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  1. Earbrass
    [quote name='matt-bass-sparkes' timestamp='1329071647' post='1536801'] Bumop [/quote] Oooh, nasty. Hope the surgeons were gentle.
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    One of these just sold on ebay for £125 + £10 p+p - grab yourself a bargain!
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    BUMP for new lower price
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1328711663' post='1531495'] I seem to recall a book called 'Canterbury Rock', but I can't remember any details about it... I'll Google it later, or maybe you can Len, I gotta go do the school run! [/quote] How's your Italian? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canterbury-Rock-Robert-Machine-Hillage/dp/123262750X/ref=as_li_wdgt_js_ex?&linkCode=wsw&tag=bumblebeecons-21
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    Don't know about books, but I would strongly recommend also getting the "BBC - RADIO 1967 - 1971" CD compilation - worth it for the fabulous "Top Gear" live version of Moon in June alone. Also, Vol 2 is a brilliant album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L-Ylf4UV1w&feature=fvst
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    [b]SOLD: BOSS DR880 Drum Machine : £130 posted within UK (£120 collected from SE London)[/b] **ONE OF THESE JUST SOLD ON EBAY FOR £147 + £12 p&p - HENCE NEW LOWER PRICE ** In excellent condition. Complete with original box, user manual and power supply. Extremely powerful drum machine, with very capable guitar/bass multi-fx thrown in. These are £415 new, but since this one is a few years old, the cardboard box is slightly tatty, and the PSU is two-pin and needs a shaver-adaptor (included) to plug into a 3-pin socket, I'm offering it at a basschat-friendly £130 posted to a UK address. [indent=1][i]- 440 world-class drum and percussion sounds, 40 bass sounds with COSM bass-amp models[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- Three independent insert effects (EQ and compression), TSC (Total Sound Control) featuring 3-band EQ and high-quality ambience[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- 1,000 patterns (500 preset, 500 user); easily add fills, ghost notes, chord progressions, and more[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- 20 velocity-sensitive pads[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- Guitar/bass input, plus multi-effects and COSM amp models[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- 100 effect patches (50 Preset, 50 User) for electric, acoustic, and bass guitars[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- Four assignable footswitch and expression-pedal inputs[/i][/indent] [indent=1][i]- Digital and individual outputs; USB port for importing SMFs[/i][/indent] [b]Details from the BOSS website [/b]: [url="http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/products/en/DR-880/"]http://www.bosscorp....ucts/en/DR-880/[/url] [b]On sale at Amazon[/b]: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/BOSS-DR880/dp/B000YENUZE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328615748&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.co...28615748&sr=8-1[/url] [b]And at GAK[/b]: [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/boss-dr-880/1254?gclid=CN6d5KDqi64CFQwgfAod1GHZ3w"]http://www.gak.co.uk...CFQwgfAod1GHZ3w[/url] [b]Pictures: [attachment=99431:DSCN1829.JPG] [attachment=99432:DSCN1831.JPG] [attachment=99433:DSCN1832.JPG] [attachment=99434:DSCN1835.JPG][/b] [b]My feedback[/b] : [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/40763-feedback-for-earbrass"]http://basschat.co.u...ck-for-earbrass[/url]
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    [quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1328545229' post='1528792'] There is indeed a difference, but if you respect the original musician for his feel and technique, then a good copyist must also have very similar if not exactly the same feel and technique. Natch, he lacks the originality, but originality isn't part of the spec. [/quote] And that is why the comparison between tribute acts and a virtuoso violinist doesn't hold water - any classical musician worth his salt is not merely copying another musician's performance.
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    [quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1328459174' post='1527351'] As time goes by, the people who did the originals of what we like and grew up with either die or retire. If the music is any good it will pass into the category of "that which may be done by those good enough to do it". In exactly the same way as some musicians learn to play Mozart or Glenn Miller, so others will learn to reproduce Beatles, Stone, Floyd and other classics. That's already happening. Why berate a guitarist who does well at playing David Gilmour's guitar parts instead of writing his own? Do we put down a virtuouso violinist who's good at Vivaldi because he hasn't written his own concerti? [/quote] There's a huge difference between performing someone else's composition and slavishly copying someone else's performance.
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    [quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1328283636' post='1524982'] How much??!!! [/quote] [size=4]Those "[/size][font=Arial][size=2][size=4]MONYGRAMED GIG BAG"s don't come cheap you know.[/size] [/size][/font]
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    ^^^^^^^^^ What he said.
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    Love the way it goes from huge growl to sweet round tones and back on this one: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8zbPRvVIwA[/media] And, featuring the most tasteful ten second bass solo ever at 3:30 - [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8R6T60fb0[/media]
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    PM'd
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    [quote name='The Funk' timestamp='1267623042' post='762919'] It's worth knocking one out just to counteract the unfavourable rules for partnerships. [/quote]
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    [quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1327572805' post='1513430'] My current guitar fondler use a line 6 amp and pedal combo. It worries me. I`m already making plans for when it goes down during a show. [/quote] http://basschat.co.uk/topic/165521-crate-cpb150-power-block-150w-amplifier-l120-posted-to-within-uk/
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    I thought the address for this gig looked familiar - we played there a year or so ago - in fact, that was our last (ever?) gig. I remember that the kick drum was galloping accross the floor at a rate of knots - our drummer was continually having to grab it and drag it back. There were too many mic stands and stuff in the way for us to get our feet properly in front to stop it moving. Ah, happy days....ish.
