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[quote name='Rasta' post='751753' date='Feb 20 2010, 01:19 PM']Exeter???? Mansons music maybe?[/quote] That would be interesting. Maybe a few issues for anyone with GAS though

:blush: There's one,

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='754329' date='Feb 22 2010, 08:24 PM']Owl City - Fireflies Really really love this song, things its such a well written song! His style of singing kinda bugs be a bit, but the songs toooo good [/quote] Afraid I can't abide it, for the very simple reason that it must be played countless times on the radio when I'm at work. What was probably a fine song has now become my nemesis. Familiarity breeds contempt sort of thing.

[quote name='silddx' post='754201' date='Feb 22 2010, 06:44 PM'] Actually, you said piss off and practice or [b]something[/b]. I have just put the laundry on and am now about to do the recycling, wash up, cook dinner, record a bass track for a mate's album, and start rehearsing for Saturday's gig. Does any of that count? [/quote] Don't fancy popping around my gaff do you? There's a pile of ironing needs doing

I've just run through the promo vid on the Ibanez website. How small is that? It is unbelievably small and some really good features. Have to admit I'd be really tempted. Maybe on its own for small gigs and put it together with an external cab, you've got a lot of volume. You lucky man

[quote name='BigRedX' post='754080' date='Feb 22 2010, 05:14 PM']Before I get seriously involved in this discussion can someone confirm that the bass in question is this one: Rather than the one that's been posted previously in this thread.[/quote] well it's either that one or one very similar

If it's new you want, like a few of the others have suggested, I'd go for the Line 6. Had a go on one when I bought my Ibby, it was a cracking little amp. I just couldn't quite stretch my budget to get one though.

I bought an Ibanez swx35. It's got plenty enough of features, CD/MP3 input, headphone socket, line out and other stuff. Does alright for me. Can be a bit hissy. Would probably suggest the perfect 10 though, or possibly a Line 6 if he can stretch that far.(not quite sure about their price, TBH)

[quote name='silddx' post='753946' date='Feb 22 2010, 03:37 PM']I thought you were in a cheesy mood?[/quote] It's a transitional period

[quote name='elliswasp' post='753614' date='Feb 22 2010, 11:31 AM']andy apple would sparkle a bit the red sparkle one is majorly sparkly i know what you mean about the blue one it is a really nice blue and i would agree the maple would look lovely on that too im hoping to see a CA one in a few days with the rose wood and the maple neck i got to travel a little way to see it but it will be worth it. I know maple isnt for everyone but im a bit of a fan on it to be honest i have a cream p bass with a white scratch plate and i want to put a maple neck on that i think it would amaizing with it on but i may not bother once o got the ianez as it might look a little OTT with them both being maple necks we will see. Markus[/quote] I would have probably felt differently if I'd got the maple neck, and not been keen on the rosewood All said it's a very good bass for the money. It was either the SR300 or a Squire VMJ, both very good but the Ibby felt more me. All the best with your new purchase Rich

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='753901' date='Feb 22 2010, 03:01 PM']A debate is like a fine chocolate truffle which requires both sugar and salt. 'Live and let live' is the sugar. The robustness with which one advances one's position is the salt. Too much of either and it is a poor truffle. Personally, I incline towards tolerance with an almost psychopathic obsession. Next year's Nobel peace prize [i]will[/i] be mine and I don't care who I have to kill to get it.[/quote] I tend to veer widely from sugar and then to salt. Suffice to say my truffles do not taste very nice I go from being very tolerant to verging on being a disciple of Trotsky and questioning everything, there must be permanent revolution. I'm in a salty mood today

[quote name='silddx' post='753635' date='Feb 22 2010, 11:54 AM']Three things .. Just because I word things in a slightly provocative manner does not mean I am being negative, and the implication that "there is something wrong with people who are happy to pay that amount of money for something they like" was just a bit of banter. You said, live and let live, I used the Mugabe reference in relation to that. Nothing to do with spending £5k on a GUS. I am terribly sorry you have facial neuralgia, that must be a real pisser. You'll probably find most of us have something wrong with us, or have some emotional stresses. I myself have have had ectopic eczema since birth (bad enough to have been studied by the Royal Free) and have just developed dry eye syndrome which is rather annoying. There are things that make up for these things, like buying an Oly White and dark tort vintage Fender Jazz [size=6]or being in posession of a monster penis[/size].[/quote] Is it on loan from someone or did you pinch it.

[quote name='4000' post='753386' date='Feb 21 2010, 11:31 PM']Good, cause I can't either. Vent over. EDIT: I'm generally pissed off with everyone who can't [u][b]live and let live[/b][/u]. Of course there's a monumental irony in there but hey, that's life. [/quote] Live and let live is akin to continually sitting on that fence, which becomes ultimately very painful. If you see something you don't agree with, that you think is wrong or morally indefensible then stand up and say your piece. The price tag is ridiculous, no amount of r&d or cost of materials and labour could justify the amount asked for that instrument, the figures simply don't stack up. And if someone wants to criticise the notion someone else is willing to pay that much, then they should. Now where did I put that moral compass of mine.

[quote name='yybass' post='753267' date='Feb 21 2010, 09:16 PM']Yes![/quote] (in game show host style) You're wrrrrrrong I'm afraid, so you don't win a prize. Also the analogy between expensive basses and why buy a Porsche when you can have a Fiesta, just doesn't stack up. At the risk of getting ripped apart by the rest of you, the difference between say a standard stock instrument of very good quality and reasonable price tag and these very expensive basses is just simply not that big. You argue about materials, craftsmenship, core tone, electronics and all the other bits, the gap is not that big. Why can Fodera charge that much, because we've all become self indulgent and selfish. 'Oh I couldn't possibly pay a little more tax so someone can have maybe the access to life saving cancer drugs' but I can indulge myself in very expensive well anything. It's crap just admit it. We're all hypocrites. Waits for the wrath of basschaters to ensue.

[quote name='elliswasp' post='753104' date='Feb 21 2010, 06:53 PM']When i get mine im having it in candy apple red with a maple neck i think that is just about the nicest combination ive ever heard of lol. Markus[/quote] Mine's in CAP (or it might be sparkle 'cause it does a bit) with rosewood neck. I thought maple would be better but I saw one in my LMS and wasn't that keen on it. Maybe it's just me. What I really wanted though was it in that electric blue they were doing it in with a maple neck, that was the dogs wotsits for me. I think they not do it anymore in blue

It's to stop riff raff buying them.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='752346' date='Feb 20 2010, 11:31 PM']Can? Please, for the love of god, tell me that you [b]don't[/b]. [/quote] I think silddx is just after those boots.

Would I? In a word No.

I was listening to some Guns 'n' Roses this morning (first time for ages) and realised that all my favourite bits were the licks and solos done by Duff. Like the little bit at the end of the chorus to Paradise City, it's not complicated but I've always loved it, even before I started playing bass. Perhaps something subconsciously entered my small brain.

Slappers? Bounce off? Follow through? I've never read such filth.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=66328&hl=bigredx"]BigRedX's basses[/url] I was right he's got a GusG3 5string and a 4 string. He is a self professed purveyor of the unusual.

[quote name='discreet' post='752172' date='Feb 20 2010, 08:29 PM'][/quote] Doesn't BigRedX play something similar to that?

On a bit of role aren't you silddx? I haven't seen the new BGM but I think I know what bass you are referring to. Personally I agree, why not buy a Steiny or Hohner headless, they don't get much smaller and they are very good instruments. £579 is very pricey considering what you can get a B2A for second hand.