leftybassman392

Most of what needs to be said has been said already, but just on the point of having confidence in your valuation: I have a vintage classic bass up for sale through The Bass Gallery ATM. The price was set according to it's age, condition, quality and rarity, and was arrived at after a fairly lengthy and detailed conversation with people at the store who know what they're talking about. It's now been up on the website about 6 or 7 weeks. I checked in with them the other day just to get an update, and they confirmed the valuation. I'm in no rush to sell it and don't need the money for anything in particular so I'm happy to go with their judgement. If it doesn't sell then it's not a catastrophe - I'll simply withdraw it and hold on to it for a while until the value goes up a bit more. Like everybody who's been here a while I've seen basses sold well below their market value because the seller is desperate to raise some capital. If that's the case then of course you do what you have to. Failing that, if you've done your research, have an objective approach and have confidence in your valuation then stick with it and be patient.

Well it was a long time ago so I can't actually recall the picky little details, but the very first bass I can remember actually owning was an Ibanez GSR200L: [url="http://s1109.photobucket.com/user/muso392/media/DSCN0479_412.jpg.html"][/url] Apparently I still owned this bass as recently as 2012... which almost certainly means I sold it to somebody on BC! ETA: Come to think of it, I'm not sure this was my bass as this one is active and mine definitely wasn't. I have a feeling that I was selling this for somebody else. I was sure I'd got rid some years ago. I'm pretty sure mine was a GSR100L (which is the passive version). Anyhoo, long story to shreds; mine looked like this one - sort of... In summary, much ado about (almost) nothing. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go for a lie down....

Slightly OT (with apologies) but it may be worth mentioning that Alex doesn't work at The Gallery any more. I took some basses in for them to sell a couple of months ago and they had some kid in who was - what can I say - on quite a steep learning curve. I'm sure he'll be fine eventually but at that time he seemed very new to that line of work. I pass this on without judgement on anyone involved.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1421366450' post='2660553'] I've been listening to the Oceans 13 soundtrack recently - some really nice bass grooves on there. Music by David Holmes. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVNmTPa2jo[/media] [/quote] +1 to this. Some very nice bass playing in all the Ocean's movies actually, and fits the feel of the films perfectly.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1421406448' post='2660785'] Does that still "hold" true if he's a she? [/quote] Yes. Yes it does. Definitely. It definitely does. Yes. Edit to Add: It does.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1421368754' post='2660578'] So how do we explain the left-handed singer? [/quote] Well that's easy! It's the hand he holds the mic with.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1421351529' post='2660327'] Sorry, was trying to give a concise answer in a lighthearted manner. But this did lead to some quick research (always been interested in lefties as my old mum had a torrid time of being one, and my youngest is very ambidextrous) & thought this piece was particularly fascinating: [url="http://www.livescience.com/19968-study-reveals-lefties-rare.html"]http://www.livescien...fties-rare.html[/url] The piece on left handed musicians did very much centre around what you are saying: [url="http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/issues_music.html"]http://www.rightleft...sues_music.html[/url] [/quote] Apologies if I came over a bit tetchy - not my intention at all. It's just that I've been trying to set the world straight on this topic for many years now. (Actually I'm a lot more relaxed about it these days... ). I've read the articles: the first one is interesting in one respect (although I would like to take a closer look at how the model works, and I do have some misgivings over their basic premise of handedness as an either/or situation - although that could just be to do with numbers of players that choose to play a certain way rather than any more detailed analysis of their handedness in general); the second article ties in much more with my understanding of handedness as a phenomenon (and the Hendrix snippet adds confirmation to my fairly long-held view that he was probably close to being genuinely ambidextrous). The comment about the difficulty of the job the fretting hand has is a bit apocryphal I think; historically (and the history of stringed instruments goes back several thousand years), the hand responsible for producing the sound is the one that requires finer motor control - the fingers of the other hand only needed to be in the right place at the right time. The advent of such a busy fretting hand is a much more recent phenomenon, only really viable as an everyday playing technique since the advent of the electric guitar and the high-gain amplifier. Oh dear - that turned into a bit of a monologue... sorry about that!

