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John's right; if we had a tenner for every time we'd received a complaint along the lines of "{user} has hijacked my FS thread and is wrecking my chances of a sale, can you have a word please?", then our secret mountaintop headquarters would have a lot more priceless works of art on the walls than it currently does. This is precisely why the rule exists, and to be honest I can't see why it's such a contentious one. All it means is writing a PM rather than a public post.

OK, so whatever happened to this book?? Last heard from over a year ago! There's still a waiting list as far as I'm aware.

I've sung lead and BVs in a number of bands over the years so I don't find it too difficult (although as has been said, it depends on the complexity of the bass part). The really difficult thing is [i]talking[/i] and playing... It's taken years but i'm finally getting to grips with it.

[quote name='MB1' post='1282271' date='Jun 25 2011, 05:06 PM']MB1. Perhaps the Landlords son Ziggy plays guitar? [/quote] And his daughter Sheena is a punk rocker.

[quote name='Ed_S' post='1281823' date='Jun 25 2011, 08:26 AM']Yeah, the last one of those that came to work managed to threaten our entire reception team![/quote] Really?? How? Do tell, this sounds fascinating/horrifying

A gorgeous Pangborn Warlord back in '86. Beautiful bass, stunning sound. Mind you, if i'd bought that, I wouldn't have ended up with my Wal

Parcelfarts make the Keystone Kops look like a model of efficiency. I wouldn't use them if they were the last couriers on earth.

[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1281535' date='Jun 24 2011, 09:15 PM']I tried to see what it was, but Morrissey's incessant whining forced me to turn over after three seconds[/quote] I hope someone chucks a hotdog at him

[quote name='Mark Latimour' post='1278290' date='Jun 22 2011, 10:58 AM']Defintely a fad. What kind of ass would play a guitar that looked like this... [/quote] Yeah. Or this.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='1277181' date='Jun 21 2011, 03:30 PM']1) He's [i]staring[/i] at the neck. This, to me, equates to self-indulgence, and to heck with the audience.[/quote] Just a quick question, as I'm genuinely interested to know. Yes he's certainly looking at the neck, but what is it about the pic that convinces you he's [i]staring[/i] at it? For all we know, that could quite easily have been the first time he looked at it all night.

I debuted my Jack Bruce sound last night at blues rehearsal... played the intro to 'Badge', and everyone turned and gaped at my rig and went "What the fack is THAT?!!??". I think they liked it Made all the tweaks worthwhile!

Saturday night at the Queen Vic in Stroud with my soul-pop covers band. Place was rammed but they couldn't have been less interested if we'd hung up a big sign saying 'PLEASE IGNORE US'. More life in a tramp's vest, etc. Miserable tossers like that don't deserve live music. Well worth the long trip up the M5, that was.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1273260' date='Jun 17 2011, 09:55 PM']There is absolutely nothing worse than desperately needing a piss mid gig.[/quote] You have obviously never walked down Bedminster High St on a Saturday afternoon

I sold off all my individual stomps to get an XT Live and have never looked back. I'm still getting to grips with it really but so far it's great. I'm quite happy with the choruses personally, they're perfectly good for live work. Likewise the fuzzes/dists, although I'm tending to go more with the amp models for those. I've managed to get the autowah/Qtron patch set up with no noticeable bass drop, using the EQ. The synth patches are terrible however. But if I ever need a synth sound, I'll dig out the Deep Impact again I'd take this thing over an ME50B any day, I tried one of those and thought it was utter bollocks to be honest. But hey, we all like different stuff (see any Dream Theater or Level 42 thread for details ). It's brilliant being able to go from flat to Jack Bruce to Jamerson to Bootsy at the touch of a button. Love it!

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1270674' date='Jun 15 2011, 08:59 PM']They are indifferent to the fact you play bass at all. They never tell their friends that they're seeing someone 'who is a musician'. Then you join a really good band. They ask why you need to rehearse so much. They never come to a gig. They then ask why you need to play gigs at all. They get pissed off because you spend time any time at all rehearsing, which they feel cuts into their time with you. They never listen to your music, and couldn't care less that it's going well and you've even got major label interest. They then reach the stage of being so jealous of your music that they are on the verge of an ultimatum à la "it's me or the band", when you finally decide that you've had enough of this sh*t and dump them before they can make such an unfair demand on you (just as well, because if the ultimatum had come it would have taken about 20 nanoseconds thinking time). Been there.[/quote] Amended to reflect my experience with my first long-term girlfriend. Looking back, the whole thing just screamed 'insecurity'.

[b][i]If[/i][/b] the OP posted about it on the EBMM forum, and [b][i]if[/i][/b] Sterling Bollock ended up posting any form of abuse on it, when the subject is a bass that [u]left his factory faulty[/u]... then it would speak volumes about his business sense and the extent to which he cared about his customer base. [b][i]If[/i][/b]. This is all hypothetical, of course. But I almost want to see this on the EBMM forum, just to see what happens.

[quote name='peteb' post='1270815' date='Jun 15 2011, 11:09 PM']He's from New York - Whadaya gonna do about it??[/quote]

[quote name='ficelles' post='1269496' date='Jun 15 2011, 12:26 AM']I reckon he's just taking the mick out of every slappin' and poppin' bass [i]branleur[/i] in da house by doing it 10 times better and 100m times faster... ficelles[/quote] Faster yes, but [i]better[/i]? Err, no.

[quote name='RhysP' post='1269050' date='Jun 14 2011, 07:12 PM']I'd rather see the Wombles than 95% of the sh*t they have on at Glastonbury.[/quote] Plus about a million.

[quote name='ZMech' post='1269605' date='Jun 15 2011, 07:37 AM']Has anyone else ever wondered what would happy if barefaced and BFM teamed together to make a range of uber-cabs?[/quote] I think we'd all have to start looking out for low-flying pigs.

I like a bit of slap, and I'm sure Nigel's a lovely bloke and all that, but oh dear this really is grooveless nonsense.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1267857' date='Jun 13 2011, 08:45 PM']Why bring Ashdown into this? [/quote][quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1267863' date='Jun 13 2011, 08:47 PM']Because of their impeccable customer service.[/quote] Well, they weren't exactly overwhelmingly helpful when I contacted them about the Freebass wireless I (very briefly) had. I contacted them about some weird noises it was making, said I'd replaced all the leads and even the power supply and still no good, and I was told (twice) that the problem was "either in the receiver or the transmitter". God, really? Pretty much all the help I was offered. Although they were very quick in replying to my emails. 311

[quote name='mcnach' post='1266215' date='Jun 12 2011, 03:49 PM']I voted hardcase, bt it really depends.[/quote] This.

Wrong again actually, the answer is one of the following: [list=1] [*]Ulaan Bator. [*]One sixth of a gill. [*]Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candlestick. [*]Yes. [*]1951. [*]Tim. [*]"Tea break's over, back on yer heads." [*]No. [*]The third dalek from the left. [*]Marmoset. [/list]