Twigman

I bought my 83 JV new and I still use it today - I love it. it cost £129 from a shop in Romford.....would i sell it? Never. My entry in the JV register here: [url="http://www.21frets.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236979686/"]http://www.21frets.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236979686/[/url]

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1009825' date='Nov 2 2010, 05:33 PM']I also love comments on the good intonation on a fretless.[/quote] I was wondering about that.......I get the impression the seller knows nothing about what he's trying to sell!

Cured (for today) - the boss e-mailed from belgium wanting an impossible job doing before end of play today.....

If this 'skint' chap bought this bass for £1000 and now wants rid of it...I'd be asking myself wtf was wrong with it and be leaving well alone.

I felt a bout of GAS coming on last week. Desperate I was to spec up my own Warmouth parts bass and drop many $$$ that I didn't have on a bass that probably wouldn't have worked properly had I done it. After speccing up 2 or 3 different possibilities I quashed this episode of GAS by upgrading my home studio's software from Sonar 7PE to Sonar 8.5PE (at a fraction of the cost) so that it might now run on W7x64. But the GAS is back and today my mouse is hovering over the 'Add to Basket' button on a MIM Fender Deluxe Precision Special...........now I know I should go to the shops and sit and play the actual guitar I plan to buy but the urge is strong.. Oh and a Hartke head and 4.5XP cab is pulling my credit card out of my wallet this week too... AAAAARGHH!! Give me a painless cure!!

Happy with my Beyers

I remember the days of getting down the front and sticking my head in the bass bin so that my brain was vibrating in my skulll.... I only ever wear earplugs when I'm motorcycling. Tinnutus? Who said that?

I'd rather pull my toenails out with pliers.

[quote name='silddx' post='1004968' date='Oct 29 2010, 11:51 AM']I just hope you don't have a trumpet player in your band, you could be in SERIOUS trouble if you can't read music.[/quote] Did you see my edit in my post above about the sax and the cornet players ?

[quote name='silddx' post='1004950' date='Oct 29 2010, 11:41 AM']So you are not a SERIOUS musician then [/quote] SERIOUS? No not me - I like to have fun when playing music - don't want to be getting all SERIOUS now do we?

In 30+ years of playing in bands I've never once had to learn to read notation. I can read a treble clef but that's of little use to a bass player. LOL I've found it useful to learn some of the theory and understand how intervals work (minor 3rd etc) and I'd have problems if I didn't understand my scales and be able to name all notes in a certain key (and find them on the fretboard) but not being able to read notation has never been an issue. I'm not a Spitfire pilot but probably not quite me109 pilot....I think I'm flying a FW190 oh and whoever said they'd never met a non-reading horn player....I have - I worked with a sax player who could only blow 4 notes and didn't even know the notes' names - or even if they were 'legitimate notes' - he was great and recorded on some records! I also played once with a chap who had a cornet (I think he'd inherited it from his dead granddad) - he could blow a few notes, had no idea what he was doing but still played in a band.

I use Ernie ball Custom groupIII flats (.045-.100) on my p-bass........bloody luvverley they are

My favourite album of all time is Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue Title track: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAmxuHt5nw&feature=fvw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAmxuHt5nw&feature=fvw[/url] Chitlins con carne: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5m92TwKKA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5m92TwKKA...feature=related[/url] probably more blues than jazz per se but you'll still find it in the jazz section

We have a 5 piece: voice/guitar/drums/bass/keys......there is always in my mind a struggle to give space to each other. We're currently writing our next album and at a session on sunday the singer came in with this demo he'd made, gave out his parts for guitar/keys/bass/drums and we started to jam this new idea. After a few times through I started to leave great chunks of 'his' bass line out and also playing something 'more bass like' as we always do when we're playing with new ideas...he got a little upset until i pointed out to him that the bit I missed out was already (and more suitably) being played in the guitar part and that I was giving space to the other players....it actually sounded a lot better like this - and so the song evolves. It's not what you play but what you don't play that counts.

For looks: Ebony For playing: Rosewood I had a maple board on a bass once and it was pants...I hate the yellow look and the board was too 'hard'

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ANYvXP1hY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ANYvXP1hY[/url]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1001374' date='Oct 26 2010, 05:05 PM']My local guitar shop sells individual bass strings, only they're £7 each [/quote] that's cheap - my strings are £42.50 a set of 4

Post code would have to be WestOne

The gutarist in my band is a member of Above & Beyond.....the trance artists...they played one proper live show [rather than just DJing] in Beirut in 2009 in which he played bass and guitar. I went to the show rehearsal in Wandsworht the week before and they really were playing live!! He used a MM Stingray 4 3EQ with just a bit of compression[when playing bass] and a Jazzmaster guitar with his usual array of effects. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NjmAFli6bo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NjmAFli6bo[/url] the drummer is amazing..the camera work is appalling but it's the only footage of them actually playing and not just DJing

[quote name='Wil' post='1001118' date='Oct 26 2010, 01:55 PM']Very reminicent of the bass sound on Pet Sounds, so I'm inclined to agree. Lovely.[/quote] How did you watch the video? This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been closed.

What's it sound like? I'm no expert but I've been led to believe that you get more top end off an ebony board than a rosewood board. Shame really as I was seriously considering ebony on the neck of my proposed bitsa - for the look - but I want deep warm tone and am not sure if ebony will cut it.

Now that Squier have brought out that Fiesta red CV-P I think it's time I bought myself something else....I blame the CV-P for giving me GAS. before the CV-P my bass could only have been (from a distance to the punter) either a '62 original or the JV that it is or a Custom Shop job.......now everyone thinks it's 'just' a CV... It is this that has got me clicking on the Warmoth site to build myself a P that is unique.....whether I give in to the GAS and sink $1k on it is another matter.....but whatever, I blame the CV.

[quote name='howdoesitgoagain' post='999524' date='Oct 24 2010, 11:09 PM']be ready with a pick is all I have to say, it can save your life [/quote] doesn't work for me...since suffering nerve damage in my neck 2 years ago I don't have the strength to hold a pick!!! - I have had to relearn everything that used to be plectrum on fingers...which makes strummed bass chords...er different....that's the only area I struggle with now.

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='998979' date='Oct 24 2010, 04:19 PM']Try all 4, works for me.[/quote] Try all 6.... oh sorry I thought you were from Norfolk.

it looks a little too brown to be ebony...it is very dark though so maybe it's Brazilian as opposed to Indian rosewood?