*Sigh* I promise not to tire of saying this: it's not that simple - people are not simply Right- or Left-Handed. It's a continuous spectrum with most people nearer one end than the other. Any attempt to provide definitive statistics is likely to prove very difficult. Handedness can manifest in a whole bunch of different ways with different activities (and sometimes even in the same activity - there's at least one case of a professional cricketer who bowls with one hand and throws with the other). This is complicated by the numbers of musicians who are Left-handed in many areas of their lives but have chosen to play their instruments Right-handed. You're right about one thing though - it is very unusual!

Good to see a second shout for 'O Brother Where Art Thou'! Dunno about anybody else, but I'm choosing soundtracks because they fit the movie (even if it's music I wouldn't normally listen to). Here's my next one: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RblS56oT-as&list=PLJ4P7CehF2XLN-nnV63Ps5-92t8eRf98m"]https://www.youtube....3Ps5-92t8eRf98m[/url] As a guitarist with a background in The Blues (like a lot of my baby-boomer colleagues I dare say) it saddens me to say that 'Crossroads' is not one of my favourite movies, but this soundtrack hits the spot perfectly. (At least the bits that were actually in the movie do )

Lot's to choose from but I'll start with this: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjzcGOSl2a0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjzcGOSl2a0[/url] Not music I'd normally listen to, but absolutely perfect for the movie.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1420817077' post='2653849'] a point is a point, there are not big or small points in geometry [/quote] Well spotted. Loose use of language on my part (although fwiw I was trying to make the, er, point that it is in fact infinitesimally small; I plead extenuating circumstances). Perhaps we should all get out a bit more.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1420800589' post='2653493'] If you look back in the thread, I wondered whether or not the object would exist at all if its radius was zero. I think this is a place where mathematics and philosophy cross paths [/quote] Mathematically it would. Philosophically... I guess it depends on how far you embrace Existentialism. I think I might need to get out more!

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1420734258' post='2652795'] This one [url="http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/"]Link[/url] [/quote] [pedantry] I assume you're joking here. One of the nice things about disciplines like Euclidean Geometry is that they are absolutely precise and leave no room for doubt or ambiguity, and remain so irrespective of what anybody thinks about it. A circle of zero radius is mathematically equivalent to an infinitely small point, whatever the Flat Earth Society say. [/pedantry]

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1416911474' post='2614856'] Beat me to it. [/quote] And me. In practical engineering terms the phrase doesn't really mean anything (despite what some have said above - whoever coined it was either just looking for a catchy name or else is geometrically challenged... probably both ) - 'flat fretboard' would do though...

Option B. No-brainer. (Unless of course you want to show all your mates what a nice bass you own...). As for option C, if your partner is anything like Mrs. LBM then she probably knows what's going on already.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1420236849' post='2647129'] She sounds like David Beckham. [/quote] Not a good thing even for David Beckham himself IMHO. (Then again I don't like football...)

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1420157726' post='2646318'] Is there some rule that some things are so sacrosanct that they can't be criticised in any way? [/quote] Actually, yes there does appear to be. I thought Wilko Johnson's set was poor all round, but nobody else seems willing to say so publicly. I have nothing against the man (and the fact that he was there at all is a testament to his courage - kudos to him for that); but if it was anybody else people would be crying out for them to do the decent thing and retire. It's not enough to say his playing has always been a bit iffy - it wasn't as bad in the Feelgood and Blockhead days as it was on the Hootenanny - tuning was way off, timing was all over the place, and whatever his other merits (and with all due respect to his achievements) he's never going to be a frontman. We watch and enjoy the show every year but accept that it's only one way among many of bringing in the New Year; and that we're not going to enjoy everything we hear on any given show - I hate the celebrity 'interviews' for example, but that's just me. p.s. I'm also not quite sure who Joss Stone failed to f**k to deserve the opprobrium she's been getting at the hands of some of my fellow Basschatterers. I don't listen to her output on anything like a regular basis, but at times I heard definite hints of Janis Joplin.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1420112332' post='2645615'] ... whereas his guitar was as spot-on as ever. [/quote] Aside from being out of tune of course...

Definitely a Sonus. There's a Lefty one currently for sale in the, er, Lefty Basses For Sale section: Here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/236657-lh-zon-sonus-4/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/236657-lh-zon-sonus-4/[/url] Used to be mine but currently owned by Whynot of this parish.

I actually bought a copy of that EP on CD when it came out - very good it is too!