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Tonight I depped for a functions-ish band in St. Albans. I have now played Le Freak and Blame It On The Boogie, Dancing Queen and Waterloo, even Uptown Funk, and I was gutted when we ran out of time before I could play Disco Inferno. Never played ANY of those songs before in front of an audience. Years of pop/rock and blues/rock and Dadrock but never disco. Don't know where you all rate that lot for coolness or otherwise, but some bloody good fun to be had! Just thought you'd like to know. 😁

I don’t see what the problem is. The girl can obviously play and she is undoubtedly cute! She is certainly using her looks (in a pretty restrained way) to get attention for her bass playing. The same (on a much higher level) with Nita Strauss. There is no way she would be in Alice Cooper’s band if she didn’t look the way she does, but equally she would never have got the gig if she couldn’t hold her own playing wise! But so what… Ever since the beginning of rock and roll in the 50s, virtually every iconic male act has traded on their image, looks and sex appeal – be it Elvis, the Beatles, Guns N’Roses or hundreds of others. Why should a talented woman be castigated for taking advantage of their looks / image, when it is accepted that it is simply part of the package male artists usually need to be successful??

They say if you get a tattoo you should consider what it's going to look like when you're old... but if I got one, I'd know instantly...

A very happy birthday to our master-builder Andy. I hope you can put your tools to one side today and have a great day.

It would be better than when my wife did some cheese knobs..

The comments in this thread aren't much better than YT to be frank. I'm not surprised she stopped posting videos.

I have the feeling if she were your regular average dude playing his bass on youtube, nobody here would be claiming he's miming and that his bass was not even plugged in... Are we jealous that we're not as pretty as her, or as good players as she seems to be? The beauty, we probably can't do much about... the other stuff, well, if you look around you probably find a wooden thing with a long stick with strings. Yes... that's a bass,, remember? Maybe spend some more regular quality time with it, and you will also get better.

Cheesy knobs??...I don't like where this is going

Get some step drill bits and a 22mm Forsner bit. The step drill bit drills like a countersink and located inside the hole. Then you can drill until you get a 22mm step, then use the forsner bit to do the rest. The steps means the forsner bit won’t wonder. Step drill bits are very handy to have around.

https://goo.gl/images/3NmvKP If you check her Facebook you can see and read how she toured some South America with Jamiroquai. literally one minute google.

Stubbornness and stupidity is closer the mark 🤣 The neck has settled down,if 1.5mm on E & G isn't low enough then what do folks consider low ? Intonation is getting there, on the wee Korg tuner it's showing slightly sharp across the board but I've plenty of play on the machine screws. Must have bent a contact on the jack socket as the cable feels loose. Minor issues 🙂 Spoke to soon about further work. Sent Steve at Axe Decals a message this morning. Think I'll paisely print the back to match 😎 https://axedecals.com/

I went for a pizza lunch with friends. parked next to a guitar shop I didn't even know existed. Fell in love with an SX shorty P bass. Bought it right then and there. PIZZA, I WENT FOR PIZZA FFS !

Cool as the other side of the pillow In a side projects first outing tonight I played Superstition, Turning Japanese, Laid, Sit Down and Swords of a thousand men for the first time with an audience.

Last stage. Still more heartache on the horizon 😱 Lacquer got peeled off with a razor blade,back and sides rubbed smoooth,satin black applied. No drama 🙂 Putting the bass back together wasn't straight forward. I was fitting a 2 saddle/through body bridge, from that you want the strings and pickup to line up near as possible. The Bloodstone P-Bass 50's chosen for this job didn't fit the hole,nor did the Roswell ?? I had a smaller single coil bought on ebay so used that. Bridge drilled and fitted,string bushings drilled/fitted. String it up for first time. All OK except the neck is arching back on itself 😱Slacken off the TR helps but even with the saddles jacked right up the strings are hitting the fretboard. Never had this bother fitting the other 2 saddle so start investigating. Turns out the new PB-50s have a different bridge,that bridge has a thicker base plate so the neck pocket was shallower. Got the router out and trimmed down the neck pocket Still couldn't fathom why the pickup didn't fit. I'd 2 Roswell pickups and lifted the wrong one,the one for this PB-50 had been trimmed down by 1mm. I had the router out anyway so cut a bigger hole 👍 You'll be glad to know I now have a playing bass 😉 I may add a skin to the back at a later date.

