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Now all you need is a baby and somewhere to post it to.

There you go All sorted. I periodically do the same. I have to make sure that the basses I have are all either earning money, or actually appreciating in value, otherwise they need to go out the door to be exchanged for pictures of the Queen. This plan usually works, although I recently got a '95 Stingray and having had some work done on it, it's rapidly become a firm favorite. My beautiful Am.Perf.Mustang is up for sale at the moment, too. It only did half a live tribute show, so it's a case of "Door"!

'Low end' equates to playing bass. Welcome btw. 🤗

So an update a few months on. I have decided which I am keeping, simply because I'll keep the ones I'm using. I've use the Lakland live with a band called Thermions, for semi acoustic sets. It is solidly built, sounds great and looks great. The Gretsch is lovely in every way, but I haven't used it other than at home so I have decided to move it on. Note: I don't use my short scales so they will have to go, lovely though they are (I also have a supro) The Spectorcore is my Hellcats back up, It has been used for a gig and for rehearsals. Its nice and light and sounds great so its a keeper My peerless, I have already invested in and it looks cool. It's my 4 string "rock bass" and used for live informal work

Here's me in 1967 wearing my "kipper tie", and playing my Burns Sonic Bass that I purchased second-hand for £15 from a mate's mate.

Thanks for all the replies - much appreciated. I sent the pictures to my usual guitar tech/luthier and she said there’s a possibility it might be repairable but the cost might make it uneconomical. Also, I took those pictures in the break between sets, but the crack had gotten worse by the end of the second set. If nothing else else I’ve now got an excuse to get a new bass 😁

To be fair, I haven't played (or wanted to play) a violin bass since 😆

Nice. What basses have you chosen ? Is that a Sire Jazz in front ? Dave

Hi Ruari, it's not here, is it?

What is the low end, price?

Yup. I'm an aspiring songwriter and I'd have been pretty pleased with myself with a couple of those Rick Beato AI songs. I will definitely have to up my game. Rick showed a song that was nearly completely machine generated, but I can see people feed in their own lyrics, have the AI system generate the tune & harmony, then learn to perform it themselves, and it becomes a very blurred line between human and AI art.

We had a reasonably musical family, my nan, mum and uncle all played piano but my uncle played keys in a band in that London, covers and a bit of a party band who did well in the late 60s/early 70s. when he quit, me and my brother inherited his Vox keyboard , AC30 head and a Selmer 2x12 cab . this was awesome and great fun , but a trip to Steptoes in canal street meant £15 was invested on a epiphone Gibson copy , and a rat pedal followed. this lead to some great noises from the garage, that not all the neighbours appreciated. However , Mrs Tristram next door was a touch more enlightened , and happened to mention that her eldest , Graham , had an old guitar that he wasn’t using and was in a box under the bed. And Lo , I became the owner of a late 60’s Hofner violin bass…with a broken neck socket , but hey , I was 17 , had my dads tools, and yes, a couple of wood screws put it back together. Having a bass at school was a novelty and thus I was seconded to play at all the assemblies and school shows. I moved on to an old Fender I think (that would probably with a fortune now , but was pennies or I wouldn’t have bought it) , that went missing as did the keys , amp and cab from a rehearsal room . suffice to say that my brother took on the violin bass duties at school and obviously corrupted @Leonard Smalls after his exposure to its subtle charms 😁

It's really good to see so much love for the little XR/MR18 mixers. I was fortunate enough to be given an MR18 by a good friend of mine as he said it was a bit iffy. However, a firmware update and some reflowing of a few xlr joints on the pcb and a couple of years later it's still going strong! The rack contains a budget IEM until the gear fund is enough to get a ew300 G4 kit. Around the back is 1u patch panel with Powercon and 2 thrus to feed my kemper rack and a 4 way for laptop, chargers etc... Also scored a Behringer P16D and a couple of P16M controllers which the bass player and the drummer have. The little green Cat5 is for the drummers Roland TD12 inputs (4 way rack di at the bottom of his rack with the cat tails coming from that) This enables my singer, lead guitarist and my self to use the stereo auxes on the mixer itself as we're all wireless iems in stereo.

Zomby Woof - Zappa.

I’m A Werewolf, Baby - The Tragically Hip

Phoenix Rising! I had another full-gig dep with my old band at a nice pub in Gillingham (Dorset) on Sunday afternoon. I don’t think the pub's name (‘The Phoenix’) was inspired by my gently-reviving bass career, but who knows? Mrs G came a long as it was a 4-7pm daylight gig in the pub garden, on a very pleasant sunny day, with free drinks for the band all afternoon and a good crowd – whoopee! I took the H-B Mustang-alike along with my usual AG700 and Darkglass 2x12 through an Aguilar boost pedal. It’s nice how my set-memory sprang to mind after months of not playing bass, even down to those unfortunate (but thankfully occasional) bum notes. I unwittingly added a little street-theatre to the second set – the KB player uses a bespoke drink-glass holder screwed to his mic-stand. This works fine with normal beer glasses, but the pub was (for some reason) using stemmed glasses with a C of G was a lot higher than normal, and his drink-holder had a gap in its circumference neatly judged to allow the stem of a glass to fall through. During an enthusiastic bout of pogo-ing I managed to swipe the glass with the head of the bass, the glass fell through the holder and upended a good ¾ pint of beer all over and into the KB - cue some interesting electronic noises and a mild ‘bang’. The KB-ist started laughing, removed the KB from its stand then stood in the street pouring beer out of a vent in the side of it, left it to dry in the sun, drove home (nearby) and got a replacement KB – back on the stand after we had done 20 minutes as a four-piece to cover – what a trouper! Here’s hoping it dried out and just needed a fuse… I did my usual sax-set, we finished at 7.15, Ms G and I were back nursing a cup of tea and an upset cat (‘What time do you call this?!’) by 9.15, then we slept like whacked haddocks. ‘Yes’, I thought just before starting to snore, ‘this gigging is as exciting (and tiring) just as I remember it! ‘ ZZzzz…

I did say at the bottom of my response that it mimics how humans learn. The difference being while we take information a bit at a time, AI can read and digest large volumes very quickly. The legal decision is can tech derived art be classified as art… luckily not my decision to make!