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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1370031858' post='2095911'] Tell you what ... you choose: [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/NickOliveri.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/SirGuitaralot.jpg.html"][/url] Tough one, huh? [/quote] Bad choice of pictures really - both people look like complete w***ers, one of them is playing a boring looking bass, the other is playing an ugly guitar. As far as I can see nobody comes out of that a winner.

Guitars are far sexier than basses IMO.

That's a bit of a pisser, and always the gamble you have to take if you get seats on the flat. I always go to see Rush with my sister who is a massive fan but only just 5 foot tall so we always get tickets on the side tiered seating. Even then she sometimes has trouble seeing over peoples heads.

I don't think the LX refers to the scale length but they did make a 35" scale option for the four string.

Fantastic colour!

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1369989832' post='2095181'] Plays very nicely, but what a skinny neck it has! [/quote] Really? I've always found them to be on the chunky side which is why I like them. It's not the Doug Wimbish signature model is it? That has got a very skinny neck apparently.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1369912967' post='2094307'] Got them all, mystified as to why Chris Wolstenholme scored so low. [/quote] Probably because unless you're a Muse fan or a bass playing fanboy nobody knows who he is?

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1369986276' post='2095139'] we have an odd rehearsal cum drinking session..... [/quote] Really?

Life's too short to put up with a shower of bastards like this. I would have quit well before it got to the stage you're at.

I find a good dogging session helps to both clear & focus the mind.

[quote name='dry_stone' timestamp='1369938044' post='2094766'] But who to pair her with? Pam Ayers and..... Les Claypool? [/quote] That's who I was going to say too!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1369936232' post='2094741'] It would be nice hear the work of Pam Ayers getting a similaly abstract but funky bass treatment . [/quote] Now THAT I would love to hear!

"Get up early"? I've been in work two hours by the time you "get up early"!

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1358335039' post='1937070'] Kate Bush and Mick Karn??? [/quote] He said "really good bass player" not "pretentious art school ponce with dodgy intonation".

[quote name='megallica' timestamp='1369926530' post='2094554'] They've had Metallica on a couple of times. [/quote] But only after they went completely mainstream & twattish.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1369914288' post='2094340'] That's part of the problem with Rush now, it's so 'big' a show that they probably can't get their heads round the concept of popping in a studio with minimal kit and knocking some songs out. [/quote] They seem to manage perfectly OK when they did exactly that on the Colbert Report a few years ago. It's far more likely that they've never been on because of the BBCs (& most other broadcasters) incredibly sneery, snobby attitude towards "classic" rock (for want of a better term) & heavy metal in general.

[quote name='BassBunny' timestamp='1369782246' post='2092801'] Didn't know Richard Osman's brother is Mat Osman, bassman for Suede. [/quote] If I had a brother who was a member of Suede I'd keep quiet about it too.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1369856651' post='2093655'] What a fascinating thread! Cheers for pointing that one out So if you put the treble control in its midpoint, it will be pretty much flat - but the bass control in a similar position will still be giving a reasonable amount of boost! Assuming linear travel on the pots of course.... How odd! [/quote] That thread explained it all far better than I ever could. The Tonepump is pretty quirky to say the least, but it just sounds so good IMO. The other active basses I've owned have always had a slightly compressed, processed quality to the sound that I've never really been 100% happy with - to me the tone pump doesn't suffer from that, it just seems really responsive & "open" sounding.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1369856355' post='2093644'] What's a friend? [/quote] As both a jazzer & a moderator you're never likely to know the answer to that question.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1369832965' post='2093194'] Well, there's my problem right there. I can't abide work, and many of my "colleagues" are simply Satan's apostles in disguise. By the time I'm done at work, 1) There is no time 2) I'm utterly "peopled-out" So I just can't commit to this band stuff. In the past, I have generally found the drummers to be the good guys. With the odd notable exception. [/quote] This could have been written by me. I agree with the drummers being the good guys - the people I'm still in touch with from old bands are all drummers. Keyboard players are by far the worst in my experience - arch ***** every last stinking one of them.

Divorce rates for musicians (professional ones at least) have always been extremely high.

Thread from a while ago about the Tonepump, including info from the guy who designed it who says it is indeed cut/boost: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/93320-spector-tonepump-is-not-boost-only/page__hl__tonepump"]http://basschat.co.u...e__hl__tonepump[/url]

I got rid of all my bass gear apart from the Spector, which though I never touch it I can't bring myself to sell. Bought a really good acoustic guitar & put the rest of the money in the bank.

f*** me, that's hideous (and I don't have the OPs aversion to "coffee table" basses). I know they're incredibly popular, but Warwicks are undoubtably the most hideously ugly collection of basses I've ever seen. The only nicely shaped one is the Streamer & that's because they stole the body design from Spector.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1369771016' post='2092643'] Several goosebump-raising moments, particularly Carnies and Headlong Flight from the CA set, and an totally unexpected Manhattan Project. [/quote] Yes, Carnies & Headlong Flight were pretty fantastic. They played Manhattan Project at the O2 did they? The non-setlist surprise song at the NEC was The Pass.