David Nimrod

2.55... Wow!!!

I've used an ABM500 combo for the last few years and nothing has ever gone wrong. At all

[quote name='alexclaber' post='169855' date='Apr 4 2008, 03:02 PM']Why?[/quote] +1 to that... why restrict your choices?

Ibanez SR1006EFM neck thru... or the cheaper bolt on SR506?

Buy secondhand Ashdown ABM gear... Get a ABM500 Head and a 4 x 10" cab. Then buy another 4 x 10" cab or a 1 x 15" cab later for the full 575 watts

[quote name='Ray' post='168149' date='Apr 2 2008, 08:43 AM']It's going to be a long and expensive journey to find my ideal setup![/quote] No it's not, just try a few amps/cabs/combos... With an open mind something will sound right As much more erudite posters than me have said, [i][b]it's personal[/b][/i], adjectives don't work!!! And brands don't all sound the same, I don't think cliche's are helpful to anyone here. If Ashdowns were woolly why would MK have a signature head? Or John Entwistle? etc. etc. Like any amp they can sound enormously different depending on the EQ, the bass, the strings, the player. There are also so many variables and personal interpretations of sound that it has to be up to you...

I can bring:- MM Sterling - with Nordstrand p/up. Fender USA Deluxe Jazz. Ibanez SR1000 Prestige. Ibanez DWB-3 Doug Wimbish. Ashdown ABM 500 combo 1 x 15" Something like that anyway

I'll be there - keep me posted!

I'm ashamed to say I've never listened to this band; but they're great! Thanks for the links, musical education never ceases

I've got a big cardboard box labeled 'Just add Bike' in marker pen; I packed it up about 5 years ago when I sold my last motorcycle. In it are:- helmet, gloves, boots, leather trousers, leather jacket. One day I'll do what it says on the box, and I can't sell the stuff

[quote name='Dillsfretless' post='167131' date='Mar 31 2008, 07:27 PM']At the grand old age of 44 I have NEVER played live, and never really played with other people either. I'm a multi-instrumentalist who is a sad old bedroom player. At my age I seriously don't think I'd have the confidence to play anything with other people. It's too bad as I have recently (the last two months or so) really got into bass playing in a big way like never before. I think that bass would be what I would want to play now in my 'dreamworld' of playing with other people.[/quote] All I can say to that is:- If I can do it, you can do it. Now go and do it!!!

[quote name='Marcus' post='167057' date='Mar 31 2008, 06:14 PM']I'm not sure elementary A level Economics applies to Bass Guitars, firstly we're all nuts here ! and secondly we buy on emotion and try to justify with logic - not the other way around ![/quote] +1 to that

[quote name='dabootsy' post='167106' date='Mar 31 2008, 07:03 PM']I think i regret starting this thread as its becoming more depressing than Eastenders[/quote] Dunno about that, it's cheered me up no end

[quote name='metaltime' post='167078' date='Mar 31 2008, 06:34 PM']i regret buying any effects as i think i addicted to them now[/quote]

[quote name='lonestar' post='167050' date='Mar 31 2008, 06:06 PM']You've still got it all ahead of you Dave see your friend as an inspiration, work out what it is about his playing that dusts your broom. You'll get there![/quote] Thanks for more positive words! The gloom is slowly lifting... Van Morrison sung about it:- [i]Well it's in my blood and it's in my veins Here it comes again, when I'm in the rain In the wind and rain, well the sun don't shine Well it's always mine, all of the time Melancholia, melancholia, melancholia And it's in my life and it's all the time It doesn't go away when the church bells chime In the evening time when I drink my wine In the evening time when it's on my mind Melancholia, melancholia, melancholia[/i]

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='167009' date='Mar 31 2008, 05:07 PM']don't give up! there's probably plenty of things that i should or shouldn't have done, but i don't regret any of them. that's not me being big headed and arrogant, that's me saying, "it's too late to be worrying about all that now". I reckon stuff happens for a reason - if there was something i should or shouldn't have done, it would have happened[/quote] Thanks for the positive words I need to take a more fatalistic attitude I reckon!