Dave Vader

If it's Cm then it should be an Eb key sig anyway (relative minor and all) so yep. 3 flats.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1379444444' post='2212860'] I have a weird desire to acquire this bass [b]NOT[/b] because of it's alleged provenance, just 'cause it looks like a bit of fun to do up. Any thoughts from the experts on the Antorianess and potential of it please? [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antoria-Bass-Guitar-Ibanez-Import-/121176170090?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c36a99e6a"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item1c36a99e6a[/url] [/quote] A mate of mine has an antoria telecaster with that headstock, it is utterly lovely.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1379113574' post='2208956'] I'm a musician , not a clown. [/quote] I call inti (btw I am a clown)

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1379066262' post='2208239'] No, someone Took it off. [/quote] :hatoffsmileyneededhere:

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1379020178' post='2207942'] Thanks - I don't have the space for acoustic - a simple cheap EUB will do. I suppose I could always put some lines on with tape - just didnt want to buy a piece of junk I tried a stagg EUB once - never spotted the dot markers How do you guys find the correct spot on the neck for any given note ? [/quote] Ears, and what TNIT said. I recently stuck a small bit of gaffa on the side of my neck at the octave, it helped with the higher positions for when I'm in a hurry. Ironically my harley benton EUB has had dot markers put in on the side of the neck, the other side that i can't see. Some lefty is having a laugh at my expense.

However, amusing misheard lyrics are always a good idea, I will always sing "The beer is all Um Bongo overnight" in the Who's Won't get Fooled Again. Also, see "Hold me closer Tony Danza" for another cheap laugh.

[quote name='Wil' timestamp='1378931251' post='2206771'] and maybe wipe the blood and semen off once a year. [/quote] no, the semen stays on the bass....

I don't do it conciously, but it turns out if you watch one or other of my feet, one of them will be hitting all the beats I am not playing. (I had no idea til someone pointed it out to me) Seriously screwed up a cajon player a year or two ago as he was trying to take the rhythm from my foot tapping.

I get more dings at home, my studio is very small, stuff gets kicked over as I am reaching for other stuff. Not to say that there aren't chunks taken out of instruments from gigs as well. Stuff falls over, it matters not. Buckle rash is real, and I don't wear belts anymore, but it turns out button rash also happens. Also, years of playing in a leather jacket/studded wristbands \m/ back in the day have taken a fair few chunks from the front of many of my instruments.

And here's me all excited and making shelves so I can get my Vinyl back in the house again.

[quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1373406731' post='2137362'] Whilst on holiday in Devon...Barnstaple ..in 2005 with my mates we saw a gig advertised at one of the pubs for "the Food fighters"..we went along expecting a tribute band ....... They turned out to be just a regular pub rock covers band ...they were fabulous though and we had a great night! [/quote] I know them, I warned them about the name, I had just renamed my band at the time from "Jefferson Armchair" as we didn't do any Airplane songs, and encountered the same problem. Also used to be in a band called Lean Against the Washing Machine (not a tribute either, was before the phenomenon really hit) using the stage names Burt Cocaine and Henry Jimdix.

I've got a Wizard trad in my fretless, and a kent armstrong alnico in my fretted. They are both good, but the wizard just edges it.

I think it all comes from when we are kids at school, and the rich sod who's parents bought them a Gibson/Fender laughed at our pathetic Encores/Hondos, and told us we couldn't possibly be any good with those pieces of crap. There is an instinctive reflex to equate the perfectly nice chap holding a fodera with the talentless 13 year old twunt with the brand new Les Paul and marshall stack at school. Just a thought.

If we're being picky, I've got a 1957 hofner neck lying around somewhere with a zero fret on it.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1378378963' post='2199309'] Respectfully, I disagree. I find the contour works best if it's on and set about 12:30, because it's a harsh, mid heavy beast without it. The colour is great if you want a quick, footswitchable change to some old school thump, as it's just a treble cut. Each to their own though [/quote] Very true, i like a harsh mid-heavy sound anyway, which probably explains a lot. plus i use it with either a dirty old P-bass with flats and the tone wound right down, or my EUB, both of which could do with being harsher and more middy. I've played Gibson basses, they are not lacking in mids or harshness (which is why I would like another one)

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1378374812' post='2199231'] takes their role very seriously, me [/quote] You're not kidding Nige

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1378288439' post='2198083'] That said, I was thinking of the line that [i]everything[/i], perhaps, is an investment - it's just that the dividend is paid differently. [/quote] I invested in a Scotch egg yesterday, it paid out in tasty goodness. i was happy. :B

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1377972900' post='2194304'] Did it tell you to stop bloody taking acid as well..? [/quote] No, it suggested I hadn't had enough yet.

In the recent massive heat wave (July, remember that?) all my gear was in my studio (which is a shed) it got insanely hot in there, and everything went utterly out of tune and haywire except my old battered P copy, which was still in when I took it to play at a festival at the end of July (it had been sitting in a gigbag for 2 months before that) and my EUB, which just laughed at me, and told me to stop checking its tuning. Which also had a month or two off sitting in a gig bag in the heat. I fully expect my old telecaster to be the same if I pull it out of the case any time soon.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1377184326' post='2184490'] Has this thread really reached 18 posts without anyone mentioning [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/177038-mark-d-phillips-guitar-improvermaster-bodger-this-guy-cracks-me-up/"]http://basschat.co.u...y-cracks-me-up/[/url] ? [/quote] No it hasn't. [quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1377172883' post='2184261'] You'll probably find only the E ( 135) needs widening/deepening. Just did it myself on a new Star Bass yesterday, used a round mini file filing a little at the time on the saddle until the string sat in the groove ( as it was proud before). If you have some old strings of the same gauge, you could use the old E to create the groove( assuming it's not flatwound!) If you don't go mad it should not need any alteration to the saddle height. [b]Don't go near any ebay listings from MDP[/b] however unless you want to see how it's not done.... As I had black saddles and the filing turned it to shiny, a black marker returned it to almost new. [/quote]

me too (though mine's in standard EADG) thoroughly excellent after a bit of fettling.

I just heard a loud clattering sound from the kitchen.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1377014385' post='2182241'] Me and Big Norm started it early nineties with a singer, Dave Wells, drummers Dave then Phil. Then we got a welsh guy on vocals called Clive, who I believe is still with Norm now, along with Mark Ford on drums. I left for while having fallen out with Norm then came back for bit until Norm went off to do something else. As far as I know it's still going as Goliath, the story is that Norm and Clive decided to get the original band together, I'm still waiting for the phone call . [/quote] They are very much still going as Goliath with a billion lineup changes. Norm is the only constant.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1377008387' post='2182123'] I used to play in a band called Goliath in Exeter, all big lads, very recgonisable and always spotted walking round the town as my then g/f always noticed. We were waiting outside the back of Bristol Colston Hall for Level42 to come out post gig and a guy standing up on a raised bit holding on to a railing suddenly starts shouting "Goliath Goliath" at the top of his voice and pointing at me in amongst this big crowd of L42 fans!! Needless to say the only comment the g/f could make was "can't f**king take you anywhere!!" [/quote] With Big Norm and Mike Soundy?

There's already a bassists in hats thread somewhere....