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Fantastic little combo here: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190449741964&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...=STRK:MESELX:IT[/url] (Just happens to belong to a lovely bloke I know - me! )

The body looks like an old (as in late 70s -early 80s) Schecter to me.

[quote name='BottomE' post='962604' date='Sep 20 2010, 07:27 PM']Ok, ok the sale is off. What was I thinking. You guys have persuaded me to hang on to it. And you are probably right.[/quote] No probably about it. Good decision.

[quote name='Colledge' post='962474' date='Sep 20 2010, 05:46 PM']its no ampeg[/quote] I wasn't aware that Ampeg made a 12 string bass. I posted a link to that Chandler Royale months ago - I'm very surprised nobodies bought it at that price. Awesome bass but I suppose the market for 12vers is pretty limited. I used to have a Hamer 12ver - wish I still had it.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='961944' date='Sep 20 2010, 10:32 AM']I'd guess the logic is if you like ugly basses, you'll correspondingly like ugly birds.[/quote]

Allparts: [url="http://www.allparts.uk.com/online-shop/allparts-guitar-amp-parts/neck-parts/inlays/fingerboard-inlay-dots-14-inch-vintage-clone-p-2843.html"]http://www.allparts.uk.com/online-shop/all...one-p-2843.html[/url]

Hamers are awesome instruments & are ridiculously under-appreciated in this country. I'm a member of the Hamer Forum & have had many Hamer guitars. You won't find a better made instrument from any manufacturer IMO. I think the figure of £400 - 500 being mentioned here is pretty much bang on, though I have seen them go for less. The pickups having been changed might make a difference though. What were the originals - Duncans or EMGs? Does it have the original Hamer case? You'd be insane to get rid of this bass to buy a Fender Jazz IMO - the Hamer is in a different league altogether.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='961241' date='Sep 19 2010, 03:20 PM']Why Harrogate?[/quote] Do you mean for the Michael Manring clinic specifically or just generally?

I was surprised to see Giblin say he uses flats on fretless in that article. I've never used flats but I thought they basically stopped you obtaining the singing "Mwah" sound that you get with roundwounds. I'm I wrong about this, or is there there a degree of "Mwah" that can still be obtained with flats? Thanks for posting the Giblin article BTW - it's almost impossible to find out anything about him. (If you're out there Mr. Giblin come & say "hello" to your doting fanboys! )

[quote name='mrpink1991' post='961084' date='Sep 19 2010, 12:17 PM']Thanks for the replys everyone. What I mean is - my slap chops are good. It seems to be only continuous 16th note slap - anything else is not a problem and that why I have used the two L42 examples in my original post.[/quote] Are you using your left hand much or are you relying on your right (assuming you are left handed)? A lot of Mark Kings fast slap technique is down to a syncopated thing that's as much left hand as right.

Recording your bass parts at Abbey Road with a great producer & a f***ing huge budget helps a lot too.

[quote name='mrpink1991' post='960853' date='Sep 19 2010, 12:33 AM']My slap technique is good.......[/quote] How can your slap technique be good if you can't play in time?

[quote name='mreriksen' post='960731' date='Sep 18 2010, 08:09 PM']Jaco Pastorius loved to play Mustang Sally, as a matter of fact.[/quote] And it's well documented that he had serious mental health problems.......

[quote name='Bassassin' post='960704' date='Sep 18 2010, 07:42 PM']When in doubt, just settle for "Bignose out of Rush". Jon.[/quote] My sister would deck you if she heard you say that - she thinks he's gorgeous..............

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='960526' date='Sep 18 2010, 04:36 PM']We used to struggle with Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley at school - is it Fray lee or Free lee. We decided it was Fray lee[/quote] You were wrong then.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='959605' date='Sep 17 2010, 04:13 PM']Incidentally, I also frequently return to the notion that it'd be nice to have just one instrument that allows me to play bass and/or guitar - like a guitar equivalent of a piano.[/quote] Chapman Stick/Warr Guitar/Mobius Megatar?

[quote name='Marvin' post='958208' date='Sep 16 2010, 12:17 PM']All of them, every single one. Can't stand any of them. I'd rather chop my head off - well maybe not. EDIT: for the record I'm in a bad mood, sorry.[/quote] Same here, which is why I would never: Play in a covers band. Go & see a covers band. Absolutely my idea of hell. For the record I'm not in a bad mood.

As a fanatical Zon user I would love to go to this but I don't think I'd get the time off work to enable me to go.

I know I say exactly the same thing every time John Giblin gets mentioned, but his playing on "Babooshka" has got to be my favourite bass part ever. Pure class. What a superb player. Kate's a f***ing genius too.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='954205' date='Sep 12 2010, 11:21 PM']I found that bizarre as well, you would've thought that 40 odd years of the neck and body being pressed together, the act of removing the neck would take some of the paint with it as well[/quote] The reason that the neck pocket being painted is odd is that (as far as I am aware) a piece of wood is usually screwed to the bass body at the neck pocket to enable handling of the body when it's being finished, effectively masking the neck pocket from any paint. The paint couldn't have rubbed off the neck pocket area because there shouldn't have been any there in the first place.

[quote name='umph' post='954571' date='Sep 13 2010, 12:02 PM']do want an original tone bender[/quote] My brother has got one - he's been offered stupid money for it but he won't sell it. God knows why, it sounds like a piece of sh*t.

[quote name='mildmanofrock' post='954993' date='Sep 13 2010, 04:29 PM']No, not on escape. Randy Jackson was on Raised on Radio.[/quote] And what a godawful turd of an album that is.