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Well, I like the look of the Freebass wireless... 150 quid from Dolphin? Hmmm.

Thanks guys... starting to look like tort Although just to be blimmin awkward, I found a pic of a pale yellow 70s Jazz with maple block neck and a [i]black[/i] pickguard... and it looks sooo cool ... think a black one might be on order soon... EDIT: this is the pic: [attachment=5700:jazz_wit...ck_plate.jpg]

Which comedian was it that got into trouble years ago for calling Morecambe "a cemetery with lights"..?

[quote name='Welshbassist' post='142195' date='Feb 17 2008, 10:37 PM']get a hammer![/quote]Or as it's otherwise known, a 'Birmingham Screwdriver'.

I ordered an SX neck in maple with pearly blocks last week... it arrived on Friday. Here's some pics. [attachment=5683:neck_overall.JPG] [attachment=5682:neck_nut_end.JPG] It's superb... nice woods, finished in a flawless high gloss, even on the board, which to my amazement is bound... although as you can see the binding is a bit plasticky and not great. In spite of what the Rondo site said, it DID come with the nut... so that's one less thing to buy! The headstock is blank and decal-free, which is nice. I did consider getting a spoof decal made up of the 'Fecker' variety, but the gloss finish is so nice I don't want to muck about with it. So I'm going to leave it blank. Overall it's an incredible bargain for $113 including shipping... sixty-ish quid? Brilliant! I've fitted the tuners, D-tuner and string tree. It needs a bit of sanding down to fit in the body's neck pocket, but at least that means it'll be a good firm neck joint. I've got an Artec 3-band eq in the post, and next to order is a decent bridge and a set of knobs. My main problem now is that I can't decide if I prefer the white plate or the torty... opinions please? [attachment=5684:white.JPG] [attachment=5685:torty.JPG]

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='130174' date='Jan 29 2008, 05:29 PM']I know what you mean when questioning the lack of bottom end on a jazz... Or is it just plain output? I'm seriously falling out with my Geddy Lee in this respect. I love the sound of the bass in isolation, but in a band situation it just lacks any balls. Compared to my active basses (Status, Warwick, Yamaha, etc) I have to increase the input stage by 25% & the bass frequency by about 10%. The jazz just ends up sounding harsh to me. Rob Green at Status has offered to rout out some cavities in it & make it active with T-Bass electronics & I'm sorely tempted [/quote] Or get a J-Retro..?

Don't worry, you're not alone... I had a Pod Pro for a while, and just couldn't get it to do what I wanted it to do. Flogged it.

ME NEXT! please?

[quote name='99ster' post='136728' date='Feb 8 2008, 05:36 PM']Yep - you just gotta have a Wal! Mine will have been with me 21 years this year... & it will be coming to the grave with me! [/quote] Yup... this year will be the 22nd for me & my P.B.

[quote name='chardbass' post='138616' date='Feb 12 2008, 01:00 AM']How long do 'average' leads last- say, Planet Waves? Compare that to the leads that OBBM or others similar make- what is the life-expectancy of these leads when used regularly? Just because I could, (hey, I was young and reckless) I bought an MIT lead that was mentioned earlier in this thread. I must have paid around £80 for it and got about 7 years constant use from it. I now have a Monster cable which cost half of that and it is into year 4.[/quote] I think I can beat that a bit... I have two Klotz cables that are now entering their 22nd year of faultless service with me

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='139156' date='Feb 12 2008, 11:03 PM']I'd never heard of John Giblin before he was in Simple Minds, and then a friend played me Brand X Products. The track "Wal To Wal" with Percy Jones is fantastic. Simple Minds just didn't highlight his talent at all.[/quote]He's all over Kate Bush's earlier work too. Think 'Babooshka'. Also, Fish's first solo album 'Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors' contains some of his beautiful fretless work, especially 'State Of Mind' and 'Family Business'.

I'd call Weather Report fusion myself. Trouble is, the term 'jazz' is as wide and all encompassing as 'rock'.

