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[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1358701760' post='1943626'] I get what you're saying, especially in relation to gear, but his fingers will give him [i]his[/i] sound (whether it's any different from many others or not is unknown). [/quote] It is in the fingers first.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1358700538' post='1943590'] Yes - you could murder George Osborne. [/quote] That would be euthanasia not murder.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1358698726' post='1943548'] Oh, I don't know about that. He might well have a sound that sounds similar to a few other folk, but if he likes how he sounds, then hasn't he got his sound? [/quote] He certainly has [i]A [/i]sound and, if he's anything like me, it's a sound that may show some variability from one room or gig to another but it's hardly [i]HIS[/i] sound in the normal sense as used here on BC to refer to a particular sound which has been searched for, successfully or not, over a period of time.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1358685143' post='1943204'] "Your sound" is the sound that You like that fits with what you play. This could be from your playing style, from your gear or something else. So it sounds to me like you've found your sound. [/quote] Sounds to me much more like he has found [i]A[/i] sound not [i]HIS[/i] sound.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1358684842' post='1943195'] I read a lot of threads on here and there's a lot of chat about finding "your sound". I don't have one. Am I ok? I turn up at a gig, set everything in sight flat. I have a listen. If there are any odd resonances or other oddness in the room I try to dial it out then off to get a diet coke. That's it. I'm weird aren't I [/quote] No, you're normal like me. Except for the diet coke.

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1358608333' post='1942132'] thats not a gutar ..................... it's a paddle for a canoe [/quote] Are you sure it's not the actual canoe?

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1358594838' post='1941835'] ... Sure we all rave about Wooten and The Meters (and for good reason) ... [/quote] I'm sure we all don't. For myself yes to the Meters but not really interested by Wooten. I don't believe I'm the only one.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358593355' post='1941801'] OK lowdowner - here's a little test for you... Find a suitable singer, guitarist and drummer. Record your own version of "Where the streets have no name" with a bassline you think is more interesting while still be being appropriate and post it up here on Basschat for us to critique. What do you think? [/quote] That would be a good test. I think the only way to be successful would be to use the song but change the genre.

[quote name='gub' timestamp='1358595809' post='1941851'] Is there an Adam clayton bass ? Will have to google it ! [/quote] Lakland did a run of DJs like Adam Clayton's although it wasn't an official AC bass:

I can't help with Pyramid rounds but, for what it's worth, my Pyramid flats are 36.75" ballend to headstock silk on E string. A, D and G strings are all over 37.25" but not by much.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1358522153' post='1940784'] I think those of us suggesting key changes, playing in different parts of the neck etc. are probably those of us who have never played this particular style of super-metally grindy noise before. It's all about the open strings, which don't work if they aren't down tuned. Same sort of crap you get from certain types of guitar player who say capos are cheating, and altered tunings are wrong. Minds... open... now. [/quote] Yeah, frets is another kind of cheating.

[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1358440328' post='1939227'] .... since then ive now been told by the guitard that were tuning to Bf,F,Bf,Ef ... [/quote] Why are you letting the guitarist tell you how to tune your instrument?

[quote name='pobrien_ie' timestamp='1358413250' post='1938572'] Did anyone notice the ever so slightly odd nut width sizes on both Precisions? Is that period-correct too? [/quote] [quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1358444742' post='1939363'] I just measured the nut on my AV '62 P & it's 1.765" [/quote] My '62 is 1.749".

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1358363352' post='1937918'] Thumb style/plec action. How's that for pedantic. Catalogue description - "ORIGINAL [b]THUMB[/b]REST P&J BASS BLACK TW P.N. 0992036000" Let's all be pedants! What fun! *smiley* . [/quote] As I said before, the old catalogues (pre mid-70s when the rest was moved above the E string) used the term 'finger rest' not 'thumb rest', if they referred to the rest at all. I don't really see what pedantry has to do with it.

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1358363699' post='1937925'] It was called a tugbar by George Fullerton way back in the beginning. [/quote] I didn't realise that it was from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1358357094' post='1937749'] It's not really called a tug-bar - that's a nouveau-colloquialism that has sprung up over the years describing the way many people utilised it's position. Conversely you can call it a finger rest; it's catalogue description is 'thumb rest'. In the vid above, you'll see Mr Wilson has one finger over and finger under utilising it to steady the plec action. It was put there by Messrs Fender and Tavares as it was precluded that more former guitar players would switch to or double on bass, an assumption being that players would use a plectrum and that this would aid those people. Finger style precluded it's use and made it pretty redungant - those I always keep mine on there for the sake of the original aesthetic. . [/quote] Agreed that 'tugbar' is a more recent formulation but the old catalogues I've seen call it, if they mention it at all, a 'finger rest' not a 'thumb rest'. And I think Wilson used his thumb not a plectrum.

I've got the Christopher bag. It very good. [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/concord_pv502_kontrabasstasche_34.htm?sid=1fe7d1aba9ab23764130c898b51ea10b"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/concord_pv502_kontrabasstasche_34.htm?sid=1fe7d1aba9ab23764130c898b51ea10b[/url]

Definitely Shaftesbury.

[quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1358281436' post='1936357'] Alternatively don't put it on.....all the chrome bits and other gubbins are in their original plastic bag with my AVRI. Simples. [/quote] What a good idea. In fact my pickup cover ashtray is still in its bag.

[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1358281373' post='1936353'] ... I've owned 2 American Vintage Fender's and neither were worth £1,700. [/quote] No, that's why it's best to buy second hand at half that price.

[quote name='kerley' timestamp='1358280706' post='1936333'] It gets in my way when I am using a pick as my last two fingers hit it. It is pointless to me as I have never once used it and probably never will and certainly wouldn't have it on there from new by choice. [/quote] Then don't buy an American Vintage '58 or '62 or '63 or '64. Get the '74 with the thumb rest above the strings which always would get in my way.

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1358279570' post='1936289'] and for 99% of bassists, totally pointless and gets in the way! [/quote] I must be in your 1% then because it's never got in my way. I don't quite see how it could get in anyone's way but you can always unscrew it, it's easy.

[quote name='Mr Fretbuzz' timestamp='1358279629' post='1936292'] Looked like he was just strumming his thumb downwards..... rather than first/second finger upwards? [/quote] Exactly.

[quote name='Mr Fretbuzz' timestamp='1358278073' post='1936256'] Tell me, how do you use the finger rest at the bottom of the strings? Do you rest your little finger on it or something? [/quote] It's called a tugbar. See Brian Wilson demonstrating it here: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654H4xfDYKM[/media]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1357822584' post='1928921'] How about stocking groceries? [/quote] You're mixing up GAK with Infinity Foods on the opposite corner. GAK: Infinity: