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Eeeasy Literally a 5 minute job.

Yep. I've got a Squier Contemporary Tele for when I feel the need to do the skinny-string thing. Looks, feels and hangs like a Tele. But it's got pretty hot HH pickups so it sounds, to my ears, like an SG!

Oh, and there's few things worse than a trumpet player who comes from the 'HIGH and LOUD' school. The ones with the cheeks like leather bowling balls who haven't worked out that monophonic instruments can sometimes lay out during other player's solos, or that sounding like a pinched balloon neck being rapidly deflated is not a desirable trait in a soloist.

I think it’s true that nobody bettered sabbath . Skipping school and going through my siblings record collection , I first stumbled upon Vol4 , then master of reality . Then the 1st album. I ended up buying all ozzy era sabbath asap back in the day . I’d say the first side of sabotage is the last great thing they did ..with ozzy! As for Dio fantastic voice , but I couldn’t gel with that era . I was at the heaven and hell gig at hammy o , and myself and friend were bored out of our skulls . Dio solo was much better . Ozzy solo , I got bored around the ultimate sun era. I’m convinced he wore wig on that tour, as he apparently shaved his head around that time . He looked very much like Sharon in east Enders at the time . I liked no more tears , and I think Perry mason is the best song he did for years . It’s a shame that he did the mtv series , as it made him a laughing stock imho. I went to The Hyde park gig 10 years ago, and I thought that would be a fitting way to bow out . I had to eat my words , when I saw the villa park gig on you tube ( most of it anyway ) . He was struggling with not being able to stand up , but sabbath played well. The bands that turned up made the day also . Ozzy ..and sabbath true legends . One other thing ; although I was lucky to be front row on blizzard of ozz tour at hammy o , I was puzzzled to receive a letter from hammy o regarding the diary of a madman tour at the time . He was due to return for uk tour , and was offered a refund which I took. I cannot remember if it was because of the bat , or Randy Rhodes .

A couple of years back I worked an acoustic duo with two guitars. Very laid back, restaurant music. Occasionally had a percussionist sit in and he was generally excellent and tasteful. One particular show he was suffering from an ear infection and consequently the volume kept going up with a particularly piercing cowbell right in my ear line. I could have handled that, but a chap at the pub garden we were playing announced he was also a percussionist and ran home to fetch some kind of wooden primitive xylophone thing so he could sit in. It was about knee height and he placed it on the floor while sitting on a slightly-too-tall stool, so he had to lean forward and awkwardly hammer away at it with a mallet like a particularly demented shed builder. It was already a horribly warm day and now one ear was getting the cowbell and the other a discordant clattering of poorly tuned wooden tonebars with little relation to the tune, with the two of us guitars trying grimly to hold onto a tempo. I started to get a bit woozy and felt like I was dodging massive gears inside a giant horror movie clock or something equally baroque. SAW: REAPERCUSSION perhaps. Puckered my anus enough to get through about three tunes worth of it and then had to stop the set "to do a couple of solo tunes" while the other guitarist diplomatically told them to shut the f*** up before both their instruments went into the harbour.

Still raining. Where was I? Ah yes. The neck. This was a much less complicated process than the body fixes. The first order of business was to scrape off all the glue from the heel and tidy up the sufaces where the fingerboard had been taken off. Again, I didn't take any pictures of that process, I think because my hands were covered in mushy old glue and I didn't want to touch my phone. I unscrewed the tuner plates and spent an evening cleaning the corrosion off the tuners. I oiled them and generally tried my best, but they're still absolutely terrible. I should probably replace them, but I'd be nervous about getting something that's the wrong shape to follow the specific curve of the pegbox. This picture shows the corrosion and also the old epoxy and a piece of hand-cut brass tuning peg. Also the scrape marks that suggest someone just tuned the E string with a pair of pliers for quite a long time. Here's the gluing set-up for the neck, you can see the heel, now cleaned and denuded of it's many-layered strata of glue. And a bonus picture that shows just how tiny a regular electric bass looks next to a double bass neck. After I'd gotten both heel and neck pocket squared up and made shipshape, I started the process of shimming and reinforcing the pocket to get the neck angle right. Luckily the basic geometry of the neck joint was all sound -- it was inept execution that did for the last repair, not a fundamental problem with the bass itself. You can see some of the walnut veneer (it was what I had to hand) that I used for the final adjustments. It's just being dry-fitted here. My wife had the smart idea of using a racheting webbing strap to hold the neck firmly in place while the glue set up. I was very careful not to over-tension things and fold the sides in on themselves, only applying the bare minimum amount of force. Here's what the glued up joint looks like now. Not pretty by any stretch of the imagination, but it's held for the last seven or eight years with no issues.

