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End Of The Road - Boyz II Men

Barefaced do cloth grilles and custom tolex jobs. Trace Elliot green 210 with Elf on top?

Bought a G&L SB 2 Tribute from Matt. Great guy and a very smooth process. I’m very happy to recommend Matt to all Basschatters 👍

This was before the disaster at Donnington '88. Everything changed then. It was amateurish. The PA was supplied by Malcolm Hill, who made all the equipment. https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/inside-the-live-sound-of-live-aid-part-1-london Howard Jones was told that the keys on the piano were sticking so he had to give them a good bash to free them up first. The flooring was mainly plastic, with some reinforcement where vehicles would drive. Crowd control would have been non-existent.

Dead End Street - The Kinks

3 of my 5 bass guitars are fretted ( counting the acoustic one) but it's one of the two fretless basses ( and my double bass ) that get 90%+ of the playing time. Took my fretted 5 to a jam session last week and found I'd forgotten how to play it.

Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

Never seen the point. Ebony works fine for me.

Got through 2 ½ hours of rehearsal with the originals band tonight. Finalised arrangements for three songs and started tidying up a fourth. Quite chuffed as two of the songs I'm using a plectrum and my technique is starting to tidy up - the P sounds awesome through my gigging rig. For one song in Bb I use my tuner as a capo on the E string... Have tried to apply a bit of music theory to my basslines and it's starting to pay off with some non-obvious melodic lines on the quieter songs. Have confidence I can survive gigging this weekend.

This one even has built-in phantom power. Thanks for sharing this. Mark

But it's a toy you said? No validation for studio volumes? Something with a marvellous tone that can be micced on stage? Anyway, Hevos used to have some colour options. Laney has the lx15 in red, Phil Jones has some too. Tolexing in itself isn't that hard to do, or expensive.

Now I'm confused. My Les Paul is passive and has independent volume and tone per pickup. What am I missing?

And... it's started working normally again...

I owned a JV Squire Jazz back when they first came out. It was a very nice bass. Not sure I would pay what they are going for nowadays for one, though. I've never played a Fullerton reissue from that era. I just recounting what was written about them at the time to the best of my recollection. With bass guitars as with most other things in life, people, myself included, can get nostalgic about anything.

How much are kidneys fetching these days? - asking for a friend……… https://ebay.us/m/AAxh9X

Hi Doctor J! Thanks for the speedy reply! So I took your advice on board and gave the neck some slight relief to the point that the strings weren't rattling any more (no rattles anywhere up or down the fret-board, open string or otherwise). I then intonated the bridge again and did the test of pressing down on the first and last fret and checked the 8th and 9th fret and can confirm I've got the gap to just less than the width of a business card. So far so good! However, the action still seems utterly rubbish. I've attached a photo for reference. For background, this is the first and only bass I've ever owned. Perhaps I'm being overly finicky about action height based on coming from guitar!

Yes, you would think they would do a 500, or 600 watt head. They have a Peavey 600 watt head in the same stable.

September 5th at Krakatoa...

Just purchased a MarkBass MB58R 102 Energy cab from GILLY What a decent guy to deal with, transaction was prompt and great ch communication throughout. Cab arrived exactly as described and he added a free Speakon lead too. Highly recommended Basschatter

A13, Trunk Road To The Sea - Billy Bragg

Bendricks Rock: classic rock, all eras from late 60s. Tends to the heavier end. Fortunate Sons: 60s/70s rock, more chart hits. Still to debut with them as missed my first gig due to being ill. Bluesfire: blues rock 'power trio'. Guitar prodigy Fractured Persona: originals somewhat gothy/punky. With a bit of an art-rock element. Got our songs, working on arrangements. More a recording project than great live ambitions, but our gig plans would suit Alice Cooper...