Rich

12 strings are a bit mental, but I'd quite like to have an 8 string knocking about. Or better yet, a 10 string...

[quote name='WalMan' post='105838' date='Dec 18 2007, 11:39 AM']My Wal will never go. I've had it years. I can't say it was my first good bass because there were a few ok ones before it, but it has been with me through thick & thin, it sounds marvellous, and I love it!![/quote] +10000 to that. My Wal Pro 2E is pretty much semi-retired too, but if I could only rescue one bass it'd be that one, no question. Mine [i]was[/i] my first good bass, I've had it for 21 years now and couldn't bear to part with it. Obviously I'd love to be able to rescue two basses so I could take my Shuker too...

4, 4, 4F, 5, 5, 5F (& soon, 6)

Errm... I make it 640 at the moment..?

[quote name='OldGit' post='105226' date='Dec 17 2007, 10:06 AM']So I've decided I need to book some time alone in the rehearsal studio and get everything sorted as wedding gig sound checks are not really the time It will be fun anyway.[/quote]Let me know when... I'll pop along and lend you moral support/give you a second opinion/make tea, unless you'd rather be alone with your lady love.

+6 =[b]80[/b]

If you are an MU member, you can get [i]completely free[/i] a grand's worth of kit cover, plus 10 million quids' worth of public liability cover. Of course there are certain limitations to the free kit cover, but even so, it's better than a smack in the head. On top of the free £1000, you can also get additional cover at preferential rates through an affiliated insurance company, [url="http://www.hencilla.co.uk/"]Hencilla Canworth[/url]. I filled in their online quote form, & have been quoted roughly £120 a year for £6000-worth of gear cover. This includes cover whilst in an unattended vehicle, provision of hire instruments during repair, depreciation compensation following repairs, and other stuff. I am just waiting for a formal written quote to arrive. Ten quid a month? It's a no-brainer really.

Bloody hell... a [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250197338251&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123"]Carl Thompson 4-string[/url] with Wal pickups & guts...!

Anybody remember British Leyland in the 70s, and some of their ghastly cars? Remember how badly screwed together they were, bits falling off all over the place? Remember Alfa Romeo doing much the same thing in the 80s? Was their quality control done by the Chinese? No, it was just bad. QED.

Andy Fraser - 55 John Deacon - 56 Timothy B Schmidt - 60 Lee Sklar - 60 Macca - 65 Herbie Flowers - 69 Joe Osborn - 70

I've never sought to limit myself really -- no feelings of guilt for me! At the moment, it's: [list=1] [*]Main fretted 5 (Shuker) [*]Backup fretted 5 (Status) [*]Fretless 5 (Yamaha) [*]Main fretted 4 (Wal) [*]Backup/cheapo fretted 4 (Squier J) [*]Fretted 6 [size=1]- [i]very[/i] recent addition, either project or keeper[/size] [/list]--PLUS-- Fretless 4 [size=1]- [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9632"][color="#FF0000"]up for sale[/color][/url][/size] Fretted 4 [size=1]- beaten-up long term project, really must get my arse into gear and pick it up..![/size]

Did some shows a few years ago, thorouhly enjoyed it but then moved away, so not done it since. I kinda miss it, was fun.

[quote name='Mike' post='100914' date='Dec 7 2007, 02:26 PM']Just saw him with Mike Stern in NYC[/quote]You lucky $££@$*&£%$&... my favourite non-bass musician in the whole world. I've been to a whole truckload of Mikey's gigs, love chatting to him afterwards, he's so laid back and down to earth. My guitarist mate once asked him about his rig, so Mikey gave him a guided tour of it, referring to it all as a "load of cheap sh*t"..! Just missed his latest London gigs... with Anthony Jackson on bass... dammit +1 for Dave, great channel

