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I'd class that as easy listening proggyjazzrock, with a relatively straightahead rock groove! Here's a bass player who's just as good as La Dey but doesn't do dodgy ads for toxic slushies, and goes off-piste a bit more! One of my fave albums, btw... And in slightly less easy-listening news here's another bass player who despite often venturing quite well off-piste still manages to groove. And no influencer nonsense, though he had the "pleasure" of producing (arguably) John Lydon's best work... Waddya reckon, Sapko? 😁

Excellent work, good luck!

I am not sure that the clash is about how they play bass. It seems to me they can both play well and will appeal to different audiences. For me it’s more of a cultural clash between being a blinged up, revenue driven persona and a more down to earth, less sell your soul kind of ethos.

You can do anodising in the garage , it is affected by cold weather but you need to heat the solutions up anyway, you do have high current and the chemicals aren't fantastic, TBH they aren't very good at all,, but decent space, power, fresh air, respirator and slightly loose lids on containers make it potentially doable outside in the garage. Not that I'm looking to try it (yet). Painting with these special tough paints, especially with a roller, seems less desirable. I have to confess to using some paints and stuff sometime ago that stank to high heaven, and for some reason t'CFO isn't keen to repeat the exercise. I have no sense of smell (lost it 2014) so I have no issues which is part of the problem, she can smell it and I can't. Rob

Wikipedia has an exhaustive article on 9v batteries ... Wikipedia : 9v Batteries ... ... in which we learn that alcaline PP3's have much longer life (ma/h...) compared to NiMH. Lithium can last much longer yet, but will cost ten times more per battery. I would suggest that you invest in a battery tester, and test your alcalines before playing, so as not to change before it's necessary, and to include the cost of battery replacement as an inevitable cost of playing. Lithium batteries of the right type will mean changing less often, but at a much higher price. Your call, of course... Hope this helps.

I'd contact them, as new batteries every 8 weeks seems wrong to me.

She sounded great on the video and had chops that I couldn't possibly play, but, the thing that filled me with a bit of hope is that they were all very pentatonic within the 1/5/octave box (even the slapping), showing that if put under pressure even the great players resort to something that is a bit more recognisable. Staying on topic - Danny was on exactly the same show (link posted a few pages back) and did a pretty good job albeit on a far simpler track, which in my view had more of a groove, emphasising again that we have two people from very different spectrums of the bass community here - possibly as far apart as you can get - and maybe hence the entertaining clash.

Just all round easy peasy. And exquisite packing.

Space heater should do the trick. I used Tuffcab on some big band music stands this timelast year and used a hot air gun and fan heater to help the drying process. Just beware that the paint may remain soft under the outer skin for several days. Somerset also has similar conditions ATM. Hope it goes well

I've just managed to snag one of these for a decent price used. I've had plenty of synth pedals come and go over the years but this one suits me very well as it's compact and easy to adjust on the fly (I hated the C4's app). I have one patch dedicated to a clean signal with chorus which is handy. Tracking isn't perfect (or quite as good as in IMA's demos) but it's good enough for what I need in function bands. I've gigged it a couple of times as part of my big pedal board and will be using it in a new compact board (tuner>comp>mxr bass synth>tap pedal to change preset). I'll be doing Ain't Nobody with it live soon so I'll see how that goes - it seems decent enough at home...

Has anyone seen the videos that Tom Bukovac (a Nashville session guitar player) puts out? He did a behind the scenes one of a session he was on, where literally everyone in the room does exactly the same as Mohini did. Then they go back to joking around, quickly compare the charts they have just done, then go for a take. To be fair, I think that most people here will do something similar when learning new material. The difference is for people like me is that I will stop the playback a few times to give me chance to get each section, then listen to it again to check that I've got it right. If you are a top studio player then you're expected to be able to get it right first time (like she did)!

That’s great news Tom. Well done and good luck!

Bit far away for me, but you never know! Best of luck with it!

Thanks for the tips. A week ago I installed replacement Lakland pickups and had the opportunity to reseat the new cables, check the jack socket wiring etc. I'm not keen on replacing batteries so often, even when they are fine, though I will do it for the more important gigs rather than take a chance (it would be not cost effective to put a new battery in for every gig! - hence thinking about rechargables, ideally if they can be charged in place, from what I see that is not possible with NiMH (more stable voltage) unless I get some funky wiring set up, but would be with Li-ion.)

Yes: The Fish My life ain't complete without it, and no list of bass instrumentals is either. 🙂

Smaller cabs struggle with those low frequencies. When using compression, it's often the higher harmonics that are heard. Record a few measures and analyse the waveform with Audacity (or similar). You might be surprised.

Mate, that's fantastic! Really good news to hear of a dedicated live music venue getting going.