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[quote name='squire5' timestamp='1456157799' post='2986038'] ... (Think ... Applejacks) ... [/quote] Here we go with basswoman Megan Davies ... wouldn't embed so here's the link ... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yRxDKAYwlM"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yRxDKAYwlM[/url] [media]http://youtu.be/_yRxDKAYwlM[/media]

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1456146712' post='2985826'] Clarence L. Fender! I learned something today [/quote] That's why some G&L serial numbers start with CLF ....

This is more interesting, IMO. She's clearly very talented. http://youtu.be/qCIpqwJe-6o

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1456134253' post='2985589'] Well, I own an actual bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI ... [/quote] The Bass VI is unusual and does historically use the word 'guitar' [in fact 'Electric Bass Guitar'] on the headstock. The Squier version, which I have, does not say that. Fender guitars, e.g. Stratocasters, Telecasters, Mustangs, Coronados, etc., do not use the word 'guitar' on the headstocks.

I actually don't care what we call it or ourselves but here's the US Patent for a BASS GUITAR ... ... and another one doesn't even use the word BASS ...

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1456131227' post='2985553'] Don't care. People get way too precious about this kind of thing. [/quote] Yes, why would anyone care? If I said to someone in possession of, for example, a Fender Precision bass 'so, you're the bass guitarist' and they replied 'no, I am a bassist, it's not a guitar', I would think 'what a pompous twat!'

I'm English and I'm British. I've got ancestors who were Welsh and Scottish and Irish. I'm also European. I have other ancestors too but I don't really know about them. I've always suspected I was Phoenician. If he can't take constructive suggestions then sack him whatever his ethno-national status.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1456067668' post='2985051'] Does that mean this thread is finally finished? Please? [/quote] Of course not ... And if it was finished, there would be another one just around the corner.

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1456072368' post='2985104'] in the meantime, come to Oxford for the official Tallulah Gosh Experience tour, stay at the Ride hotel and take a wander to the pub where Gary Glitter once won a fiver out of the fruit machine! [/quote] I was thinking perhaps I'd prefer the Ashmolean.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1456085634' post='2985288'] If they were there as a family they're best left alone, he doesn't appreciate them being interrupted then, but if he's on his todd and looks amiable buy him a malt & he may well "hold court". I met up with him after a book talk he did before Xmas and we were slavering for the best part of two hours; his touring days, guitars - he still rates John Birch, family, catching up on who's doing what now & a "guess who" as to who he says did a much better Xmas song than Slade's. [/quote] I don't know if family was there, presumably not as Django missing. Anyway, my advice was don't just go up to people when they are in a group and start chatting at them. It's rude.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1456082276' post='2985238'] Very possible; Django is at Liverpool Uni & plays in a band too. He has very proud parents, his Mum told me all about it when we met up over the drawing I did. [/quote] Another night the text was ' I am in same bar as Noddy Holder but too nervous to say hello'. Seems like proud parents visiting, as myself and Mrs ET did last week.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1456081704' post='2985232'] His son is 11 years old!? [/quote] I don't think so.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1456078714' post='2985186'] I've met at least a dozen pensioners who all "used to live next door to Noddy Holder's Mum" - and she didn't even live in a tower block!! [/quote] Son of ET texted me late one night (from Liverpool) saying ' I just met Noddy Holder's son'.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1456072410' post='2985105'] Maray is bloody lovely. There's a bunch of great food places sprung up on and around Bold St the last few years. Rookwood round the corner does a great burger. If you're up again and venture further afield to the "Baltic Triangle" area, a drumming mate of mine is the chef at The Baltic Social and cooks some stunning food. Glad you guys had a good trip! [/quote] Agreed on Maray. One of the guys running it is son of old friend of Mrs ET. And I vaguely know Bold St anyway due to Mrs ET lived next to bombed out church when a student at Liverpool 30 years ago. Son of ET is student there and lives in Kensington and has girlfriend living in the Baltic Triangle. We also have friends living in Hoylake. Liverpool is a popular place with us. One of son's friends is planning to move to Liverpool just because he liked it so much.

Nut is too high for E string?

[font="Arial"][size="2"][quote]Ken Gradney: bass (do not be deceived or take lightly this bit of musicianship that one describes simply as bass)[/quote][/size][/font]

http://youtu.be/Q9uJfWJu7wE

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1456060468' post='2984948'] Thanks for that. We are a quiet band, but I'd want to be able to use it in other bands if necessary. This is the specific item I was thinking about: [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/PJB_Compact_Suitcase.html"]http://www.bassdirec...t_Suitcase.html[/url] [/quote] That looks to me like it would be fine volume wise but heavier. On the issue of sound being too clean just add a VT bass pedal.

Phil Jones Bass Briefcase - 100watt, 2x5" I like it a lot, both tone and ease of carrying, but I only use it at home and for quieter rehearsals. Having said that, I expect it would be fine for quieter gigs, probably with no drummer, or with brushes, or with cajon.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1456058916' post='2984909'] Hasn't this been up before? (No offence intended Bb5.) [/quote] Yes. Good luck to her but not my cup of tea at all.

http://youtu.be/FolZRFAWWog

Some of the places Mrs ET and I enjoyed while in Liverpool and environs ... [url="http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/i-am-thomas-a-brutal-comedy-with-songs"]http://www.everymanp...medy-with-songs[/url] [url="http://www.saltdogslims.com/"]http://www.saltdogslims.com/[/url] [url="http://www.thegrapesliverpool.co.uk/"]http://www.thegrapesliverpool.co.uk/[/url] [url="http://www.maray.co.uk/"]http://www.maray.co.uk/[/url] [url="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/"]http://www.liverpool....org.uk/walker/[/url] [url="http://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/central-library/"]http://liverpool.gov...entral-library/[/url] [url="http://www.salthousetapas.co.uk/"]http://www.salthousetapas.co.uk/[/url] [url="http://www.johnlewis.com/our-shops/liverpool"]http://www.johnlewis...shops/liverpool[/url] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbre_Island"]https://en.wikipedia...i/Hilbre_Island[/url]

Just now returned home from few days in Liverpool having done nothing Beatles related. Mind you I have been to Liverpool about 25 times before. Only Beatles related incident was when I asked son and his mates while in Grapes pub was it the Grapes pub associated with Beatles? No, that would be the one in Matthew Street but the gin selection is not as good.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1455817009' post='2982727'] Yes, discussion is a vital part of discovery and I certainly wasn't advocating ignoring all other opinions. I've been introduced to many artists that I really like so in one sense I like them because others do as well, but that's not really the 'tribal' thing I was thinking about. [/quote] Point taken.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1455813171' post='2982678'] Thing is, either The Beatles were the most original/innovative/wonderful/addyourownsuperlative or they weren't, yet why would that affect anyone's honest opinion about them - or are there people out there who only like/dislike them (or anything really) simply because of what other people think? In short, why should other people's opinion affect what we like or dislike? Another example of blind tribal behaviour perhaps? [/quote] I agree that it would be odd to like or dislike merely on the basis of what someone else thought. However, I'd say it's both possible and not unreasonable to change one's mind on the basis of what someone else says. If it wasn't so, then there would be no point discussing anything. Warning: this would require having an open mind.