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Wonder if they'll get an angry letter from John Hall's legal team for the shape of the bass?

I think it’s genre specific. Sitting down classical or jazz gig… no problem. Everything else… nope! Ruins the performance.

Totally agree for gigging. I didn’t put it right but the thrust was they were not welcome at all ie not at rehearsals either. Personally I use one there so I can get the song in my head.

Hi bass community, I have a Mark Bass COMBO 121 and would like add an extension cab to beef up the sound, am I right in thinking it needs to be 8 OHMS to match the COMBO and will this increase the overall volume? regards Roger

All Together Now - The Beatles

I though this would be a little light relief after the Camilo/Tribal Tech epics but it wasn't. Bloody slapping. I hates it, I does (transcribing it, not hearing it). This is the Stefano Cerri bass part for the tune 'Surrender' from the 1982 Jon Anderson album, 'Animation'. A fantastic record that has never been off my playlists since the year it came out. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/surrender-jon-anderson/

I'm out now! Recent acoustic folk band rehearsals revealed that my Phil Jones Double 4 just didn't quite have the capacity against an acoustic drum kit. As a result, I borrowed a DB Hype 8 last week to try as a replacement, and it worked great. Pressed the go buy button the following day and it arrived yesterday. Looking forward to the gigs at the end of the month a lot more now.....

Sounds like a great night, nice one

What about it?

Looking at my gear ins/outs this year (so far) and am treating it more as an exercise in trying to keep in the black. Currently at about £75 in the red.

A really good, versatile sounding Guitar App. Picked, strummed and chord Arps. Check out the demos! Neo Guitar Series | Parallax Guitar

I have 3 Warwick Corvette 5-strings and they are each different; one in particular has a thicker neck which is not suited to my hands. I would assume that there are per-instrument variations in the other models too and thus you couldn't have 100% confidence that the one you were looking at would be just like the one someone had let you have a go on. TBH, though, the same applies to most instruments.

Went to a Mad Professor gig last night, live dubbing. Was a good show also with Joe Ariwa and Ariwa vocalists Abel Miller and I Jah. And a highlight for me was a new mix of this:

I've seen it for musical instruments, watches, and even a tool box. The issue is probably that they train the system using its own output, which therefore reinforces its ability to output meaningless drivel. It's the AI equivalent of inbreeding. I don't see how it will improve without them doing a rethink, because (if it is AI and not just a rule-based search & replace falsely presented as "AI") the system has been in place for many months and built its knowledge base on poor data. I did have a number of pages of predefined searches on eBay, which excluded the key phrases endemic in the "AI" descriptions to weed them out so I didn't have to see them. But, alongside that, eBay have also chosen to endorse counterfeits, using another implementation of its "AI" to assess reports, and declare no contravention of listing policy found; as a result, I lost faith in their service. They then introduced buyers fees (aka "buyer protection"), which states "If an item doesn’t arrive, is faulty or damaged, or doesn’t match the listing description, you can request a refund within 30 days of the delivery date." and "Experts verify the authenticity of your item for free and carry out a multi-point inspection all at no extra cost.", but how can you trust that when they are actively generating those descriptions and wilfully rejecting reports of counterfeits? So I've pretty much stopped using eBay.

Quite agree

Good job. If I am ever over that way I will pop by. Is that a lightning rod extension to the mic?

Odd post. Buy crap, do it up. Just buy a serviceable Squier, Harley Benton or EastCoast. And what exactly is a 'Hipshot rip-off tuner'?