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[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1453466257' post='2959727'] Well, I intend to walk in there with my head high and tell the guitard he should pack all this drop nonsense in! Start as you mean to go on I say! [/quote] Excellent. Good luck with that.

By the way, the Gibson version of the Epiphone Casino is the Gibson ES330.

A high quality variant on the Epiphone Casino is the Peerless Songbird which is a copy of the Casino by the company who used to make the Casino for Epiphone in Korea. [url="http://www.peerlessguitars.eu/#/songbird/4557055055"]http://www.peerlessg...bird/4557055055[/url] Peerless made the Epiphone Casinos up until 2007, I believe, when production moved to China.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1453127682' post='2956588'] They are a major selling point of Markbass amps. When I had a Markbass, I set the EQ controls flat and got all the sounds I needed using only the VLE and VPF filters. You can get an amazing combination of tones just by using the filters and nothing else. [/quote] Agreed.

I wouldn't retune, I would stick to EADG or possibly retune BEAD if I needed lower notes (or get a 5string if I liked 5strings, which I don't). I play with one guitarist who sometimes uses DGCFAD and in another band with a guitarist using several different open tunings but as long as I can access the notes I want then I much prefer to stay in standard tuning. I do have a D-tuner for occasional emergencies.

Very good.

... or a copper with a truncheon?

This thread should be part of the Musical Blind Spots thread.

[quote name='paddy109' timestamp='1453117276' post='2956420'] Thanks, lovely quick replies! Next questions - what scale length for GHS if the ball end of bridge to nut is just shy of 36" and should I go heavy gauge or keep it medium? [/quote] GHS long scale are long enough - they call them long scale plus. M3050 have a 38" winding ... [url="http://www.ghsstrings.com/products/11278-bass-precision-flatstm?category_id=1964710-precision-flatstm"]http://www.ghsstrings.com/products/11278-bass-precision-flatstm?category_id=1964710-precision-flatstm[/url]

It's weird to me that someone would not listen to both music and lyrics.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1453019833' post='2955473'] Not among my circle of prog-hungry north-eastern adolescents... [/quote] Ah, north-east versus west midlands, it's a different world.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1452962174' post='2955145'] Veering into Random Thoughts territory here, but when I were a lad, Rick Wakeman's "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" was known as "Myths and Legends". So why wasn't "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" known as "Rise and Fall"? [/quote] Surely the Wakeman album was known as King Arthur?

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1452882686' post='2954475'] I've been on both sides of this - tell you what, put on your own gigs, at your own expense (that's real money - yours, not mine) and see how it works out.....(& b r e a t h e ) [/quote] Yes, if you don't like others doing it then do it yourself. Which is in fact exactly how many promoters get started.

[quote name='MattM' timestamp='1452895786' post='2954636'] In the modern era, how's about Get Lucky? 'Nard / Chic influences a go go, but probably the most instantly recognisable new bass line of the last 4-5 years or so [/quote] And who did you say that one was by?

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1452894619' post='2954621'] Excuse me for being dim, but it seems to be what everyone else is talking about, I've obviously misunderstood. [/quote] You're not dim. Threads have a life of their own, whatever anyone wants them to be about.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1452300278' post='2948785'] G&L L2000!!! [/quote] That's the angriest bass I ever played (and switchable to passive for less anger).

If you need to do it twice or more, it's possible to do it with the strings still on but loosened off quite a lot. Get everything ready. Guitar face down and remove neck screws. Turn over carefully and lift neck slightly. Replace card and replace neck. Turn over and replace screws.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1452783596' post='2953481'] I don't know how David Bowie can have slipped under anyone's radar unless they were born in 1990. [/quote] ET Junior, born 1994. Big Bowie fan.

[quote name='dand666' timestamp='1452852702' post='2954039'] It's like listening to DSOTM for the first time. Everyone knows where they were. [/quote] I have absolutely no idea where I was except that I was almost certainly in Birmingham because that's where I lived from 1952 until 1987.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1452847315' post='2953960'] Maybe our biggest musicial influences happen between the ages of 11 and 25. [/quote] Let's imagine that our biggest musical influences do happen to us, we first hear them, between the ages of 11 and 25. That really would not mean that our biggest musical influences were necessarily alive/recording/playing during that period of our lives. Because, maybe, one of Eric Clapton's biggest musical influences is Robert Johnson, but Johnson was dead seven years before Clapton was born. Nor would the 18-25 rule (even if it were correct) preclude other big musical influences at other stages of our lives. [quote name='TimR' timestamp='1452847315' post='2953960'] The big Bowie moment for me was 1980 with the Scary Monsters album. I would have been 11, in 1984 he did live aid, by 86 he was pretty much done in the mainstream. If you were born in 1975 you would have missed all that. [/quote] If you were born in 1975 or 1976 or 1977 or any other year, it remains eminently possible to become acquainted with Bowie's work (even after he is dead) and even have him turn into a big musical influence. This is happening to some people right now. Do you think [i]ALL[/i] Bowie's biggest musical influences happened before 1972 when he was 25?

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1452854743' post='2954060'] @EssentialTension: What did you use to shim the neck? And did you do a 'flat shim' or just shim the bridge-end to provide a tilt? G. [/quote] Thickish business card about one-third to half the size of the neck pocket. The thicker the card the more the neck is tipped back and the more you will need to raise the bridge - but that is good with these guitars to get the right playability and sound, obviously without going too far. Put it at the bridge side of the pocket. You might need two thicknesses or you might need a single thinner card - trial and error. What you are aiming for is that, with a fairly flat neck, and when the lower edge of the bridge assembly is about half centimetre or quarter inch above the pickguard to give a nice break angle, then the strings don't rattle and the action is about right. Set the intonation and away you go. It took me a few goes but well worth it.

[quote name='AustinArto' timestamp='1452819021' post='2953869'] ... I got a great new grime album from a Manchester collective called LEVELZ the other day. It's been giving me the head nods and making me grin every day since. [url="https://soundcloud.com/levelzmcr/king-of-the-disco"]https://soundcloud.c...ng-of-the-disco[/url] [/quote] My son is one of the promoters ([url="https://www.facebook.com/worriedabouthenry/"]Worried About Henry[/url]) for the LEVELZ gig next week (22nd) in Liverpool .... [url="https://www.facebook.com/events/1634481630151721/"]https://www.facebook...34481630151721/[/url] Tickets here ... [url="http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liverpool/24-Kitchen-Street/LEVELZ-Full-Takeover-/12618908/"]http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liverpool/24-Kitchen-Street/LEVELZ-Full-Takeover-/12618908/[/url]