Machines

A show ? Kind of. We all meet up and bring our gear (amps and basses) and have a fumble with each others gear and have a good old chinwag. A great opportunity to try basses you don't see in shops !

Yeah they aren't great to be honest. They have pretty run of the mill bass gear (Squier / Ibanez / Yamaha etc..). I wouldn't go there asking questions - they're mostly guitarists... PMT is your best option in Birmingham.

I'm hoping to get a MAG115 to go with my MAG210 too (getting ABM300 next week). Need to see how the 210 copes alone really...

Found some pics and yes - it was a bass clarinet.

Was it not a baritone sax ? I don't really know anything about wind/brass instruments..

I only watched it till about 9. I loved it - but did get a little tired towards the end.. Whilst amazing music - the extremely long jams in songs did start to bore me, with it not really sounding like the song they were playing at the start. Maybe it's just me but I expect a song to be recognisable during any part of it... I was impressed with Marcus's sax playing though.. wow those things go low.

Woo.. nice erm.. crowd..

These are what we have done / do now. ACDC - Back in Black Black Sabbath - Paranoid Iron Maiden - The Trooper Iron Maiden - Wickerman Killswitch Engage - My Curse Metallica - Master of Puppets Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Pantera - Cemetary Gates Trivium - Entrance of the Conflagration

WHAT ?! It's a fluffing pickguard ! Anyone willing to pay that much just to have an 'authentic' instrument has more money than sense.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bass-guitar-COLLECTION-ONLY_W0QQitemZ220161378036QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bass-guitar-COLLECTI...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] I bet he's inundated with emails for this one.

The neck material has no bearing on making the bass easier to slap on. It does however have a bearing over how easy it is to set a low useable action, which makes it easier to slap on .

Lovely pair, I like the good vs evil theme too .

You are quite right, it would be troublesome to get pickups to fit without extra routing/mess holes, but.. Why replace the pickups anyway !? the standard BB pickups are more than capable and I never felt the need to replace them in my BB614. If you want to spend as little as possible then buy a bass than doesn't require upgrading.

My Electric Blue hasn't let me down yet, i'm only selling it to get an ABM.

Around £180 I'd say for the passive model.

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='74568' date='Oct 15 2007, 01:14 PM']Owned and played Ashdown happily for a number of years. Never had any reliability issues and really like the sound too. All subjective I guess, but if it was as bad as everyone says it is, I'd argue that you wouldn't see it on as many concert stages around the world as you do.[/quote] That pretty much sums it up I think. Perhaps a marmite brand ?

[quote name='tonyf' post='74438' date='Oct 15 2007, 09:27 AM']Will keep that in mind as the "kids" keep nagging me to let "Uncle Matt" to come over when "Daddy" is away. lol T[/quote] Well if they start calling me Daddy then you DO have to worry .

Yes it is.. Other cheap 5 strings to consider: Yamaha BB415 / BB615. Ibanez SRX Series (www.ibanez.com)

I had the pleasure last week of checking all of Tony's basses out. They are all stunning and i've offered to look after them for him when he goes on holiday .

They're not bad, what are you looking for in a bass ? We may be able to give some other options to you.

I'll go with Beedster, I reckon he's dodgy .

I think any bass with the right setup and technique is good enough to slap on. *Most* players choose 4 strings to slap on.

Looks a bit dodgy to me - the machineheads are way too close to the edge of the headstock: