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[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1281505' date='Jun 24 2011, 08:53 PM']All I've seen is a fretless 48 string[/quote] BRilliant - Wilson or Fender! Wait - what's Morrissey's bass player playing? Maple Wal? Shergold? What is it? BBC3 (or 4) just now!

[quote name='OldGit' post='773647' date='Mar 13 2010, 04:11 PM']Halfway through a fab dance which had 60 couples barging and swerving their way left and right over huge dance floor I took a step back from the mic, stood on a harmonica that had fallen off my stack, lost my balance and crashed back into my top cab, knocking my percussion box off the top .. The stack stayed up as I tie everything together with a strap Anyway I slid sideways off the stack and tripped on a stage floor light and 'urtled side ways off the stage... Fortunately it was a relatively low one and I landed on my feet. Being wireless I didn't then pull my stack on top of myself but I did stop playing for 8 bars No one noticed except my drummer who was showered with the contents of my percussion box .. Phew, I thought, and then sprained my ankle later doing something very innocuous .. Fun night.[/quote] Failed stage dive...get over it!

Been doing, 'Doncha worry bout a thing' by Stevie Wonder recently! Great stuff - in fact , learn I Wish and Sir Duke while you're at it!

[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/22/adam-clayton-u2-soundtrack-of-my-life?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/2...P=ILCNETTXT3487[/url]

[quote name='4StringFortress' post='1276676' date='Jun 21 2011, 09:20 AM']You can pick up a Yamaha BB 414 second hand for under £200 they are great basses and they cover any style they will want to play. As mentioned before Ibanez and Peavey are decent choices too.[/quote] x 2

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='652317' date='Nov 12 2009, 10:39 AM'] My first gigging bass amp in 79-81 was one of these matched with an ex sound system 1x18 cab Loved the sound at the time.[/quote] Sold one a few months ago. Sat in my garage for about 20 years and when I plugged it in, still great. Guy from Springburn got it for about £40 as a back up!

Great looking bass. Think the colour scheme is stunning.

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='1268718' date='Jun 14 2011, 03:09 PM']Ooops[/quote]...i did it again?

Live it up by Mental as anything?

Good wee vid from Fender. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZzYSgFAlY&feature=player_embedded#at=50"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZzYSgFAlY..._embedded#at=50[/url]

Call yourselves a bass forum! This and Sir Duke are supernatural basslines!

[quote name='Machines' post='1261439' date='Jun 8 2011, 04:51 PM']They're all Google ads, we don't determine what shows up.[/quote] Not particularly criticising BC, it's just I wonder: [list] [*]How good the instruments are? [*]Would they tempt anyone? [*]When reselling, are they easy to spot or could someone be scammed? The Les Pauls look killer. [/list]

One went on eBay recently.......£150?????

What's it all about? Alfie?

Every kind of people - Bob Babbit with Robert Palmer. Anything by Jaco with Joni Mitchell as it show his musicality was even better than his musicianship. Tony Levin - Sledgehammer?

[quote name='silentbob' post='1248305' date='May 28 2011, 03:17 PM']Just been listening to Walk On By by The Stranglers and started thinking to myself, like i often do when listening to stuff, how did he get that tone? Then started wondering whether bass players had always strived to get their perfect sound, or was just a case of plug in your bass to whatever's available, bugger around with the pedal and amp settings for thirty seconds and that'll do, leaving future generations of bass players marvelling at their skill and spending hundreds of pounds trying to recreate that sound. Any thoughts?[/quote] Did JJ not get his tone cos he couldn't afford a bass rig? Sure it was a Hiwatt amp and speaker for a guitar.

Yamaha is a great bass maker - always sound great!

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1246850' date='May 27 2011, 11:35 AM']Looks to be guitars/strat only,unless im still asleep.[/quote] No - you're right1 I thought it did bass too! Doh!

I think you can do this on the fender site mate! [url="http://www.fender.com/en-GB/community/guitarbuilder/"]http://www.fender.com/en-GB/community/guitarbuilder/[/url]