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Yip. Unless the tuners have been knocked.

My P stays in tune for months. I check it before every gig, but sometimes I wonder why I bother.

Have you PM'd him recently?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1377800364' post='2192116'] If you can do woodwork like that, why can't you build a cab that doesn't look like it was knocked up by a blind man in a garden shed...!! [/quote] Way wrong.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1377791764' post='2191927'] I shake my head in disbelief. Some blokes have some fun together with the instrument that we all love, and that gives reason for a thread with this content? [/quote] If only they'd kept it behind closed doors.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1377775016' post='2191573'] For someone with such strong opinions on this you're remarkably good at getting the facts wrong! Some points to consider: 1. Panel stiffness is proportional to the square of the thickness, not the cube. 2. The resonant frequency of a panel is proportional to its stiffness divided by its mass - halve the mass and you double the resonant frequency 3. A braced panel has numerous different resonant modes - if you vary the bracing distance and methods all these frequencies can be made non-coincident 4. By having lots of different resonant modes you can easily lower the Q of all these resonances 5. Surface coatings and internal damping can significantly attenuate such low Q higher frequency resonances 6. Plywood varies hugely - for instance, baltic birch is stiff for its thickness but has poor self-damping Here's an example of how we do bracing: [/quote] KA-POW!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1377767348' post='2191441'] Visual I can understand. But did you mean to add aural too? [/quote] I should bliddy well hope not.

I've just watched this again to check it's real, and noticed that the people in the audience don't have guns held to their heads. I can only assume that someone has smeared high-strength glue on all the chairs before the doors opened.

Jesus - I'm glad I'm already married. If that video goes viral, any bass players who are still single will die alone.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1377685332' post='2190253'] Thing is, exactly [i]which[/i] Rush would you like them to be? 80's synth rock? Excessive 70's Prog? They've changed so much over their career, and I think that's a good thing. How many people on here are writing the same style of stuff that they used to 30, 10 or even 2 years ago? People change, evolve and develop and their creative output reflects that. [/quote] It's not the style I have an issue with. It's the shoddy songwriting.

IIRC Antigua was never supposed to look like that. The paint went wrong.

.....however, we did get:

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1377676294' post='2190087'] would that be around the time this monstrous paint job escaped from the factory? [/quote] No.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1377675366' post='2190077'] True, and the American Vintage series were fine instruments. But you don't turn round a culture of almost two decades of cost cutting overnight, and Fender were putting out some rather bizarre instruments around that period. I think it would be wise to try any Fender from this period before buying, but then again that's true of most basses. [/quote] Bill Schultz had a damn good go at turning it around overnight - that's why production was pretty much halted for a spell, and then slashed. Weight aside, the QC was a night-and-day change. Obviously I'm not saying everything was great, but...

Probably the dregs from the tail-end of the CBS regime.

Can they drop any lower than 195 quid?

LOL THIS DRUMER IS AT TEH RONG GIG LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E

Contrary to what's been said here, Fender were putting out some of their best basses around '83. In 1982 there was a management buyout and production was scaled right back in an effort to improve quality. Weight could still be an issue, but generally speaking the the fit and finish was as good as they ever achieved. That said, as someone mentioned earlier, every instrument should be treated as an individual case.

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1377633390' post='2189759'] I hear you don't worry, I'm just pointing out that in the real world of gigging which is what matters imo the venues can rightly send you packing if you were asked, your not legal requirement won't wash. [/quote] Absolutely. Interestingly though,having gigged all over the UK at venues large and small, I've only been challenged once... by the misinformed venue I mentioned earlier.

All true. But, despite popular perception, it's not a legal requirement to PAT test your gear. That's all I'm pointing out. Cor blimey. This is hard work. :-)

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1377630261' post='2189710'] Which then leads to the smart arses on here who think they can tell that to the venue, I have seen entertainments licences, fire officers inspections and the venues insurance requirements demand them as part of the agreement. I agree with you and you could point that out to the venue if they say its law, no its not you are correct but they still might be legally obliged by someone else which by default then does make it law, just not the same one [/quote] I would be one of the smart arses you refer to. I let a local venue know when they insisted my gear be tested before I could play there. They were surprised to hear that it wasn't a legal requirement. It was a local PAT tester that gave them the duff info. Funny that.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1377629868' post='2189698'] The info in that link is all well and good but if the venue's insurance require it for entertainment carried out by persons using equipment provided by someone other than the venue (as theirs is tested) then it is compulsory for the gig to happen. [/quote] I only posted it to emphasise that it's not a legal requirement, which seems to be one of the misconceptions amongst musicians and venues alike.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1377624340' post='2189579'] Do we have any theories as to why that might be? [/quote] Yip. In't old days - and the golden era specifically - they were consistently writing and jamming AS A BAND (Apologies for shouty capitals - can't get italics :-) ) in soundchecks and the studio. They would spend time on the songs, try them out live.. refine them, tweak them, throw out the bits that don't work. And, more importantly, develop the melodies and the syncopation of the words. These days, they have X amount of time booked in the studio. They turn up, shunt all their ideas together in ProTools, and slap a half-formed melody on top with forced, wooden phrasing that doesn't really fit. And, on the last album, the producer conducted Neil while he played the parts. FFS.