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The Squier JV-P fiesta red - pic requested

A Danelectro Longhorn, bought secondhand in 1969! Here I am playing in a folk rock band in Exeter in 1971 called Retrospect. I think that's a pick hanging out of my mouth, not a fag. We won the Melody Maker rock contest for the South West area, and then bombed miserably at the finals held at The Roundhouse in Camden. I remember we really felt like innocent country bumpkins up in The Big City. A young Phil Beer is the violin player here, since these early days he's had a long a well respected career playing with Paul Downs as 'Show of Hands' - well known on the folk circuit for many years. In 1972 I sent the Danelectro up to John Birch in Birmingham to fit a Rickenbacker back pup to this - hoping to get more punch and sustain. The result was an iconic bass ruined for no gain and quite a lot of expense, I recall. The stupidity of youth, as ever.

Already restricted, thanks. We’ve previously banned him but this time we’re going to make his posts and PMs visible to him only so he’ll have no idea. Theres a warning at the top of the wanted forum Cheers

Not easy, but while the two older daughters (2 and 9) played shop in the bedroom. Iris and I did some practice with the blue monkey keeping time. Anyone else got innovative ideas to keep playing while interacting with the kids...

Four more coats of gloss on the tops again today, I put the first two on with standard thinners and the last two with anti bloom to let the last coat flow a bit better. After about half an hour I pulled the masking tape of the fretboards. I think they are good now, they certainly look good (as in blemish free), the anti bloom should have gassed off well by tomorrow so I'll have a good look then to see if they are really done but I'm quietly confident tonight. So for the first time here's a hint of the finished things, once I'm happy they are good I'll grab a quick picture upright before hanging them up for a week or two to fully harden

I'm not certain yet that I will go for the maple neck but have started to work on it. First time in real terms using the router table. Fantastic! Neatest truss rod channel yet (small beginnings, but beginnings nevertheless ) And then the side profile band-sawn: The heel will have to have an extension added whatever, but the maple blank isn't deep enough to do that with just one - it will end up being a three piece heel. I'll have a think whether I can add a contrasting wood in there or whether that would look naff. If so, I'll revert to the mahogany / walnut blank I've also got and which is a touch deeper and would do achieve a two piece heel. I tell you what, after neck through basses, these necks are TIDDLY!

Dave Grohl seems like a lovely chap but the Foo Fighters are rock music for people who don’t like rock music.

The big gloves give it away.

Made his fortune when the previous owner of this bass had to buy a spare set of strings?

take of your knob and put a rubber washer under it, will still turn but will take more force to do so

This is going in the same direction as "what direction should I place my bass knobs" thread. There is a reason why you have never thought about it before. Because it is totally irrelevant.

I must be practicing too much I’ve only got 2 kids

As someone who works in the construction industry, my considered opinion is that you'll be ok with a Trace combo, as its gravitational pull is exactly equal to that exerted by the world, so the concrete flooring slab will be sandwiched between them quite safely 🤣

Haha! No, she doesn't want a natural finish on hers.. This one is purely for backup purposes, er, or something like that (depends on who is asking). She did say that she likes me making partscasters as it keeps me happy and gets me from "being under her feet too much" Which is a blatant pass to spend money to keep her happy...

Nothing virtual about it.....

I can’t remember the specifics, but there’s an audio clip on Youtube of a Rush gig where one of ‘em does a flub, and for a few seconds it collapses into a proper tuneless cacophony. just listen to that section on repeat.

I think Bilbo’s always struggled to understand why he should stoop to the levels of entertaining people less clever than himself 😄

nope, my playing is equally inept whatever colour bass I'm using.

The fretboard colour doesn`t make me play any differently but I do find that the colour of the bass itself influences my stage performance - with my black basses I`m more subdued, but when playing the white ones I tend to move about a bit more. Of course at 52 that really means shuffle around more on the same spot, but mentally I`m leaping and running around when the white bass is on.

Why is it pointless? I don't get comments like yours,it would seem that anything that isn't jazz is pointless to some people. Surely you play jazz classics,so that must be pointless too.

Our keyboard player used to travel with the drummer. Usually they would meet up half way and load into one car. At the end of one evening they loaded up the keyboard players car and he drove home. The next morning he found that one of his keyboards was missing. It had been left on the pavement leaning against a tree! 2 days later he got a call from a local music shop saying someone was trying to get in touch. They had found the keyboard and wanted to return it. All they had to go on was his name on the case and an internet search!! He gave the guy £50.

Yup it's happened to me. Left my bass, my amp head and a bag of leads/bits in the boot of the car while I dropped my then-girlfriend off at her house one night. When I came out half hour later the car was gone. I was working as a signwriter at the time in some pawn shops and gave them a list of the missing kit. Unbelievably I popped in a couple of days later to check up and a guy got off the bus outside carrying my bass on his back and came in to sell it so we nabbed him and called the police. Turns out he was very well known to them. Another shop rang about half an hour later with the rest of my stuff. The car was found dumped in a nearby alley the next day. Really shook me up and I immediately went and insured all my kit! Very fortunate that the thieves didn't know what any of it was and just tried to offload it locally - ironically to the people I was working for. Very lucky escape and three days I never want to relive!

