Rich

[quote name='larrikin' post='463868' date='Apr 16 2009, 12:52 PM']Thanks, but i really want to stick with my t-bird, i love it![/quote] I can't help thinking that getting a Tbird to sound like a baritone is going to be like getting an orange to taste like an apple... [quote]What's midi gear then?[/quote] MIDI = [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi[/url] Typical MIDI effects gear =

[quote name='OldGit' post='463651' date='Apr 16 2009, 08:55 AM']The English language ones are all about kill kill kill, fighting battles in the Dungeons and Dragons way, my sword is bigger than yours and we will kick your head in.[/quote] One of the funniest things I've read in ages. Thanks Si!

[quote name='bubinga5' post='463391' date='Apr 15 2009, 09:01 PM']It depends on what music scene you follow..[/quote] +1000000. Yet another clash of opinions with, as usual, some of them being dressed up as fact. [i]"I like Band 1, they're great!" "Band 1? Nah they're rubbish mate, you should listen to Band 2!" "Bands 1 and 2? Pah, they aren't a patch on Band 3."[/i] And on and on and on and on, ad bloody nauseum.

In that case, you probably stand a whelk's chance in a supernova of replacing the bridge without drilling any holes. Your main problems will be maintaining the string spacing [i]and[/i] covering up any existing screw holes.

[quote name='donhills' post='461420' date='Apr 13 2009, 07:13 PM']For those of you lusting after a jazz bass, get a 60's classic series [b]p[/b] bass[/quote] errm..?

Well, it would give you lots of ways of finding the same sound that you don't like

I love the guy's feedback history... Negative from buyer: "the shirt had a stain that was not mentioned in the description........NO GOOD!!" His reply: "the description said the shirt was worn once. how dare you leave me bad feedback" The indignance made me chuckle. He must be from a planet where 't-shirt is in great condition, only been worn once' translates as 'stained P.O.S.'

The overly tight string spacing put me off the 5 string. Shame, I'd like to have tried one. [quote name='BLUEAARDVARK' post='462707' date='Apr 15 2009, 09:10 AM']BY THE WAY can anybody recomend a replacement for the bridge that will fit without changing the string spacing or having to drill holes....[/quote] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-5-STRINGS-BRIDGE-CURVED-CHROME_W0QQitemZ160283519702QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item160283519702&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"]This any good[/url]..?

[url="http://www.interparcel.com/"]http://www.interparcel.com/[/url]

[quote name='OldGit' post='458439' date='Apr 9 2009, 02:12 PM']or [color="#FF0000"]Red[/color] LEDs[/quote] Au contraire dahling, red LEDs are [i]so[/i] 20th century

Interparcel seem to have a good reputation. I sent a power amp with them, they took it 900 miles across Europe safely in less time than it takes the Royal Fail to smash a Hohner to bits during a 50 mile delivery, and for about the same cost too.

[quote name='wizbat' post='450144' date='Mar 31 2009, 12:09 AM']That looks fantastic dood! All the best Shukers have green LEDs [/quote] Apart from the ones that have orange LEDs

So if your case isn't the standard Rick one and might be slightly on the heavy side, call it 30 just to be sure? FWIW, my Shuker 5 plus Hiscox light-flight = 20lbs.

If the tour would pay the mortgage/bills/etc...? I'd do it in a heartbeat. There are already enough things in my lifetime WIDIWITO list ("Wish I'd Done It When I had The Opportunity") without adding any more.

Fives almost exclusively these days. In fact, come to think of it I can't remember the last time I even rehearsed with a 4, never mind gigged one.

I saw a quartet do a jazzily arranged version of the Men Behaving Badly theme once, it was cracking. [quote name='6stringbassist' post='456942' date='Apr 7 2009, 11:04 PM']I should have added earlier that we also play 'Come together' by the Beatles, a couple of Coldplay songs, and a bit of a tribute to Lalo Shiffrin including the theme from 'Bullitt' and 'Dirty Harry'.[/quote] How about doing a bit of a Maurice Jarre tribute too, as I understand he's just passed away.

Ah. Yes. Probably best to get a fretted one then. Sorry, we were getting carried away

Just as you were about to put in an offer, eh?

[quote name='The Funk' post='456412' date='Apr 7 2009, 02:04 PM']Kenny G - the Michael Bolton/Nigel Kennedy of saxophone.[/quote] [quote]I'm not paying £25+ to see someone whose music I've never liked.[/quote] Fair enough, neither would I. It's a hell of a gig though. [quote]I'd love to hear him on acoustic. I bet it's a totally different story. A couple of later fusion guitarists have won me over when I've heard them unaccompanied on acoustic. (Not that I dislike fusion guitarists - Al di Meola, John McLoughlin and Larry Corryell are wicked.)[/quote] There's a really lovely acoustic tune on his latest album. And yes, totally different.

Jazzes are great, I love 'em. Can't get on with that big fat baseball bat P neck. "[i]Telecasters have overtaken Stratocasters for the first time in 40 years[/i]", cool I like Teles.

+1 on checking the battery, if you haven't already +1 on taking it to a tech to have it checked out If it does need a new preamp, then the world is your oyster... MEC or ACG/East or East Retro or EMG or Bartolini or Schack...

+1 for fretless bass.

[quote name='farmer61' post='455682' date='Apr 6 2009, 05:36 PM']+1, the acoustics look great, but once plugged in don't sound that much better and are a bit of a pain to play if you're used to a standard bass.[/quote] The exception to this norm is the Washburn AB34, by a mile the best acoustic bass guitar I have ever played. Has a 24 fret neck, and thanks to a clever neck joint & cutaway you can use all of them. It feels just like a good electric. Loud acoustically, sounds brilliant plugged in. Wonderful, if I ever come across one and I have the cash, it will be mine.

[quote name='The Funk' post='455061' date='Apr 6 2009, 12:21 AM']And don't bother with Mike Stern. The guy's exactly what's wrong with jazz today IMO.[/quote] Been to a Mike Stern gig? Nah, didn't think so Fabulous, exciting stuff. But hey, like everyone's been saying, it's one man's meat and all that. You like Satchmo, but he sends me to sleep. That's what's so great about jazz as a genre, there's summat for everyone. Kenny G, now [i]there's[/i] someone who really [u]is[/u] everything that's wrong with jazz today. His soprano sax should be stretched out into a long thin wire, with which he should then be strangled

I bought a pair of Peavey 4x10s from them and they were fine, BUT that was 10 years ago. I think things have probably changed since then... It's precisely this sort of word-of-mouth experience that gets retailers a bad name, and you'd think they'd know it. In these days of world wide interwebnetness, it takes less time for a bad reputation to spread round the planet than it does for a shop to say sorry for screwing up an order.