RhysP

I've got zero interest in listening to music online, but then again I don't listen to much music on any format these days anyway.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1422186904' post='2669551'] Repeat When Necessary, an old Dave Edmunds album I hadnt heard in years. Grreat stuff to play along to. [/quote] Great album.

I love Spector basses but I have to say I think the white finish/gold hardware thing looks chintzy as f***. (Mind you I'd think that about any bass with a white paint job & gold hardware).

If you're not comfortable with the material you're playing, and the phrase "paralysed with concentration" would indicate that you're not, then you're not going to feel confident enough to do anything other than just stand there & get through the gig. The way you rehearse sounds like it could have a lot to do with it, hiring a rehearsal space so you can set up & play in a more "gig-like" way might be worth doing. You don't have to do it all the time but every now & then, especially just before a gig, might be worth your while. At the end of the day some people are comfortable moving on stage & some aren't. As others have said there is nothing worse than seeing a band who is obviously trying too hard to look like they're having a good time when it's obvious they're uncomfortable with it. When I used to gig some nights I'd be dancing around over the stage, other nights I'd spend 80% of the gig with my back to the audience, it depended entirely on how I felt at the time. I was confident enough with the music though to know that if I suddenly decided to start jumping around I could do so & not have to worry about my playing.

First two parts have been excellent. I could watch stuff like this for hours.

GAK have got them listed to order for £779.00: http://www.gak.co.uk/en/korg-odyssey-synth/110501

Thought I'd give it a plug..... [URL=http://s86.photobucket.com/user/RhysP/media/Recto%20flute_zpsrfgbux5e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k120/RhysP/Recto%20flute_zpsrfgbux5e.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

You can always use the Pete Way method of controlling Thunderbird neck dive by playing most of your set laying on your back....

Pretty much par for the course with vintage synth gear.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1421910345' post='2666413'] I hate lending books! I found the book to one of my favourite films at a boot sale, the vendor asked me if I wanted the two follow ups which I didn't realise existed! Of course I snapped them up....read them and cue housemates girlie asking to read them. Needless to say up to the day he moved out I guess I asked him once a week if she could return them! Gone forever!!! [/quote] People, by & large, are *****.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1421938997' post='2666847'] Congratulations! I'm a bit wary of making the ring too thick in case it starts eating away at the fingerboard. I've seen similar damage repaired by Dan Erlewine on blues player Albert King's flying V (now owned by Steven Segal) from all his bling. [/quote] Lemmy has got a big gouges in the fingerboards of his old Rickenbackers from years of playing them with rings on.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1421844694' post='2665606'] I don't really know if this track is typical... but I'll wager it is as it sounds like everything else I've heard from them... not that I have dug deep to check them out, tbf. My take is that it is proficient but there is no heart and soul ...and just no music in it. That is about as polite as I can be. Very successful over the years, no doubt. [/quote] Just out of interest what sort of music do you play?

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1421781163' post='2664984'] This makes BassChat amazing. Very kind offer there Bilbo! [/quote] Yeah, almost makes up for the books that me & Wayne loaned out in good faith that we never saw again....

Make sure that you fix it to the wall as securely as possible and, more importantly, that the wall you fix it to is sound. I had a Hercules wall hanger (one of the better ones apparently) come away from the wall & smash my new MIJ Fender Precision into the floor. I fixed it to the wall using screws & plugs that were supposedly more than enough for the task, but didn't have anyway of knowing that the brick I'd drilled into was damaged & the whole thing was just a nasty accident waiting to happen. I probably won't be wall mounting any more guitars or basses after that.....

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1421762382' post='2664639'] Looks that way [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/149509-the-fender-bass-an-illustrated-history-anyone-who-could-lend/page__p__1339096__hl__fender%20illustrated%20__fromsearch__1#entry1339096"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry1339096[/url] [/quote] Was it that long ago? Blimey.

I think he might be the one I lent a Fender book to a few years ago too.....

If that's what you want to do then do it. Plenty of people on here play fretless pretty much exclusively in all sorts of different musical genres.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1421448040' post='2661519'] Apparently it only takes 20 minutes to scan the existing neck and do the work. [/quote] Well there's the answer as to why some guitar companies use the PLEK machine for their factory set-ups - it might not be better but it's quicker, simply a question of economics.

That surf green Jazzmaster is pretty damn sexy.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1421254842' post='2659025'] Ive got a picture of myself, i'm playing a Fender with a music stand in use. Should I hand myself in , or wait till they come? [/quote] The service revolver is in the bureau in the study. We'll all leave the room for five minutes, you know what to do....

Probably something to do with how it was machined, or for use in attaching to something for finishing purposes.

[quote name='Moos3h' timestamp='1421240135' post='2658773'] Go to Tesco/Sainsbury/Whatever and buy 'Walnut Oil'. It's fantastic! [/quote] Don't know if this post is serious or not but I wouldn't use any kind of oil that is used for cooking as they can have things added to them (things to alter flashpoints etc.) that might not do your fingerboard a lot of good. Cooking oils can also go rancid.

I'd say just dab off what you can with something absorbant, don't go getting it any wetter than it already is.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1421229528' post='2658574'] TBH the majority of bass players (i.e. those not on Baschat) don't want interesting. They want something like a P or a J bass preferably one that says Fender on the Headstock. [/quote] I'd say that goes for the majority of people on Basschat too.....

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1420958969' post='2655409'] There a lot of guys here that don't have much of a connection with or love of gigging. These guys have lives, families, other interests and talent. [/quote] I have none of those things you mention & I still hate gigging. Playing music was all I ever had in my life, it's certainly the only thing I've ever had any kind of aptitude for, & yet I still find myself with little to no desire to do it anymore. I started playing when I was 14 & I just turned 50. Everything in my life has always revolved around being a musician & now there's a huge hole where that used to be & I don't have the first idea what I can fill it with.