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[quote name='iiipopes' timestamp='1342472392' post='1735872'] Look carefully: as 1957 was the first year of the split-P pickup, the pre-production pickup cover in the picture has a different profile than the standard pickup cover we've all come to, well, either love or hate as your personal style may be. [/quote] ... and it has a single screw in the tug bar.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1342469249' post='1735787'] See.... he was 'Slappa Da Bass' back then....... [/quote] No slappity slap there, he's just using the tug bar in the time honoured fashion.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nappy_Lamare"]Nappy Lamare[/url]

[u][u]Snagged this link from the Last Bass Outpost:[/u][/u] [url="http://www.sharesnack.com/AECC967EFB5/fuiyv0q5"]http://www.sharesnack.com/AECC967EFB5/fuiyv0q5[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1342379824' post='1734085'] Why is he looking for a bass player if he himself is a bass player looking for work? [/quote] Here's your answer: [quote][size=4]Mark Percy extensively slandered and misquoted on the Internet for decades, with false documents, untrue fabricated stories and entrapments, designed to cause conflict and trouble. [color=#000000]a Mark Percy was Internet illiterate for decades, and is still Internet illiterate, having spent all of his time studying other areas and developing techniques and developments, research and findings, and only recently discovered black propaganda and slanderings and misquotings on the Internet with false documents posted up for decades unbeknownst to him.[/color] [color=#000000]b False documents promoting and promulgating conflict, where no conflict would otherwise have occurred.[/color] [color=#000000]c Hidden third party intervention, that was highly developed, with specialist knowledge, in order to create extensive misquoting on the Internet, with false documents, designed to slander and black propaganda, stir up trouble and conflict with untrue lies.[/color][/size] [size=4][color=#000000][/quote][/color][/size]

[quote name='Pete Academy' timestamp='1342374549' post='1733956'] Certainly have. [/quote] What, even more often than "I can get it £X cheaper on the internet"?

I'm thinking of taking up triangle.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1342295577' post='1733039'] As an idea of how often they gig, ask yourself "just how many workingmans' clubs are there in the M25 area [b]who love bands with big powerful bass gear, like 8x10 or 4x10+1x15 with 400watts head[/b]" [/quote] Corrected it for you Chris. That should reduce the numbers a bit.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1342202339' post='1731656'] Saw Bill Wyman with the Rhythm Kings last summer and thought he was brilliant (as were the whole band). Did exactly what the songs required with no waankery. Excellent stuff. Edited to add that if you put two 'a's in the word above it gets through the filter. As does Twat! [/quote] So aardvark should be OK as well.

I don't usually take a tape measure to gigs.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1341990648' post='1727381'] Sounds like a lot of P players trying to justify their choices here.... [/quote] ... in which case that would be the same for J players ...

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1341961428' post='1727253'] f***ing hell, Rich - that's nailed it in one [/quote] Precision = hammer Jazz = nail I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

No spare amp, just DI box for emergencies.

BBOT works for me.

I was in a band first, then learned to play. Actually, I was in several bands before I learned to play.

[quote name='danhkr' timestamp='1340297118' post='1702530'] Hmmm, different beasts though aren't they. A 40w 1x12 valve guitar combo is easily loud enough for the majority of gigs, whereas a bass head and cab of similar spec just wouldn't compete. [/quote] Maybe it wouldn't, but my 300watt 1x12 combo competes easily.

[quote name='gub' timestamp='1341520348' post='1720535'] What' are you fretless peeps measurements ? [/quote] [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1341135931' post='1714071'] Takamine B10 = approx 7mm Upright = approx 9mm [/quote]

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1341443331' post='1719329'] ....and Jack Bruce and John Paul Jones. Jack had a VI aswell. . [/quote]

[quote name='foal30' timestamp='1341386925' post='1717943'] apparently James Jamerson had one [/quote] ... apparently he hated it and threw it across the studio saying 'Never let me play that thing again'.