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That lazy, eh..? That really is lazy. Here, if you can be bothered, is a link to a previous comment. Enjoy ...

Hi I'm firewood and I play a piece of firewood. I need advice about annoying things and stuff to keep an eye on. Any body with experience got stuff to yap about?

I'm too lazy to read all the comments but what are some cheaper newbie bass books for total idiots like me?

If you decide against this idea, do you mind if I buy it instead, and stick a MM pick up in at the bridge? I feel like this would increase the instruments versatility at open mic nights.

Hello everyone Hoping that you’re all ok. I’m a bass player, composer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist. In terms of bass; I was originally influenced by Mick Karn, Stanley Clarke, John Taylor, Jack Bruce, Mark King, John Entwhistle, Stuart Zender, Jaco Pastorious and many more. I started playing music, aged 6. Piano. Then guitar aged 10, and moved to bass, aged 15. First a GBP £50 Hondo, black Fender Precision copy. Then I joined a band, and bought an Aria Pro II Fretless bass. This was due to my love of Mick Karn’s playing. I then became influenced by the British “White Funk” movement. At this stage, I bought a Warwick bass, and Trace Elliot bass amp and cab. I currently play an Aria Fretless bass, an Ibanez pearl white fretted bass, a violet Behringer warlock style bass, a blue Fender Precision copy, and an Australian acoustic bass. I use a Trace Elliot amp, and a Peavey 17” cabinet. I have many effects pedals. Mostly by Boss, but also a Cry Bany Wah pedal and a loop device, the Strymon Volante. Other instruments include approximately 12 guitars, a banjo, A Moog Subsequent 37, Korg Minilogue 37, an Oxy 1 Mk2 Sequencer, Korg B2, Korg Nautilus Workstation, Pioneer XDJRR deck, various combo amps, including a Roland Jazz Chorus, Yamaha mini mixing console and 12” p.a. Loudspeakers, Behringer PA amp and graphic equaliser, MacBook Pro and more of the usual stuff. I’m currently setting up a music therapy, for veterans, in Kyiv. I’m very glad to have found this forum. It would be really good, to chat with other bass enthusiasts and music creators. Have a nice weekend, Tiger

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye

Saw him with Headspace Saturday. A bit different to your gig and a little sparse on attendance, others loss as they missed an excellent night with a great band Silent stage, except for the kit, and the baby Kemper doing its thing well.

OLP Tony Levin - swapped for a 4-string that cost me £75 and £50 cash, and needed a truss rod adjuster wheel fitting (another tenner). No upgrades yet.

Squier Jazz Vintage Modified Modified. Apart from the Aguilar pickup, V/B/T controls, and pretty control plate, and the neat defret job, it's just the same as any other Squier Jazz. No tear-out, the slight wiggliness on the lines is from the fret tangs.

A bass player is nothing special as far as society goes.

I am selflishly waiting for the American F*ckwit Precision

Facebook and gumtree. I got at 15” bass cab on gumtree for £10

Ampeg ba108 is superb

I’ll give you a piece of advice from my own store of not-that-naturally-gifted. Put your bass to one side and find a funky drum beat on the net. Make up your own bass line in your head - if you sit there with a bass you might find something by luck and you might not. if you dream the baseline in your head, you’ll know where the notes fit in the pattern when you pick up the bass. Try and find any one of them and play it in the right place, then add more one or two at a time. some people can just riff this kind of thing off instantly. Sadly I’m not one of them and I find this way easier

Used to be mine, lovely bass.

You see @Mrbigstuff we can do this - thats #2… so what kind of tonewood would work best for that turnaround? I’d recommend ash, probably from the 60s and Leo must have breathed in its general vicinity at least twice (#3) and that kind of turnaround might work in metal if you left out thirds (#4) and I’m sure a MIM made out of that kind of wood would punch its weight well with a US model for less £ (#5) HOUSE

It’s either a prototype or it’s a custom. I’m confused.. if it’s custom, it should be exactly what you asked for, but great quality. if it’s a prototype it’s not custom and whilst it may not be exactly what you wanted but it doesn’t take much effort to tart up those faults.

Slight change of direction, at least in the short term. I’ve managed to snaffle a couple of EV ELX18P bass bins that are the ‘perfect’ match for my EV ZLX15P tops (at least they are listed in the DSP) so I will be going with this setup for at least the next six months. I still like the look of those NLX24’s and may well still take the plunge once the 2026 diary fills up a bit.

I was just wondering that.