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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??

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!

Late April Fools joke???

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

And on another worrying guitarist note, not only have I had to ask one of our guitarists to turn up the volume (twice), I have also asked him to play longer solos. Our first set on Friday was run through at quite some pace.

summer tune 😎

A bit of a load in tonight , I had to unload the van myself 😂 The only problem is when I leave I'll be driving over the dance floor 😳

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???"

I found out recently that it was written for Jeff Beck. Wondrous. "Jeff Beck was an admirer of Wonder's music, and Wonder was informed of this prior to the Talking Book album sessions. Though at this point he was virtually playing all of the instruments on his songs by himself, Wonder still preferred to let other guitarists play on his records, and he liked the idea of a collaboration with Beck, a star-in-the-making guitarist. An agreement was quickly made for Beck to become involved in the sessions that became the Talking Book album, in return for Wonder writing him a song." Full article

I bought one back in 2015. They're still available on Squier's web site.

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

Disco Duck is not broken, Jack - It's still alive and quacking.

Thanks for the heads up. Congratulations Andy. How many candles are there on the meat pie?

Stating what so many do but it still puts a smile on my face and restores just a little of my faith in (some) humans when I only encounter good, solid and genuine people on here. Have never had an issue with anything I’ve sold or bought on here. Always smooth transactions and never any issues. Good work, bass people!

I don’t know because I’ve never bought one but that’s about the only legit reason I can think of! I’m with you, seems like a bit of a waste of time tbh

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.

Your perseverance is an example to us all.

Of course, this could just be an urban myth. . .

..a King size bed?

Just sitting in my garden drinking (Colombian) Coffee waiting for the first quarter final to start and my wife started playing the 'Supernatural' album on the system (very loud )

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 enjoying it so far. On the whole, the software seems very intuitive to me. I found everything I need pretty much where I expected it. Just not quite sure what to make of those circular routing icons that sometimes pop up. Can I do anything with those, or do they just confirm settings?

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

buy the best you can afford. My budget was $700AU so I got the Scarlett and for my level of recording expertise and microphone quality, Scarlett is a great fit for me. I record live with direct monitoring so latency is not a concern in making my decision. If you need amp sim vsts etc you may need better latency performance. Buy the best you can afford

Unfortunately that's bollocks. The reason you tune down and then back up is because the windings on the string catch at various points along their travel - at the nut, over the bridge saddles, as they pass under string retainers... Tuning down lets the windings drop past any "obstructions" and then you tune back up to pitch. It's got nothing to to do with how good the machine head mechanism is. Hipshot machine heads might be better made than the competition, but they still won't help when your string is caught on the nut or string retainer.

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.

Another nice wedding gig on the weekend. A castle that was built in the mid 15th Century in Gloucester. Nice. But it was a cool gig for a different reason. Remember the Boo Radleys? "Wake up Boo!"? Probably been woken up to it by GMTv for many a year? Well the lead singer was at the wedding as he is good friends with the bride. We played "Wake up Boo", with him singing as the bride and grooms first dance. First time he's sung the song live in 20 years! He's done Glastonbury, and now he's played with The Big Easy. Nowhere else for him to go, so he may as well retire 😆 Real tidy bloke too. You want picture proof? Ok

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😂

One of my favourites...

I like it.

Ha! I might raise you another Shuker.. 😂

Fitted the preamp to this today so it is now finished!! Hooray!! Ready for the SW Bass Bash.