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Dear Mr @Al Nico, I am writing in response to your recent suggestion of a new bass position which you called "The Half Angel". I was intending to play at church tomorrow morning, and so this afternoon decided I would practice your move. The most appropriate song seemed to be "The Lord Reigns", an upbeat number (especially with our over enthusiastic young drummers), where the move could be employed on the repeated phrase "The Lord Reigns" in the chorus. My practice room at home is about 2.1x2.0m and has my work desk and chair, a small Ikea chair bed, Yamaha keyboard, two basses and an Ashdown combo. I decided that with careful alignment on the diagonal I could practice the move safely. Alas, I was mistaken. On the third "Reigns" of the second chorus I lifted the bass neck and my left leg as intended. However I caught my foot under the back of my work chair. This unbalanced me and the bass and I tipped leftwards at speed towards the chair and desk. The Bass is more expensive than the desk so I instinctively turned to the right to avoid smashing the headstock into the desk, but in the process twisted my hips in a manner not attempted since my graduation ball disco in 1988. I was now completely unbalanced (as indeed I was then). The chair, given angular momentum from my foot, spun round towards me as I fell headlong towards it still trying not to damage the bass. The back of the chair hit my face at roughly the same time as the bass knocked over the keyboard stand, and the.noise from the bass amp and me were equally loud and unpleasant. My fall continued and I finally came to rest sideways on the floor with the bass across my neck, the lead twisted around my legs, a terrible diminished chord emanating from the amp, and small cartoon bluebirds tweeting round my head. From this I conclude: 1) The move should be renamed "The fallen angel" or possibly "The falling sinner". 2) I am not, and never will be, cut out for "moves" 3) The good Lord has a sense of humour, occasionally slapstick. Yours, in traction, @Richard R.

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

Brilliant, many thanks for that. I think I may have sussed the wiring conundrum too. Looks like it’s time to invest in some new tools and get started.

I thought so. I was surprised to find that that was an Ibanez bass, listening to Missing Persons I immediately thought it was a Wal (still could be of course) but this sounds much the same to my cloth ears.

You want the centre line of the MM pickup to be in the region of 30 1/2" to 30 5/8" from the nut

You mean like every to Scott Devine picks up a Fender or his mate, Ian with a Spector?

That's pretty awesome!

Thanks Woodinblack, I don’t know how I didn’t see the forgot password thing….. dohhhhhh. I’ll certainly know for next time. I’ll just delete the new one. Cheers and all the best!

Many moons ago, someone on here described it as 'mushroom soup-burst', and it's still the first thing that comes to mind whenever I see Antigua mentioned

If you can afford one, the Herman Miller Aeron is unbeatable.

Who let the dogs out- Baha men

I’m pretty sure that this is the MM hard up against the bottom edge of the P pickup (which I’ll remove). Turns out that I have an MM style pickup spare (Bassculture), if I can work/find out the wiring on this, that’s a few bob saved.

Ward Thomas last night at the Del La Warr Pavilion Bexhill. Just the two of them plus a guy playing electric guitar. Great harmonies but a very boring show. Had I been on my own I would have left before the end in case I fell asleep. The support act Kezia Gill however was excellent.

Earlier in this thread there was talk of slapping on fretless. Whilst listening to a live version of Go West’s Missing Persons, I went down a Graham Edwards rabbit hole and found this…

Freak on a leash - Korn Terrible song with slap bass that sounds like a filing cabinet falling down a stair case.

Freak Like Me - Sugababes

Can they be trusted 😀

Looking to replace our home office chair. The current one was selected by my son as a computer gamer chair. It's been heavily used and abused and needs to go. I'm looking for something that I can sit and play bass on. ie removable arms or arms that can adjust well out of the way. What are you using?