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I am a bass tart and will go with any bass. This is why I have more than I need. Every bass I pick up makes me think "ooh, this is nice, we could be happy". Absolutely tragic.

No need to lay off. I'd wrap decorators' masking tape round my finger, just enough to protect it but allowing the feel of the string to come through. I've used this on both hands occasionally when necessary. Also you might want to play sometimes with two fingers, i.e. change the angle of your fingers to be at a diagonal to the strings, might give your index finger a rest.

Looks a cool venue. How did you tame the drums on stage? Surely you didn't actually get a drummer to tone it down?

Yeh, thats the same on the ME-90B as you would expect (same company), just that the pitch shift isn't in the same league as the XE-1, certainly not up to a couple of semitones below a drop D as a solo instrument live.

Hi @1Kay I’ve done a new bass day here: New Alnus Bass Day

Think the Glam thing just works really well at Xmas. Women seem to love the era. Dave

One sobering thought is that expensive is relative to wealth. The US national debt costs $1 trillion in interest payments. About what it costs to finance its entire defence budget and coincidentally what Elon Musk was paid .I guess if you can afford to run the world’s largest military then a $50,000 bass would be cheap. For most of the world though mass produced instruments in the far east are the only affordable instruments. Most made in the west would be considered expensive to extremely expensive. Which would explain the rise in bankruptcy for household name companies.

Anything over zero (0) as you'll assess its value by simply looking at it. If you can give it a go, you'll have to assess a lot of specifications before saying x is too expensive and it's always impossible to be objective as there are too many variables here, including personal taste and "wealth". You could also do the maths using the value of the material only without taking into account the added value of the craftsmanship, which again would be wrong. Putting it the way you propose is not a possible option as humans need a point of reference to give a value. Simply ask a non musician not interested in music the value of your instrument and you'll get a better answer, but get ready for a huge disappointment concerning what you consider expensive as it will become highly overpriced.

For what it's worth it is technically possible. I have a usb c dock that I normally carry in my laptop bag that works with my tablet. Tablet is a Samsung something or other, router is a mikrotik and the dock is a little ugreen one from Amazon. Oh well, hope you get it sorted!

It's not the nearest equivalent, it's the other way to write it, just like in German, where any vowel with an umlaut (which is a totally German word) can be written this way. 😉

Expensive is when the cost exceeds the value. It can cost a lot of money without feeling expensive, but that point is personal.

Well that's a couple of bass problems I could live with! 😆 I'm raising my coffee to your dad, good man x

Mine did (from Andertons) with various adaptors for different regions

I used to think £1500 was expensive In my Police tribute I would take my Bravewood £1500 and maybe the Steinberger £2000. That's £3500 worth of basses in a pub. This was a few years ago I now use a Harley Benton! This year I bought a Harry White 4003 at £1500, which considering a genuine Ric is much more money I don't see it as expensive But I've just paid £2600 for a Dingwall JT4. Now I do consider this purchase expensive, yes it's tax deductable but it won't ever be my main bass, so in terms of income over expenditure it's expensive (but as a life long JT fan, worth every penny) I have guitars that were £2000 new in 2010 and they are worth north of £4000 now but I gigged them for 3-4 years when i bought them and didn't really think about their value. My main U2 tribute basses are 2nd hand, coming in at about £500 each with the relic P bass build coming in at about £250, that's a total of £1250. These basses earn good money. Like all things, expensive is subjective. My £450 1973 P bass that I've gigged since 1990 was cheap at the time (no one wanted a P bass in 1990), I was doing 100 gigs a year then at £30 a gig, £3000 for the year, not bad in 1990 for a pub band

Bombs Away - The Police

Our last gig before Christmas was at the Stockingford Allotment Association Pavilion - or the "Piv" for short. We love playing there because it's always a great atmosphere. The place was rammed for our Sunday afternoon 4-6 spot. Stingish bass into GT-6B multi-fx and thence into the trusty Rumble v3 500 combo. Black DMs. I managed to get home in time for an early Christmas dinner in honour of a couple of family members that were passing through - one of them has been working in Australia for ages.

Talkin' World War III Blues - Bob Dylan

"19" - Paul Hardcastle

For me anything over 1k is an expensive bass, a big consideration though is how replaceable it is and how much attention it would attract. My main bass is a Schecter P4 Exotic which I’ve modded with Turner Pickups, the bass + hardware is over 1k which makes it a luxury item (not considering the time to route new pickup cavities and making a custom scratch plate) for me but I know if anything happened I could replace it or at least get something similar. It’s also fairly inconspicuous, just a P with some funny pickups and Schecter isn’t a super desired brand to my knowledge. I don’t really mind taking it to gigs even though it’ll make me nervous leaving it around backstage etc from time to time. My Alpher bass (in production) will cost significantly more and will be a one of a kind with a long lead time. It’s going to be a lot more flashy too with a very figured burl top etc and looks expensive. It won’t be accompanying me on any gigs!