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The first photo was around 1983 when I was posing for a photo student friend. The more recent was taken at a gig where i was depping for a Bob Marley Tribute band.

Ah shame. I have a stand that I could let you have that would probably work for you.

I'm back from a week at music summer school near Stafford. This year I'd signed up for a different set of classes to the past. I did conducting, solo singing, string orchestra, chamber orchestra, and choir. I even managed to overcome my dread/fear of singing solo in public and sang in the solo singing recital. I chose "Where'er you walk" by Handel. The YT video is sung by a counter tenor, so an octave higher than I sang it. The venue is a grand country pile which is now used to run arts activities, mostly for schools.

Yamaha is never a gamble at this price bracket, absolutely solid. The squier choir conveniently forget to mention how lucky you have to be to find a good one.

People didn’t really bring cameras to gigs in the 80s so my earliest band pics are of us stood around smoking cigarettes, thinking we were a bit edgy! The earliest live pic I can find is on tour with SkinTrade in the early 90s at The Old Angel in Nottingham. That P bass did all my early gigs, as did that awful (& heavy Peavey combo). And bringing the world into colour, with Deadlight Dance in Salisbury back in April. I’m back to having basses / kit that isn’t sold on so quickly. However, now I have a handful of decent basses and both quality amp and ampless setups.

Annie, I'm Knot Your Daddy - Kid Creole and The Coconuts

Thanks a lot @AndyTravis

First around 1977-78 Jedson short scale catalogue special, photo taken in my bedroom (I was probably playing through the family stereo using the old trick of the microphone input and putting the tape deck in record and pause). Second one June 2025, playing my Boosey Hawkes Excelsior double bass, no amp, EBS Stanley Clarke preamp straight to FOH with in-ear monitors.

Thanks for the info. I live in Saffron Walden,Essex.

For you, Headless, of course!!! some more oil today….

2009 - my first gig with my first originals band Panda Eyes, at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen. 28/06/2025 - Me disproving Thunderbird neck dive theory at Maud Football Club with Nine Lives.

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I don't play like him, sound like him, or look like him, but he's the reason I started this.

What would Green Day do? I reckon they'd do what Dave Grohl, Solomon Burke and Ozzy did when illness and injury happened. . . . they did the gig sitting down. If the bar stool is the wrong image, get one of those outsized thrones and plonk it in the middle of the stage. The show must go on!!

All Tied Up - Robin Thicke

Hanging around. Stranglers

I would expect the weight of JB4 and SR4N string necks to be relatively close to one another.

I need a set of measurements from a 4 string jazz bass neck just to check against the 3D model. Can anyone provide widths at nut, 12th fret and20th fret? Likewise depth of neck at nut, 12th fret and end of the neck heel? Also length of heel to the start of the shoulder?

What made you pick up that first bass at the start of this long and winding road? Aged 19 or 20 (can’t remember) and had never played an instrument in my life. Went out with some friends away at uni who were home for the hols and when we got back to his place he pulled a black & maple precision. I was hooked from that very moment. That was 1978. Do you still have the same fire and enthusiasmr? Do you still love it? Of course. I didn’t play at all between the ages of 24 and 50 but it’s a huge part of my life now especially since I retired What has changed along the way? The internet ! - the resources out there are so vast compared to the early days. I’ve never read music and still learn songs by memory. Any song you need to learn is available to you. Your taste in music, taste in basses? Taste in music - wide and varied, always has been. Interesting how we have gaps in our music exposure which normally fits in with having children and therefore no time to listen to anything knew. Taste in basses - having been through dozens of basses since I started playing again I have settled on my Dingwall ABZ. Can’t see me ever parting with it What was the first bass? A p bass copy of unknown origin. First proper bass was Ibanez Roadster bought from Curly Music in Liverpool And what’s the latest? Latest bass was a Dingwall NG3 4 string. Very nice but the ABZ is better. But a few months ago I decided to learn drums so funds have gone on building a nice Roland e-kit

Is that word Woooahh?