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[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='851875' date='May 30 2010, 03:45 PM']Its theoretically possible (see Michael Manring as the most obvious example)[/quote] Remember that Manring uses a Carbon Fibre necked Zon bass - I don't know how successful it would be on a wooden necked bass.

[quote name='SJA' post='851859' date='May 30 2010, 03:21 PM']bear in mind that Lauren Laverne burst into tears when Kenickie appeared on Adam & Joe's "Vinyl Justice" segment of their channel4 show, and she couldn't take them poking fun at some of her record collection. glass houses, eh?[/quote] I would have loved to have seen that.

Welcome! I too am a serious Prog/Prog Metal Bore!

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='850813' date='May 29 2010, 12:19 AM']My bass sits below my belt and I've raised the height a lot as I've got older![/quote] Raised the height of what? - your bass or your trousers?

[quote name='Chris2112' post='850634' date='May 28 2010, 08:33 PM'][/quote] That's a lovely bit of wood - is it burr walnut? Very well bookmatched too.

[quote name='silddx' post='847791' date='May 25 2010, 06:46 PM']The more I play, the more I wish I had trained properly and got a theoretical musical education, learned all my scales and learned to read properly.[/quote] Same here. I have tried again & again to learn to read music but I just don't get it - it's like I have some kind of music dyslexia. Teachers have given up on me. It just doesn't register with me at all.

As the fingerboard is white in your design picture, why not spray it white & lacquer it -it's going to look VERY 80s with that paint job so why not go the whole hog? [quote name='ahpook' post='849861' date='May 27 2010, 10:02 PM']I think it'd be worth having a look at that crack, just to be on the safe side...[/quote] As the bishop said to the actress...............

[quote name='valere24' post='850133' date='May 28 2010, 10:17 AM']If you want the mwwwaaaa, you need seriously low action and little neck relief.[/quote] Not strictly true. If the action is too low the notes will bloom or buzz too much, choking them & not allowing them to ring out. I can have the strings pretty much resting on the fingerboard of my Zon, but it sounds like sh*t. It's very much a juggling act with the action to get the notes to sing just right. "Mwaa" is also dependent on strings - you really need to use roundwounds.

Oh bugger.

I never thought I'd see "Alex James" & "Unpretentious" in the same sentence..............

Don't see many of these come up for sale. He was using a couple of these (and his Wal twin neck) when I saw him with Mahavishnu in 1982: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Jonas-Hellborg-bass-wal-jaydee-alembic-status-/300431192661?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item45f3183255"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Jonas-Hellborg-...=item45f3183255[/url]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='849134' date='May 27 2010, 08:22 AM']Also, I like Lauren Laverne. She's been there and done that.[/quote] Really? Kenickie were a sh*t band who were vaguely famous (if you were a student at the time) for a couple of weeks when it was the in thing to have a female fronted indie band (see Sleeper, Lush & a load of other useless guff from that time). I actually enjoyed the programme, taking it in the light hearted way it was intended. But why have somebody like her, who is so blatantly anti-musician, commenting on a programme about musicians. All she does is sneer, and that's what pisses me off about her. Music was of so little importance to her that she stopped doing it as soon everybody lost interest in her band, and became a (not very good) TV presenter.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='848415' date='May 26 2010, 12:54 PM']The only real issue the guitar has is a fair amount of lacquer fogging on the rear and a bit around the top......[/quote] That's a common problem with the late 70s SG 1000/2000s - the hardware tends to get really pitted too.

Started off on bass, started playing guitar & keyboards a lot later. I think the old "worst guitarist ends up playing the bass" thing was probably quite true in the early 60s Now I would think there are enough bass "stars" in their own right to make kids decide they want to play bass from the outset.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='847097' date='May 25 2010, 01:43 AM']I know I am becoming infamous for needling top-knacker bassists here... (here it comes)... but: Who here is convinced that Vic Wooten cannot find better amplification than Hartke?[/quote] It's all subjective, isn't it? There are plenty of "better" basses than Fender Precisions/Jazzes available but they're still what the majority of people use/aspire to use. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that somebody with Wooten's stature in the bass world could use any make of amp he wanted to. Maybe he's just found that it's the most suitable amp for what he wants to do. I'm no fan of his music, but he comes across as a man that's passionate about his playing & I honestly don't think he would use something he wasn't happy with.

You lucky bastard! I LOVE Richie Kotzen - great guitarist but what an excellent singer too. Met him when he did a low key acoustic gig in Denmark St. s few years ago - he's a really nice bloke.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='847056' date='May 24 2010, 11:47 PM']Do graphite necks eliminate this issue? Other graphite neck bass users seem less than keen to endorse this particular performance improvement.[/quote] When I said "evenness of response" in an earlier post that's part of what I meant. I can only go by my own basses but neither have any deadspots that I can determine. I've also had access to an original Steinberger and an early all carbon Fibre Status for a considerable length of time and would say the same for them too.

Sabbath used to downtune because of Iommi's finger problems, so if it's sounds sharp it's probably been sped up. Chances are that they weren't too worried about intonation or being at concert pitch when they recorded it too....

They are awesome guitars - I'd take one of those over a Gibson any day.