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Fortunate Son - CCR

This happened to my all-laminate bass last year. It's a rough-ass gigging bass and has had a pretty hard life to be fair. A friend who is more of a guitar tech, injected some hyde glue in the gap and clamped it for a couple of days and it has been good as gold ever since.

It was hijacked by scammers. I know it's difficult to be suspicious of everything - if you're a decent sort, it goes against the grain not to trust people - but needs must.

Since feeling a little disappointed by the lack of imagination shown in this series, I've restored my fascination with bass by rediscovering Graham Maby's brilliant playing on Joe jackson's first two albums, Look Sharp! and I'm the Man, both from 1979. A change in my circumstances has enabled me to retrieve my teenage vinyl collection after decades in storage, and these were there, unplayed this century. I was 16 when I bought these albums and was inspired then, and even more impressed 46 years later. At only 26, Graham had pretty much mastered what he was doing. Every track on these albums is worth listening to in my opinion, for his catchy, skillful, melodic basslines that are front and centre in the mix. Each album is under 40 minutes long, with influences from new wave, reggae, rock, blues and probably more, so if you've never done so, have a listen, Graham is one of the best IMO.

Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter - Iron Maiden

Thanks everyone.

Line 6 have excellent customer service. Put in a support ticket and maybe also mention it on the massive Facebook Helix group and they'll get it sorted out fast.

Certainly looks like mine 🙂

Doh! Just realised it says only available on my device.

First one in general. The second one might be amazing when sitting but crap when standing and so on. It might be comfy for a fewer amount of people.

This is an ace thread! I'm in an originals band called Fred The Fool - it's folk(ish) pop/rock. The name's from a silly old Lincolnshire folk story - our frontman's an archaeologist and a lot of the songs draw from local history around Lincoln. The line-up is: lead vocals/acoustic guitar, piano/accordian, mandolin/acoustic guitar, drums/percussion, bass/upright (me!) We've spent the last year and half forming and recording about 12 songs, which are in various stages of production now. Some of them feature cool musicians - Graham Rorie from Gnoss plays some really nice fiddle on a few of our tracks - amazing how many folk are just an Instagram DM away! Currently working on our live set for an album launch gig in February 2026. The plan's to record/film that too, circulate it with some promoters we know and see what happens? We did our first little gig the other week and it went pretty well - we've really just been focused on recording and producing the songs, so it was a fun challenge to try them out live! Snazzy website: https://www.fredthefool.com

Thanks!!!!

Nice pic Mickey! Do you have any video clips of this 5 piece in action?

Talk to your daughter- Robben Ford and the Blue Line

Yeah it saves having to leave space to insert a headphone jack or a lead if you are using it as an output.

Line6 POD Express Bass I have recently purchased one of these and have found that any saved setting I make disappears after a day or two. Andertons only say to do a firmware update or a factory reset (which is their answer to everything) but neither worked. Has anyone else had this issue? Not a fan of pedals, but bought to cover a particular track and for general messing around. It has potential but not if it is unreliable or unstable.

A Angled headphone adapter is an excellent idea!