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  2. Jean-Luc Pickguard
    I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman — Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band
  3. baldwinbass
    Not All Heroes Wear Capes - Owl City
  4. Maude
    Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
  5. dmckee
    Yeah, I’m about to retire (from work, not playing bass!) and thinking of buying it. 🤔😂
  6. Pinball
    Just picked this up, thanks I havent really pushed it to be honest but will give that a try
  7. Pinball
    Impending retirement means that I need to de-clutter, beginning with some of my beloved basses. A Beautiful bass bought from here in 24, with a great sound, which I am just not using much. It is the real deal with gorgeous looks and construction in my honest opinion. Someone out there will love it. It is also loud enough to practice with without an amp IMHO! Happy to post as it comes with a generic hard case that fits archtop basses "The Gretsch G5442BDC Electromatic Hollow Body Short Scale bass guitar has a comfortably short scale at 30.25", and is armed with two powerful "Black Top" Filter'Tron™ bass pickups, giving it an electrifying deep-end voice and identity. The double-cutaway hollow and bound body offers full bass tone and balance, and is finished in Transparent Red." Note: I have been asked about neck dive, just in case you are worried about that this is my answer. "I can't say that it has bothered me,. Being an true hollow body/archtop It is very light and hangs horizontally, but it feels normal to rest my right arm on the body, which pushes the neck upwards to a comfortable, natural playing position. It also feels good sitting down. I imagine that the longer scale Gretsch hollows may have serious neck dive". G5442BDC Spec sheet.pdf
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  8. Pinball
    Hi, using my trusty scales, it weighs in at 4.2 KG, which rounds up to 9.3lbs Not sure but it has Bart pickups, which is the same as the later models e.g. SR5005. I would guess late?
  9. Pinball
    Well spotted, thanks now correct
  10. EdLib-3
    I sold a Hercules stand to Ted. Great guy and it was a very pleasant and straightforward transaction. Thanks dude! 👍
  11. Seadunk started following White Bass Porn Thread.
  12. Seadunk
    Sire V7 Antique White. Classy looker with the ebony fretboard and blocks & binding.
  13. Russ started following Show us your playing videos!
  14. Russ
    My first time doing a proper playthrough vid - this is me playing my band, Earthbound AD's new single, Ashes Of Paradise. Some six-string fretless metal action for you all. The video/audio sync does seem to drift a little as the video goes on though, which is weird. The audio is right, the bass recording is right, but the video doesn't quite match the sound, so I need to work out why that is. But I think it's a reasonable first attempt.
  15. tauzero
    Just as well you're not a Trace Elliott fan.
  16. Stub Mandrel
    My dad, who died less than a year ago at 92, used to tell a story. When his brother was a baby and he was about 12, a minister who was visiting the parish called round. My grandmother offered him the baby to hold, and while he was holding my uncle, he started crying. It was the first time he'd ever been offered to hold a white baby. Old people grew up in a time of casual racism, but not all old people are racists.
  17. JapanAxe
    I played on the country music club circuit for a few years, and the target audience was mainly 70+ with the kind of outlook that you might predict. I joined a band where it became apparent that the drummer was very much of the persuasion (how can I put this?) ‘Stop the boats’. Now and then we’d work with another musician - let’s call him ‘Ken’ - who got frozen off Facebook for a month for his unsavoury comments about the adherents of a certain religion prevalent in North Africa and the Middle East. The band and WAGs were around a table in a break discussing an upcoming gig, and Mrs Axe asked, ‘Will racist Ken be playing?’ The drummer’s face was something to behold! I’m aware that some musicians that I play with hold political opinions far removed from my own. The same goes for some members of my extended family. I didn’t know the musicians’ views before I started playing with them, and my family are my family come what may. Online, it’s easy to end up in a bubble where we only hear our own views reflected back at us. In the real world I prefer to avoid that. But if a band is looking for players on the basis of a particular world view that jars with me - for example conspiracy theories, which I’ve seen more than once - I’ll give it a miss.
  18. prowla
    I've not heard that term before - every day's an education (to someone with an open mind).
  19. prowla
    But an open mind shouldn't be an empty mind.
  20. prowla
    So long as it's not Uncle Ernie!
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  22. tauzero
    "An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it." - Samuel Butler, author of "Erewhon".
  23. wayne dowkes white
    wayne dowkes white changed their profile photo
  24. paul_5
    The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
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  26. petecarlton
    It's always a crime scene when I play!
  27. vinorange
    No problem at all. Thanks for the well wishes!
  28. dudewheresmybass started following Business cards: who's best to use
  29. dudewheresmybass
    Vistaprint
  30. EliasMooseblaster
    I can see the sense in this. Unfortunately the oft-misunderstood adage that "wisdom comes with age" leads a lot of people to calcify their views and positions and expect people to respect their "wisdom" just because they're older. I much prefer Frank Zappa's adage that "your mind is like a parachute. It's no good if you don't open it."
  31. dudewheresmybass
    killer queen - Queen
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