[quote name='Telebass' post='100480' date='Dec 6 2007, 07:56 PM']But remember, the Internet will NEVER be clever enough to be able to give you personalized advice and a chance to fondle the goods. THAT is what a [b][u][i]good[/i][/u][/b] guitar shop can do, and it IS worth the extra to those who can't get a bass off the net then sdet it up on their own.[/quote]And with that one single word, there it is in a nutshell. Good shops: [b]Anderton's[/b] in Guildford -- a mate of mine was after an electro-acoustic gtr a while back, they found 4 or 5 in his price bracket and let him spend as long as he wanted trying them out before finding the right one. Well over an hour he was playing them, and they didn't hassle him once. It reminded me of... [b]Bass Centre[/b], [b]circa late 80s/early 90s[/b], the Wapping glory years -- oh if only we could go back to those days... [b]Bass Gallery[/b], Camden -- wonderful, I just wish it wasn't so far away... [b]Sound Control [/b]-- when they're good, they're very very good... also [b]Richer Sounds [/b]-- +1 on what the others have said. Bad shops: [b]GAK[/b] -- miserable bastids, the lot of 'em. [b]Bass Centre[/b], [b]now[/b] -- so very, very sad. When you see what's it's become and then remember back to how it was in '88, it's like looking at Muhammad Ali now and remembering him in his prime... [b]Bass Cellar[/b], Tin Pan Alley -- the last time I tried to buy something there, the experience was so bad that it became the last time I will [i]ever[/i] try to buy something there. A object lesson in how absolutely [i]not [/i]to treat customers. [b]Sound Control [/b]-- ...but when they're bad, they're fcking abysmal. [quote name='TheBigBeefChief' post='100878' date='Dec 7 2007, 01:40 PM']If you look closely you can see my bare arse reflected in the window behind me.[/quote] Look closely?? Man, I am never even going to [i]glance[/i] at that picture again.

Both. I love basses, although my bass GAS is pretty much sated for the moment (apart from that singlecut Shuker...), but I also love the whole process of finding the right amp, something that's really going to let the bass shine through. I loved my old Eden, loved my EA, and now I've gone back to separates. Still loving my Nemesis cabs. But I might change again in a couple of years, who knows? It's fun

That's going to be a really nice instrument. And I particularly like the memorial aspect. Good call.

I've been in both originals and covers bands over the years... at the moment, all covers and that's probably how it'll stay from now. The main thing I've learned over the years is that [u]less really [i]is[/i] more[/u]..! When I think of how I used to overplay years ago, god it makes me cringe. And yes, I'm self-taught too (not that I taught myself much ), and it's only recently that I've finally started to correct some of my faults...

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice - Samuel Johnson Music is the shorthand of emotion - Leo Tolstoy Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life - Jean Paul Richter Music is an outburst of the soul - Frederick Delius The English don't really like music, but they simply adore the noise it makes - Sir Thomas Beecham Without music, life would be a mistake - Friedrich Nietzsche Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple - Aaron Copland After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - Aldous Huxley What is best in music is not to be found in the notes - Gustav Mahler The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons , strategems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. - William Shakespeare An intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger - John Chesson Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail - Luciano Pavarotti Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and a gaiety and life to everything - Plato Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them - Richard Strauss Wagner did not like the saxophone. He said it sounds like the word Reckankreuzungsklankwerkzeuge - Nicolas Slonimsky I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it - Igor Stravinski Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes - Pablo Casals

I can't stand narrow spaced 5s... got so used to 18/19mm over years of playing 4s that anything less is just weird. My Status and Shuker are both 19, the Yamaha RBX is actually closer to 20.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='99312' date='Dec 5 2007, 12:11 AM']And a later twin-soapbar fretless job: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200180773553"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=200180773553[/url][/quote] A T3 fretless? Oh that is a thing of beauty.

To be honest... not really. I have an all wood S1 from about 1990, no.2534, for which I paid about 500 a few years ago. Perhaps this is what they're thinking in terms of? Incidentally -- a general insurance point -- I am in the process of sorting out insurance with the Musicians' Union, using their free 1000 quids' worth and also the additional 1000+ cover they offer through an affiliated insurance co. I will report back on quotes and Ts&Cs, for anyone who's interested.

The 4.5XL is a superb cab... unfortunately its huge sound is matched by its huge weight...