Dave Vader

[quote name='ironside1966' post='907501' date='Jul 27 2010, 07:46 PM']A lot of the players who don’t know the rules stay safely within the rules but without knowing and when most of think we are breaking the rules there is a rule for that. Hope that makes sense[/quote] Yep, sums it up nicely.

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='906047' date='Jul 26 2010, 05:08 PM']As a matter of fact, I would be looking like that too... Who would want to jam in F#?!?![/quote] Me, you get some lovely e-f# hammery pulloff action going on there.

Little Green Bag, just the first bit....

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='903097' date='Jul 23 2010, 12:36 PM']Read your post and then listened to While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Brilliant, I'm smiling big time. Now listening to Happiness is a Warm Gun and still smiling. I'm sure lots of the White Album, especially McCartney's bass, is a massive influence on later heavy rock.[/quote] Recently got my beatles albums out again,after a good 15 years of being thoroughly sick of them. Surprising how much I like them, Let It Be has got to be one of the best albums ever, and not just for Billy Prestons Organ (though mostly). If only Macca had kept his gob shut and just played bass I might enjoy them more.

I don't like McCartney, and I don't like his songs either. However, playing in covers bands, you do tend to end up learning a lot of Beatles stuff, and I am consistently impressed with his bass lines. Recently, most shocked while learning While My Guitar Gently Weeps, to discover where JPJ got the middle of Babe I'm Gonna Leave you from. Seriously, crank the bass on that track, stupidly heavy, and its Macca. Grudgingly one has to admit that people who play music you don't like, can be quite good at it. Like Phil Collins..... great drummer, f**kawful songs

Tuba occupies the same space musically, is the bass actually a tuba? (Quite truthfully, both me and my Tuba playing friend describe ourselves as bass players) Is it actually a very big ukulele? It's got 4 strings and frets? Perhaps a mandolin? Or not quite a banjo?

P-bass, flats, bass shoved up on the amp, tone rolled nearly all the way back. Cuts through anything. Recent Rickenfaker revelation, both pickups, tone all the way off on the bridge, half off on the neck, more flats, also destroys the crap that gets in the way. I do twiddle the tone controls, and the amp eq, til it cuts where it's meant to. Fell in love with flats last year, tried to go back, but rounds just sounded so thin, and took ages to get the horrible overtones played out of them. Also have to twist the tone controls for certain songs (playing synth bass lines from 80s electro without pedals, roll all the tone out, close enough) and can get away with the one or two bits of slap that I need to throw in (more of that 80s stuff). I also ripped the horns out of my 2 15s, they were too trebly with them Oh, and I don't know where I get the inspiration from, but I do like Geezer a lot...

[quote name='4000' post='900572' date='Jul 20 2010, 10:40 PM']Yep, all the plexi's I've ever seen (and I've seen a few) are painted.[/quote] That was what i would have expected, s'why I had to ask. I thought it might have been one of the mythical replacement plexis that rick used to sell, hence the lack of model number.

Posted, deep-linked the pictures. Don't want them absent-mindedly looking at my flickr photostream, filled with fakers... they might go off me.

registered, only slightly scared now....

Thanks Jon, I may nervously wander over there and say it came out of a box of parts from a long-lost/dead uncle or something then.

[quote name='teen t-shirt' post='899315' date='Jul 19 2010, 07:36 PM']cheers vader [/quote] Any time, I do need to relearn this for my 80s band the Spaced Invaders, they want to do it again, damn them, I hate retuning.... I think the first weird bit is kind of a pentatonic run in B as well....

Hoping some of you lovely people can help me. I pulled this TRC off of a hondo Rickenfaker not so long ago, and I can't tell if it's one of those plexi ones that Ric used to sell back before they realised what was happening to them, or if some clever buggers knocked it up in a garage. I can't bring myself to keep it on either of my fakers, as they are fake, and anyone with half a brain can spot that. But obviously, I don't want to sell it as a genuine RIC plexi if it isn't. Here's a couple of scans of the front and back for you RIc experts to squint at... And if you're still not sure, check out my flickr TRC album... (geeky much? Yep. I certainly am ) [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50579126@N03/sets/72157624303698305/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/50579126@N03/...57624303698305/[/url] Thanks for any help you can give me, I don't want to have to go to Rickresource, they might burn me for my fakers.... and I can't afford a real Ric

[quote name='Doddy' post='899237' date='Jul 19 2010, 06:31 PM']How can you break the rules if you don't know what those rules are to begin with? You don't have to learn what the rules are if you don't want(although I don't get why you wouldn't want to),but you are then not really in a position to break them either. Sure,you can play whatever you want,but often people who do this are just following the rules,albeit unknowingly. It may also have taken them longer to that point. If you understand the rules,it is far easier to move away from them and try new things.[/quote] Hence most punk music sitting around in a 3-chord trick, with harmonies that stray not too far from 3rds and 5ths. While Jazz and Prog on the other hand (where they learned the rules first) are more often than not a little more interesting on the rule-breaking front.

Would, but still skint, and wouldn't have as much fun sticking mudbuckers in yours. Nice though...

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Drop to D, play 10-12 and open on your was E now D string, again and again and again and again and again.... Oh, there is another bit, but nobody likes that, it's harder to explain. Borrowing Mark King's thumb may help too.

And I'm in, normally take my hat off to play, but found a couple of shots from practices where I couldn't find a place to put it. Summer hat... hasn't had much use the last few years.... Normal hat, filthy and sweaty and horrid inside, but much loved, the mark 5 Dave Black Trilby, soon to disintegrate and be replaced by the mark 6. Thought it was time to get this thread back up near the top anyway.

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[quote name='BassBod' post='896684' date='Jul 16 2010, 04:29 PM']Really, nobody likes dirty maple - worn old nitro'd maple maybe...but not plain grubby grey. Put a light sealer coat of Rustins on at least, and stick to traditional plunky flats...it'll sound great.[/quote] Fair point, I was thinking of my worn out nitro maple strat neck, but this would go a uniform grey wouldn't it?

I'm in a quandary now, cos I'm more Danko than Jaco in my tonal requirements. I like a bit of dirt on my wood, and I use flats anyway. Might try it out without a coat, as it's easier to put on eon that take it off...

Out of interest, any ideas how badly it would end if I left the Maple board just a bit stained?

[quote name='Meenie' post='895784' date='Jul 15 2010, 05:01 PM']still none the wiser on the airline then! [/quote] That link I posted has a fair bit of info on the airline in it. Not tried one myself though, sorry.

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='895027' date='Jul 14 2010, 08:18 PM']Reminds me of my youth: "M Khan is bent"[/quote] I'd forgotten that... Great tune btw.

I wish the genie could give me one stupidly valuable old fender bass, so that I could sell it to a mug to put in his safe, and buy a ton of old Jap copies to play with. Does that work Pete? Or right at the moment I really want an Ibby Blazer, with the P pup in it, blackguard, not asking for much....