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[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='354330' date='Dec 14 2008, 04:30 PM']I ay have just won a beautiful MM5 for £660 oops[/quote] If there is a Mrs.phil_the_bassist, does she know? If not, then it looks like commiserations

Recent soundcheck. I'm not as miserable as I look, honest [attachment=17075:me_6.JPG]

London is I guess the obvious choice, but as others have said or hinted, be prepared for the living costs. They are [i]monstrous[/i]. A 2 bed flat that costs you 600 quid to rent in the provinces will cost you a grand easily in the Smoke. It's not for nothing that big companies give their London staff 'London Weighting' on their salaries. [quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='349630' date='Dec 9 2008, 12:52 PM']I realised that at the age of 25, living in Reading. I then spent seven years in central London building up my non-bass career, before escaping to Yorkshire.[/quote]Let's face it, anywhere is great after Reading. I lived there for 23 years *shudder*

[quote name='HeavyJay' post='350660' date='Dec 10 2008, 01:27 PM']A new thread topic methinks![/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=33982"]'Tis done[/url]

Unfortunately not. No matter how many times the rest of us ask.

I'll have a word with Abi, Sian and Corinne and see if they can do anything for you

[b]Friday 12th December[/b] at the [b]Gloucester Guildhall[/b], followed by [b]Saturday 13th [/b]at the [b]Fiddlers[/b] in [b]Bristol[/b]. Come along and boogie your botty off, and have a laugh at the berks on the stage making eejits of themselves. And don't forget to say 'hi' to the bassist [attachment=17020:13_12_08_Fiddlers.jpg]

If you took out everything except the bass, drums and vocals, Rhythm Stick would still be as funky as feck. In fact, I'd love to hear a Bass Only Mix..! If you had everything in there [i]except[/i] the bass, what would you have? Certainly not a 'driving' tune. The bass IS the song, it's a masterpiece.

Straight line, good choice. I'd have had matt/rubber knobs though, but hey. [quote name='OldGit' post='348385' date='Dec 8 2008, 10:13 AM']EG I always attach my P bass knobs so the grub screw is in a specific and visible place for me to see when they are set to full on.[/quote] Me too... and I thought I was the only bugger geeky enough to do something like that

[list=1] [*][b]Shuker 5[/b] [*][b]Status S1 5[/b] [*][b]Wal Pro IIE[/b] [*][b]Yamaha RBX765 [/b]de-fretted [*][b]Ibanez BTB406[/b] beaten up piece o' crap 6-string [*][b]SX Jazzish[/b] project, work-in-progress [*][b]Overwater 'SkoolBase'[/b] long term restoration/resuscitation project -- another WiP [*][b]'64 Hofner Artist[/b] -- first bass I ever had, so kept for sentimental reasons [/list]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='242871' date='Jul 18 2008, 03:34 PM']I refuse to engage in this debate as it is, by its very nature, sexist. A players gender is of no relevance to his or her playing. You'll be asking who is the best gay bass player next. The best Muslim player? The best Socialist player? The best player over 65? Nonsense.[/quote] [attachment=16969:oh_dear.jpg] I'm sure there are many women out there who would be offended by having a man tell them what is discriminatory against them and what isn't. It's a mile-deep argument, and until someone starts claiming that female bassists are inferior to male ones, or only interesting if they're attractive, surely it's not really a massive problem? After all, half the problem with '-isms' stems from them being pointed out when they're really not there. Actually, who is the best player over 65? I reckon Charlie Haden.

Yes. At the very least a venn diagram or summat.

[quote name='elom' post='344799' date='Dec 3 2008, 09:31 PM']As for celeb attendees we could always ask Stuart Clayton - nice chap and Devon based.[/quote] V.nice chap, aye. He's also Head of Bass at the Bristol Institute of Modern Music. And he borrowed my Deep Impact box for a mag review once.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='345313' date='Dec 4 2008, 12:54 PM']He's got a 'tache not a beard![/quote] *slaps self* D'oh!

Wow, that sounds like a hell of a "hand injury"... what's the real gen?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='345101' date='Dec 4 2008, 09:22 AM']Plus it lets me have a dig at people that don't study properly![/quote] You are Jeff Berlin and I claim my five pounds :lol: [size=1]Speaking of that argumentative beardy (JB, not Bilbo), did you see his answer to the guy's letter in the latest BGM? WHAT A KNOB![/size]

I like Bristol.

[quote name='BassBod' post='343839' date='Dec 3 2008, 09:44 AM']I'll be there, even though I normally drive straight past Bridgewater, and do everything possible to avoid Taunton....[/quote] You aren't the only one Mind you, at least Bridgy doesn't smell [i]quite[/i] so bad now the cellophane factory's gone. But it's still the perfect place to go if you fancy getting your teeth kicked in on a Saturday night.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='343950' date='Dec 3 2008, 12:17 PM']In a moment of autistic delight, I have collated some statistics relating to the use of this forum, specifically identifying what we, the 4,514 registered members, use it for, assuming that these are the things that matter to us most as a collective. Firstly, we have a list of forums/ subject areas in order of frequency of usage: <massive snip> we can only conclude that [b]bass players can’t read but do like looking at the pictures[/b].[/quote] And you really needed all those stats to work that out?

[quote name='Toasted' post='342749' date='Dec 2 2008, 10:41 AM']I honestly can't believe the amount of complaining over a 2.5% cut in price of just about everything we buy as consumers. It's frankly, amazing. The government can't even give money away without people whinging.[/quote]You're right, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. As I mentioned in another thread, what annoyed me about the whole VAT thing is that when the 2.5% cut was announced it was roundly criticised as merely a vote-grabbing exercise that won't make any difference to people's fiscal situation... but when rumours arose of this alleged 1% VAT [i]rise[/i], it was roundly criticised as a huge stealth tax which will make us all massively worse off. Or perhaps I'm spending too much time reading the right-wing nonsense on the BBC's Have Your Say pages

Joe's... I'm guessing you've already got yours

What's the ETA on yours?

[quote name='Toasted' post='330465' date='Nov 17 2008, 10:06 AM'][quote name='Roger Sadowsky']That doesn't mean they are for everyone---instrument choice is very subjective. What is nice is that all of us....Sadowsky, Lakland, Mike Tobias, Spector, Fodera, etc....all have lots of players that think we make the best instrument in the world! It's kind of perfect that way---don't you think?[/quote] [/quote] I reckon that puts it perfectly. One man's Fodera dream is another man's Kay plywood sh*t-o-rama.