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And of course, “ where did the blue crayon go?”

Purple rain - prince

Recently sold both of my Berg 2x12s and went for the Schroeder 410L. Thinking the mid nature of this cab will suit the DB750 better. The DBX I put in the rack a few hours before last night’s gig. Just used the setting suggested on the manual and it works a treat.

Purple Cabbage - Lettuce

That is a beauty , Trevor. Never actually played a Sandberg , they have a great rep. I had a close call over a Dano Jade Green shortscale DC with the f hole , now I already have a cream coloured one , but $449 Cdn is a great price. Managed to call a friend who is thinking this is too good to pass on.

Plenty of experts on here @Hellzero? Amongst others

I’m really bad for forgetting to breathe when concentrating on anything! I like a wide range of stuff. If I could play along to my favourite album of all time, Velvet Underground & Nico, I’ll be made up! Stooges, punk, but also into trip hop, bit of soul & reggae to blues & country. Bit of James Brown & Chic would be brilliant.

Youre misunderstanding- I was joking that you must be a bass player mentally because you can do that stuff. Your average guitarist would not analyze their goal/progress in this way. “It’s loud” and “where’s the fuzz pedal?” Being the extent of must of their musings.

Rocket to the moon. Stranglers in

Nice to see it return to 4000 spec , I have a 76 4000 , thought I’d miss the neck pickup but that’s not the case. There’s a lot to be said for two knob simplicity.

For me it was by ear to my fave album - get the G in tune then match the rest. I found it easier with the G than the lower notes back then.

When I learned how to play I first off went to lessons so as to learn what the notes were, and where. I then bought the songbook of my favourite album and taught myself how play it, and gave up the lessons. I would probably be a lot better if I’d continued with the lessons.

For all the oldies like me who were playing before electronic tuners were widespread, how did you used to tune your bass and ensure all the band were in tune? I used to use an A440 tuning fork; I'd whack it in my knee and hold it over the pickup so it comes through the amp, and play a 12th fret harmonic on the A string, listening for the 'beats' to stop as I turned the A string's machine head. Then once the A string was tuned I'd play the 5th fret harmonic on the E string and the 7th fret harmonic of the A string and similarly listen for the beating to stop as I turned the E string's machine head. Then I tune the D & G strings similarly with 5th and 7th fret harmonics. Then I'd give the guitarist an E or A 12th fret harmonic for him to tune in a similar way. When there was a keyboard player it was even worse. It was a hassle, sometimes took a long time, and often a bit hit & miss — especially when changing strings. My modern tuners (TC Unitune & Boss TU-3W) make it a lot easier and quicker and it is easy to forget that classic 60s & 70s records were probably recorded with the instruments tuned like this. The rolling stones (or their road crew) used to use a Conn tube strobe unit to tune up backstage - which is currently for sale on reverb.

What you want to play will also determine whats most important to learn. If you want to play motown, there's no point learning to use a pick or if you only want to play covers then you won't need much theory or if you want to play funk you won't need to learn to change strings.