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[quote name='Musicman20' post='499391' date='May 27 2009, 10:29 PM']Some prefer the active elecs and additions of the deluxe. I myself like the USA Standard....I love passive P and J bass tone. All down to taste [/quote] Yes, I like the American Deluxe and the Standard P.

American Deluxe P here. Smaller body than the standard (mine's only 8lbs 5oz) and active only electronics. I think the same applies to the Jazz. I know some aren't keen but I like mine a lot.

[quote name='bythesea' post='499221' date='May 27 2009, 07:44 PM']I went in to work on Monday and one of my colleagues told me she had been to the Southwick Beer Festival over the weekend and had seen a really good band. I asked who they were and she told me they were called Burning Organ... [/quote] I'd gone home by the time they were on. Sorry Nik.

I remember reading a story about Charlie Parker. Apparently he took a bandmate out for a drink. They went to a bar where a band was playing; Parker saying to the other guy 'You gotta see this band, I've heard them a few times now'. In the bar, Parker's friend says 'Charlie, they are awful'. Parker says, 'Yes, but they've really improved, you should have seen them last week, they keep getting better'. Seems like he had a very positive attitude to those weaker than himself.

[quote name='AM1' post='499149' date='May 27 2009, 06:42 PM']Most serious musicians know the full extent of their own shortcomings, without needing to be told and can make their own choices how to proceed.[/quote] Maybe they weren't serious musicians and didn't know their own shortcomings.

And Nik, if you ever return to this thread, I'd be interested to hear what you thought of my intonation on the fretless and the upright - that was my first gig with the unlined P bass. No one in the band ever complains (except when I play a straightforwardly bum note) so I feel I'm getting away with it but I find it hard to be sure I'm really in tune even if I know I am close (or maybe just close enough). I'd appreciate a comment one way or the other if you have one.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='498946' date='May 27 2009, 04:16 PM']That's always the way dude. The worst gigs in your head, can often be the best out front![/quote] And vice versa, and don't I know it.

[quote name='51m0n' post='498617' date='May 27 2009, 11:52 AM']Oh yeah Alex, I can see you getting loads of people owning up to being 'the really cr@p bassist who didn't gel with his drummer at all' that you saw last night - unless it was me in which case I hold my hand up, guilty as charged Excellent, the "name 'em and shame 'em" thread!!! Make it so![/quote] I even felt awkward owning up to being the praised bass player in the OP - first, because maybe it wasn't me at all; second, because, it didn't feel that great on stage at the time anyway.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='498299' date='May 26 2009, 09:09 PM']Yep. I think the body shape is slightly different too.[/quote] Yes, it might be the angle of the photo but the two cutaways look symmetrical on the one at MDM.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='497792' date='May 26 2009, 09:51 AM']Well thanks to the power of t'internet / myspace and simply asking Mark what it was.... Hutchins Chandler.... new one on me![/quote] [quote name='dlloyd' post='497796' date='May 26 2009, 09:55 AM']There's one for £399 here: [url="http://www.mdm-music.info/guitars.php?type=2&pagename=Bass%20Guitars"]http://www.mdm-music.info/guitars.php?type...=Bass%20Guitars[/url][/quote] That one looks to have a slightly different pickup arrangement.

Nickel - Thomastik Jazz Flats all the way every day.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='496519' date='May 24 2009, 10:59 AM']Hi Folks I was doing a gig yesterday at The Beer festival in Southwick near Brighton last night and when we'd finished setting up before our soundcheck, I wandered outside to see what else was going on and there was a great band playing some Bobbie Gentry tunes (amongst others) and they great! In particular, there was a guy playing what looked like a fretless P Bass special and an EUB and he was really, really good! Great timing, lovely sound and held the whole band together! Anyway, I didn't get a chance to speak to him as their set must have finished when we started our soundcheck, so I thought I'd put up a post here to see if he's a fellow Basschatter? Cheers Nik[/quote] Nik, Er ... my band [i]Barabajagal[/i] played at Southwick Beer Festival on Saturday afternoon (our 4th gig) and some of that sounds like me: Fender Tony Franklin Fretless P bass (bought it from Water of Tyne), NS WAV 4 (bought it from Lee650), Bobby Gentry tune (amongst others), but the rest sounds like some one else; perhaps you'd had too much of that 8.5% beer they were selling. I take it you're in Burning Organ - I know Tony your guitarist a little and did a one off gig with him with Micky Hart & the Drugstore Romeos last summer.

I bought Michael's Tony Franklin fretless P bass. Excellent communication throughout. Top man.

I've only once had an issue with GAK and that was when I went into the acoustics section of the shop with £400 in my pocket and could very easily have been sold an acoustic bass guitar if the guy could have been bothered to get out of his chair and leave his computer. I bought one on ebay instead. Other than that I've always found Mark (and before him Graeme) in the bass section nothing but helpful and friendly and I've always found the final price acceptable given that I can actually test things out before I buy. If the price doesn't meet your approval, don't buy it. My son has tried countless guitars and amps in there without hassle and has only ever bought one of each. Mail-order GAK ordered a Gibson guitar for me without taking a deposit as they knew it would take several months. I paid in full only when it actually arrived.

[quote name='Eight' post='478923' date='May 4 2009, 12:33 PM']I've seen beats divided into 5 or 7 (barred as triplets are but with a 7 instead of a 3 written above (or underneath)).[/quote] Those would be quintuplets (5 in the time of 4) and septuplets (7 in the time of 6) just as triplets are 3 in the time of 2. I guess you could also have nonuplets (9 in time of 8), undecuplets (11 in the time of 10) etc.

[quote name='rslaing' date='May 3 2009, 07:34 PM' post='478461' The facts from my experience are that the players that have attained a higher level of musicianship - have also learned to read music as well as develop their ear. But as I said, I am open to being proven wrong by other peoples experience. If someone is happy toddling along learning bass patterns "off pat" and by copying other players, thats fine too. But it is my belief that they are limiting their potential and their enjoyment of what they are doing. [/quote] So, there are two kinds of people 1. higher level musicians who have learned to read notation and 2. people who are happy toddling along learning bass patterns 'off pat' etc. I'm all for musicians learning to read but that claim is complete boll**ks.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='477584' date='May 2 2009, 10:38 AM']FWIW, the main thing that gets my goat about this whole argument is the reluctance by some people to accept that an approach that differs to theirs could possibly be legitimate.[/quote] Big +1 on that - on both sides of the argument in some cases (PS hey WoT, that Tony Franklin P bass is giving me labour pains )