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Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue". That clarinet intro...

If it's old skool funk, got to be a J/P/Ray I reckon.

[quote name='OldGit' post='911823' date='Aug 1 2010, 12:40 PM']New band or piccolo bass? Or, of course, do a Dood and go lower still. [/quote] Hey, it's the SallyDoodle nearly-twins lovely to see them again.

Ahhh, Dequssy. This is one of my favourite pieces of qlissed-out piano music. It is so qeautiful that it always gives me goosequmps and qrings a tear to my eye... unfortunately said tear has fallen from my eye and into my keyqoard where it seems to have caused a qit of a fault, in that every time I press the 'q' key it comes up as 'q'. So thanks a qloody qunch.

List bump: Baboom MacDaddy Mickeyboro OG Skinz molan

[quote name='OldGit' post='910752' date='Jul 30 2010, 10:06 PM']School stage, lunchtime "concert"[/quote] snap [quote]House of the Rising Sun, Noname semi, tastefully decorated in hippy swirls of humbrol paints for airfix airplane kits.. Through a Baker "DIY" 30 watt all valve amp and home made 1x15 cab. I was 13[/quote] In my case, the song was the Quo's 'Caroline' played on my '64 Höfner Artist II (bought from metalwork teacher for £20) through a DIY 50w amp made with help from physics teacher, plus home-made 1x15 cab borrowed from same metalwork teacher. I still have the Höfner

Squier HM 5, a bit like this but with 5 strings. Not a truly dreadful bass really, but the tone was somewhat lacking and the string spacing was too tight. And it had a stupid pointy headstock, which I hate. Was a good introduction to 5 strings though.

Yup, more love for synth bass here too. I used to have an old Roland SH-09 monosynth, made some wonderful phat pharty sounds... wish to christ I'd never got rid

Agreed. The Ibanez is a classic.

Jakko Jakszyk's "Bruised Romantic Glee Club". Absolutely wonderful.

I've just had a very satisfactory quote from The Decal Shop for some replacement old-style Overwater logos. I asked Chris May first, but unfortunately the only ones he has left are so old that they fall apart when you try to soak them.

[quote name='joegarcia' post='900974' date='Jul 21 2010, 02:35 PM']Yaaaaayyyy!!! Does this mean I am officially the ugliest bassist in the country?[/quote] Yup.

[quote name='Martin E' post='904629' date='Jul 25 2010, 11:37 AM']If asked I play electric bass not a bass guitar.[/quote] What would you say if you played one of these?

[quote name='bluesparky' post='903844' date='Jul 24 2010, 10:54 AM']Cool, will do. It's only happened a handful of times so i've not gone too deep and gynecological about it yet, when it does stop and then kick in again there is a chunky tha-doomp, which would imply something along the lines of power issues. Cheers, (I'll shoot off now, before i acciddently hijack this thread...).[/quote] Battery clip definitely your first port of call. They are the Achilles' heel for every active bass. If it turns out to be innocent, get thee to the Gallery in Camden.

[quote name='purpleblob' post='903015' date='Jul 23 2010, 11:45 AM']Ooo, was that aimed at my opinion or just generally ? [/quote] Good god no, just a general observation.

Opinions are like arseholes, in that everybody's got one. When you think yours is the only valid opinion, you start [i]being[/i] an arsehole. I've always liked 'Lady Madonna' myself.

[quote name='discreet' post='902336' date='Jul 22 2010, 08:45 PM']McCartney was the best drummer.[/quote] He certainly wasn't the worst

So these three are all the same thing? Wow, I'm really confused now.

OK. What's this?

[quote name='MIJ-VI' post='901856' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:28 PM']This is an electric bass guitar.......................................................[/quote] But the tuning is exactly the same as a P bass, albeit with two extra top strings. So what makes this a 'guitar', and a Precision not? [quote]and this is an electric bass:[/quote] But so is this: Are you saying there are more similarities between this and a P bass, than between the P bass and the Bass VI?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='901671' date='Jul 22 2010, 09:54 AM']The electric bass was designed by Leo Fender and introduced in 1951 as the first Precision bass. Leo designed it to be a more portable alternative to the double bass with accurate intonation from the fretted neck. It was loosely based on the Telecaster guitar design. Interestingly, if you look at all of the 50's literature and advertising, there's no mention of the word "guitar" at all. So therefore, the electric bass is descended from the double bass. It just happens to be shaped like an elongated guitar for convenience.[/quote] It's guitar shaped, and basically a member of the guitar family, and is therefore a bass guitar. 'Bass' refers to its sonic range, like 'baritone' or 'tenor' or whatever. If an orchestral player asked what you played and you replied "bass", his logical answer would be "Bass what? Clarinet? Sax?". [quote]Perhaps we should all call our instruments, "Fender Basses" like Leo did? [/quote] Or "GUITAR", like Leo did?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='899797' date='Jul 20 2010, 10:47 AM']As for the RSI thing, I think some people are more prone to that than others but I don't feel like I use a lot of pressure to stop notes (practically nothing compared to double bass), and in 20 years I've never had a problem with my wrists.[/quote] Yeah, I think you're right. Both my wrists have given me problems and I've had surgery on one, but I have a gtrist mate who has been playing longer than me and using computers at work longer than me too, and has never had a single twinge from either hand. Lucky git.

I like a nice low action, not so low that everything chokes off but low enough that it reacts to my light touch. I have ramps on both my main basses and I find this helps me to maintain said lightness and get a good even response. Since my carpal thing, I'm very wary about wrist and/or finger pain. High action, nein danke.

+1 for the series/parallel switching. Also, how about a Villex passive tone thingy?