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To make anything groove or swing you need impeccable timing. Bad or inconsistent timing always gives the game away. It doesn't matter what you play, if you play it with great timing. Work with the drums and try to play as one. 60's Soul songs and Motown are a great place to start. They were all fantastic players.

It's sitting on my desk at the moment. Open to suggestions, I was thinking Warhammer terrain 😅

Nothing to do with Antoria, nothing to do with Japan. These Jag-style basses are from 20 or so years ago, pre-dating Fender's own versions & appearing with various cheapo brands. I quite fancied a 'Stagguar' as a project but never found one for the £50 I'd have been willing to pay.

That's unusual for you guys @martthebass. Sometimes it happens and like you said, just move on to the next one and enjoy the festive gigs cause Glam is always a fun Xmas party night. Dave

Heavy Metal Monk - The Lord Weird Slough Feg

A new voice to my ears, Jorge Roeder in duet with vocalist Sofia Rei performing the tune 'Rosa' from their album, 'Coplas Escondidas'. Recommended. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/rosa-sofia-rei-jorge-roeder/

Hello! I have a playlist of 60’s soul songs I like to revisit/warm-up/practice to. This weekend, instead of playing the lines, I replaced them with 8th notes on the root of the chord. I have in the back of my head advice from an unknown pro “make it feel good” & actually amazed how difficult that can be! I have so many inconsistencies… which finger I fret with, attack of the single picking finger, my second picking finger is a disaster, heavier swings are all over the place! Such a simple exercise with such a simple goal. I feel like I’ve skipped years of foundational stuff, hiding behind ghost notes & the void of syncopation. Maybe this’ll help others, let’s hope it helps me! 🫠

One of those was the very first 5er I ever saw/played, in Denmark Street Rose-Morris, probably 1985. I had the 4 string RSB Deluxe 2, and wondered if I should've waited & got the 5 instead! That looks in great condition for a 40 year old bass and that's a very good price, considering how few of these you see.

I'm genuinely curious when this running gag started?

The 2nd episode was definitely the least interesting of the three.

That would be sacrilege, but then Rob T owns Jaco’s bass of doom and has played it at Metallica shows.

This turned up in my RSS feeds this morning and might perhaps be of interest to people here: https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/fretless-bass/

I've never really had an issue hearing myself on stage. I have some monster cabs that I have pretty much retired as they are too big/heavy for the car and most venues. I created a Frankenstein 2no...2 X10 cabs all housed in an old Ashdown ABM 4 x 10 cabinet and for pubs etc it works really well. It has 4 neo celestion speakers ..no problem with phase and it's so light and compact compared to my Marshall DBS cabs. I play in a rock/metal covers band but on Friday we giggled a local venue. I had my amp (crown xls 1500i running in two channel mode) flat out..dimed. my preamp pedals on the floor were running pretty hot and the floor wedge had run out of headroom.....and I couldn't hear what I was playing clearly... .the speakers were crying...despite their rating...300w each. They are pretty efficient. The whole thing was loud enough.... Just couldn't get the clarity out of the cab. At sound check I was running the system at about 75% and it sounded amazing..( normally does) but once the rest had got going I had to turn it up just to hear. I'm not a fan of in ears... I have them but trying to avoid them. I'm looking for speaker suggestions with enough Headroom that can deal with this. If you need more specs of my rig happy to get them. Anyone got any suggestions.... I told the two guitarists and drummer to turn down but they ignored me..😂 Cheers

Something bass-related got covered in minimal depth ? not normal ….

I watched the lot yesterday. Really enjoyed it. There were appearances from other bassists that weren’t listed (Adrian Younge, Mark King were just two…) Could’ve done with a couple more episodes, hopefully we’ll get another series because they really barely scratched the surface…

They didn’t say “to play”, though, did they?

For context, last night I went to see my new band play their last gig with the outgoing bassist. No lights, no back drop. It's rock/pop/indie covers playing pubs/clubs/functions. I'm going to grab this as an opportunity but have no real experience, it's always been other people in all the other bands I've been in that do lights. So, where do I start? Plug and play, portability compact being the priorities, I guess.

Watched all the second episode last night, I had never heard of the featured bass player, her style of playing did not interest me and heavily distorted bass tone does nothing for me, good to listen to the comments of the other bass players though.