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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 bought this lovely bass from Ash a few months back, it was in need of some TLC as Ash decided to sell it off. Anyway when I got it the paintwork was cracking in various places and my first priority was to stop it from getting any worse, so all the components were removed right down to the bare guitar. Next I scraped out all the cracks (gently mind) to make way for the the black infill and then I levelled this all off as best I could but some lines can still be seen, I was not too concerned about that as my main priority was to stabilise it. I then sprayed black Acrylic, taping off the red binding was tricky and afterwards I had to gently remove any over spill and level out before applying the clear Lacquer all over, left for 10 days wet and dry to flatten and then a final buff, very pleased with the finish and it does show lines and little blemishes underneath but hey it adds to the character, who wants a perfect finish. Just noticed some areas were I didn't get al of the overspray off, poor eyesight unfortunately The bridge was sand blasted down to bare metal as some of the grub screws were seized but it all came out well after a respray. I fitted a complete new loom made for me by my good friend Craig Douglas, he does a very neat Job, CTS pots Vo,l Vol and a varitone I replaced the bridge pick up with a tone rider I picked up on the bay The Red knobs are cheap looking so they will be replaced when I find some good decent ones. After getting it all back together and having a good noodle I have to say the sound rocks, the stock P pickup is very good and Im really pleased with the tone rider, that coupled with the varitone is fantastic, cant leave it down. These basses are excellent value for money and the build quality is first class and I have to thank firstly Bassassin who inspired me to make the decision to buy it, his knowledge is invaluable and for Ash who made all the effort to get it to me. Brilliant stuff lads Oh and I kept the diamond on, shame to remove it Have a look at the pics and see the end result.

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.

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Damn just pipped to the post! 😁

Thanks mate! Its called Real Orange by Plastikote, you can see the finished colour better on my 4 to 5 string conversion thread 😀

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 👍🏻

Wood? Are you sure that isn't some very small cheeses?

Same here, I slowed the video down on the 'were not so different anyway' fill, it too me ages to get that bit. So if she is miming, she is miming well enough for me to learn how to play it by her finger positions!

Happy Birthday, young sir.... Hope that you're doing something that you enjoy.

I burn (baby burn) with envy, Jack!

I've seen a few marked single beds at some dodgy hotels in my time, I can tell you.

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

Have to say i've had or seen a few unpleasant comments or exchanges on BC, but over the past couple of years its been far better and i think the Moderators have kept a far tighter control of things. The end up of that is a much more tolerant and approachable forum. Can't say i've seen anything at all in recent years. Its interesting, informative and supportive in many areas of life, not just bass related so all in all VERY WELL DONE. Dave

There are a lot of great basslines to play with this stuff. It's a surprise to find how well these olds disco tunes go down with people far too young to have been around in the 70's. Along with some of the above we do Car Wash - everyone loves it. Bruno Mars also popular, Locked out of Heaven, Treasure, Runaway Baby Uptown Funk, all good.

@r16ktx great purchase! enjoy muchly!

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

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 !!

I feel like my aversion to the looks of the ART 7 models is being won over by the responses of how well they perform!

Yes very!! I completely sanded the pickguard back to original and resprayed it and it looks OK now Still need to sand the headstock back to maple as I don't think it would look right colour matched I'm going to l leave them both till Sunday and start getting it all back together ready for the nut and bridge when they turn up 😀

It was July, 1971. I was 11 and this blew my tiny mind. Nothing was the same ever after...

I know that feeling. I popped into PMT for some strings and left with a EBMM Stingray a few years ago. The former Miss Bass wasn’t terribly impressed, until I mentioned the time she nipped up the retail park for a Burger King and came back with a leather sofa from DFS. I think that made us even.

For many years when I heard people talking about Donald Fagan I genuinely thought they were referring to this guy. I just assumed that he had a vast back catalogue of stuff that I'd never heard. it's only quite recently that I realised my error.

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.

Did you get one? I’m late to the thread but in case anyone finds it later I want to give the Marcus Miller Jazz a bit of love. My first fretless was an Epiphone copy in the late 1970’s that I pulled the frets from. So recently I wanted to buy a Fretless and money was not an object, but I was curious about the very inexpensive basses available, I bought and returned the following basses in my search for my ideal Fretless 1. Thomann Harley Benton Jazz copy, Just about £130 or so. Looked beautiful and sounded good, but there was a pretty dead G string so it went back. It was tough to send back it looked so damn pretty. 2. Squier VM Fretless, again in sunburst. I think in the £300 range. Again, beautiful to look at, but I just hated the ‘plastic’ fingerboard, couldn’t stand the sound of the strings slapping against it. Sent it back. 3. Fender American Professional in Black, Fretless. I think about £1500. I decided that money should not be an object. As an owner of a Fender American fretted Jazz this seemed the safe option. But despite its beauty this bass failed to impress. It had a lined neck and I could clearly ‘hear the lines’ when I used glissando, overall I felt a lack of character and the desired mwah, but that was something to do with my playing. Sent it back as it was a lot of money if I was not in love with it. 4. Finally bought the Sire with a Rosewood neck in sunburst. A nice looking bass but didn’t visually float my boat like the cheapest HB in terms of appearance. But... hit the spot in terms of a) build quality as good as the American Pro, b) with the active off a good sounding passive bass but with the active there’s access to a variety of tones, a good active circuit c) most importantly the fretboard is coated in epoxy and is glass smooth, so there is no residual sound from the fretlines, this is of course how Jaco finished his own bass of doom, glass smooth. I can get a variety of sounds out of this and more recently finally nailed that ‘mwah’ technique with LaBella black tapewound strings giving me completely noise free glissando. So now I can play those Percy Jones licks and special effects, completely clean harmonic glissandos. I have to try hard not to buy more of them as I really don’t need them, but I’d love one in natural with a rosewood neck, easily achieveable by buying two and swapping them. My only problem is I can’t get the intonation of the G string adjusted quite right, its sharp above the 12th fret no matter how I fiddle with the saddle, needs a professional setup I think. But the beauty is that I can adjust my playing to sharpen the notes when I play up there.

One Two Three Yes, it's a word according to some dictionaries. It is mildly amusing to find that neither Oxford, Cambridge nor Collins online dictionaries seem to carry a definition of the word whilst happily promoting the use of amazeballs with impunity. Good grief. If you do get as far as the third link, there are a couple of interesting variations of the root word - slump

Nice to see so many people sharing my intense dislike for the daily heil. 😊

Buying the Daily Fail.

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

Go on then 🙂. I actually prefer the neck on it to the G&L 2005 Tribute i used to own, its far less baseball batty!