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I used long masonry screws, drilled into the brick (old house, no plasterboard), brown rawlplugs.... and the f***ing thing still came away from the wall & smashed my bass into the floor.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1427190424' post='2726817'] However, if the mods had acted reasonably in banning a member, there would be no need to be so secretive about it. Some people might conclude that they have something to hide. [/quote] But who decides if the mods have acted "reasonably" as you put it, you? the friends of the person being banned? The people who can't stand the person being banned? No matter what decision a mod makes some will agree with it & some won't, other won't give a toss either way. At the end of the day it's no-ones business apart from the mods & the member involved.

I've recently been VERY impressed with the Fender Mustang modelling amps, to the extent that I'm going to change my plans for buying an all valve combo & get one of these instead. The clincher was seeing the Handsome Family live last night. The guitarist had what I would describe as my dream guitar tone, and I fully expected to see him using an old tweed or blackface Fender of some description. It was a £200 Fender Mustang.

[quote name='darren' timestamp='1427039318' post='2724952'] I quite like the look of Rick basses. Especially the 4005. Anyhow, never played one but found this interesting. not sure how accurate. [media]http://youtu.be/nR--0QSLQPg[/media] [/quote] I never knew that Eeyore did bass repair work.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1427039445' post='2724954'] It's all becoming clear. Especially the various components that have been constructed into the disfigured profile that is the Rickenbacker. Almost as though some mad and evil surgeon had sewn the parts together from other perfectly good instruments just to see what would happen..... [/quote] The experiments with twin necks were indeed a crime against nature...

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1427038393' post='2724940'] So we may see the re emergence of a 1000 year Rick? [/quote] A 4001 year Rick - the clues are all there in front of us.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1427038147' post='2724938'] Does that mean all the good Rickenbackers' are hidden in secret cache bunkers in neutral countries? [/quote] I couldn't possibly comment, but the best one I ever played was in Argentina...

That's pretty cool.

I feel I should point out in the interests of fairness that Adolf Rickenbacher was in fact Swiss, and as we all know the Swiss did nothing terrible in the war, they just looked after stolen stuff for the people who did....

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1427037224' post='2724932'] Whilst the genealogy of the name Rickenbacker is German, it appears the company did not inherit the Teutonic race's engineering prowess. [/quote] They did inherit their dislike of free speech & dissent though...

Hitler.

Doesn't matter what you play, there are so many other variables at work in these demo clips that make them to all intents & purposes worthless. The clips on the Bass Direct website are a good example of this, where every bass, no matter how expensive, sounds like a piece of crap (IMO of course.....).

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1426953008' post='2723944'] can you girls/guys play music that your not really into..? [/quote] No, absolutely not. I'd rather not play at all than play music I don't like.

Not as good as Eric Blake....

Does it come with a bottle of snake oil?

Why all the cloak & dagger stuff? If the lesson was as you described then you'd be doing lots of people a favour by naming & shaming this "teacher". Also, changing the subject slightly, I thought you weren't meant to have multiple user accounts on here (though it's never stopped some people)?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1426705028' post='2721123'] Lock it. Lock it now, for pity's sake. [/quote] This.

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1426680645' post='2720620'] Following on from the Guitarists who would be bass players thread in OT, I started thinking about this. I started off on bass, and picked up a guitar when I had been playing for a couple of years, learning open chords, barre chords and a few scales for a bit of lead improvisation. When I moved back onto bass I discovered that I had automatically improved as a bass player, not just in that I could see(and recognise) a guitarist play a G, D, C and Em progression and immediately have the fundamentals of a workable bassline in my head. but that I could work together better with a guitarist. I have ended up playing both in gigging bands (probably prefer the bass overall still) but still think if I'd never played the guitar, I'd be a less accomplished bass player?? I'd be interested to know if there are any long term bass players out there who cannot play any guitar, and couldn't recognise a B7 chord visually, and how do they pick up the more random seeming chord progressions from a guitarist. [/quote] I've been playing guitar for a while now, have gigged on guitar & definitely play far more guitar than bass these days, but I couldn't recognise a B7 chord visually. Why is it important to be able to recognise a chord visually? I can hear a 7th chord no problem, which I would have thought is more important. I don't think playing bass for years helped with playing guitar when I started, and I certainly don't feel like playing guitar has helped my bass playing as my approach to the two instruments is completely different.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1426624875' post='2720096'] I wouldn't say it means you're a better musician, it does mean you're a more versatile one, if it's a reading gig, then you're gonna get the call over someone who can't read. [/quote] This.

Wow, that's a beautiful refinish, lovely colour.

Four year old thread back from the dead....

[quote name='Lucasade' timestamp='1426549324' post='2719321'] ......we just want to move to somewhere where there is a decent amount of work around and not too insane rent wise. [/quote] Good luck with that.....

[quote name='joeystrange' timestamp='1426531471' post='2719004'] Last time I checked I had 6mm at the 12th fret. I think I'm some kind of heathen. [/quote] Now that's a real mans action! None of this "I like my action to be 0.5mm at the last fret because I play so lightly my fingers are like a butterfly landing on a lovely flower" crap.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1426527078' post='2718906'] Very much this. However which synth to buy? Back in the 80s I had synths by Akai, Casio, EDP, Korg, Roland and Yamaha. Each of them did some of the classic synth bass sounds, but none was versatile to cover everything. [/quote] Very true. Any purchase would have to be a compromise, unless you bought racks of gear or ran some decent emulation software for all the classic bass synth sounds. Something like a Novation Bass Station would be a good starting place, and just work on getting some approximations of the sounds needed. Nobody in the audience will care too much about authenticity anyway....

Just buy a synth, better sounds, better all round.