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Some buskers in Philly... Though the drummer is ex-Ornette Coleman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and James Blood Ulmer sideman, Grant Calvin Weston!

Government Hooker - Lady Gaga

I met Dave Swift at the same Bass Bash and asked him about this. He said if he used a flat-wound B string it sounded ‘like a football hitting a sheep’! No-one has mentioned Dingwalls yet, so… Dingwalls. They (and other fan-frets) overcome the common problem of indistinct B strings by using a different scale length for each string. I had a Super P (with 35in B) that did the 5-string Precision thing brilliantly. I only traded it because I discovered I liked the tightness of a 37in B.

Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles

My comment would be why you have two tone switches? You would have no tone cut with both off, the same tone cut if you have either of the switches on and double the cut if you put both on? If that is the effect you might as well have a centre off switch and do it all on one switch, rather than have the two redundant one on / one off modes?

Money Changes Everything - Cyndi Lauper

we use soundrop, costs about £1 a track (or did last time we used it) and they put it on most if not all the streaming sites, get a statement every month giving details of how many streams and where the songs have been streamed, when the amount reaches $20 we get a payment, which takes an age, especially now spotify don't pay anything till a 1000 streams in a 12 month period is reached

What's a Telephone Bill (when you're in love?) - Bootsy's Rubber Band

When I messed around with this during Covid I initially did the above, recording the audio and video through different means and then having to stitch together, was a right faff, but then I discovered this handy device - https://www.roland.com/global/products/gomixer/ - basically just plug it into your phone and plug your bass into it and you’re good to go. Sounds like this - https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrLGJrCewa/?igsh=MWU4MTBxcXYwM21jaA==

First bass: Cheap Hohner By Rockwood P bass Go to bass: Warwick Thumb 'Your' bass: Alpha hammerhead

That is a beautiful bass. The quality on the German-made Sadowsky basses is really something to behold. When they first teamed up with Warwick I was sceptical. Nowadays it would be a difficult decision between a NYC custom shop bass or the German equivalent. I've never seen Fender-style basses made better than these. You can't go wrong with the classic olympic white/tort combo. If you opt for a maple fingerboard it goes with the off-white painted body and if, as in this case, you choose a darker wood for the fretboard it goes with the tort guard. May I ask, was the extra-long wait time due to the bass being left-handed or was it just due to Warwick being very late on their estimated delivery date. I'm presuming they didn't quote you nearly four years when you ordered the bass?

The Bass Gallery has a very clean (if pricey) Fullerton RI Precision. Looks great and also pretty light (8.6 pounds) https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/fullerton-p-gally-on-me

A Fender with a decent low B in my experience is a case of trying several. I lucked out with my Mexican Player Plus Jazz V. I don't blame the 34" scale either as I have two Warwick fivers with excellent low B strings.