Recent content by Theatomicpunk

it's maple by the way

Hi I have just stripped a poly finish p bass with a heat gun, got some scorching on the back, have spayed some household bleach on it and rubbed it in and left it in the sun, not sure if this will work , I dont have a respirator to use with proper wood bleach, however when I am finished success...

Phew I like to play sweet child of mine but my bassline is not as cool as Duffs or some of the tabs Ive seen, I tend to just follow the changes and re use a lot of the lines, Duff's lines are constantly changing and going off all over the place

toneprint worked straight outta the box with my ipod touch 4g and I swapped the chorus for spectracomp. played round and round by ratt through it and also secrets by van halen and bits of other stuff like is this love, november rain, jump etc

Got My BG250 today, (the old model, there is a new one now with 2 tone print banks) It was thanks to this thread that I got mine, Did a lot of research on here, needed a low cost amp that was lightweight reliable and capable of playing with a drummer and guitars. I'm in England and got mine for...

I have wanted some dayglow fuorescent pickup covers for ages as I like the 90s hair metal and shred scene and the guitars loked so cool, its very difficult to find any mention of them for bass though,

Nice job...you guys rock, Im hoping to put up a vid in the near future, am new to bass so am learning songs from tabs or just playing scales, I enjoy playing along to ratt and van halen songs. It is good looking through this thread and seeing all the great musicians. keep rockin......Paul

Im a recent noob to bass, I have a small ashdown tourbus 10 for practising in the house and it is superb for that, I fancied a five fifteen mini stack for if I end up jamming with people but popular opinion was that the 100w 5:15 would not keep up with a drummer. I recently saw the tce bg250...

evil fury............I like it \m/ \m/

BTW that StudyBass website is invaluable thanks for the link

Malcolm that was an awesome post, Thanks very much it is going to be really helpful, I especially like the tips for starting with root n first beat then adding other notes from the chord/scale on different ones, that will really help with learning songs from fake chord sheets. all in all very...

Why does it matter......you just have to live life the way you want to,I'm still rockin long hair, bandanas,guyliner and black nail polish,riding custom motorcycles and listening to great bands, I feel sorry for people who have to conform because the earth has moved round the sun a specific...

Thanks guys I have a little basic knowledge like major scales and their modes and how to build chords from scales just need to brush up on it a bit, i also have the fretboard logic course coming for guitar which deals with the caged system. thanks for all your input and have a great weekend....paul

Hey guys Thanks for the further post's sorry i did not acknowledge them straight away I did not check my thread as ithought there would be no more posts, Thanks for the links to your site, Bass mentor and Thanks i will check it out, and thanks jay2u for your insight on playing both styles and...

awesome, thank's guys for the info, I was on the carol kaye site this very morning , thanks for the link as I had closed my browser, yes I use really rigid picks, usually the purple tortex ones, or the stubby jazz 3. I have a range of picks about 1mm to 2mm, got a v pick too which is very...