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Give it a few years and it'll probably be impossible to tell if music is AI created. I guess it'll mean that people making original music will need to up their game - no point doing anything generic and derivative. Live bands might do alright, people will probably still want that interaction and 'realness'.

I didn’t ‘pass’ the audition because I didn’t agree with one of the guitarists that John Deacon was the best bassist in the world. I said he was a ‘great’ bassist but definitely not technically the best. And it was a blues band and we weren’t playing any Queen songs 😂.

Opens notebook. Writes down "Don't piss Andy Travis off". Closes notebook.

Absolutely it can be repaired Maybe take the string tension off slightly to help ease the crack and keep it clean so there's no contaminants to interfere with the glue up All things being equal it should be stronger than ever after repair Plenty of Gibson guitars with repaired headstocks following complete breaks out there so skills are well established

Yeah, that's pretty much what the MU told us, if memory serves: in our case, the singer had written that particular song, so she was welcome to re-record it, but the recording belonged to whoever paid for it, i.e., all four of us. And it was pretty obvious that it was the same recording that was on our album! In fact, thinking back, she may not have even paid her share (I think the guitarist kindly covered her share at the time as she was tight for cash, and may not have paid him back)...so she may not technically have had any claim to the recording!

As an ex-owner of the fretted 5 string version I second this. I only moved it on when my tonal goals changed.

I love Chi’s playing on ATF & WP, interesting, tasteful, solid. White Pony & Abe Cunningham in general are incredible. I sadly lost interest after that era, snippets like the one above don’t appeal

In the real world this is excellent advice. Doesn’t always work with vintage basses!

One of the other cheap basses I owned was a Yamaha BBNiii (well mine was a fretless so there's an 'F' in that number somewhere). I cant believe how well that played in terms of quality. Mine was made in Indonesia but it may as well have been made in Japan, it was a rock solid bass in terms of build quality, I'd happily add budget Yamaha's to the list. The only reason I sold it was I found I wasn't really that good at playing a fretless.

Yeah, I tried to edit this when I posted but couldn't work out how to do it! 😁, I of course meant 'E' idiot me, as in shifting the bridge to the left a bit, but BTops idea of the more vintage type threaded saddles seems like more of a goer and a lot less hassle. 👍 The curiosity remain though that I'm getting no difference in "presence" on G as opposed to the other 3 strings. 🤔 Either way, I can't now un-see the misalignment over the pickup so it had to be fixed. 👍

I don’t see anything there that a decent competent luthier would have problems dealing with. I’ve read of headstock cracks like that repaired. Where it has split rather than coming apart, a syringe can be used to get the glue right inside the crack before clamping it up. I hope you get it fixed. 👍🏾

My Cort B4 Element took a dive onto concrete at an outdoor gig today, and now has a crack on the cusp of neck and headstock - photos attached. i really love the bass, but I’m wondering if it’s worth repairing (assuming it can be repaired), or should it be binned? All advice gratefully received 🙂

Weve got a set of measurements now and will begin the mould making this week.

The best thing to do is replace the bridge saddles with threaded saddles for better string alignment.

Took the big Orange rig out for an outside gig tonight 😁

Today I got a WhatsApp message: Myself and F---- had a good talk a few nights back when we were out and we came up with what we thought were some really nice ideas for some staging for the show on the 19th. It us relatively minor stuff but will give it a but of a coherent thread and will make us quite different to many other bands. I'm sure hw will run them by you on Wednesday for your thoughts and opinions. 😃 I await Wednesday with interest!

A multi-band charity fund raiser for Dorothy House hospice, for us today. We planned to play an originals only set of Gothic rock with me dusting down my USA 2008 Jazz bass. I have been struggling with the lack of bottom end from J-basses but the addition of the Boss GE-7 to my board was hopefully going to fix this. I also added the Boss IR-2 as I often go ampless. First band on really struggled against a rogue sub-woofer and we immediately started to twitch about our set. Thankfully the second band sounded much better. We took our time setting up on the back of the truck. We’ve added little bits of finesse like roses around the mic stands and burning incense onstage (typing that, I realise it sounds pretentious but it does make a difference to the presentation and it was remarked afterwards that we are very professional in our approach). I thought we played well. The sound was fairly reasonable and my bass sounded immense. My wife said my vocal was getting stronger and we had a fair few compliments - comparisons to Joy Division and Bauhaus, without being derivative - which I will gladly take! One member of the audience hadn’t seen us since school and was very complimentary. A great day and a solid show.

I listened to the reel with earbuds. Great sounding tight band with nice lead vocals. Daryl

I was once turned down for a band because I didn't like Guns n Roses enough, the band didn't even play any Guns n Roses, they rang me up a few weeks later to see if I would be prepared to dep for the bassist they had gone with as he couldn't do many weekend gigs! I politely declined!

Nice pics. Daryl

Nice subs and mains Daryl

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