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[quote name='bubinga5' post='1081551' date='Jan 7 2011, 09:50 PM']Ive heard bass lines played ..better than the original... *snip* Chic's Good Times...[/quote] Do you think you can play Good Times better than the original? Is there something incomplete about Bernard Edwards' line?

[quote name='agoulding' post='1081759' date='Jan 8 2011, 02:37 AM']Something struck me though, I didn't really like what he said, he said my music lacked feel. So Im asking you guys, what is feel? surely if you have written something and it means something to you, that is feel, and that is all that matters right? *snip* He's a great guitar player and has been playing longer than i have been on this planet. So it's only natural that I still listen to him, right (point aside he is my dad, but i see him as much as rick waller sees salad)?[/quote] I know a lot of people who've been playing longer than you've been alive and who have zero concept of feel. It may be that he just doesn't like your style of music.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1081128' date='Jan 7 2011, 02:39 PM']Just googled it and it says Jaribu Shahid. I presume Ira Coleman is on upright?[/quote] Ira Coleman it is on the horizontal plank...

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1081109' date='Jan 7 2011, 02:33 PM']Great song. Is it Tony Levin?[/quote] No.

Looks like a Fender Precision Sting signature edition, albeit with a black scratchplate. Yep... around 5:35, you can see the inlaid signature block. No idea who he is.

I gave up on any loyalty to local retailers a long time ago. Last time I tried to buy a bass locally was in 2003. I wanted a Fender Precision and had my mind set on the then new US-series basses (they'd been introduced 3 years previously). The local shop, which was part of a chain that were main Fender dealers, had a couple of US Fenders on the wall, the newest being from 1996. At full RRP. I was told that they could get one of the newer models in for me from one of their other shops, but it would take a few days... I went back once a week for the next three weeks with £900 cash in my pocket to be told they hadn't got it in yet. The last time I went in, the guy told me, "look... they're exactly the same as the old ones, they've just changed the name..." I didn't go back. I got on the train and spent £1200 in a non-local, specialist shop. I've moved since then, but my experience in many guitar shops has been similar. I asked a shop assistant about the new Trace Elliot range, to be told that they weren't really made by Trace Elliot any more... if I wanted a "real Trace Elliot" I'd have to buy an Ashdown (surprisingly they were Ashdown dealers). I simply don't feel any compulsion to stay local. Even for strings... Why drive into town and spend a couple of quid on parking to buy a set of EBs for £23, when online shops do them for £18, free delivery?

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='1080750' date='Jan 7 2011, 09:09 AM']Hardly any tabs are 100% correct but they can be great for giving hints and suggestions for particularly awkward bits and/or bits that are hard to hear.[/quote] Absolutely. I used to be a bit of an anti-tab fascist, but don't object to them if they're reasonably accurate. To be fair, I went straight to the song I had most difficulty transcribing, and this guy has made the same mistake I made initially (the chords in Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now). Otherwise, they're as good as I've seen on the internet.

[quote name='lojo' post='1080719' date='Jan 7 2011, 07:35 AM']This is a good site [url="http://www.micturion.com/smiths/index.php"]http://www.micturion.com/smiths/index.php[/url] , although I expect to get shot by some members for posting it[/quote] I could have done with that a few years ago when we did a charity Smiths tribute gig. After a brief look, some of the tabs aren't 100% right, but they're not bad.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1077710' date='Jan 4 2011, 07:22 PM']Having seen Sterling Ball stomping around the internet I'm not surprised to see that EB don't really care about their customers.[/quote] On the other hand, Sterling has in the past answered my queries personally, within minutes of me sending an email, thanking me for bringing things to their attention, and sent me free t-shirts and strings.

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1079657' date='Jan 6 2011, 11:38 AM'][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111461"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111461[/url][/quote] Wow. The OP's posting history too... particularly posts made on Dec 20 and 28.

Obviously there's some etiquette involved in bumping a for sale thread. Once a day is probably the maximum you want to do it. Having looked at your advert, the biggest problem is that you don't have a photo of the equipment... it makes a big difference to buyers.