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    Thanks for that CyberBass. It is indeed a nice little thing.
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    [b]SOLD: CRATE CPB150 POWER BLOCK: 150W Stereo/Mono Guitar Amplifier: £95 posted to within UK (£85 collected from SE London)[/b] Really nice example of this amp, in excellent condition. Complete with original box, User Manual, carrying case and power lead. Great little back-up amp. The secret of using with bass guitar is not to use the pre-amp, which is designed for guitar and set to distort at quite low levels, so that if you want a clean tone you can't have much volume. Thanks to the flexible routing options, though, it's dead easy to bypass the pre-amp, and feed a line from your SansAmp or whatever straight into the power amp section, which works a treat. - headphone out - 3 band eq - mono/stereo power amp input / fx loop - DI out on XLR - cd/mp3 input Cute as a kitten and with a very cool blue light. How could you resist? [b]Pics:[/b] [b][attachment=97751:PB01.JPG] [attachment=97752:PB03.JPG] [attachment=97753:PB04.JPG][/b] [b][attachment=97754:PB05.JPG] [attachment=97755:PB06.JPG] [attachment=97756:PB07.JPG][/b] [b]Stuff on-line:[/b] [url="http://www.zzounds.com/item--CRACPB150"]http://www.zzounds.com/item--CRACPB150[/url] [url="http://www.harmonycentral.com/reviews/345826"]http://www.harmonyce.../reviews/345826[/url] [url="http://www.harmonycentral.com/products/39171"]http://www.harmonyce.../products/39171[/url] [b]Specs:[/b] CRATE CPB150 POWER BLOCK: 150W Stereo Guitar Amplifier Output: Mono: 150W RMS @8 ohms Stereo: 75W RMS per side @4 ohms Tone Controls: Low 20db range @ 110 Hz Mid 15db range @ 1kHz High 20db range @ 10kHz Dimensions: H 3.2 ins W 10 ins D 5.6 ins Weight: 4.6 lbs [b]My feedback[/b] : [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/40763-feedback-for-earbrass"]http://basschat.co.u...ck-for-earbrass[/url]
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    How about basschat+1, so we can join in with particularly heated exchanges we just missed out on?
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    [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1326282315' post='1494810'] The fun is in between these far out styles, more towards the center where right of centre the manager is in control with a lot of input from his team and left of centre the team members have the majority of ideas and input into the outfit. [/quote] Can I just add, as someone who has spent nearly 30 on the receiving end of management of varying quality, that in my experience the most important rule of being managed is to avoid dispelling the illusion managers have that they are in control.
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    [quote name='janmaat' timestamp='1325837332' post='1488408'] Diatonic squeezebox: family tradition (Plattdeutsch shanties & stuff) [/quote] Wow - another one! What box(es) do you play, and what keys? Have you checked out [url="http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php"]melodeon.net[/url] - (there's plenty of interest there in continental music) ? I have a (Chinese) Hohner pokerwork in D/G that I play for morris. [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmarksteele/6163445607/in/photostream/"]That's me on the left.[/url] Other instruments I play: Piano - from early childhood - I did Grade VI, and O and A level music, but I'm mostly a blues / jazz player. Guitar - from age 12, but I never really mastered it - still can't do barre chords! Bass - from age 17, but with a big gap (about 20 years) - started again about 6 or 7 years ago Piano accordion - got this a few years ago, but it doesn't get much use now as I'm much more focused on the melodeon. Piano, bass and melodeon are the only instruments I've gigged in public.
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    [quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1325751694' post='1486939'] One of the marks of a properly professional musical approach is that you show some respect for your fellow musicians. Instance the number of people on here who routinely use the term 'guitard'. Many will no doubt protest that it isn't really intended as an insult, or that they don't really mean anything by it. Really? So it's ok to demean guitar players as long as you don't really mean anything by it? Is that how it works? As a relatively (i.e. last 5 years or so) bass convert and former lead guitarist who worked f***ing hard to get as good as I did, I'm constantly dismayed by the level of snobbery on the part of some members. [/Rant] [/quote] IMHO it's a classic "cultural cringe" response - bassists are for the most part used to being less noticed and less admired than guitarists, and so form a kind of defensive anti-guitarist snobbery in response. It's a bit like the stereotypical Scottish and Welsh attitudes to England (especially with regard to sports). Don't waste your energy worrying about it.
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    [quote name='nick' timestamp='1324412099' post='1474019'] I paid £20 for this 70's Kimbara a while ago. Initially bought it, just to sell on, but I loved the U-profile neck so much, I decided to keep it. Had the pickups rewound by Wizard, rewired it & changed the bridge. Frequently take it out & no issues gigging it, when I fancy a change from P-Bass. [/quote] My first ever bass was a blonde one of those. Lovely tone, as I recall, but weighed a ton!
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    I love the look, sound and feel of my £50 s/h Peavey Milestone III (red). I can't imagine wanting or "needing" another bass.
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    ...and while the teams are doing that, Samantha's going to pop out to the local Museum of Door Furniture to have her own small collection valued. Apparently the curator has promised her that she can try out a selection of knobs while he evaluates her knockers...
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    [quote name='janmaat' timestamp='1324036100' post='1470004'] On that audition the other night, somebody suggested I tune my bass. Hell no, I thought, I could damage the machine heads [/quote] Or stretch the strings.
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