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Around five years ago we had a guitarist who was a habitual drink-driver. His average intake on gig nights was four pints of beer, after which he’d drive home. Looking back, we cut him too much slack. He was younger than the rest of us and we tried advice and persuasion on him, to no avail. Eventually we sacked him, but in his eyes we were the bad guys.

Hm I’ve gone from graphite necked midi equipped basses to vintage wooden short scales. Probably about as opposite as you can get!

Maybe it's 20 replies to the same post!

Always been into 5 strings since I was a nu-metal teenager 25 years ago, and this has not changed. I've had pretty much every popular 4 string going and always find myself going for something more modern (and 5/6 string), the 'traditional basses' just don't work for me overall. Although I do have a P with flats for occasional use.

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'To celebrate the legendary roots reggae band - Misty In Roots’ 50th anniversary, are set to reissue their classic back catalogue, starting with their classic debut album - Live At The Counter Eurovision ‘79.' (Bandcamp link) ....which is good news as geting their records (either physically or digitally) isn't easy. 50th anniversary live shows later this year too. ♨️

Started out on a P-bass, with tapes 🙂 80's came along. Embraced active EQ, silly shapes, heady pegheads, neck through, garish colours etc; even dabbled with 5 strings. Tried the P-bass again early 2010's, this time single coil 51 style. That's me set for life 😎

Nice. I have to query, because it's making my pedantism itch, is "but we're joint at the hip" between 0.33 and 0.35 deliberate rather than the usual "joined at the hip"? If so then I'll shut up. I like the song and the video though

The best low B I've ever heard is on my NS-design CR5M electric upright. It probably has something to do with its 41.73″ scale length

Went from a Jazz to being obsessed with Precisions for 15 years to Singrays and all things humbucker and then back to Jazz and super Jazzes. And just picked up another P lol

Not being funny but have you experimented with a narrower shoe for gigs? I have this problem even with separate pedals; especially if I’m wearing Doc Martens! Same thing with overly pointy shoes. Never happens in rehearsals when I’m invariably wearing sneakers…

The 2 best B strings I've played, I own. A Vigier Excess 5 and a Spector Euro LX 5. I'd give the edge to the Spector if you twisted my arm. Only have GAS for more Spector's now... Honourable mention to the Stingray 5 I had in the late 90s which had an OUTSTANDING B string. I've tried a few including custom builds from Shuker and ACG, Dingwall AB1, Fender RB5, MM Bongo, Lakeland, Sire... None were awful but I'm coming round to the idea that stiffness of the neck is rather more important than scale length to a good B string.

In my defence I was young, inexperienced and foolish, but essentially, yes - I buggered off! I left all my gear and went back for it under the cover of darkness (well, late afternoon).

This and the passive Warwick are going well. the Free The Tone EQ is such a cool pedal

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