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Really? Interesting. My cobra was black and white. Had to upgrade to a gp12smx to get the green glow.

For me it was always Jazz basses or StingRays. I like jazz basses for the bridge pickup and also the two pickup 'hollow' tone. I prefer 70s spacing to 60s as well. I like passive Jazz basses and active Super Js equally. Nowadays jazz basses have largely stopped me playing MM anywhere as much as I used to. P basses have never really done it for me. I've had a few nice ones but the last one I had I spent a few rehearsals wishing it had a J in the bridge. P/Js.....I like those too.

Avoid cheap fibre glass or "composite" bows, basic wood bows ok, carbon bows around £1k probably beat wooden bows at the same price point. The very very best bows are probably wood, but you're talking £3k+. There's a Hobgoblin in Edinburgh that have a few bass bows, but it does seem a bit of a bass desert. Caswells or Bowspeed will send you a box of bows to try out. Tell them your budget and they'll work out a selection for you. Go 4/4 bow length unless you have very short arms. Bow length unrelated to bass length and you can always use more length.. " I always think playing with a bow is like making love to a beautiful woman; first you get out your stick, admire the wood and give it a gentle polish .........etc etc" 😂 Can't speak for teachers, I only ever had two bass lessons, but was taught the cello at an early age ... which helped

As someone who plays both, I'll play devil's advocate and ask is failure to get results out of both types of tried, tested and proven instruments, a failure of the bass or the player?

Exactly my story, just add some 15 years of Stingray in between the Jazz era 🤣 I couldn't live now without at least one exemplar of each bass in "Leo's trinity", but I wasn't always this wise. I don't have a problem with dialing any of them to sound equally like me (meaning equally like crap) 👍 Analogous to that, us not liking any given (properly functioning and set up) bass guitar is many times really not understanding how they WANT to be played. I've been forever clueless as to how P basses WANTED to be played, stubbornly so, so for me they sucked (meaning I sucked). BTW, holy 8 year threadsurrection!

Calling occupants of interplanetary Kraft. Carpenters

The Man With The Alpenhorn - Miles Davis

In the case of this thread, the dead truly live again!

Might of given it a wipe over, with something on a cloth before putting it in a box... genuine and unknown on the senders behalf? This is the pedal that @Baloney Balderdash has raved about... If it was at a favourable price, and you can get a decent discount over the cost of return postage that they will nerd to cover... worth taking a cosmetic hit for... Reliced Pedals?

Stuart Zender - Forgotten but not gone

He certainly ain't.

Reassuringly light, 2 x Eminence 3015LF, endless volume. No tweetery top end which suits my bass tone. Best bass cab I own.

I've just acquired a mid-70's Bassman 100, which came with a slightly later (late 70's / early 80's) ported Bassman 115 cab. The amp requires a 4ohm load, but the cab is 8ohm (I think it would originally have paired with the Bassman 135, which I believe had selectable impedance?) The previous owner appears to have been using this combination for a good few years, but I've variously read that valve amps should be properly impedance matched, but also that Fenders are quite forgiving in that regard. So my question is, should I be looking at getting a properly matched load at the earliest opportunity and, if so, is it worth trying to replace the existing speaker with an appropriate 4ohm equivalent? Or has cabinet technology advanced so far in the last 45 years that I'd just be better off considering replacing the cab entirely? Cheers!

Under the signal path laws you’re still in

To be fair, I don't think that Gazza was purely motivated by money when he started down the blues route (at least initially). Some of his best stuff came from working in that genre (at least to me), although he did start to sound that he was going through the motions later on. To me, his big problem was that he was overly mercurial and was consequently changing to the extent that he was neither one thing or the other. I liked many things he did throughout his career, but when I bought one album of his, then the chances always were I wouldn't like the next one enough to buy it. At least his vocals kinda worked with the blues material. I used to have the Wardance album on vinyl many years ago. I will have to listen to it again on YouTube or whatever at some point. The trouble with a song like that is, as nice as the playing is, it really exposes the weaknesses in his voice - Steve Perry he is not...!

We need to make it obligatory when starting threads about musicians, especially of a certain age, to include in the title: ""Famous Person's Name Here" - not brown bread"

"I'm not dead"

Another Bob Mintzer chart, this is the complete Will Lee bass performance of the Wayne Shorter tune 'Elegant People' from the 2015 Mintzer Big Band recording, 'Get It'. Lot of gaps between the notes so a challenging read until you 'get it' (see what I did there?). PS that's 600 charts up there now! https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/elegant-people-bob-mintzer-big-band/