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[quote name='silentbob' post='882626' date='Jul 1 2010, 12:49 AM']Hi, does anybody know of a gold coloured flatwound string.[/quote] I've tried most flatwounds and I can't recall coming across any gold ones. Not what you're looking for I know but Pyramid Black Nylon Flats have gold coloured silk wraps.

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[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='876719' date='Jun 24 2010, 06:51 PM']Mr. D.R. in Brighton and Mr. A.F. in Bradford, your envelopes have been received and the strips are on the way right back to you's.[/quote] Thank you.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='876933' date='Jun 24 2010, 10:30 PM']Do a search here on BC. This is where it all began...[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13343&hl=east+retro"]Here[/url] you go!

Truly dreadful.

[quote name='doctorbass' post='875921' date='Jun 23 2010, 10:24 PM']Disco Inferno bassman is Ronnie Baker who was most definitely a flats user. He always went for the thickest, fattest bass sound he could get - flats, foam mutes, gaffer tape over the strings at the bridge, the works. A true BASS man! He was also a producer and apparently a real tough guy to work for.[/quote] I read somewhere that Ronnie Baker also put butter on the old flats on his Precision bass for yet more fatness. I haven't listened to it in a while but doesn't Disco Inferno have a clavinet or something doubling the bassline?

[quote name='redstriper' post='875952' date='Jun 23 2010, 10:43 PM']My favourites are TI jazz flats - easy to play with more mwaah than many other flats.[/quote] +1

Blimey, is this still on its travels?

[quote name='Bilbo' post='874470' date='Jun 22 2010, 03:04 PM']But how many of those purchases have you regretted [/quote] None of them.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='835106' date='May 12 2010, 10:29 AM']There has always been a general consensus that all of the best jazz comes from the US. I think that this has been challanged over the last couple of decades and that, in addition to jazz from Europe and the Far East, there has been a great deal of quality music coming out of the UK for the last 20 years or more. Following on from the talented but exceptional Tubby Hayes/Ronnie Scott/Jazz Couriers group (‘57 – ’59), we have seen major progress in the form of bands like Loose Tubes and the Delightful Precipice Orchestra and players like Courtney Pine, Iain Ballamy, John Taylor and Tommy Smith in the 80s and 90s. More recently, small groups like Neil Cowley’s Trio, Empirical, the FIRE Collective, etc have started to appear. So the question is, what British led jazz LPs have turned your head now or in the past? Ex-pats are welcome if they are long term residents of the UK. Defectors are excluded – Dave Holland, George Shearing etc – the choices must have been conceived and recorded within these shores. My favourites? For starters….. Kenny Wheeler – Flutter By, Butterfly (Canadian but here since 1950s) Kenny Wheeler – Music for Large and Small Ensembles Iain Ballamy – Balloon Man Loose Tubes – Delightful Precipice Django Bates – Winter Truce (and Homes Blaze) Bill Bruford’s Earthworks – 1st (1990) John Taylor Trio – Whirlpool Andy Sheppard’s Co-Motion – Rhythm Method Courtney Pine – Journey Ot The Urge WIthin Steve Berry Trio – 1st What British Jazz has done it for you.[/quote] Bilbo, whenever you do one of your lists it ends up costing me money.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='874014' date='Jun 21 2010, 11:15 PM']A little goes a LONG way with the VPF/VLE. Probably the best two knobs on the amp....I leave the EQ mainly flat and just use the filters sparingly.[/quote] +1 on that. I don't have my LMII anymore but it is a great amp and those two filters are powerful.

[quote name='owen' post='874002' date='Jun 21 2010, 11:07 PM']That's a lot of GAS![/quote] ... and for such a small instrument too.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='873280' date='Jun 21 2010, 10:00 AM']Gets a good write up in this month's BGM.[/quote] Yes, saw that. The only thing putting me off is the price.

[quote name='Dubs' post='873957' date='Jun 21 2010, 10:23 PM']Exactly that, but a budget Lidl's jobbie [/quote] Ours are very budget too but I could only find a pic of a smart one.

I'm always wanting to watch the gear and will never leave stuff in a vehicle unattended. Rest of the band think I'm paranoid even though one of them had an amp and cab nicked from a vehicle.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='873978' date='Jun 21 2010, 10:41 PM'][size=4][b]5 strips left [/b][/size][/quote] ... and thank you.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='873970' date='Jun 21 2010, 10:34 PM']So PM me and they are yours.[/quote] PM sent.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='873876' date='Jun 21 2010, 08:58 PM']What it really needs is the frets taking out and the fretboard epoxied.....![/quote] There is a fretless version, I doubt it's epoxied though.

Toolbox(es) from B&Q (or similar), like this:

[quote name='KiOgon' post='873866' date='Jun 21 2010, 08:47 PM']I don't know if B&Q do it but most water garden centres have Butyl by the roll - I'm sure they give out 'samples' - that's where mine came from. I just remembered you can request samples of various materials - Google pond liners. Cheers, John[/quote] Thanks.

[quote name='KiOgon' post='761137' date='Mar 1 2010, 09:11 PM']I had a sample piece about 4" x 3" of Firestone Butyl Rubber pond liner sitting on my computer desk, I was using it as a beer mat. Then I rolled it up tight (bit like a spliff!) & stuffed it under the strings so it's wedged in place on the Badass upstream of the adjustable saddles, works a treat, best damper I've tried & it kind of looks OK [/quote] I like the look of that. Can you get that at B&Q?

[quote name='Beedster' post='873115' date='Jun 20 2010, 11:08 PM']I think I should have my own sub-forum [/quote] Chris, you should have your own [s]shop[/s] forum.

[url="http://www.viddler.com/explore/ukeunderground/videos/181/142.742/"]Bakithi Kumalo U-bass Demo[/url]

Now available in a slightly cheaper version with spruce top rather than mahogany: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370398015065&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...atchlink:top:en[/url]

[quote name='Beedster' post='873092' date='Jun 20 2010, 10:47 PM']You will never want a Fender Jazz Deluxe 5-string. You need two words mate, one begins with 'F' and the other with 'P':)[/quote] So are you recommending an Fender Precision Basses For Sale sub-forum?