All Activity

New Years Eve Daryl

Impressive Daryl

It's now Christmas 2025. I still have my 1993 Godin LR Baggs fretted bass. It's still beautiful and works flawlessly. It sound fantastic and is perfect hooking into a house system. I will never part with it.

Thanks, Dan!!

Thanks for the details and pics, Dandan. Two questions: - What level of relic is this? - Is the fingerboard ebony? It sure is a lovely darkness. Peace.

Will the circle be unbroken - the Carter Fmily

Joe Dart's career is built off cheap frankenstein basses and his Mexican Fender, before the Musicman collaboration. To be fair even the Musicman collab is all about creating the simplest instrument possible - he currently gigs the cheaper Sterling version. Here's a crowd singing along to his bassline on his MIM Jazz.

All My Life's A Circle - Harry Chapin

Go for it. It'd be nice with black hardware and some DR Red Dragon strings, but it's still nicer than a typical black Jazz bass

Also love the fact that some (definitely not all!) of the most successful musicians in the world played basses that many average gigging bassists could have afforded when those basses were in production. And for no other reason than they loved them eg Paul McCartney with his Hofner and Yamaha BB and Tina Weymouth another Hofner player are two that immediately come to mind, and I'm sure we can think of plenty of others?

Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News

All well here. One more gig on New Years and then I will bid 2025 an enthusiastic farewell. I hope you're well too!

Could be a fun blindfold test to do at a future bass bash? The clip has had 172k views in 2 weeks - clearly a topic of interest!

That was really good, and worthy of a follow all by itself. I've listened to the rest of the album, and it's now on my list to get on the next Bandcamp Friday. Mark

Geometry. Semisonic

Me too! Any day of the week!

We did a lot of pub gigs too - a lot. And to be honest, I’d be more scared by the behaviour of heavily drunk mates of the groom or bridesmaids and bevvied up Sharon from Accountings than the average pub punter!!!

I have my Ashdown CTM-300 absolutely purring today My favourite amplifier of all time

Funnily enough, this thread has had me thinking about how for so long I had to sell my main bass to replace it with another one, and never had more than two basses at a time. I was always looking to get a "better" more expensive bass than the one I had and it was the only way I could afford it. That was probably true for the first twenty years of me playing the bass. I expect lots of folk followed the same route with similarly mixed results. Nowadays I just like a bass that I can have fun playing, and that could be at any price point. The problem is I'm one of those people who has been cursed with good (expensive) taste, but I've also got a Sire and a Harley Benton that I do most of my day-to-day practising on and they are both very satisfying basses and amazing for the money. I think when I reached the stage in life where I could comfortably afford more expensive basses it took away the imperative to "upgrade" before I missed the chance. That realisation helped me concentrate more on practising playing bass rather than trading up to endless,"upgrade" basses and then discovering their strengths and weaknesses. Most of the time I was just swapping one dissatisfaction for another.

Vennart posted that on FB yesterday, haven't had a listen yet. Oceansize were amazing.

Stuck In The Pyramiddle With You - Steelers Wheel