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Hard shoes to fill Jack 👍

It’s tuned H to N

Hi Andy where is the gold one from please? I’m interested for my p bass. Many thanks

I would be surprised if there weren't previous transcriptions of this but, in celebration of the album's 50th anniversary, this is the complete Mike Rutherford bass part for the title track of the Genesis masterpiece, 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'. Tougher than would would expect and all done with a pick. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-lamb-lies-down-on-broadway-genesis/

Last saw one of these being played at the Mos Eisley Cantina.

You are not alone @binky_bass... 😉 Instead of speaking of boutique basses, I prefer the term luthier basses, because this is what are my basses and if I've gone that path, it's because I couldn't find what I was looking for in mass produced instruments when I started playing fretless bass 40+ years ago, yes I really started with a fretless as it's the bass tone I hear in my head. Before the first fretless I had an awful Maya EB-2, then a way better Ibanez SoundGear SDGR 800, but I was simply noodling, and then came the first fretless, a now long gone Aria Diamond Violin that had been defretted by Christophe Leduc to my request and fitted with EMG pickups including a piezo pickup: It sounded ace and made me want to take lessons to learn music, but I was attracted by the fretless ERB, hence these luthier made basses that started my love for these instruments, because I had no other option available back then. That said, I like some vintage instruments too for what they are, and even if I'm a vintage Fender expert (some mates here can confirm this), I don't own any Fender vintage instruments anymore, because they don't meet my requirements at all. It's all about tone, nothing more, and, yes, I fancy coffee table fretless basses as well as ultra well thought instruments designed around efficiency and tone. So, please, accept that we don't all like the same stuff. 😉

Been there... Many times. 🤣

Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp

Perfect summation 😉 Are you a mind reader? 🤣

Drummer: We are sounding pretty tight even with this dep guy. Guitarist: Listen to my playing, I'm on fire! ...as usual. Singer: Something is off somewhere, just can't quite hit the notes. Punters: This band sounds great. Bass player: Must keep smiling, Must keep smiling. 🤣

Looks like a (compromise) version of my onboard patch management idea may make it into the next public release too. The compromise is actually a bonus as it will run in the global menu, which means it won’t eat up memory from the main app, which in turn will leave space for other later improvements. Some real quality-of-life improvements coming in the next update that address most (if not all) of the things people are saying give the MXR Bass Synth an advantage.

Especially if he had brought his own bass

Not really the intermodulation thing that Doom does. You can set up complex distortions that react dynamically or to pitch though.

Great write up - felt I was there 😉 . For some reason I thought you were going to be on grass/mud! That's a nicely positioned drain. Well done for going home and improvising solutions to the keeping things dry problem. That's a ton of songs to learn, I feel your joy and pain. I like your "creative lapses" phrase and promise to give it back once I've used it!

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

We graced a huge sports bar last night. Palpable sense of menace in the air, drunken, broken nosed, tattooed football fans wandering into the playing area to chat with the singer during songs, people asking for Pink Floyd tunes (we're an Irish band, whistles, mandolins, cajon etc) and one guy offered to take over as our bassist. I nearly let him.

Hehe, yeah, though Boston at night wasn't that bad - I've experienced worse! It cost me more in travel than the fee (my car is very pricy to run and was bought before gigs were back on the table!). The dep aspects are here...