Chris2112

It sounds like a good advert for an active bass. You can start to cut your bass and boost your mids when he hits the 'generic bass sound' preset on his console.

The most famous yellow Ex Factor is probably the one on the front of 'The Urge' by Stuart Hamm. The album's artwork had a black and yellow colour scheme so it was quite fitting. It was actually a fretless. I don't think it was ever properly used on that album, IIRC the only place it turns up is the first couple of seconds of 'if you're scared, stay home'. Vail Johnson also had a yellow Ex Factor too, but I haven't listened to his records in years.

Oh I beg your pardon, I thought this was just a repository for drool-worthy images! I've never been lucky enough to own a yellow Kubicki Ex Factor, though I have had both white and red models. Nor do I own a yellow Bogart, but I do have a blue one.

Yellow, my favourite! SKC Bogart Ingo York signature:

I bought one of these about 13 years ago at Howard's Bass Place in the toon. I paid £160 for it, I think - I had gone shopping to buy my at-the-time girlfriend a present and ended up blowing the dough on a new bass! I loved the bridge pickup tone but I didn't think much of the blend/neck pickup sounds. Not that it mattered, as the bridge tone was mint.

It's funny that should come up, as I had previously read unflattering reports from people who had met Stan in person but I usually don't put too much stock in these accounts. I'm sure it's difficult to reciprocate the constant enthusiasm you're met with as a musical hero, but were I in that position, I would surely try and be a gracious gentleman at all times.

It's a very long article considering that it says basically nothing. So he wears a navy jumper and keeps his head down, big deal.

Jesus wept, what a mess. I hope you can get it fixed and move it on with little loss. I know what it's like to lose confidence with something and feel as though you're just waiting for the next thing to go wrong and blow your wallet to bits.

I'd be a bit dubious about getting wrapped up in a deferred payment agreement with a third party company for something as minor as a set of strings. I presume you enter into a contract with this Swedish company to make payment to them at a later date?

No ripping off? Loyalties paid when asked? Paid when caught, more like.

Jeff used to have an unbelievable cover video of 'I believe it' by UZEB up on his channel. It disappeared years ago and has never been back. Damn shame.

That's because pub gigs are usually awful. Crap tunes being played for an audience with base tastes. Usually, dare I say, a musically ignorant audience. I used to work in a hotel and we had bands on every weekend for wedding functions over the summer. Most were not 'players' and banged out garbage tunes. Some could really play (I remember one band in particular used to warm up with Weather Report) but when the paying customers came in, they'd revert to playing the same stinky poo top 40 tunes that get the grannies bopping. I love jazz (but I find GPPH to be an awful, aimless tune) but it requires a refined audience to appreciate and as such, I wouldn't bet on finding any sort of audience for it on a live circuit. Even then, there is 'players' jazz or fusion and then there is soft, dancy jazz. The audience for each has no interest in the other. I love to play fusion with friends but I'd never expect to find an audience for it live. We play in a group for our own enjoyment. I just can't understand the mentality of players who join a covers group playing any old stinky poo just to get pub gigs and make a pittance (and then moan about it on BC). 'Mustang Sally' and 'Your sex is on fire'? I'd rather drive an icepick through my ears than have to play those live.

I'm glad it all worked out but I do find it rather unimpressive that the original electronics lasted just ten years. Bad luck, I suppose.

'Budget' these days - it ain't what it used to be!

Awful. It was never a good song in my eyes and this excruciating cover somehow makes it even worse. I suspect that the only input Yoko had in the writing of the original was to influence the corny content of the lyrics.

Just to add balance, I have never seen what the fuss was about. I don't particularly rate him as a great player but then I have never really liked Jamiroquai. To me, they had a sound that aged like warm milk (I have always hated disco). British music went through a really rough spot as the 90's wore on. I can understand though, why Jamiroquai were a smash when they were. That warmed-over disco sound was unlike anything else going on in the early 90's. Synth pop was dead, rock was all dreadful grunge and electronic music was really taking off. Jamiroquai were their own genre, almost.

Anything where James LaBrie doesn't sing much and before Jordan Rudess joined would be a good start.

I'd replace like for like as best as I could. The Markbass Jeff Berlin combo and Cort Rithimic Jeff Berlin bass would be the absolute essentials and I consider the Pedulla Pentabuzz to be the best fretless around so that would also be replaced. The biggest headache would be replacing my 1994 SKC Bogart Blackstone like for like. They're fairly rare so another Bogart may be tough to track down to fill that position (my preference being five string, Bartolini soapbars). A Status is a bit different but I always like to have one graphite necked bass for the benefits they provide. A Modulus Quantum, despite being a more conventional design, shares a lot of tonal similarity with the Bogart so that may suffice as a replacement.

A back-from-the-dead bump for this thread, saying as I ordered one of these this evening. I received a Darkglass B3K last month from a very kind friend in the states who shipped it to me. Since then, I have been enjoying having some overdrive in my life. Whilst at work last night I saw that Bass Direct had a used EBS Billy Sheehan standard for sale. It wasn't a pedal I had heard of before but being a big fan of Billy's brilliant playing and thunderous tone, I decided I had to have one. I ordered it there and then, and that was that, until I woke up this afternoon to a PayPal refund an email from Marcus at Bass Direct telling me the pedal had sold. Luckily, Andertons had one of the deluxe models in stock for not much mire money, and with a couple of useful improvements over the standard pedal it seems this will be a sound buy. My brother has an Attitude Ltd II that I'm looking forward to hearing running with this new pedal.

I may have been wrong. Those B2's are rarer than a clean sheet in a nursing home so I may never see one. Looking at them in pictures though, the newest B2's do appear to have a satin finish as I would expect. Some of the older B2'S and Clover Slapper basses have a shiny gel-coat type finish similar to Status.

They have been back in production for a while now. I'm very glad to see this as I think they are stunning instruments. It's also good to see that they're back making carbon fibre necked basses. They used to use SKC necks made by Stefan Heß of SKC Bogart Blackstone fame. When Stefan closed his business, Schack went to making wooden necked instruments exclusively, presumably because they had no other supplier. With both companies back in action, it looks as though they have resumed that relationship. I recognise the neck profile and weave as being Stefan's work. I've never played a B2 but I know that neck will be flat and fast with a smooth satin finish. Man, I want one!

Stunning! The BT is the ideal Ken Smith shape IMO.