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Wow. Lazarus thread!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='521410' date='Jun 23 2009, 08:17 AM']The near mythical Vintages [b]will be[/b] ready next week[/quote] That sounds remarkably definite. For about the fifth time in as many months, I've had a special moment in my pants regarding the impending Vintage. [quote name='alexclaber' post='521410' date='Jun 23 2009, 08:17 AM']what a wait...[/quote] I've just been thinking of it as a custom build. These things take time...

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='520451' date='Jun 22 2009, 01:18 AM']The sentence should have read: [quote]And a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how neither has cropped up as a re-issue.[/quote][/quote] I love it! We were both wrong... and right. Not often that happens.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='520610' date='Jun 22 2009, 11:33 AM']This is my baritone: [url="http://tinypic.com/a/r1y1/3"]http://tinypic.com/a/r1y1/3[/url][/quote] I'd forgotten about Lindert! I quite wanted one of their guitars back in my late teens. Heady days... What's the scale length on that?

Looks naked to me without the bridge cover.

[quote name='Buzz' post='520011' date='Jun 21 2009, 04:00 PM']That's a bass VI is it not? Not a bass V as Skank mentioned.[/quote] That's the trouble with pronouns. I read this: [quote name='skankdelvar' post='519221' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:33 PM']And a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how they've never cropped up as re-issues...[/quote] as [quote name='skankdelvar' post='519221' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:33 PM']And [the Bass VI is] a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how [the Bass VI have] never cropped up as re-issues... [given that they're prettier ][/quote] And I assume that's how Skank meant it, given his response to the Bass VI reissue. But it's also absolutely readable as [quote name='skankdelvar' post='519221' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:33 PM']And [the Bass VI is] a whole lot prettier than the Bass Five that Fender also knocked out. Funny how [the Bass V have] never cropped up as re-issues...[/quote] I can see exactly why they haven't reissued the V, though. A longer-scale fiver with only 15 frets that sold 200 units in [b]five years[/b]? Not exactly a well-loved, long-missed model people are desperate to see again...

[quote name='rslaing' post='519418' date='Jun 20 2009, 04:39 PM']I've got "Spooky" and "Son of a preacher man" if thats any help? The bass parts and full arrangement for an eight piece band (3 horns). Let me know if you want them and PM your email to me. I'll send them straight over. Rob[/quote] PMd! Anybody else got any more?

[quote name='paul h' post='519364' date='Jun 20 2009, 03:13 PM']If you can play what you want to play and achieve what you want to achieve on the instrument it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever whether you use your middle finger, a slice of sponge cake or a Fiat Panda.[/quote] Oh, I dunno. plus equals

Anybody?

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='519302' date='Jun 20 2009, 02:15 PM']Ta for that - my error. B*gger, I'd have one of those if it was $2,500 cheaper and there wasn't an amp-shaped hole in my bank account.[/quote] Plus one, sir. Plus one.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='519221' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:33 PM']Funny how they've never cropped up as re-issues...[/quote] Ah, but they did [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/11204-fender-bass-vi-sunburst.html"]a few years back[/url], for one year only. There's still a few NOS ones on US sites for around $3k.

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='519235' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:53 PM']That's a clean boost I had made by E-fects - www.e-fects.co.uk. Boosts my clean sound or if I turn the gain up, drives my valve amp.[/quote] Sweet little number. Hadn't come across E-fects before. Ta!

[quote name='William James Easton' post='519196' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:02 PM']p.s. order for little dodo soon.[/quote] Ta! <cough>Promotional code MCHUMS2009 gets you 10% off until the end of the year...</cough>

[quote name='William James Easton' post='519133' date='Jun 20 2009, 10:36 AM']i want/need a semi acoustic. but in true pops easton style i'm on a circa £200 budget. bridge pup and normal scale. i like the look of casady bass, but woe is my pocket book. any ideas cyber world? regards[/quote] <cough, splutter> You have newborn [i]and[/i] £200 to spare on a bass?!? Lucky fella. No suggestions from me, though. Sorry.