I just moved the Ozzy track behind the Scofield track so Ozzy's is listed as transcription no. 666 on the list on the front of this thread. 👺🤘

Rick Parfitt is looking a bit peaky at the back there. Who the chap throwing up the devils horns is I have no idea, but he looks more like our old milkman Dave than he does Ronnie Dio, that's for sure Can't see Ozzy being that enthusiastic about an embrace with Freddie Mercury either, but that's another story ...

Another track I have adored since I first heard it on John Scofield's 1989 album, 'Flat Out'. The track is 'Secret Love' and has this lovely swinging Latin feel that is not quite a bossa but is just lovely. Nothing more than 8th notes but some lovely rhythmic displacements from Mr. Cox. And what a sound. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/secret-love-john-scofield/

Groovy ! How easy is it to change the strings ?

Clarification: I was playing the DB while standing on the sidewalk, hard to get a good sound playing the sidewalk and the concrete is hard on the fingers.🤣

Chromatic Fantasy - Bach/Jaco Here’s my attempt at the monster tune Chromatic Fantasy by Bach but we all know it from Jaco ✌️ I first heard jaco’s version 10 years ago and believed I never could play something like that, but when I learnt the first two bars I was like “it bleeds! It can be slain” 😂 fast forward 20 hours and here we are.

Got The Thyme - Joe Jackson

Better video but didn’t hear a lot of difference when they changed the settings And the annoying wah wah guitar playing doesn’t help either ! Come on Laney you can show products better than this !!

Spice up your life - Spice Girls

Thanks @HeadlessBassist😸 I saw the lobster review ( very positive ), and a few you tube clips . Plus a review from a uk bass magazine . All reviews are positive from what I’ve seen . I have ( and have had) headless basses . The Washburn status is a powerful beast . The jack Daniels bass feels like a hohner which I used to have , and the custom fretless I purchased from my bass is similar to a kubicki/ bootlegger bass. I couldn’t get on with the feel of the full bodied Steinberger xm2 I had , but the sound was awesome ! That’s now gone . Regarding sound , not sure what I want . This is because I just use a bass I decide to pick-up , and plug into mixer to record rubbish on SoundCloud . Sometimes with effects , sometimes just straight bass . Regarding which bootlegger model ..it’d be the long scale one . The idea I have is to ( maybe) get a comfy 5 string to finish off my collection. I prefer headless , due to space and less faffing around ..

After a fight with both my ageing laptop and a cranky Soundcloud, I've finally managed to upload this month's effort. The Sage. Who is he? Where did he come from? What does he want? What does he know? Why has he started breakdancing in the old part of town? Has he got the moves? Can he still do them? Will we have to call an ambulance for the mysterious old coot? There's a wee bit of guitar and a drum sample (or two) from Looperman but Ableton is this month's hero with all the other gubbins on the track being pieced together bit by bit with it.

At an open mic a month or so ago, one of the bands played Heroes by David Bowie. The bassist proceeded to play mostly an overly busy version of something I've since seen people all over youtube claiming to be the bass part (I'm sure it really isn't), but even that wasn't enough for him so he interspersed it wherever he could with slap breaks and double tapping. It was horrendous. He was a lovely chap though.

Cheers fellas, I'll give that a try.

Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young