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Bought a set of strings from Dave, nice easy stress fee deal as usual + fast delivery. Highly recommended - as ever. Thanks Dave👍

givin the dog a bone - AC/DC

Dig up her bones - Misfits

very fair

obvs - Ace of spades - Motorhead

In which case we've met lol I'm coming to the show at the C&H in a couple of weeks, so Ill find you all being well lol

I have 2 basses I use regularly. One is a laminate Chinese slapper. The other is a carved Westbury (also Chinese) which I use for jazz and swing. But they have different neck scales. So swapping between them plays havoc with the intonation, particularly in the upper registers and thumb position. One solution suggested by a luthier is to carve a new nut to shorten the scale of the laminate bass and make both basses the same. This sounds expensive, and I would be spending money on the inferior instrument. I have read that when players hire a bass with a scale they aren't used to, they will slip the bridge slightly off the f-hole notches to tweak the scale. Do you think that might work for me? I would doing it on the laminate, which presumably has a more robust top the carved one. Tone wise it's not really an issue, because the laminate is kept really heavily damped down to control feedback.

The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

Sadly these days I just walk away at the slightest sniff of scam, both as buyer and seller. Luckily most scammers are lazy and generic so they're easy to spot, but some are certainly more subtle, and a few are downright cunning. But for me there is a 100% watertight rule, trust your gut; if it feels dodgy, shut it down. There is a very good scientific database behind our evolved and largely subconscious ability to detect deception and cheating in others. But there's a problem and scammers understand that problem very well; the apprehension and anxiety that feeds into our gut feeling can be over-ridden by hope and its cognitive consequences; "I feel like it's dodgy (anxiety) but I want it to be legit (hope) and think how good it would be if it was....". Excitement! Anxiety is an evolutionarily ancient and tried and trusted emotion. Hope and excitement less so. Always trust your anxiety 👍 Apols for lecture, been a long week and i need a beer

Lucky Guy - The Muffs

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 🙂