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[quote name='Jono Bolton' timestamp='1336689609' post='1649715'] How early did they change to plastic? [/quote] I don't know but I'm guessing by the mid-60s.

Danny Thompson , very nice.

Obituary: [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/14/donald-duck-dunn"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/14/donald-duck-dunn[/url]

I had to download a couple of the albums.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1337008305' post='1653879'] At least the guitarist didn't have to live in Crewe. [/quote] I've always thought Crewe was rather motley.

[quote name='foal30' timestamp='1336980116' post='1653341'] 1. So What - Miles Davis 2. 5:15 - The Who 3. Get up (Sex Machine) - James Brown 4. Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding 5. Everything is Everything - Donny Hathaway 6. Even Better than the Reakl Thing - Marvin Gaye 7. For the Love of Money - The O'Jays 8. School Days - Stanley Clarke 9. Why I sing the Blues - B.B. King 10. Are You My Baby? - Wendy and Lisa [/quote] Nice mix.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1336992753' post='1653555'] [/quote] Brilliant.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1336951796' post='1653254'] Yeah, well. Couldnt find a blue packet. you get my point though. Works with Marlboro packets as well.... [/quote] I was always a Park Drive man myself.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1336993912' post='1653585'] ... Jones & Crossland - Who remembers them? ... [/quote] I do.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1336983870' post='1653396'] The OP says "The bigger the better in his experience", which brings out the usual "what I say is best" response from the "tone Nazis". Let the guy have his opinion. It’s right for him, "in his experience" size does matter. Whoa, somebody has a different opinion! Deal with it. [/quote] He asked for other people's opinions and so he got them. I've heard nothing Nazi about tone or anything else here. If people can't take the responses they should keep their mouths shut in the first place.

[quote name='daveparker123' timestamp='1336977096' post='1653311'] The problem seems to be IMO, many (not all) of the people who are favouring combos over bigger rigs keep talking about volume. [/quote] I've said nothing about volume but I commonly use a 300watt 1x12 combo and I would still regularly get asked to turn down if I didn't know how to set my volume appropriately for the venue. [quote name='daveparker123' timestamp='1336977096' post='1653311'] I could buy a 100 watt combo and crank it to 10 but it would still sound feable, and sh*t! [/quote] Well, don't buy one then.

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1336974513' post='1653300'] I wonder how many of those rubbishing the experience of using a really big cab have actually owned and gigged one. [/quote] Very possibly most of us, certainly I have and it no longer interests me at all.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1336942322' post='1653105'] ... It is hard to play accurately above the 15th fret... [/quote] Let the guitaist play those bits, I always do.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1336945429' post='1653166'] No, a torn off bit of one like this. [attachment=107868:imagesCASY72R5.jpg] [/quote] No 6 Plain - haven't seen those since 1971 I think.

[quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1336939785' post='1653070'] I'm hoping you mean fag paper there ... [/quote] I hope he means business card ... or credit card.

Anyway, it's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1336936551' post='1653009'] Is it better tone cos of the string height, or just that you pull the strings harder I wonder. I doubt if I could even play a bass with 2mm. thats for widdly widdly guitar players. [/quote] I don't know but I think it's noticeable most on acoustic bodied instrument where the top has more ability to flex and a higher action allows more room for the string to do the same - I'd quite happily accept that this is b****cks though because I don't believe in tonewoods nor through body-stringing nor bridges that aren't a BBOT and a whole load of other, IMHO, not perceivable differences. Agreed that 2mm is generally too low - I wouldnt even like that on a guitar.

You'll need a bigger car.

[quote name='Jack' timestamp='1336934648' post='1652974'] We'd all love a big rig. [/quote] No thanks.

I'd call 2mm at 12th fret a low action, I prefer a bit higher, 3 to 4mm and about 5mm on my fretless acoustic bodied. I agree with the comment about better tone with higher action - couldn't prove it though.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1336916002' post='1652636'] Basschat is the Culprit!!! Years ago you'd buy an amp or guitar and use it until it blew up or wore out. Nowdays if you want to experiment with gear you have basschat, gumtree, ebay etc to offload your gear and buy new stuff from. So you look after it as you never know when you may need to sell it in order to buy something different. [/quote] There were always plenty of places to offload gear - the difference was none of them were online and so they were called second-hand shops, or friends, or friends of friends, or ads in the local paper, or ads in shop windows. And some of us still looked after our gear.

1x12 Mesa combo - it does everything I want.

[quote name='radansey' timestamp='1336917451' post='1652661'] ... it gave his missus a headache ... [/quote] Him not getting laid is not your problem.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1336855026' post='1652082'] One of the many reasons that I got rid of my Squier VMJ was that it was nearly impossible to get the G and D strings in tune. No matter what I did to the string retainer the windings on the strings kept getting caught and the strings would vary between being 20 cents sharp to 20 cents flat. Also the amount of the string you had to wrap around the A and E machine head posts meant that they took much longer to settle down into tune after changing strings. [/quote] Maybe I'm always a bit out of tune. [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1336855026' post='1652082'] Of course when the Fender Bass headstock was designed everyone used flats and only ever changed strings if they broke them so I imagine that these issues were never even considered. [/quote] Ah, that's me.