RhysP

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1354468238' post='1886301'] Sometimes band tension can result in great songs coming from it. [/quote] Very true - the best song I ever wrote was called "The Keyboard Player is a f***ing ****".

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1354463216' post='1886202'] Tricky one. I'd be inclined to say "Jack it in", but then a lot of great bands don't get on. Massive Attack being a prime example. [/quote] Yes, but "lots of great bands" carry on doing what they're doing with people they detest purely because they are making lots of money - I could be wrong but I doubt if the OP is in this situation (and apologies for my presumption if you are ).

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1354454367' post='1886070'] [/quote] I suddenly realised I'd seen his face before: [IMG]http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k120/RhysP/Fungus.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1354446970' post='1885954'] EBMM necks and boards nowadays are not lacquered, just coated in gunstock oil to save money whilst still charging top dollar for the instrument. [/quote] Fixed.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1354391298' post='1885559'] Later, I shall be watching The Killing, [/quote] If you'd been out gigging tonight you wouldn't have seen Sarah Lunds awesome naked bottom - that's as good a reason as I can think of not to join a band.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1354385273' post='1885470'] Rhys is not just an intellegent man , but a good- looking one too . Happy now ? [/quote] Nah, you're just an arse kisser.

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1354382525' post='1885434'] This. In 2 lines Rhys has captured the sum total of human knowledge on this question. There really isn't anything to add to it. [/quote] This forum would be a far better place if everyone displayed the intelligence & good taste that you so obviously possess.

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1354383992' post='1885451'] I wouldn't bother mate - you'll only end up having fun [/quote] This is the thing though, isn't it - one persons "fun" is another persons "Seventh Circle of Hell"........

Lots of people say that a maple board will give a brighter tone than a rosewood one, others will say there's little difference & that the choice is more aesthetic than anything else.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1354359924' post='1885126'] I don't understand why anyone would develop a skill and buy good gear unless they have the ultimate goal of playing in a band in front of an audience. [/quote] Because they just enjoy playing an instrument for the sake of it. Playing in front of an audience was never any kind of motivation for me & even when I was playing in bands the gigging side of it held no interest or pleasure for me. I'm sure I'm not the only person to feel this way. The OP obviously just doesn't enjoy playing in bands, which I can fully understand as (in my experience) it's a pain in the arse for 99% of the time.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1354299871' post='1884665'] I don't want to be a 'bass player' or a 'guitarist'. I'd like to be in a postion to just enjoy playing music on either. [/quote] Don't be ridiculous: YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE - NOW!!

Wow! It's almost worth taking up playing double bass just to attend that.

A fast neck is different things to different people, so there is no definitive answer. Like you I don't like jazz profile necks & prefer really chunky ones. I've also never had any problems with gloss lacquered or painted necks, which plenty of people hate & say they find "slow" or "sticky".

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1354285115' post='1884460'] The great Stewart Copeland did a stint with them back in the day. [/quote] Wasn't he married to Sonja Kristina?

Bass was the first instrument that I played and is still the only thing I'm any good at, even though I don't play it very much anymore. I started playing guitar & keyboards years later when I harboured pretensions towards being a songwriter/serious musician but time has proved me completely incapable of writing anything. To paraphrase the late, great Coral Browne " I couldn't write "f***" in the dust on a Venetian blind"......

That IS spooky - "Tools" & "Dimmer" are also words I'd associate with anyone contemplating "P Bass" ownership.........

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1354146317' post='1882866'] I thought all that spiritual healing was a load of bollocks. I had a problem with my shoulders, the girl i was seeing at the time was into it and took me to see her spiritual healer and she sorted it out. Spooky! [/quote] Same happened to me. I knew a woman who was a spiritual healer & she offered to have a go at my right knee when I mentioned I'd had problems with it for years & nothing had helped. A couple of minutes of her working on my knee (she never even made actual contact with it) & it's been fine ever since (this was in 1993).

[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1353940450' post='1879963'] Just for comparison. The musicians on the Titanic had to remember over 150 songs (not reading sheet music) and were expected to perform any one of them on request from the audience [/quote] And a fat lot of f***ing good it did them.............

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1354018726' post='1880812'] I wanted to call mine Savilecore, to find that already existed [/quote] What is Savillecore exactly, music that doesn't get discovered until thirty years after it actually happened? Years ago on the Gretsch Discussion Pages forum myself & a guy called Truxton Meadows (superb name!) invented "Progabilly" I haven't checked but that's probably a "proper" genre now too.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1354010037' post='1880648'] I understand that proggy stuff is now called math rock or technical metal. [/quote] Not right. "Math Rock" & "Technical Metal" are just another two sub genres - they do not encapsulate the entire "Prog" genre.

[quote name='BassPimp66' timestamp='1353784548' post='1878496'] [b]It sounded better than Adam Clayton !!! [/b] [/quote] It'll probably have a warwick signature model by this time next week as well.

[quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1353780955' post='1878449'] And strangely, it only seems to be guitarists that suffer this over the top obsession with NEEDING over powered rigs dialed to 11. [/quote] I don't know about that, there seem to be plenty of bass players these days who think it's impossible to do a gig without at least 500 watts behind them, which is just as ludicrous IMO.

You've definitely made the right decision, both for your sanity & your hearing.

Clever bit of engineering, but am I the only person that thought it just sounded like a sequencer?