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Happy NBF! I got a 62 reissue a while back and have been happier than a very happy thing with it, especially since I put some D'Addario Ground Round Wound or is it Half Round strings on it. Incredible amount of punch. However I played on a large hollow wooden stage last night and forgot my Auralex anti vibration mat thingy. bt of a disaster until I rolled a ton of bass of on the amp, which I have never had to do bfore.

More to the point, Norman can make a bunch of notes groove. Few can

Back in the days of pub rock in London there was a sort of league table. You started out as the only band in one of the really SMALL sh*t-holes & got paid a slice of the door assuming anyone showed. Once you had broken the fire limit (I kid you not!) a couple of times, you got invited to play opening act at the next level up of toilet venue, usually paid £10 which the main band`s sound guy promptly nabbed for "letting you use the PA and mixing you, innit" Eventually you would wind up doing the Nashville Rooms and Dingwalls , etc for decent money but nobody got any free rides unless they were already "famous". The system worked. Equally, out in the provinces self-promoted gigs with a nominal charge on the door were very often the only way a small local band could get an audience. Fast forward to NOW. A small local pub venue provides the room for £430 to £80 depending on how well you draw. They insist on you hiring THEIR sound guy for another £40 and a bouncer of their choosing for yet another £40. My daughter managed to break even after paying her bands a very nominal fee and nothing for herself. Landlord turned around and said because it had been such a good night she could have the room for £40 next time. Apparently the bar did very well but no suggestion of a slice for her or the bands. So this "opportunity" may be a better better than some of you think.

First tried a T-E in a store in Tennessee in the eighties and frankly wondered what all the fuss was about. So much boom off the cabinets it was hard to actually hear what the amp and speakers used were doing. Never used one since that made me feel any different about them. Mind you the OTHER new kid on the block at the time was the SWR REDHEAD. Now THAT I liked.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1449005340' post='2920071'] Listen to everything Jack Bruce ever did. [/quote] Erm - he was an uber-widdler to no great effect in Cream. Johnny Spence with The Pirates is likely a better place to start. Full fat, enough gaps and very much underpinning his guitar player. There are a bunch of other UK-style r'nb bass players from back in the day who really understood playing in a trio. Sometimes the holes you leave groove far better than a flurry up the dusty end.

Recently added a 500w LM3 to my home bodged 2x10 celestion neo cabinet. With my previous amp the bottom end was crap. With the LM3 it all tightened up, I was able to CUT low frequency and reduce overall level. Same bass same speakers same me playing. And I am in what someone once described as the loudest 60s nostalgia band they ever heard.... There has to be a moral there.....

Shame he didnt even give a tiny nod to the debt he owes Mick Green though....

Cheddatom: Nail on the head. I am in my seventies and still gig, although these days it is about 50/50 bass in a band and working on my own or with a pickup rhythm sections singing and guitaring. Live gigs are getting like jazz gigs became in the early sixties. Poorly attended by the faithful few - most of whom are over that Certain Age. I quit playing full time pro in 2006 & by then the audiences in my particular niche style were either no longer able to get out at night or were already dead. Chastening thought.

Here is a thought: A new bass comes with an Added Governmental Bonus of 20% VAT added on. With just about any other used item, that is going to come off the top before anything else. And then there is the lack of warranty and the fact that regardless of how carefully you look after it and how little it has been used, it is STILL a used item. If you take your pride and joy into a typical second-hand store they will offer you about 1/3 of hat you think it is worth. By the time they pay 20% VAT on their selling price, factor in an allowance for any warranty work that shows up once it is sold, etc,. etc. they will be lucky to see a net profit, even without allowing for the premises, staffing costs, etc., of 10-15%. I used to work for a Cash Converters years ago, so I know these figures are correct. Now turn that round and look at it from the point of view of a potential used instrument purchaser. How do you feel about only saving 30% when there is already 20% tax inflating the original price? No warranty? got to be worth at least 15%. Condition, etc all play a part. I would say you are probably going to be lucky to see 50% of new price and then only if the manufacturer hasnt cut his current price to way less than you paid. It is a hard cruel world out there at the moment. There are always people on ebay that havent done their homework looking to sell for over the current new price and sadly there is usually the odd sucker who pays it without bothering to check their "bargain" price I recently bought a used Godin LGP90 guitar for £230. I happen to have a suitable tweed case for it which will help,but I am now getting tempted to chop it in for an even nicer 2xP90 guitar. I would hope to get back what I paid for it, but even though they are still out there new for I believe £595 it will all depend on the market. Original MSRP was £699! Stuff is worth what a willing and able buyer (one with money) is prepared to pay.

