Rich

Anyone else spot the advert in this month's BP mag? Chuck's love affair with Phil Jones' daleks seems to have been somewhat fleeting... he's proudly endorsing Genz Benz gear now. [size=1]I wonder if this topic will prompt a scathing "you're just a nobody" attack from PJB..? [/size]

[quote name='charic' post='59574' date='Sep 12 2007, 10:51 PM']Yamaha RBX basses are well worth a look[/quote]RBXs are standard spacing at the bridge, same as the TRBs. Well mine is, anyway. The [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4473&st=0&p=47083&#entry47083"]Yamaha BB5000 [/url]has a narrower spacing.

Yes, I think it's more important that the ramp matches the pickups rather than the f/board.

Nick, if you'd like to get in contact, I can let you have the phone number of an Exclamation Mark Addiction advice centre. They can help you kick your habit, although I fear it may be too late.

I first put one on my Status as a trial run... it worked so well I had Jon Shuker put one on my J5 when he made it.

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='60395' date='Sep 14 2007, 01:34 PM'][/quote]Either your fence gradually gets taller, or the basses become inexplicably smaller...

Ah Mr.S, I've been expecting you *strokes white cat* [quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='60206' date='Sep 14 2007, 01:16 AM']Where's Rich?![/quote]That'd be me

Keys, decent drums, hen's teeth.

At last, I've finally got to grips with some of this digital malarkey. I've spent a few hours mucking about with Audacity and come up with the tune 'Tears' on [url="http://www.myspace.com/baldybassplayer"]my MySpace[/url]... I really wish I could say I wrote it, but unfortunately not, it's a Brian Bromberg tune... I just used as a tester really. It's as rough as a badger's arse in places, but OK for a first attempt. It's just drums and Shuker... the bassline was done with both pickups in twincoil mode with a tad of bass and treb boost and a wee bit of mid cut. The main melody is the neck pickup tapped & bridge twincoil, with the bass rolled off a bit and a touch of reverb. I cheated with the higher doubled melody bit... cut, paste, pitchshift. [url="http://www.myspace.com/baldybassplayer"]http://www.myspace.com/baldybassplayer[/url]

[quote name='OldGit' post='58354' date='Sep 10 2007, 06:11 PM']We have a big fat karaoke book with us and an open invitation for anyone to get up an play if they want to .. works a treat .. Rich from this very forum got up a while back, bassed Mustang Sally for me so I could show off on sax for a few bars [/quote]Yeah, and the buggers made me take a solo too

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190151149694&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1"]Phwoarrr etc.[/url]

Not a handsome pickguard, 'tis true, but easily taken off. I think it's a gorgeous instrument. For me, the side LEDs make it all the more desirable.

Depends how you like your funk I guess. I remember reading an interview with Neil Peart, where he said that Phil Gould was one of his favourite drummers.

This is just gorgeous... just imagine that with a 3ft deep shine on it [attachment=2144:flamedmyrtlewood.jpg]

I did do the rack thing -- might still do again -- but at the moment I'm just using a wee multi-FX job for my sounds.

I've been caught out like that in the past with my Jaydee, which also has the 2-piece bridge. Yes, super duper long strings will do the trick.

+1 for Lee/Peart Jaco, Alex Acuna, Manolo Badrena - Weather Report c.1977

Hah! The curse of The Wood Store strikes yet again!

And there's the feminist version "Your Husband Loves His Jon Shuker Bass More Than He Loves You (Which Makes Him An Even Bigger Bastard Than The Rest Of The Men, All Of Whom Are Of Course Bastards Anyway)" by Germaine Gruesome and Fem Braburner.

[quote name='P-T-P' post='55672' date='Sep 5 2007, 12:16 AM']I paid £700 for my white DJ5 with batolini pre-amp fitted back before Christmas 2006.[/quote]And what a bargain. That is a [i]fabulous[/i] bass.

Yeah... my Squier Jazz has a Fender decal on it, but I'm not selling it so it's not an issue. If it went up for sale, I'd remove the decal and probably get a humorous one instead. 'Blender Jizz Bass' or summat.

Ibanez GW1005 Gary Willis fretless for me please A Marcus or Geddy Jazz would be nice too. Overall though, I’m dead happy with my own personal signature Shuker.

OK, some more info courtesy of the seller: [i]"The Overwater basses and guitars were made about 20 years ago for school use only. How or why they had the commission from ILEA and others I don't know. The instruments were made of mahogany - looking at the edges of the cracked headstock proved that. The instruments were appointed with EMG Select pups. You can imagine it was quite a thrill to see those instruments when they arrived in school - they were quite different to the Westones and Japanese jazz copies of the time. "The reason they were damaged was not the fault of fledgling bassists and guitarists. It was lax supervision in the music department that allowed a thuggish element to use the instruments as cricket bats. Your bass came from a school in North West London. A student of mine rescued it thinking he would make a fretless bass out of it. He abandoned the bass and passed it on to me to repair." [/i] Cricket bats! The little bastids. No respect, some people. Thanks to M for the extra info, I'll definitely keep the diary going with any progress I make over the next months.

I lurrrve that body shape 'Tis gonna be fabbaroony