John Giblin is a fretless master. He makes it sing in a way I could only dream of.

Ouch. Hope it all turns out ok. I'm told orange juice is the worst thing... all that nasty citric acid...

Yup, similar thing happened to me many moons ago, 86 or summat... my band were rehearsing at a small club in Wokingham called Angie's, they used to let the place out as practice space during the day and then put gigs on at night. Anyway, we were close to packing up when this guy wandered in at the far end of the club. "Oh sorry" he said, "I'm not interrupting am I?". We assured him that he wasn't, but he offered to wait outside -- charming, polite chap he was. "Nah, it's ok" we said, "We're just packing up." "OK" he says, "my group is playing here tonight, thought I'd get here early to see what it's like... oh, name's Herbie Flowers and I'm pleased to meet you all..." You can imagine how far my jaw dropped.

My god, this is the first Elite P I've seen [i]since[/i] the 80s..! what a cracker. Is it yours? And am I allowed to admit that I [i]loved[/i] the 80s? [quote name='wateroftyne' post='106861' date='Dec 20 2007, 08:09 AM']What this thread needs is a little more 80s bling... ...put that in legwarmers and FUNK.[/quote]

[quote name='paul h' post='138103' date='Feb 11 2008, 12:28 PM']It's the closest I have ever come to getting the sound I am after. [b]A combination of Roy Budd, David Holmes, Basement Jaxx[/b] and Lupe Fiasco. Pretty much every part is written on the bass. So when it comes to do an actual bassline I struggle a bit.[/quote] When I first glanced at this, I read it as a "combination of Roy [i]Hudd[/i] and Basement Jaxx...". The mind absolutely boggled for a second!

I bought his SX bass body... I first emailed him about it last Thursday morning, and by mid afternoon he'd put it in the post. Arrived Saturday and it's great, even better than he described it. Bloke's a top banana.

One of my favourites is this from Richard Strauss: "Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them."

Absolutely! Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice - [i]Samuel Johnson[/i] Music is the shorthand of emotion - [i]Leo Tolstoy [/i] Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life - [i]Jean Paul Richter [/i] Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always - [i]Tamás Vásáry [/i] Music is an outburst of the soul - [i]Frederick Delius [/i] Without music, life would be a mistake - [i]Friedrich Nietzsche [/i] After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - [i]Aldous Huxley [/i] A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved - [i]Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach[/i] He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once - [i]Robert Browning [/i] What is best in music is not to be found in the notes - [i]Gustav Mahler[/i] The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not move'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 - [i]William Shakespeare [/i] Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail - [i]Luciano Pavarotti [/i] 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. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful, of which it is the invisible but nevertheless dazzling, passionate and eternal form - [i]Plato[/i] Music is the art of the prophets - [i]Martin Luther[/i] Music is love in search of a word - [i]Sidney Lanier [/i] Music is revelation; a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy - [i]Ludwig van Beethoven [/i] The music is in the air. Take as much as you want - [i]Sir Edward Elgar [/i] Music is the universal language of mankind - [i]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [/i] Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without - [i]K'ung-fu-tzu [/i] Music is well said to be the speech of angels. In fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite - [i]Thomas Carlyle [/i] Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art - [i]Herbert Spencer [/i] Music is the flowering of character - [i]K'ung-fu-tzu [/i] Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent - [i]Victor Hugo[/i] Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes - [i]Pablo Casals [/i]

I've just bought [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12252"]jamesemt's SX jazz body [/url](sort of buttery yellow with either white or torty plate, can't decide which I prefer!) -- the intention was to fit the nice neck from my Squier J to it, but it turns out that the Squier neck is too wide for the SX pocket. Rather than arse about with a router, I've just ordered a maple SX neck with pearl blocks from Rondo. I'm planning to fit a neck pickup ashtray and an Artec 3-band EQ, so I'm going to have to drill into the body edge to mount the jack socket. I've already done that for the Squier, so I'm not daunted by the prospect What I'm aiming for is a retro look with a contemporary sound. I'll definitely post pics when it's done.