The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[raleighnut]

Lovely guitar.

I used to struggle with Teles - heard too many set up with a treble that would shatter glass.

Hearing Robben Ford play a 1960 Telecaster completely changed that - how could it have such a fabulous tone?

It was good to get rid of that prejudice.

View: https://youtu.be/tMcMaGMtu-0

Pt 2

View: https://youtu.be/v8wsJ82wU1k

 

[Drago]

The guitar top left looks very similar to my Yamaha G-245s... What is it?

No idea im afraid. Its Mrs D's cheapo spanosh guitar from her schooldays, kept solely for sentimental reasons.

The bass on the right is my recently completed Fauxnder ash bodied PB, which I love to bits.

 

[DCBassman]

The black Precision has had an interesting life. Firstly, just upgrades to the guard, originally white. Then new electrics. Around 2010, the neck, which was incredibly thin front-to-back, started to bow, and kept on going until the truss rod started to break through the back of the neck. It went through several necks: an Allparts black blocks-and-binding Jazz neck. Then a Squier VM77 white pearl blocks-and-binding neck, really lovely to play. Then a battered but best of all to play, American Special Jazz neck. Finances forced me to reassemble and sell the American Special Jazz. So when when finances turned around, I bought a brand new 2014 American Special Jazz neck for it, with lollipop Hipshot tuners, and that's how it still is today. Another that I wish I'd kept: that Squier neck got fitted to a Squier VM Precision body which originally had a fretless neck. I put a Seymour Duncan SPB-3 vintage style pickup in it. It was a real monster of a P-bass. And it weighed under 7lb. Bassists can be weight weenies too!
I'll see if I can dig out a pic...

 

[DCBassman]

Monochrome, but it was sunburst, with a tort guard. This was an open-air gig, and we got eaten alive by bugs. It could have been Florida, but was in fact Okehampton...

 

[ColinJ]

No idea im afraid. Its Mrs D's cheapo spanosh guitar from her schooldays, kept solely for sentimental reasons.

Ah.

I was a bit surprised to see 40 year old Yahama G-245s guitars selling for £300-400 online - EXAMPLE.

 

[Drago]

Aye, people have finally got over the slightly racist prejudice of olde about Japanese gear being inferior. We know now its probably better than US or European gear for much less cash, and the vintage buyers have twigged that too.

 

[ColinJ]

Competition time again...

"This month, we're giving away a Line 6 Helix Stomp to one lucky winner..."

"Only those who sign up between 05/10/20 and 30/10/20 will be entered into the draw. Winners will be selected at random and will be informed via email.

Competitions are open to all except employees of GUITARGUITAR Ltd, the companies or organisations with whom the competition is being run, their agents or anyone directly connected with the competition. Competition only open to entrants in the UK. Prizes are as stated only and no cash alternatives will be given; our standard liability Terms & Conditions will apply too."

Enter HERE.

 

[DCBassman]

Tip: don't use Brave browser for this comp, it won't show the entry point! I used Edge.

 

[ColinJ]

Tip: don't use Brave browser for this comp, it won't show the entry point! I used Edge.

It amazes me that there are still incompatibilities between certain sites and certain browsers. Somebody recommended rawpixel.com to me for stock images. When I open the home page in Chrome version 86.0.4240.75 (Windows) it won't let me access the links at the bottom of the page. Every time I go to click on one the page scrolls up and fills with more images... Weird and annoying behaviour***!

*** Could somebody else running that version of Chrome see if the same thing happens to them. I don't think that the problem is with my setup, but if nobody else has the problem I will try to find out what is going wrong.

 

[Drago]

Works fine on chrome on my tab.

 

[ColinJ]

Works fine on chrome on my tab.

It works well on my Android phone too.

Windows/Chrome anybody...?

 

[MontyVeda]

It works well on my Android phone too.

Windows/Chrome anybody...?

Windows/Chrome here... I can only get to the bottom of the page by dragging the scroller bar all the way down; the links in the footer aren't live, then the page loads more images and I'm no longer at the bottom of the page

Looks like a good image site though

I reckon what's happening with the links is a shoddy build at their end... it's up to them to make sure everything works on all the major browsers.

[edit]... only seems to happen on the index page. click on a keyword and use the search and the footer works properly

 

[ColinJ]

Windows/Chrome here... I can only get to the bottom of the page by dragging the scroller bar all the way down; the links in the footer aren't live, then the page loads more images and I'm no longer at the bottom of the page

Looks like a good image site though

I reckon what's happening with the links is a shoddy build at their end... it's up to them to make sure everything works on all the major browsers.

Right, that is exactly what happens with me.

It does look like a good site otherwise. I have emailed them to tell them about the problem.

 

[MontyVeda]

Right, that is exactly what happens with me.

It does look like a good site otherwise. I might get in touch and remind them to check other browsers!

I edited to add that it's only on their home/index page... keyword searches deliver a page that isn't infinitely adding more and more images as you scroll down

 

[ColinJ]

I edited to add that it's only on their home/index page... keyword searches deliver a page that isn't infinitely adding more and more images as you scroll down

Yes, I discovered that just now when I went to the contact page! I have asked them to sort it out, and to test more thoroughly in future.