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After 24 hours of continuous rain we were not surprised that turnout was a little low at the Bricklayers in Sharnford last night. Especially given that the pub is next to the river. In fact as we left the landlord came out to fix the last few sections of the flood barrier in place! As usual it was a tight squeeze in the corner. It was great to play at a lower volume though as we could hear everything and had no sacrifice of tone. The guitarist took his Mesa Boogie but had a tiny little Vox amp plugged into the speakers rather than using the Mesa amp - much easier to get a decent tone without volume. Well it sounded good to all of us anyway. As I said, a selective audience but some of them had travelled quite a distance, which was appreciated by us. We even got some up dancing (ok, it was the WAGS 😂)

I'll rephrase: He now "identifies" with being a she ☺️

Another long one, this is the Jay Anderson bass part for the tine 'Three Romances Pt.1 - Choro Dançado' from the 2004 Maria Schneider recording 'Concert In The Garden'. Not a roast in the conventional sense but enormously satisfying to play. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/three-romances-pt-1-choro-dancado-maria-schneider-orchestra/

The mashine is called UV Flatbed printer. It can print on almost every flat surface. You can ask some local print shop which produce posters, signs, etc...

When you know, you know. Nice bass.

... and player. Recycled a crisp set of LaBella Deep Talkin' 0.045 flatwounds (a mere 12 years old, so virtually new), ordered a set of full-length neckpocket shims, and spent the afternoon dialing the thing in. Pickguard shrinkage meant that the pickup sits VERY firm in the pickguard, but with some strong thumbwork, I managed to raise them a bit. I was kind of fearing it would have a "ski jump" at the heel of the neck, as notes chocked out above the 14th fret, but the shim and a gentle nip of the trussrod made that go away. It was already a good sounding bass, but with these minor interventions it became one of the best P-basses that I ever had. She demands hard work and perseverance for it though 😅.

When you factor these statements in, which I more than agree with, they are relatively good value. I had no real feel for Musicman prices but having just looked, I think a Euro is very competitive.

Exciting times and they say the pedal will be available to buy on the 18th 😮

Thanks Gary, that's really good of you. Hopefully we can get a result with the paint man

…that’s impossible.

Im quite glad I’ve just sold another preamp as if this is the B15 it’ll be an instant purchase.

I've had two five string Sires, a V7 Vintage and a V9. Excellent basses and loads of options on them, so you can really experiment if you've never had active or maple boards or whatever before. I felt I "needed" a 5 string then felt I didn't... The preamps are great, the maple boarded vintage V7 is really nice for snappy, trebly sounds and the pre let's you roll that off and make it thunderously deep... There's nothing not to like, apart from the headstock.

Wow, this fretboard looks beautiful!!! Congratulations for your adquisiton, I hope you enjoy it a lot. With the time I hope you explain your thoughts about the bass in a concert, rehearsals, recordings...

Hi and welcome to Bssschat. Im sure you'll get a lot of this place as you browse and post on the many threads.