Umm.. lets think. Oh, I know, the woman that the thread was about! Fancy that, that was easy. I know she had the audacity to be a woman, and not covered from head to toe in a hessian sheet (damn hussy) and more talented than probably the majority of people on the forum. Must be just because she is a girl though. Other women.. how about Nita Strauss on the guitar? No? Tal Wilkenfeld? No? I know there are a lot of women on youtube that get interest because they are women, and I know the comments on youtube are awful, they are on all videos, its a type of madness to read the comments on a youtube video, but that is hardly the fault of the person on the video. It is the scum that mainly women have to put up with on youtube videos.

I have all of my stuff set up at my friend’s house atm. Will report back!

Yes, that's how I did it with my Shuttle

Had a chance to do a bit more routing!! After my previous router failing, today routing decided to have a go at me by disintegrating a bearing on the template cutter I was using. Luckily I was cutting the hollowed out section of this bass so no real damage done but it did take a thin strip off the template before I noticed. First job was to repair the template - relatively easy, just needed some veneer supergluing on and trimming back to the original line. The remains of a template bearing - all the ball bearings disappeared along with the other retainer!! I found a new bearing the same diameter so carried on. I've also cut the scroll hole on the top. Time to start gluing this together and routing the chambers on the other body.

Damn just pipped to the post! 😁

Thanks for the replies! I'm not concerned about earning it back afterwards. It's just something I have always wanted to do, and I'll enjoy the challenge of learning.

Looks fantastic 👍🏻

Mmmmmm, could this be Andy's subtle comment about the music he's heard me play with a couple of bands? 😂

Thanks, Neil and all you others. I was doing so well until the end of the England match when, in the excitement, I went down and cut a few bits of wood: "Oh no - he's not going to try an make his own knobs again, is he???"

Impossible to advise without also seeing the socks you'll be wearing.

Then he wouldn't be Mark King anymore but Mark Single.

Excellent review. I had seen the shiny fretboard but didn't know they had been epoxy coated. And they do it in lefty... So tempting.

Yes. Bollocks and shitty buggery, all possible. What profanity filter??

..a King size bed?

The new batch of PB-50s have had a change of factory and they do things differently. The annoying hole for the pickup wire was present and needed filled. For some stupid reason I stripped the body of it's lacquer. Not only did the lacquer come away but the photo flame peeled off and left an uneven surface. This is a layer of lacquer and one of the photo flame paper looked at from the back and side. . Covered the whole thing in filler then sanded flat. Next up. The Print Debacle !!

- And of corse;

I have the perfect defense for music shops, I keep a constantly maxed credit card and overdraft which means I can walk into any music shop at any time knowing I have absolutely no chance of purchasing anything! Now all I need is a cure for the abject dejection that wandering round music shops with no funds causes 😭

I'm still waiting to put together my disco/funk band Ars e Wind & Fire

This is my absolute favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVELpokOD6s

I've just finished listening to it - nice work, @SpondonBassed and @Akio Dāku :-) No negative comments about the production, writing, vocal style, etc.; it all sounded good. I thought the length was fine, but I'm used to listening to "long-format" podcasts (it was at least shorter than The Intellivisionaries). The interview with @Chownybass was really interesting - thanks for going into lots of (messy!) detail for us about how the business works. It makes me wonder whether someone at Harmony in India would be willing to be interviewed about their end of the process... Are you planning on doing a "show notes" page (which I guess would just be the first post in the comments thread)? It'd be nice to have links to the companies/threads you've talked about, the pedal settings you were demonstrating, and so on.

I like Muse - brilliant drumming, bass work and guitars - but I think Matt gets lost in the 'I am a polymath, I must add more keys and noise to this' - and it gets a bit like the last days of Queen - pompous for the sake of it. They do have some killer tracks though - you can't deny their technical craft, they just get a bit OTT with it. I suppose it's the split between making what they want and what the fans want - a similar problem Dream Theater have had.

I had a young, rather drunk lady shout in my ear whilst playing with my blues band, asking if we knew any songs by One Direction. I shouted back "Ask the singer". Her reply, "which one's the singer?". When I told the rest of the band at the break, the singer told us the said girl had then shouted in his ear (whilst he was singing) "are you the singer?" - not knowing the context, he had been quite confused.

More childhood summer memories for me with this one. I still think this is a terrific, ambitious pop record now.

Another depping gig with The Flotonics from Amesbury. Same venue as before, The Duck Inn, Laverstock. Thoroughly enjoyable gig playing Motown and soul music. Not a big crowd but The Flos always attract a few of Salisbury's muso crowd. Tich from Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich was there watching. Word must be getting around about my bass playing😂

John West? Ah come on, someone had to 😆 🤐

I like it.

Ha! I might raise you another Shuker.. 😂