Either this...or it is a trap So run, run now as fast as you can!

Lots of videos of kittens.

black gloss on maple

Something a bit more upto date for yall, check these out from Estonia, great stage craft live, and have loads of great ideas, have to say we are doing a cover version of beef grinder its so good. welcome to Lexsoul Dancemachine

I’m an SWR’aholic. There, I’ve said it, it’s out there and I feel strangely unburdened 😀 So as a few of you may recall, I own the daddy of all SWR amps, the SM-1500. This is an absolute powerhouse of a bass amp with 1500 real watts available if you ever need them, but that comes at a price, and that price is weight. A few years ago I was pairing the SM-1500 with either a Goliath Snr 6x10 or a pair of Goliath 4x10’s but eventually I learned that I didn’t need that type of stadium filling rig for my regular gigs and paired things back to a single Goliath, mated with an Aguilar AG500SC which is more than enough, even when headlining the Bulldog Bash to 4,000 last year. As a result, the SM-1500 lies idle most of the time in the man cave. But as good as the Aggy is, I still hanker for the SWR sound, and so I started to look for an SM-900. After a few wanted ads on here, I got a couple of leads but nothing that came to a purchase and then last night, whilst browsing a Facebook selling group I spotted what looked like a pristine SM-900 for sale in Holland. As luck would have it, I work in Holland Monday to Friday, and the SM-900 was unbelievably just 15km away from me. A few messages later and a swift trip up the road tonight and I own an SM-900 😎 Now all I need to do is ship it back to the UK and I’ll be one happy bass player.

Er... where we in the same band? Seriously though, you’ve just described my current situation to a tee.

I can always rely on you for the good stuff!

Isn’t doing well interpreted Jazz ‘standards’ effectively a tribute act - a tribute to all the jazz greats? A tribute band is interpreting tunes of one set of writers/musicians rather than a mixed catalogue. That’s a covers band...😉 erm.

Reasons I have quit tend to be around members I want to beat to death with their own shoes... I have generally taken the shithouse way out via group message as I don’t hold my tongue well when I’m angry. It’s usually down to laziness, wanting the world at their feet but without putting effort in. Turning up late, not helping move gear, losing gear on packing down. I don’t need to gig to pay bills so I’m probably not as patient as some might be.

Not too far from reality...

I've had no problems at all with EBS ones, but the Warwick ones are trouble IME. I've had many sudden failures - sudden noise issues and total loss of signal - and even a dead cable straight from the pack. For some reason the shorter ones seem to be the ones that fail most and I've ditched all of mine.

The next thing you know she'll be asking you to teach her to count to more than 4.

That was how I looked at my kit. I wasn't expecting too much but what I got was a lot better than I deserved. It was also a good indication of how I'd get on with the physical shape of the model it was paying tribute to. I got on so well that I bought the genuine bass soon after and decided that the Pitbull would be a worthy test bed for when I want to play with alternative electronics because the HBs are splitable. I have had the Pitbull out at Open Mic and it was fine. It's nice to have an inexpensive backup. It made me smile to hear that you now have a two bassist household. Gawd help your neighbours when you're both practising, one at either end of the house!

Do you need another pedal, or want another? I mean do you miss a certain texture/sound or is it just because you can? Analogman Chorus is great on 18v

very wise 👍

This is more than a bargain, it's in fact indecent and ridiculous. Go on, grab this quick.

That would be a tough one to audition for since a lot of his live parts were produced in the studio and sampled for live use, playing them back on his Kurzweil K series synth / sampler. To be honest, I can't see a lot wrong with doing that; I don't think it's being dishonest or duping the audience for example, after all these multi-layered textures are an intrinsic part of the songs and the songs wouldn't be the same without them. There's also some intersting YouTube clips that Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode keyboard player for most of the 80s and early 90s) posted when he was having a clear-out of his old gear, where he demos his Emax samplers and you see exactly what parts were sampled for live use, and you can see that even with samples, loops, etc mapped out on the keyboard, there's a lot more to playing it live than just pressing a button.

No, it doesn't attach, but it IS small enough to fit under the handle of many cabs! I've rehearsed with mine many times, and gigged it a few times (usually when playing gigs where I'm mostly going through the PA), and I haven't had a problem yet. Linus, there's a country band I play with that rehearses at loud but less-than-gig volumes, right on the cusp of should-I-wear-earplugs? I play a Precision through the Elf into a Crazy 88 and it's (i) more than capable of holding its own, and (ii) utterly righteous. Like any good, small cab it's significantly heavier than you think. My Crazy 8 weighs less than my old Barefaced OneTen, but not by that much. The Crazy 88 is definitely heavier.

Dog poo is a great, relatively unknown, wood filler

I got my first bass when I was 13, it was one of those nasty AXE things with a crappy amp from an add in the back of a magazine ('Look In' or something) it was bloody terrible, but because I stuck at it I got a MIM Fender Jazz the following Christmas.

They're untidy - why are they not all perfectly lined up by number of strings, make, colour and size? *twitch*

I love tort on black, but for me it only works with a dark wood fingerboard 🤷‍♂️