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[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1507636382' post='3386874'] ...there's your answer...maybe stop trawling bands-wanted ads and use another way to find a band? [/quote] Apart from revolving in the right circles... how?

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1507617677' post='3386730'] Heck, socks and saddles are in now [/quote] Really? Sounds like a niche market to me.

[quote name='lawriemacmillan' timestamp='1507589489' post='3386672'] ...do Limelight have a pricing list somewhere or do interested parties make direct contact to get a quote? [/quote] Just contact Mark through Classic and Cool Guitars.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1507547796' post='3386175'] I've used a TH350 and couldn't believe how loud the thing could be. [/quote] Same here. I moved mine on after a few months, but not because it was in any way lacking in power, that wasn't the issue. And I agree with the comments about pairing it with the 'right' cab.

I don't understand why you'd go to the trouble to learn an instrument, buy gear and rehearse songs with a band and then not do gigs, but as Pete says above, if that's what someone's looking for then he's the guy for the 'job'. I've joined such a band more than once under the impression that they were gigging, only to be disappointed after a short while when it became obvious that they were not, nor had any intention to. I was lied to on both occasions. Now I make [i]quite [/i]sure that everyone's on the same page.

[quote name='subaudio' timestamp='1507559708' post='3386341'] You've really helped me out so thanks again [/quote] Basically we've written your dissertation for you? D'oh!

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1507549191' post='3386205'] ...In the 80s it was suggested that electric guitars were being ousted by synths and keyboards, but that was just another fad. [/quote] Synths and keyboards didn't disappear though, quite the opposite. But Dick Rowe of Decca Records did turn down the Beatles, saying 'guitar groups are on the way out'. There is no crystal ball.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1507547720' post='3386174'] ...the synth bass can do the same job but I believe it's pretty much had it's day in the synth pop of the 80s... [/quote] Those involved in the international EDM scene would disagree, I'm sure.

[quote name='NJE' timestamp='1507544148' post='3386126'] I think there will always be bass guitars and bass players, the instrument is too ingrained in modern culture to be simply dismissed and forgotten. [/quote] It's hard to imagine 50s rock 'n' roll and the subsequent explosion of the 60 counter-culture without electric bass guitar - and all those famous 60s pop and rock hits largely feature either the Fender Precision - that had only been available from 1951 - and the Fender Jazz, available from 1960 at the earliest - so you could say with some justification that it was a revolutionary instrument in many ways.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1507544350' post='3386129'] He might be doing an "The Edge"? [/quote] What, with all that hair cascading out from under his hat..? Or do you suspect the hat and hair are one and he's bald underneath?

Yes. As Dad says, low-end sound can be generated by that other than a bass guitar, which goes in and out of fashion with some regularity, but in the end a good bass line is a good bass line regardless of how it is produced. Various genres can have sounds which fill that part of the bandwidth traditionally occupied by bass instruments (i.e. various types of rap music which often have a modified kick drum sample spliced with a sub-note instead of a 'bass line'), but the low end of the audio spectrum is usually catered for one way or another. Whether the catering is done by someone who calls themselves a 'bass player' or a 'programmer' is open to debate. In any case I believe there will always be a place for traditional bass guitar in contemporary music, which covers more ground stylistically and has way more 'genres' now than it did when I were a lad. Eee, it were all fields round here you know and the new 5p pieces are too fiddly.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1507543410' post='3386116'] ...I posted a pic in this thread in which I am wearing a hat, a waistcoat, shades AND playing with a pick. And what is more, I am not in the least bit ashamed of myself! [/quote] And why would you be? You're not bald.

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1507534443' post='3386034'] The cheeky scallywag was also bald a coot but with no hat, the brazen cheek of it! [/quote] Quite. The number of people blatantly exposing their hairless heads in public and on TV really boils my goat. These people obviously have no intention of wearing a hat or a decent wig, either of which should be compulsory for the follically-challenged. A change in the law is long overdue - if you're a shiny-headed chrome-dome slaphead and appear in public without adequately covering your shame, you should be prosecuted as far as the law allows. And further.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1507346197' post='3384903'] How can you 2 pages from this.? [/quote] Unremarkable, really. I started a thread about underpants ages ago which went to 4 pages... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/170804-boxer-shorts-or-pantspanties-and-why/

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1507342524' post='3384901'] I no longer care what anyone on a forum thinks. Now, get off my lawn or fire the drummer. Damn kids. [/quote] Too right. Bastards. *Watches Bargain Hunt*

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1507326538' post='3384865']Get a wig to wear when you're with the GF... [/quote][quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1507326707' post='3384866']Funnily enough she has suggested this...again, I think not![/quote] Ah, go on... you could have a selection... a mullet, a beehive, Elvis quiff, Jedward, monk's tonsure... your GF could have a different man every day of the week!

[quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1507325784' post='3384857']G/f wishes I would grow it back but I think not![/quote] Get a wig to wear when you're with the GF...

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1507294641' post='3384577'] I wanted to get a ahead and everyone knows if you want to get ahead, you get a hat. [/quote] And... did you get ahead..?

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1507245347' post='3384291'] You [b]are[/b] in trouble, but not because of [b]that[/b], cos [b]that[/b] is Robbie Fripp and it's me who's fat and 61. [/quote] Phew! So I'm not a leviathan. Just a porker.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1507243513' post='3384271'] ...61 and bald... and fat... [/quote] If that's fat, I'm in trouble.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1507242152' post='3384263'] ...I don't even put the pick down as it hides in the crease of my index or middle finger depending on what I'm playing. Or in my chops ha ha! [/quote] I pop mine in my nipsy until needed, then guff it over my head and catch it just in time for the chorus.

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1507226934' post='3384107'] Oh hang on... [/quote] That's quite obviously PhotoShopped. It's not even the right way up! [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1507228101' post='3384121'] All I can say is....on your own head be it. [/quote] Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaahhhh!!!