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Phil Collins Big Band...Some very fine playing all round:

We have been navigating with difficulty after sacking our singer and losing our drummer. Our current five piece line up includes three people in at least one other band. It’s apparent that, in the two weeks since the last rehearsal, no-one has done any homework or practice, leading to a less fruitful three hot, sweaty hours than hoped. My guitarist, with me the only permanent one-band member, is at his wits’ end. I am just concentrating on fulfilling gigs. The availability question will limit those, I accept, but that is of less concern than losing my most reliable band mate. My question - can a band thrive if most of its members have other, clearly more interesting/lucrative interests? If so, how do you manage it?

Thank you. Would you have any suggestions for that style. I get that string choice is personal but any guidance would be gratefully received. Ian

Rehearsal rooms with their own weather systems. 🙂

I bought Jay's Bass Amplug. All as advertised, good communication, promptly delivered, sensibly packed. I'd be happy to deal with Jay again. Thanks

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Message in a Bottle - The Police

Good idea! But… gogo ducks?

I agree with a lighter gauge string being used for a better B string tone. To my ears the heavier the string the less well-defined it sounds.

They look okay. The only improvement I'd make to that might be to use flush fitting bolts complete with ferrules similar to neck bolts but with machine threads. You'd need ferrules with a 90 degree countersink to match the bolts. It looks like it could be made to work from the light skim reading I did with the help of a pair of gogo ducks.

How dare he impersonate me ? It should have come to my house, you tea leaf ! nice bass, well done

I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever 😁) that as bass players, we might find a moderately high level of consensus as to what constitutes an interesting bassline, whilst disagreeing wildly on the merits of the resulting music. For example, whilst I think that Mark King is a talented and inventive bass player, you couldn't pay me to listen to Level 42 - I'd much rather listen to Dee Dee Ramone go 'dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum'! 😆 Though by horrible misfortune, I did once see Level 42 on two successive nights, and only one of them was because I was getting paid...! But I did get a large collection of discarded and largely unused bass strings at the end of the night, as all his basses were being restrung nightly, and the removed strings, used or otherwise, thrown on the floor of the hall. I didn't have to buy any strings for several years, so thanks Mark 🙂

Sensational!

Genie In A Bottle - Christina Aguilera

I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Not sure 'Top-10' was mentioned in the OP I was replying to, it was 'modern music' as below, but like I said, it's still all opinion, so not really a testable hypothesis, more my opinion differs to the O/Ps, and as you say, you don't even have one So here's a counter hypothesis: our musical preferences (style, genre, complexity) determine how we draw conclusions about relative merits of style, genre, and complexity

When I'm Sixty-Four - Beatles

Help The Aged - Pulp

Having come up with his proposition, Stub has tested it by comparing today's top 10 against that of 50 years ago. It's a smallish sample size, but it's a fairly reasonable approximation of a random sampling, and not subject to the bias you suggest. It could be improved by testing a few other randomly selected past/current weeks against each other, but I don't think anyone's aiming for a publishable research paper here. 😆 It is of course restricted to 'top 10'-style music, but that's the point of Stub's proposition. Personally I wouldn't care to venture an opinion one way or the other (not least because I haven't the faintest clue what's in today's charts), but it's a reasonable and (subjectively!) testable hypothesis.