EssentialTension

I'd never have any expectations of a bass, in a shop, being setup as I would like it. The strings would be the wrong kind for me. The action would be wrong for me. I don't understand why you would expect a shop to setup a bass just for you.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384630535' post='2278992'] I really did think it was awful. It happens to the best though. Sinatra had to choose his material very carefully in his latter years but was fortunate in having more material to draw from compared with Macca. [/quote] It does commonly happen. It happened to me. I couldn't sing and now I have got worse.

McCartney's voice is certainly not what it was. But is it 'awful'? I think not. Two guys from one of my bands were in the audience and I wish I had been too. They won the tickets in a competition.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384625073' post='2278916'] ... Awful. [/quote] So you did watch it then?

I found this one accidentally - Uxia Martinez Botana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93WcrvtVj4

[quote name='sarah thomas' timestamp='1384594746' post='2278433'] Thanks to both! Arvell Shaw is just amazing. And while Leroy Vinnegar's 'Leroy Walks Again' is difficult to find, his quartet's 'Leroy Walks' is on amazon as an mp3 download for £2.59. That's my Saturday morning sorted then. [/quote] [i]Leroy Walks Again[/i] is available at eMusic for £3.36

[quote name='CMR Bass' timestamp='1383952057' post='2271319'] The problem with the neck bolts loosening off must be a common problem. [/quote] I have never, in any way whatsoever, experienced this in forty years of playing bolt-on basses.

Red Mitchell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoKMYdP3dM

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1384556399' post='2278274'] it's cos this is called basschat, and they are too trebly with not enough low end... [/quote] ... except when McCartney plays one and it goes all bassy and low.

Leroy Vinnegar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1M_MI1XUQ

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1384555611' post='2278265'] I think Fender decided that if you can't beat them........join them. Which is why they now licence factories all over the world to make Fenders/Squiers. Rickenbacker are not prepared to do that (for whatever reason). [/quote] Maybe Rickenbackers just are not popular enough to do that as successfully as Fender.

[quote name='norvegicusbass' timestamp='1384449373' post='2276881'] Essentially how does a bass solo differ from that of a six string guitar solo? [/quote] There's no difference at all: they should both be banned unless they are shorter than eight bars and are reflective of the melody line.

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1384422787' post='2276427'] Pig destroyer and Insect warefare have no bass player anyway.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ide0fQ_Jbj4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkz3QBaQYy8 [/quote] I just wasted 19 seconds of my life listening to those.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1384457545' post='2277038'] They must have changed supplier at some point then , because they were [u]definitely[/u] made by GHS when they first introduced them back in the late 1990's . [/quote] According to web sources Overwater refreshed their line of strings in 2011 - that could be a change from GHS to one of the UK manufacturers.

[url="http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2013/11/07/profiles-in-tone-jerry-scheff/"]http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2013/11/07/profiles-in-tone-jerry-scheff/[/url]

Not too bad then, Leo would be pleased I'm sure.

Nice playing Mr Fingers and agreed on Galveston. But I'm not really happy with that bridge, how thick was the shim?

Danelectros are built on a plywood frame.

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1384075373' post='2272392'] Just forking off from the Vintage Fender value thread here and now. No this isn't some kind of tag team wrestling match... [b]It's just occurred to me that all your basic original Fender designs have a common design.[/b] Now with vintage guitars, such as strats and teles, collectors and players talk about the tone in terms of the mid/treble sound that guitarists want. With vintage basses, such as Precisions and Jazzes, we talk about the tone in terms of deep bass, thrum, growl etc. Now since all these guitars are based on bolt-on necks, ash/alder bodies, maple necks etc (the very Fender vibe that can give a band a homogenous look, see the first Shadows LP cover) then shouldn't they age in the same way? If basses gain more low end gravitas over the decades then shouldn't strats and teles also age towards a bassier, thuddier sound? [/quote] You seem to be assuming that common design and build properties lead to common sound and that, for example, a Precision bass always sounds the same - this is simply not true. James Jamerson versus JJ Burnel, for example, both P basses but really not at all the same.

Hendrix, it is said, could play both ways up and when playing bass did commonly play upside down as that was what would be available.

The bloke out of Bay City Rollers. The bloke out of Doves.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1383833764' post='2269748'] Ironically this was just the sort of thing Jaco allegedly liberated bass players from. [/quote] In that case, can I too have my shackles back?

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1383838294' post='2269828'] apply the ruling to the key F# , and you have an E# in the scale [/quote] Yes - F# G# A# B C# D# E# F# - that's correct

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1383778388' post='2269156'] ... The thing I always, without fail, find odd about discussions over expensive objects is that people so often deride others just because they've lashed out on something that may not have an intrinsically greater value than a far cheaper item. If it makes them happier then where's the harm? [/quote] There is no harm. If you want an old Fender and have the money then buy one. I certainly would if I had the money to spare.