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Bass nerd question: what model is the non-66 RI Jazz lurking behind? Also, does this mark WoT becoming a Jazz affucionado rather than the dedicated Precision guy of the last umpteen years?

Im sure they just make stuff up. Any time they quote an anonymous source or "insiders tell us" that just means theyre making it up. And then there's the shouting a question that they know the target would never answer and do it at the same time as a dozen other journalists are shouting equally pointless questions just so they can say "Mr Bottomflaps has refused to comment about the situation involving the Chancellor and a hamster"

Oh, I’ve pushed the boat out. I’m using a tuner pedal 😄

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Or even worse, when they're waiting for something to happen, the whole channel has programmes cancelled while a news anchor says "from our correspondent at... What's happening there?" and correspondent says "we're expecting that X or Y might happen, and here's the building it might happen in, and there may be some people in there who it will happen to or will do the happening". Then it's back to anchor who calls up an expert to do some vaguely informed speculating on whether the thing is going to happen. This is repeated until News can no longer justify taking over the channel for no good reason*. And meanwhile, we're all missing Bargain Hunt! *when I worked for Auntie Beeb, News were incredibly arrogant - they felt that all the other programmes were just filler between news. I'm sure that's true of all news organisations!

😳 that stuff about aliens was true …

Stiff Upper Lip - AC/DC

Actually one of my peeves there - "Fred Smith got stabbed yesterday in Biggleswade high street, we now go to our reporter standing in the street in Biggleswade' - "Hi, Im reporter, and I am standing in a street in Biggleswade where yesterday someone was stabbed, somewhere down there". Why did they need to be there? "Big change in government policy, going to our reporter live on the roof near parliament' - "Hi, yes, I am standing on the roof of a building in the cold to tell you something that happened in one of the rooms near here".

Be Stiff - Devo

Hi Hana, for the sheer wide range of your musical tastes, you'd be best served with a simple passive Jazz. The Jazz is sonically very versatile & also suits more hand sizes with it's slimmer neck. You can always add a preamp pedal later if you feel you need more 'oomph'. As for the Japanese 'LawSuit' era Basses, have a look at an early Tokai Jazz Sound JB-45R. There are some lovely examples around. They're often better than the original Fenders from that period, too. Most of all, enjoy your bass playing! We'll be interested to hear which way you end up going

I'm not on my phone. IMO phones a terrible for doing anything on this site other than basic passive browsing. I have already turned off Push Notifications. What I want is a way of banishing forever the pleading for me to turn them on.

Ah, go on push the boat out… something subtle and understated like a Bootsy Star Bass for the rocky numbers and an Ibanez Iceman for the ballads. G’wan, you know you want to! 🤣🤣🤣🤩

Journalists seem to have Tourette's Syndrome... I was watching BBC Breakfast yesterday while doing my ever-lengthening stretching routine (it's got to be done!), and for some reason one of the presenters was in Downing Street (why? what will that accomplish?) when he said "we have here our political correspondent Ooglie (could be!) Zefferman", and sure enough, there he was. So they started with the usual wild speculation when in the background David Lammy could be seen sauntering towards No.10. Mr Zefferman was in the middle of a sentence to Presenter-Man when he broke off, shouted to Mr Lammy across the road "Mr Lammy, how long has Keir Starmer got left as Prime Mincer?" and immediately continued with his interview. Lammy, as one would expect, completely ignored him. Now this isn't just Zefferman, it's reporters in general of all stripes. They shout at their intended target as soon as they're in eye-shot, and never get an answer. It's a complete waste of time, and annoying for anyone who hasn't got this affliction.

Thats the thing that matters really when it comes down to it. Unless you are auditioning for a named group where they want some specific look or you are recording and want an exact sound, then 90% of what matters is playability and a look that you like. I have loads of basses here, ibanez, maruschyk, musicman, rickenbacker, spector, shuker, hohner etc and I can take any bass to any gig and it will be fine (almost - I need a 5 string for my gigs, and one of the rics is a 4), noone will notice a difference, apart from me. So its down to what I want to do.

This ^ I can't speak for the effects of fretting a formerly fretless neck, but I've had basses that sang with a fretless neck and were comparatively lifeless when a fretted neck was installed (I like to chop and change necks). OK, the fact that it's both the original neck and that it's graphite reduces the risk somewhat, but I can't help feeling that Tony's advice is good advice 👍

Yes, we've already emailed Rob & Dawn - awaiting response... Kiwi suggested Jon Shuker who apparently has experience, as well as Mike at Zoot & Simon at GUS. All avenues to be explored.

I also just saw that you ca do this in the app. On the menu go account settings, notification settings and then at the bottom there are notification types available. Turn off push.

I wear a ring on each finger of my fretting left hand and take them off when playing ! John 😎

I read a piece recently about refretting a parker fly, which has frets glued to a carbon fibre fingerboard. The luthier (tony thompson) glued a thin ebony veneer to the existing fingerboard and cut the frets into that. If the extra couple of mm of neck thickness isnt a problem for you, that could be a solution

That will most likely be a setting on your phone. It’s different on android & Apple but if you go settings and look for notifications then apps there should be a slider next to Basschat