[quote name='SteveK' post='519109' date='Jun 20 2009, 10:00 AM']IMO I don't think the OP realises that [i]it is[/i] broke, and [i]how[/i] broke it is.[/quote] Yep, fair point well made. I retract my flippant sign-off!

[quote name='Bay Splayer' post='519083' date='Jun 20 2009, 08:59 AM']i do not use the middle finger of my fretting hand [b][color="#000000"]at all[/color][/b], anyone else here the same? my brother (a guitar teacher) reckons i should i reckon.....as i am a fairly competent player.....then....if it aint broke, dont fix it [/quote] How do you manage that? Most people use 1-2-4 (index-middle-little) to cover consecutive frets, unless they're playing one-finger-per-fret (and that's another world you're missing out on there). I don't have a bass to hand at the moment, but it seems like 1-3-4 (index-ring-little) would be a bit of a squeeze between the 1 and 3, and bit of a stretch between the 3 and 4. But, as you say, if it ain't broke...

[quote name='Beedster' post='518444' date='Jun 19 2009, 02:52 PM']Hi mate I was talking about Deep Talkers above, not sure about tapes. There's a thread in 'Repairs and Technical' which I think I resolved pretty conclusively for the negative with a photo of a La Bella DT E string that lasted 3 minutes strung through the body. Trust me, they don't like the angle! If I can find the thread I'll stick a link here Chris[/quote] Found it: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=29708"]here[/url].

[quote name='Beedster' post='518444' date='Jun 19 2009, 02:52 PM']Hi mate I was talking about Deep Talkers above, not sure about tapes. There's a thread in 'Repairs and Technical' which I think I resolved pretty conclusively for the negative with a photo of a La Bella DT E string that lasted 3 minutes strung through the body. Trust me, they don't like the angle! If I can find the thread I'll stick a link here Chris[/quote] Great minds, eh?

[quote name='silddx' post='518383' date='Jun 19 2009, 01:47 PM']sh*te, I have some £50 La Bella black tapes ready for when I get my Kopo back, which is string through. What's the issue Chris?[/quote] Jumping in here... Because the strings are very tightly wound and stiff, the break-angle over the saddles can break either the core or the windings, or both, depending on how unlucky you are. I've seen a few threads on Talkbass about this, and some people have managed to string La Bellas through the body for years without trouble. Others have a very expensive experience the first time out. That's just from what I've read. I've never tried La Bellas myself, and if I did, I wouldn't string them through the body. Too risky at that price. Of course, the black nylon tapes might be a completely different story. I'm pretty sure the Deep Talkin' flats have a warning on the packet telling you not to string them through, so if your black set doesn't have a warning, you might be in the clear.

Went for £338! I wonder what the cost of repairs is going to be on top of that...

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='474073' date='Apr 28 2009, 11:29 AM'][/quote] Sorry to be OT, but what's the little white pedal between the Tube Screamer and the wah?

Erm... what the thread title says. Anybody got transcriptions of Tommy Cogbill's bass parts from [i]Dusty in Memphis[/i]? I'm particularly looking for "Just a Little Lovin'" and "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore", but I'll take any and all. And preferably not TABs. No urgency. No real reason, in fact, but I'd love to be able to sit down and have a blast through these awesome lines without having to transcribe them first!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='517275' date='Jun 18 2009, 11:43 AM']He says the cracking to the front is water damage, the staining under the neckplate is where water has seeped into the wood from the screw holes over a long period, and that the truss-rod is probably a mass of green corrosion. The neck has suffered badly and replacing that binding won't be easy. Potentially there's a re-fret waiting to happen, too. At some point, I'm sure the phrase "10-foot bargepole" was mentioned ...[/quote] This is all really useful information. We need a resident luthier in the eBay Links forum. It'd certainly help us separate the wheat from the chaff. Seems like whoever gets this Hayman is going to end up with a body that [i]might[/i] be salvageable (if the water hasn't done too much damage) and a neck that's probably not even any good for bludgeoning people. It's starting to look like my latrine theory could have been spot on.

[quote name='d-basser' post='516497' date='Jun 17 2009, 03:20 PM']oooohhh, Two vintaged compacts would sit so nicely under my Fafner.[/quote] Is that your special name for it? :brow: