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Funny old thing, just a week after tentative return to gigging post-stroke with my old band (just for a short sax set at a local mini-festival) I got an urgent call from them to play a private party not far away for a full gig - their replacement bassist couldn't make it... I spent an hour the day before playing along with an Audacity recording I'd made of the band, sort-of got my fingers and brain working together again, so it was off to the gig yesterday evening, fingers crossed! It actually all worked out OK, a few dodgy moments that didn't seem to be noticed in the new numbers introduced by the band since my hospitalisation, but I managed to stay on point and upright for two one-hour sets (thank you, Red Bull!) and got nicely paid, so in all a good way to ease back into gigging, with the promise of some more to come. Must say though, I was cream-crackered today...

Sort of like the Typhoid Mary of the bass world. 🙂

A skilled luthier can fill the holes in the back and you should be able to colour match the finish pretty well. Barring any major horrors under the scratch plate it’s probably all good. Reckon it could be a cracker. If not, you’d make it back selling the parts.

I'd like to think so mate

I bought a 2000 Warwick Thumb in 2006, surprisingly cheaply, and had the baseball-bat neck reprofiled to the same dimensions as my JD Thumb and defretted. Some years later, I had the unfretboard replaced with a slab of ebony by Jon Shuker. This is it with the initial defret:

Our regular pub / club gigs are cash too. The blues trio only do pubs where this is the case, although AFAIK there aren’t that many places around here that insist on invoices / delayed payment anyway. Private functions / weddings etc for our duo are usually paid via bank transfer, BEFORE the gig!

Glad you like it Tony, it did play really rather well, Precision necks work very well on a Jazz body, and John Shuker certainly knows how to build a Precision neck 👍

This. If he's local, it's only a couple of hours out of your life. There could be some pink, potentially red, flags. The main one for me is that there are plenty of good soul/funk bass players about, but they usually know their worth and expect to be paid. The word "collective" does smack of no money, hippies, etc, but there's only one way to find out and it's easy enough to make your excuses and leave if he turns out to be another Walter Mitty.

It was actually listed in this book about an adult tackling a challenging classical Chopin piece. https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780099554745/play-it-again/used?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22269009095&gbraid=0AAAAADocATCnalkwXsqdFAmiW5lnRd5EE&gclid=CjwKCAjw6ZTCBhBOEiwAqfwJd0iXgKCff0acdbiLGdATRlVoT1fIrbofB-tFEuikFJ1F2nwXjD__ExoCbWYQAvD_BwE I’ve finished the book (a signed hardback copy) and would happily send it to anyone who wants it. There’s some really interesting stuff in there (as well as some eye rolling at just how cultured the author is). Worth a read.

A brace of Warwick Thumbs:

Wow that’s fantastic. Thanks for sharing 👍

I always thought so but I think there was a thread where a certain preamp pedal couldn't provide the appropriate level!

If the active speaker can take both mic level and line level inputs then any preamp pedal should drive it.

Wonderful thanks!

Wow, mama 😍!

Superb workmanship @Grainger guitars.

Not sure if of interest but the Canadian Petrucci score library has a huge amount of free double bass music. This is all content that’s legally free to download, share and distribute. Lots of things of interest (if you like the bow!) https://clara.imslp.org/?k=Bass&tab=works&ins=Double+bass|%3D%3D|1|false

That’s really interesting, thanks very much!