Rich

I reckon a Jazz would be fine with BEAD tuning. After all, Anthony Jackson has had his tuned C-F-Bb-Eb for years.

OK, if we're talking real magic lamp fantasy stuff... I'd like a 5 string fretted bass that could be made fretless at the flick of a switch, with Delanos and an East eq [i]plus[/i] the innards from a Line6 Variax bass.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='895756' date='Jul 15 2010, 04:28 PM']If it's from Dolphin it may be a bit fishy.......[/quote][quote name='jezzaboy' post='895846' date='Jul 15 2010, 06:19 PM']I think that your swiming against the tide there.[/quote]
No. Please, [i]please[/i] stop there, I beg of you For the sake of us all, everywhere, I mean, think of the children...

Louis Jordan, 'Jump Jive'. Now [i]that[/i]'s what I call dance music.

The black Aerodynalike is very nice. Me likey.
Not too sure about the Rickenrays though.

errrm... yuck

[quote name='Commando Jack' post='894591' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:20 PM']when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea[/quote]
WAHEY! ROCK'n'ROLL!!

[size=1]Actually yeah, I know exactly what you mean [/size]

Unfortunately, I was pulled at a gig once. It was the ex Mrs.Rich.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='891174' date='Jul 10 2010, 11:06 AM']Oh there was a girl who my singer tried to hook me up with. Her name was Angela, she was all blonde hair and red lips and tits, and as dopey as you can imagine.
This was in the USA, and she first asked me what I was doing over there (having just seen my band perform!). I told her I was working at McGuire air force base as a stunt pilot.
"Oh really? Wow!" she cooed.
I went on to tell her that I was an English Language graduate and to combine my two loves I became a specialist in skywriting, and that my post at McGuire was in order to teach the American pilots to punctuate correctly. Because cursive is fairly straightforward once you've got the hang of flying the plane, but semicolons are hard to write and often pilots who can write one don't know where it's appropriate to use it.
Etc.
She stood up to about half an hour of this before making her excuses and backing away.[/quote]
Brilliant.
Many years ago, a mate and I managed to succeessfully get the same sod-off-and-leave-us-alone result by telling two annoying women that we were plumbers working on nuclear submarines, and proceeding to explain to them in great detail how toilets work underwater.

I've seen Kingston fretless 5s going for ludicrously cheap 2ndhand prices. I mean, we're talking Squier Jazz money.

Calm down calm down, jeez it was only a joke. Numb nuts indeed.

You're in Reading, he's in Paris... somehow, I don't reckon he'll be taking you up on the offer of a demo

No matter how good the player and how fabulous his kit is, when it comes to a live gig the bass sound FOH is only as good as the PA system and the engineer behind the desk.
If Chris W's bass really is lacking in oomph, then all I can say is it's the first un-oomphy Status I've heard. Mine is oomphier than an oomph-monster swimming in a lake of oomph.

[size=1]Do I win a prize for Most Gratuitous Over-Use Of The Word 'Oomph'..?[/size]

This is a bit more like it.
[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-VM-Jazz-Bass-Body-Complete-/190413455204?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c5586bf64"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-VM-Jazz-Bass-...=item2c5586bf64[/url]

I love Purple Rain, it screams "80s" but that's not a problem for me. I love the guitar sounds, especially on the title track and Let's Go Crazy -- right on the very edge of uncontrollable feedback.
Dirty Mind is a belting album too.

[quote name='Doddy' post='891309' date='Jul 10 2010, 02:43 PM']There was a reference to all these guys making the same kind of music over and over again. Maybe that is
kind of true to a point,but then again that's the same with any genre. The Blues has stayed mostly the same
for ever. Hip Hop has a large number of artists that sound exactly the same,as does pop. There are a million
bands that sound like Oasis or Arctic Monkeys or whoever. The modern Jazz scene is no different.[/quote]
Hear hear. Music doesn't have to be groundbreaking, leftfield, avantgarde, in order to be enjoyable.

Trouble is, the same thing happens every time... whenever anyone tries to start a sensible discussion about this type of music, it always [i]always[/i] turns into a "it's rubbish / no it's not / yes it is / etc" playground thing. The same stuff getting posted over and over again. Some people love it, some don't. OK, we get it. Can't we just talk about it without having to constantly attack or defend it?

[quote name='KevB' post='891128' date='Jul 10 2010, 10:13 AM']Back to the new album, just got it and am loading it into iTunes manually. Would appear there is a hidden track. I don't know what to call it as it isn't listed on the CD sleeve of course! He mentions 'Purple Yoda' so I might just call it that![/quote]
Apparently it's called 'Laydown'.
That's what Media Player said anyway.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='890110' date='Jul 9 2010, 08:45 AM']Would someone mind bagging me a copy please?[/quote]
U have PM

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' post='889213' date='Jul 8 2010, 08:10 AM']My 1974 jazz bass has a lovely sound and tone but compared to my GB Rumour it feels a little lacking in the EQ dept!![/quote]
I would say this is a good thing. Unless you want to use the Jazz as a backup or 2nd bass to use at gigs, I think it's a great idea to have two different sounding basses. It's like having an Armani suit, plus a nice shirt & pair of chinos... you've got something to suit every occasion. I agree with the consensus -- if you want a sizzly hi-fi Jazz then buy one, but leave the 74 as is.

That's cool. Don't listen to it then.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='890110' date='Jul 9 2010, 08:45 AM']Would someone mind bagging me a copy please?[/quote]
No probs mate

I bought the last one (not abysmal IMHO, but rather underwhelming), even though it meant buying the Mail... I made a point of taking th CD out of the packaging before i left the shop and dumping the paper in the bin outside the door. I'll probably do the same with the new one.

Not my cuppa tea at all, but the colour is fabulous. Hope you have lots of fun with it

[quote name='daz' post='888851' date='Jul 7 2010, 07:43 PM']I must also add, by 'Bass' i mean a [i]four stringed instrument[/i], not a six or even a five(barely passable) . Less is more, and more is four. Any more just looks wrong, sort of, you know, guitarish .[/quote]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='888903' date='Jul 7 2010, 08:34 PM']I don't get the EUB. It doesn't really sound like either, it has a sound of its own. When I think of the type of sound Tony Levin gets, it sounds a bit like a bit like a slow fart for want of a better term.[/quote]
All I can say is that you obviously haven't heard Dave's remarkable Eminince EUB. I heard it at the South Wales BB a few months back and was stunned... it really does sound uncannily like an acoustic DB and would be my absolute 1st choice if I was to dip a toe into the EUB waters.

[quote name='burno70' post='888186' date='Jul 7 2010, 10:42 AM']fretboard w*nkery[/quote]
*sigh* it was only a matter of time.