even give it a second's thought selling abroad to this guy, he's sterling. [/font][/color]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1363723750' post='2016650'] [url="http://liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm"]http://liutaiomottol.../perception.htm[/url] and other pages at that site. [/quote] Cheers! Just saw the word 'compliance' getting tossed around the other day and figured I was wrong to be calling it 'tension'. I need to read. In any case the Thomastiks are lovely strings. Also can't recommend the Status Hotwire flats enough either, superb and incredible affordable as flats go.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1363721161' post='2016584'] I like and read both Shakespeare and Dickens - I would never think of them as 'virtuosos' but great storytellers. I've never heard of Chabon and Franzen - I looked them up on Wikipedia now. [/quote] Why would you I guess if you hadn't had read their books, the same applies here I think. Purely trying to put it into perspective. By the way if you do like reading then definitely check out Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1363721317' post='2016587'] TI Flats are low tension but high compliance. [/quote] Not at all clued up on the science of anything string wise, what's the difference here?

Love flatwounds, got one of my two P-Basses strung with them right now. The Thomastiks are great, especially if you like lower tension (or compliance or whatever!!).

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1363719246' post='2016547'] Most of the stuff posted here leaves me totally cold. [/quote] Same for me, although I suppose (for example) that we can all be into different authors but at the same time loathe reading Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, modern guys like Michael Chabon or Franzen, it's just good to keep them in the back of your mind when we read because they're the ones that set a lot of the benchmarks whether we consider it to be interesting or not.

I struggle to think of any better bass player to have ever lived than Anthony Jackson. There's plenty of other bass players I really prefer listening to in most other contexts but for me the definition of virtuoso belongs to him so much more than any other player to have been mentioned in this thread so far, nothing constrains him technically or musically, he is in my mind the kind of bass player that [i]could[/i] be classed as the greatest of all time. Tom Jenkinson's bass playing bores me so much, but his music is some of my absolute favourite music of all time, I wouldn't care if he ever picked up a bass guitar ever again because he doesn't need it to translate his ideas and musicality. He is a genius.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1363231632' post='2010250'] People hear with their eyes. Nobody will be impressed that you sound good on a cheap bass. They'll just assume you're an amateur for not having a better instrument. If you like the Fender logo, put it on. Just don't try to sell it as such. [/quote] Not even close to being true.

Just bought a 1978 Fender P-Bass from Lozz. I couldn't be happier, his comms throughout the transaction were excellent, his delivery was prompt and he was a great person to talk with over the phone too. What a top guy, thanks Lozz!

Just gone back from a brief stay with a 5'er to a 4. Not that I don't like 5 strings, I really do, I can get round on them absolutely fine and they open up a lot of passages for me which I think is great. But there really isn't anything right now that I can get out of a 5 that I can't do on a 4. They evoke different mindsets for me and my preference is still slightly towards a 4 string. I anticipate buying another 5'er in the future though, just don't need it right now. Most long term 5 string players will just say that they're used to playing them now and that they can't translate back to 4's quite as easily, which is fine too.

She's excellent.