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In case anyone has been troubled by this topic, I ended up getting this one imported and it's a real honey. This spec from [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/product5113.html"]http://www.rondomusi...roduct5113.html[/url] Agile Valkyrie Double Neck Guitar HC 4/6 w/Case Double Neck Guitar / Bass ! Double Neck 6 string and 4 string bass Contoured, dual cutaway Solid 3 piece mahogany body (not a multi-ply, not alder!) for a great sound Set in Maple neck with adjustable truss rod Bound Rosewood fret-board with 20 jumbo frets (each neck) and a 13.7" radius neck for fast play Trapezoidal pearloid inlays Die-cast Grover tuners with 18-1 ratio for ultra fine tuning for the guitar. Agile tuners with 12-1 for the bass Alnico humbucker pickups Two volume and two tone controls per body section plus a three way pickup selector switch (each body section) to help you get the sound you want Stop bar tailpiece and a four ply pickuguard (Black/White/Black/White) complete the look [b]Weight 14 lbs[/b] - [i]Compared to a Rickenbacker 4003 which weighs 9.0lbs.[/i] Overall length is 41" including the strap button Width at the widest point is 17" Body thickness 1 1/2" at edge The neck is 1 5/8" wide at each nut Scale Length Guitar 24 3/4" Bass:30" Chrome hardware

Standard layout from mine. Screws on back of the bass looked all wrong. I think I have seen the 5 knob option before. That string was probably out of the nut to show fret wear or lack of it. 5 knob version from google search.. Get a load of that thick pickup near the bridge!

[i]"and at least once a month during fall/winter. [/i]" That doesn't sound attractive.

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I own a RV5 R*c replica. The pickups are mighty and the neck is great. I have got the action where I want it. The only thing that is an issue with the bass is that the bar that goes over the TRC is hard to fasten down tight and alternative string restraint is needed.

Does anyone know any UK stockists of the backbreakers? Thanks.

Thinking of getting something along the lines of one of these. or one of these... Sadly can't run to one of these... I seriously considered this one which is on EBay cheap, but decided against it.

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1397946706' post='2428995'] The shop guy said he couldn't as a guy was about to play an acoustic set in the shop. So here we are in a holiday weekend with the city heaving with folk - a retailers paradise. But this shop chooses to be a venue in the middle of the afternoon. [/quote] I understand your frustration, but if they have an event about to start that quite a lot of people have turned up and filled up the shop to see, then the pedal try-out has to wait.

I think I will stick with this....

I've been to see an old band of mine where I remained friendly with them and got up for a couple of songs. That band (including myself) covered some gigs for my band of the time, when our drummer was seriously ill Another I did some gigs with 10 years later. Others I would cheerfully kill, especially if their singer happens to be an alcoholic idiot.

Volume on bass guitar set to max. Soundcheck bass against drums for correct amp volume level, then guitar added. Then vocals go into mix and singer tells everyone else to turn down. Pretend to turn down.

Now sorted. Such is my greed I am in 4 bands.

Under-rated... Bruce Thomas ex of Elvis Costello was certainly rated at the time, but has fallen out of the public eye now. I'd say the same for Colin Moulding of XTC - a total genius and innovator on bass, but XTC are gone now and he's largely forgotten outside of their fans. I miss them terribly. Nick Seymour of Crowded House was mentioned and he is a true jazz bassist in a pop band. His bass parts are little adventures for the ears - Fantastic syncopated little counter melodies that can't be second guessed, such as Don't dream it's over - try humming along with the bass part on that . I don't know how he gets some of the sounds he does - on Whispers and moans for example. I love his work on their albums up to Together Alone. After that they went a bit meh. Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick does some amazing stuff and gets little recognition except for starting the 12-string bass ball rolling. Jim Lea of Slade - a ridiculously good player, consigned to be remembered mainly as the one at the back on Merry Christmas everybody. A criminal underestimation.

