RhysP

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1452620105' post='2951762'] I suspect a lot more teenage boys have bought Flea products than adults. [/quote] I'm 51 & I've bought plenty of flea products. They were from the vet to use on my cats.

Donate it to a local community music project - they're all having their funding severely cut or taken away completely so are always glad of donations.

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1452610856' post='2951621'] I've heard a couple of conversations along the lines of 'I'm not really sure who Nate Mendel is..... [/quote] I have absolutely no idea who he is.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1452610405' post='2951613'] For me, it was Macca and the violin bass. Still never owned one though... because as my playing progressed, I realised that a Hofner was not for me for what I wanted to be doing. Who were the 4001 users that gained your interest? [/quote] I quickly came to realise that a Rickenbacker 4001 was not for me, not before owning two of them though..... Players that gained my interest were the standard Rick playing ones really, Squire, Geddy Lee, Hawkwind era Lemmy, Ashley Hutchings from Fairport too. Also a lot of people were using them in the late 70s in punk & new wave bands & I just thought they sounded great & looked cool as f***. Found out pretty quickly that Ricks weren't for me though, but that's all part of the fun of learning about gear when you first start playing, isn't it?

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1452607139' post='2951540'] Who is influenced to buy a bass because so and so uses one? [/quote] A hell of a lot of people I would think, when they're starting out at least. The reason the first ever decent bass I bought was a Rickenbacker 4001 is because most of the players I was into used them & I loved the sounds they got out of them. You have to start deciding what gear you want at some point, and lots of people base that decision on what their favourite players use or what their favourite bass sounds are. Seems perfectly logical to me.

That looks great - nice job!

Lots of different websites, noticeboards in music shops etc. Just because you don't use a rehearsal room anymore doesn't mean they won't let you put an ad on their noticeboard. Be prepared to have to sift through some real crap though, especially if you get them from a join my band type website. There are lots of people out there who are seriously deluded when it comes to their musical abilities, none moreso than singers.

I'd go for the KARP too - all the sounds & looks of the original with none of the potential headaches & expense of owning a vintage synth.

Glue them in place?

Zons are great basses.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1452550485' post='2951165'] If you are looking the recreate the kinds of synth sounds on Who's Next etc. I think you'll find it's mostly organs or guitars going through the VCF and VCA modules of ARPs 2500 and 2600 modular synths. The Odyssey doesn't really feature on the recordings despite Pete Townshend being mentioned in adverts for the synth in the 70s. If you are after the same type of sound rather than recreating them exactly then any synth with an audio in before the filter or a polyphonic synth that allows external triggering of the VCF and VCA envelopes will achieve a similar effect and you should be able to find something that does the job at considerably less than £1300! [/quote] I thought Townshend used EMS synths on Who's Next.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1452543848' post='2951074'] If you can find one, the Octave Cat synth is essentially copy of the Odyssey. [/quote] One of those will cost you almost as much as an original Odyssey these days.

The Trace stuff has a tone you either love or hate. I used to use Trace Elliott stuff a long time ago but I never really took to it that much. Hated the pre shape sound, though pretty much everybody you see using Trace stuff uses it.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/235727-korg-announce-arp-odyssey-synth-updated/

Lots of stores rotate their stock to give the impression that stuff is selling even when it isn't. It could have hung on a wall for best part of a year & not got sold & then got moved into the storeroom to make way for something else on the shop floor.

Yes, a long time ago. Excellent synth. The new Korg reissue does a very good job of replicating it too, despite being scaled down in size.

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1452253135' post='2948038'] Looks like something you could buy from Argos. [/quote] This. Looks like it should cost about £300.

This is such a shock, so sad.

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1452463362' post='2950218'] Re the whole they couldn't play thing. I have seen them state that at the time they toured the first album. That was the entirety of their repertoire. I decidedly remember them mentioning that as a band, they couldn't even play Johnny b Goode. [/quote] I saw them on their first tour & the tracks from the first album were all that they played. For encores they played most of them again.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1452449082' post='2950040'] Agreed - and I think it's fingerstyle and JT. Yes, JT did/does have Bernard Edwards' Stingray - he talked about it in a BGM article a couple of years back and said he'd used it a lot for recording at that time. [/quote] Bernard Edwards bequeathed the Stingray to Taylor after his death in 1996. Taylor also has Edwards' BC Rich Eagle bass now too - THAT'S the one I'd want to get my hands on.

I don't know what it is as I ignore measurements & just go by feel. It's over 4mm though.

[quote name='kusee pee' timestamp='1452446553' post='2950008'] I've never had a reason to believe it wasn't JT. The style of playing on the first two albums is pretty consistent and the line is pretty straightforward to play with fingers. Every time I've seen them live he plays it with fingers and it doesn't seem problematic at all. Harder to play with a pick IMO. [/quote] You're absolutely right, it's much harder to play with a pick. It just feels right when you play it with fingers. There are so many great bass parts on that album - one of my favourite "put it on & play along" albums ever.

Just pick one & get used to it. 3mm isn't a high action BTW - if you think that's high you'd never manage to play any of my basses.

Wasn't Rio recorded before he got all chummy with Bernard Edwards anyway? That didn't happen until all that godawful Power Station supergroup bollocks.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1452442035' post='2949952'] RhysP: most of the arpeggiated parts were Jupiter 4 rather than 8. A very different synth from the later 6 and 8, quite limited voice architecture in comparison but the 4 is still a great synth. I own one, and if I could only keep one instrument then it'd be the JP4 rather than any of my basses! [/quote] I didn't know it was a 4. I'm well aware of the differences between them though, I've owned a 6 & an 8 in the past.