BobVbass

my first bass was one of these - brilliant guitars - matsumoku made and I wish I hadn't sold it. If you come acoss on ewith Asterix and Obelix painted on it - it's mine and I want it back!!

I can't help wondering (just about to start playing DB in a 50's RnR band so I'm sure to have trouble) whether some kind orf removable spring loaded rod that you can clip onto the front through the f hole and poke through to the back of the bass to dampen things might work - that way you could remove it when you wanted to play acoustically... Start the generators! I feel an afternoon in the garage when my DB arrives!

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I had a wireless a few years back so used to do the wandering off into the crowd. I also used to spin my bass as well - you have to put a straplock in the centre of gravity just behind the neck plate and put both ends of your strap on it then kind of tilt your right hip into it while giving it a damn good spin downwards. Only problem is I'm 5'10" and there's about 4" spare as the neck goes whizzing past the floor - well I say the only problem - hit the guitarist once and smacked myself in the head when I was practicising it! 34" of maple at speed hurts! Tried the spin over the shoulder after seeing the guitartist of Saxon do it in the eighties but a bass is too heavy - I reckon they must use balsa wood guitars. Other than that just the playing over the neck and grabbing the drummer's cymbal just before he hits it to mute it and twiddling the guitarist's tuning peg when he's busy soloing - how we laugh...

...and time for a quick plug of my band! [url="http://www.Vinyl-Tap.co.uk"]http://www.Vinyl-Tap.co.uk[/url] - you want o know how to play it I'm your man

Exactly! they have good feedback as well and I can't help wondering as I'm pretty handy with a spanner.....

Hi Anyone tried any of those basses from eth german company on ebay at all? They seem to be from www.gedo-musik.de? Seem fair value...?

Yeah!! Peavey Firebass Fan 700 here! Awesome Amp

[quote]I thank my lucky stars for being able to go out with several hundred Watts of power through a fifteen and a couple of tens, otherwise there'd have been dozens of those gigs I'd be struggling to hear myself![/quote] +1 for that! I much prefer controlling my own destiny - I play rougly the same stuff as you (vinyl tap tribute) and I've finally settled on a Peavey Firebass 700, 2x10 and 1x15 BW's - awesome amp - superb - these go for seriously silly cheap money these days as well - make sur eyou're backs up to lifting it tho!

but......surely this would mean I'd have to own less basses????!!!! That's a major disadvantage!!!

duck dunn, danny thompson and alan lancaster!

I'm the serious looking one with the eerrr ....bass

or to elaborate - one of these - [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Behringer-U-Phono-UFO202-USB-Vinyl-Audio-Interface/AMM"]http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Co...o-Interface/AMM[/url] and this - [url="http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php"]http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php[/url] plug in the tape out from your desk

check out Kristal - freeware recording for the Pc - I use it with my PA desk

You can't polish a turd - but you can roll it in glitter <- that one is a cheapy jap 80's bass that I've upgraded everything on and it's brilliant now - love it although it's been superceded by the lakland now I suppose but I played it for the best part of 6 years non stop.

yeah I played one a few weeks back - lovely - not sure it's £1900 worth of lovely tho - about £700 there for the logo I think!

Hi All, I almost went and played for John and the boys but they're just to far away from me - but they're seriously great guys and excellent musicians - check out Tempest on you tube - really wortha go if you live down the south coast way Bob

Absolutley forst class and inspired playing in Abba's tunes - I learnt many for a functions band I was in and was so surprised I hadn't noticed how great the lines were. Other surprises - Kenny Loggins - Footloose - cracking bassline (sounds like a synth to me) but great laugh and (preparing to be shot) Alan Lancaster's stuff for early quo <bang> really great solid and unusual in places

looks like a Japanese Jackson/Charvel San Dimas to me - had exactly the same (case and all) in the late nineties, do the pickups have Jackson on them? - brilliant guitar great neck, superb tone. Sold mine about 6 years ago for £170 - wish I'd kept it!

0.6mm orange Totex for me - 25 years and I'm not changing now! Tortex wear down rather than snapping and you can play really fast and really syncopate (can't spell sorry!) - between string changes are still slower than fingers but the attack and rhythm matching are superb