If there are parts of certain songs he is fluffing, offer to go and play through that part of the song until he has nailed it. With bands I have routined songs with, we have played chord sequences back to back until they are spot on with solos or arrangements as we want them, left it to play something else then have gone back to it and done it again. Drilling something in and playing it til it's right is the only way. Anyone is capable of fumbling a part occasionally, or being a little clumsy, but if it's happening so much that accuracy or consistency is an issue you need to decide when enough is enough. It's quite possible to help someone improve without making them feel bad about it, so go gently. Good luck with that one.

Metallica going after Napster wasn't popular, but when people are passing on your performance and you're not being paid for it, it's pretty galling, especially if you are paying for a huge staging and transportation bill and the lost revenue would have gone some way towards payng that.

I generally take 3 with me. One for first half, One for second. Plus a spare in case I need a fresh neck to play.

It's quite probable that Prince will never release another official live album or DVD unless his live shows stop appearing regularly on bootleg sites and Youtube. He often plays unreleased songs in his set, so his future album releases can be affected too. He's not much different to several other artists in threatening legal action against bootleggers. His persona makes him a similar target to the CEO of a certain US guitar company mentioned on here. As with That Charmless Man and any other musician, Prince has every right to protect his product from copying and unpaid distribution. I believe that he was paid quite a fair whack for the rights to give an album away with The Mail on Sunday.

Fantastic disciplined bassline. Doesn't interfere with the piano at all. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPVgujGcmTY[/media]

Interesting topic. I know that basses and guitars are a lot better now in terms of ease of playing and affordability than they were when I started learning in the 70's. It never fails to astonish me how kids half my age sit in a bedroom and learn their favourite tracks like I did and they are playing some Joe Satriani riff from hell, whereas I was copping riffs from The Sweet. [i]And they are doing it accurately. [/i]The bar has been raised, which is all good. There are a lot of aids to playing that weren't there when I started - videos, DVD's, YouTube. 99.9% of the time now if I have to learn something, I sit down with the track and break it down by lsitening to it til I have it. The kids can get online demo's of how to play a lot of the stuff they want to learn. I still prefer my way of doing it. Listen and do something approximate - not parrot fashion. If I want to change it Ia bit do. There is [i]often[/i] a lot of slavish recreation by kids, to show they have leanned it 100%. I wouldn't want to start again now. Everything has pretty much been done now.. In the 50's they were INVENTING IT, which was the hardest thing of all!!

Dean Rhapsody 8 string. Lovely bass - I should use it more often.

Hamer were bought out and I believe the brand name is no longer in use. Tom bought this one on Ebay recently and has modded it very slightly. I have two Hamer 12ers and they both hold their tune pretty much perfectly. They are swines to re-string, though!!

He's not used a Hamer for a while - this is from a recent Miami show.

I can recommend the Dean Rhapsody 8.

They have some very interesting ideas on pricing. Some of that S/H stuff IS hard to find, but a lot of it..... man, they got to be having a laugh. I won't be visiting them at any point soon.

That said, I regularly host a jam night and lend out a very good sounding Squier P bass to those who turn up without one. When plugging anyone in, I tell them the amp is set as it needs to be. That has always worked. If it stops working, I will put the head on a table behind the two bass cabs. I may bring a second bass for my own use, though the Squier is fine. I once supported a 60's Merseyside chart act and their bassist - ex Eurythmics, apparently) politely said he'd like to use my rig (then 2x TE 715's). The mix was good overall and I told him the rig was set right. He cranked it up after a few songs so the gain light was constantly on and then flipped the volume up a lot. It drowned out the rest of the band. I had no difficulties in walking onstage and re-setting the volumes mid-song. He was as angry as hell, but I said his amp was still in his car if he wanted to play silly buggers. Another support slot saw a 70's two hit wonder band ruin our guitarist's Fender Twin reverb by setting it to 'stun'. Their bassist used his own rig.