[quote name='NickD' timestamp='1448234888' post='2913901'] Can't believe I'm actually going to say this but... Paul Carrack... twice. Now we're breeders the bulk of our live music consumption is at the family friendly end of the festival spectrum. The aforementioned chap headlined a night at two of those festivals this year. On both occasions he was bang on. Slick without being bland (despite the middle of the road material), polished and passionate. OK, I'm not old enough to buy any of his stuff for home consumption... yet, but as a live act he was much more engaging than I'd expected. A cracking band helped! [/quote] Knew Paul back in the early days when Ace were just starting to make waves. A lovely chap and soooo talented. Listen to the five a side album. Delightful and "Tex" Comers' bass parts are pretty damn good too.

Ricky Wills played for them for a while, too.

Downloading it onto my 4.5 tablet - we shall see! Just checked and their website says 4.4+ will work.

Agreed. My first reaction too. The gentlemanly thing to do would be to contact the seller and see what he says bfore you sell anything, or at the least offer to spilt the proceeds with him. Dont know if it was him or ebay but someone was bending over backwards to treat you right here.

five star cases in Ely, Cambs made the one for my extra large Explorer style bass. Cant remember how much but it was reasonable as far as I CAN remember.

https://www.facebook.com/bgmmag cant find that picture.....

The tricky part is putting the easy bit on autopilot when you are approaching a hard part on the OTHER discipline. If there is a relatively difficult bass bit in a song, you have to get the accompanying vocal for just that bit absolutely down pat, so for that moment you can concentrate 99% on getting the bass bit right. And vice versa, of course. Nobody is claiming it is easy. I read an interview somewhere with Mark King where he said that the only reason he played the way he did was because it was the only way he could sing and play bass at the same time & still keep in time with both!

His mate Leon Russell is even more "challenged " when it comes to sounding "nice" but it certainly never stopped him from making a go if it, either!

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1447160583' post='2905347'] My inability to sing has nothing to do with my breathing. Even if I want to sing a short two note phrase I can't hit the notes. I'm better if I stylise the voice - singing through my nose a bit a la Dylan helps wit the tuning but not with whether anyone would want to listen to it. I did consider attending the "anyone can sing" lessons at my local college just to see if they'd change the title of the course to "almost anyone can sing". I'm sure with some lessons I might get somewhere passable but TBH playing and singing at the same time puts my timing off anyway. [/quote] Sorry but it almost certainly DOES have a lot to do with your breathing. Insufficient or too much air passing over the vocal cords means you have far less control over what they do than when you airspeed indicator is on "perfect". And of course if singing and playing at the same time is an issue, start out by JUST singing (even if it is in the bathroom) rather than trying to run before you can walk. Might be an idea to see how those "anyone can sing classes are, but try and approach it with at the least a neutral attitude. Mind you all of this presupposes that you really WANT to learn to sing. If it is just a case of "I feel like I ought to", you probably wont improve.

A world of difference between playing great pocket and really hitting that groove as well. Like Scott said in the video, so much of it is down to experience paying with other people at a high level. Yo can't raise your game if you are the best player in your immediate circle. I always looked to be the least proficient, least experienced member of any band I was in back when I had little or no mileage on me. You cant beat stealing from older better players!

Bought his Night people album years ago after realising I liked a lot of stuff h had done for other artists. What a sad day.

Only if you catch them off your bass....

Only just noticed this thread. I used to get strings from Alembic when I lived in the USA but bought some D'Addario ground round wounds for a fretless precision I bought in a pawnshop - factory maple neck fretless. I sold it but remembered how nice those GRW strings were. Fast forward to about five years ago ad I was back on a fretted Mexican precision with rosewood board. Didn't like how it sounded so I remembered how that maple P bass had sounded and bought a set of the D'Addarios. Been with them ever since & now have a set on my nice new-to-me AVRI 62 reissue P bass! Definitely the best compromise between the traditional P Bass thump and decent articulation. Excellent strings!

Depends how you interpret "dud". Presumably you did look at the bass when you bought it but assumed that you could fix the bent neck. Unfortunately in my book that would imply that you were aware of there being a problem and accepted the instrument warts and all. But I would still go back to the bloke, show him the issue and see if he is prepared to make an accommodation with you. Good luck! The sad thing is, he probably sold it like that in good faith.

[quote name='roceci' timestamp='1446739363' post='2901929'] +1 Ineffable twatism. Love that bit of footage where the paparazzi guy lamped him one XD [/quote] Rumour has it that he is very insecure about everything.