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[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1441538875' post='2859573'] Amazing how due to the different colour schemes, the RW looks bigger. [/quote] Strange that 'cos I would have said the other way around.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1444241461' post='2881533'] Just in cast anyone is still wondering how this works, this is what a twin-coil (humbucking) Jazz pickup looks like under the cover. The deal is, it occupies the same space as a single-coil Jazz pickup but with the advantages of a humbucker. [/quote] ... which is exactly how a post 1957 Precision Bass pickup is humbucking too .. the difference is merely the offset of EA and DG.

... and did you know that Jim Morrison's father was commander of US naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of 1964, which escalated American involvement in Vietnam ... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison[/url]

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1444153560' post='2880722'] Can't stand Elvis either, or Dire Straights, apart from the earlier stuff. Oh, and don't get me started on the Doors! [/quote] There are several Elvises and I like two of them. Knopfler is clearly a talented guitarist but I've never really got it, even the earlier stuff. I've always rather liked The Doors even though they have an air of pomposity and fakeness.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1444151542' post='2880706'] That's due to the large number of slags on the forum. [/quote] And thanks for the spelling correction.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1444146753' post='2880659'] So it's ok to slag off Adam Clayton or Nickelback, but never Paul McCartney or the bloody Beatles! [/quote] You can slag off whoever you like (or don't like), in fact you did so. Evrery Beatles or McCartney thread includes plenty of slagging off.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1444042331' post='2879636'] But you can use playing in the same register as the guitar(s) to good effect. We do a couple of songs where I play exactly the same thing as the guitar in the same octave (or should I say the guitar plays the same as me since I wrote the music) which gives the music an extra thickness without the bass being obvious. Then when I drop down an octave it really adds some real heft and lifts the whole song. [/quote] I've used that technique too, with the addition sometimes of the guitar going up an octave as I go down an octave.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1443976536' post='2879134'] You [i]can[/i] taste it.... [/quote] ... but I smell a red herring.

So bad cables are bad and good cables are good ... but maybe you can't hear the difference.

Just because there are four strings doesn't mean you have to use them all.

I suppose there's no point in buying an F Clef bass then.

Given the position of Carbonne's eyes in relation to the fingerboard, there would be more parallax error at the first semitone from the nut than way up the neck where the 'fretmarks' are. The 'fretmarks' as they are would only help with parallax error on the highest string anyway. I still don't understand why these guys don't get a piano.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443795581' post='2877779'] Sorted: [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/korg-rk-100s-keytar-red/93243?gclid=CjwKEAjw1riwBRD61db6xtWTvTESJACoQ04QBPtYTd2QAzVZQeFZ5oOySvz0RJ0QcC3I7lUw665HUBoC_-bw_wcB"]http://www.gak.co.uk...65HUBoC_-bw_wcB[/url] [/quote] ... and I still prefer a piano.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1443792530' post='2877754'] I wonder if the woodwind section of the London Philharmonic consider themselves side(wo)men or members of a scratch band ? [/quote] Either way they will probably do as they are told.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1443789971' post='2877721'] I would suggest that there are many more questions about this bass beginning with "..why...?" [/quote] ... and that's why I prefer a piano.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1443691724' post='2876876'] ... a man and his destiny? [/quote] Destiny is a terrible thing but perhaps inescapable.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1443719585' post='2877174'] [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_5208_zpsyu2ywtid.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Wow! Nice pair Chris.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1443768264' post='2877466'] Can someone give the definition of sideman and pick-up band? [/quote] In both cases, you are working for someone else .... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideman"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideman[/url] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_group"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_group[/url]

I prefer piano.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443593421' post='2875938'] One of many reasons that I'm glad I didn't grow up in the 80s. [/quote] +1

Having used, over the years, 5", 8", 10", 12", 15" and 18" speakers I have become conditioned not to care about speaker size.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1443099468' post='2872194'] Paul McCartney auctioned a signed left handed hofner bass for £40k. I don't know if it was 'the' hofner though. [/quote] I'm guessing McCartney's actual 'the' Hofner would fetch at least twenty times as much ... and maybe more.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1442702922' post='2868933'] I'm always faintly bemused by the way Ebay numpties invariably claim that the Korean Young-Chang factory is an individual. Why? Jon. [/quote] Wasn't it two individuals originally?

[quote name='Fitzy73' timestamp='1442140513' post='2864583'] I recently bought a new lakland skyline 44/64 ... I took it back to the shop . The guy thinks the neck is out of line ... [/quote] In that case the shop should be refunding or replacing. It's simple. If they won't do so then contact Lakland direct with an email.