[quote name='kingbee' post='1079227' date='Jan 5 2011, 09:53 PM']Pardon my ignorance, but as a total Basschat newbie there are certain 'terms' I have still to understand. Like, 'bump', eg in relation to items for sale, What the feck does 'bump' mean? Thank you.[/quote]

Bellowhead, Toots and Rico Rodriguez were all fantastic. Quite liked the Secret Sisters.

[quote name='Sibob' post='1072531' date='Dec 30 2010, 10:34 AM']Which, according to dollartimes.com, is worth about $1727.59 in 2010. Interesting Si[/quote] Which is getting towards what an NOS custom shop reissue would cost... which is probably the closest current model in terms of how it is constructed in the factory.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='990795' date='Oct 17 2010, 12:48 AM']It was truly terrible. Buy one and you will be totally disappointed. The intonation was shocking, absolutely impossible to tune up on open strings and play a note in tune. The E string was a non event.[/quote] Was it brand new? All my ukes (soprano, concert, baritone) were difficult to tune at first as the nylon strings take a while to settle in. I imagine there is a similar issue with the bass uke strings.

Corona series Jazzes came with one piece pick guards in the late 90s. They were made from US parts, shipped to Mexico for finishing when Fender had to retool to comply with new emissions laws.

[quote name='dincz' post='970380' date='Sep 28 2010, 09:35 AM']Thanks to all for the responses. Another thing that occurred to me is that magnetic pickups probably reduce the sustain of the strings as they're slightly damped by the magnetic field of the pickups. Or not?[/quote] That's apparently correct, and is one of the selling points of the lightwave system... [url="http://www.lightwave-systems.com/lightwavepickup/LightWavePickup.htm"]http://www.lightwave-systems.com/lightwave...tWavePickup.htm[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDeov9S5AEo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDeov9S5AEo[/url]

[quote name='cheddatom' post='970766' date='Sep 28 2010, 03:14 PM']"all other things being equal" perhaps it would be best to ask him if he'd mind changing his image to be more appropriate so that you might judge the two candidates on an equal footing.[/quote] Note... what would put me off is the fact he would have come to the audition dressed like that in the first place. While I don't know for certain that the guy with the Telecaster and Cowboy boots is any different, it's obvious that dreadlock guy is not an out-and-out Country and Western fan. Does he actually listen to C&W? Is he conversant in the style? Will his obvious self-identification with another genre colour the way he plays? Will he be happy playing this stuff for any length of time?

[quote name='cheddatom' post='970362' date='Sep 28 2010, 09:17 AM']This has got very protracted, my only point was to avoid prejudice when looking for musicians to play with - you never know what you might find.[/quote] If I'm looking for a person to fit a specific, pre-existing role in a band, I'm going to want to be sure of a few things. 1. They can do what is expected of them as outlined at the outset. 2. They're reliable. 3. They're likely to stick around for a while. 4. I'm likely to enjoy their company. Pretty much what an employer is looking for when interviewing prospective employees, and for the same reasons. If I was looking for a band member and they were obviously out of their comfort-zone genre-wise, my concern would be that they wouldn't stick around for long enough to make the venture worthwhile. If I'm auditioning guitarists for a Country and Western gig and a guy walks in with shoulder-length dreadlocks and facial piercings carrying a BC Rich Ironbird and Marshall stack, I probably won't be as likely to give him a call-back as the guy who came in with a telecaster, all other things being equal. His gear would seem to indicate he wouldn't be happy in that band for long.

[quote name='gary mac' post='968541' date='Sep 26 2010, 04:50 PM']Maybe it's cos you take along an 8 string Warmouth explorer [/quote] That might have been said in jest, but it's possible the OP is not making a great impression with his instrument choices: Warmoth 8 string Explorer Status Graphite John Entwistle Buzzard Alembic Stanley Clarke Signature Standard I'm sure they're all nice instruments, but if the bands he's auditioning for are looking for someone to fit into a 'traditional' bass playing role and he pulls out a Status Buzzard or an Alembic at the audition, chances are they're going to be far more sensitive to potential over-playing than with someone who pulls out a Fender Precision.

[quote name='owen' post='964224' date='Sep 22 2010, 10:49 AM']More importantly whatwas the bassist for The Jolly Boys playing. A kind of huge thumb piano?[/quote] A rhumba box.

Alder unless a blonde finish, in which case it would be ash.