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Tell me about it... Nobody EVER listens to me and I'm constantly having to explain myself... Most often to the police...

I saw this thread and actually thought someone had bought one of those 15 grand jobbies!

A quiet bass bash? Not much chance of that 😉

WTF. This the first ever bass drop, why nobody mentioned it ? And yes Tony Levin and Bill Bruford certainly commited THE bass drop with Indiscipline ! My all time favourite tune.

Sorry, been locked up and no-one to talk to... so Let's talk about planes! They're a bit like basses, you always 'need' just one more. In recent years I've thinned mine a lot but still have around 10 or so (plus all the specialist variants like shoulder planes, rebates, router planes etc etc). Christine mentioned older Records - mighty fine they are (or can be). Pic below of a Record 'SS' No3 (SS means 'Stay-Set' and they have a 2-part cap iron which I rate highly, some others don't like 'em). Got this No3 on the Bay for around £30 a few years ago. Added a new Hock iron (the blade / cutter is called an iron or cutting iron) and spent time tuning - total strip down, seat the frog to body properly, flat the sole (when doing this load the plane up, I mean fit 2-part iron, tighten etc so the body is under working load, then flatten with the cutter safely withdrawn back from the sole). Stripped and painted my mucky green brand colour, but if you want to restore the Record blue, get Humbrol or similar 'roundel blue' - it's an amazing match to the original. This Record is now proper hot and will take 2- 3 thou shaving off cross grain, plus it handles difficult woods (reversing grain) really well. I do recommend the original 'Crucible Steel' irons on Records, but also the Quangsheng replacement irons - very fair price and excellent steels. The Hock is considerably more expensive but takes a really fine edge. The wood plane is interesting - again hotted up into a fine panel smoother (technically it's a jack plane). Note the double iron - very hefty forged cutter, supported by an equally hefty cap. Those Sheffield forged cutting irons are truly fabulous - high carbon super-hard and super-fine tool steel forged onto a malleable steel 'back'. You just can't buy planes with cutters like this now, but on the Bay you'll find one for under 20 quid. Seriously those forged irons of old are sublime. I did a box (boxwood) insert on this one to tighten the mouth a lot. Spent a good while flatting the back of iron back to a polish, and tuning the cap iron so it closes micro-tight onto the iron. If anyone's interested in planes like me, I'll get some pics of my Sparks handmade planes next - his plane adjusting hammer is visible in pic 1 best go make something now...

Even though music is my living, my band has acknowledged early on in this pandemic that our gigs and rehearsals will not be happening for some time. Watching the news now with scenes of people over the weekend blatantly ignoring guidelines on dealing with the situation because they don’t care about others or think it doesn’t apply to them makes me both sad and angry. We have to accept that things will not be the same for a long time ( if ever ) and change our behaviour accordingly.

Being a "calculated risk person" is fine if the risk is yours. If you get it wrong, it only affects you. If the risk is to others and you get it wrong that's a whole different ball game. We won't be rehearsing any time soon. We'll work on some new songs at home, then put the parts together when we can.

This is my favourite PiL era Jah Wobble tracks, the bass on this has a simple but massive groove. And here's a Covid-19 Buy One Get One Free offer, The rhythm guitar on this is actually a distorted 6 string bass according to Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures book;

Never heard the term 'bass drop' before, but kind of get the idea now someone's used something I recognise as an example. The band I'm in is 100% Grateful Dead, and the Other One is always popular with us and our audiences.

Finally after a year of waiting I finally received my custom order MTD. Can quite safely say it's the best instrument I have ever set my hands on. Playability, tone is unreal and it looks incredible. Also incredibly light! I am now hooked.. already scouring the web for more...

As the “heart & soul" of “ALL THAT IS", us Bassists know how important the rhythm is... To the ignorant & self-absorbed, the bass is a “WTF" instrument. However, to the informed and educated, the Bass IS the ROOT of music... So what I wanna know is...... What's the BIGGEST BASS DROP, EVER?!! Something crazy, like this?... ...but obviously not Muse ‘cos they are despicable... Maybe this?... ?!?!?!?... ACTUALLY, IT'S THIS!!... Obvs... Anyways... What you guys got?!! You know “it's gotta be big..." Was gonna take the p*** with this but that IS a friendly, funky bass line!!!... GO ON... GIVE US YER' BEST BASS SHOT!!!.... * Disclaimer, mention of fish being dropped may appear in this thread.

Over the years ive sold a couple of things on here that have got lost in the post. I wasted time trying to track them down, and had to refund the buyers while i waited for the courier company to refund me. Not a smooth transaction and in one case i never got a refund so was out of pocket. I’m happy to post some items, but if i say collection only ill stick to it, because ive decided if it goes tits up i dont want the extra time and hassle of sorting it out, and possibly being a lot of money out of pocket. I’m not sure of the legal implications but I’m sure the buyer will have to do all the chasing if it doesn’t turn up. My choice and I’m happy to lose out on a sale because of it.

17 posts about a rattling bass and not one mention of the word Rickenbacker. Is everyone OK?

I use the Dunlop Tortex Triangles - essentially due to its shape you get three points on it, so 3 picks for the price of one. I`m a confirmed pick player, used 1.14mm for years, then dropped a bit to 1mm. I`ve now reduced again to 0.88mm, I find them a little bit easier to do intricate riffs with plus, and a rather strange one here, I`ve always like the sound when using the nail on my index finger to play with, and the 0.88s are the pick that sound nearest to that, so I have two reasons to use them. They also have a very cool tortoise on them.

Short scale then 😁🎸

I’ve had half an hour with it today, still lovely

This. 15 seconds in. Boom.

Are you Fieldy?

Well, I've received all the supplies, and finally pulled my thumb out and made the first steps towards my apocalypse /quarantine project last night. It will be having a respray (experimenting a bit, but fingers crossed it'll work out okay!), I'm going to attempt to make a pickguard, and fitting new knobs. Did toy with changing the pickups and pots, but in all honestly there's nothing wrong with it at all! Will keep you updated with my progress. 👍 N. B. Excuse the nappy bags, they were just handy to put the hardware in!

I think you’re right, it’s going to be a very long time. I can’t see travel restrictions being relaxed until well into the autumn. Social distancing they reckon could be for a year. If that’s how long it takes, then so be it.

If it is a bass, I'd like to see some stats - weight, width of neck at the nut, spring spacing at the bridge.

Lucky, you might have found it a little quiet

An interesting take on the Beatles Paul. You’ve got us thinking. I freely admit I’m biased but I think every song of theirs has at least a flash of gold. For example, Yellow Submarine is an absolute pinnacle of lightweight kiddie-pop. Bloody annoying after 2 minutes though.

Just listened to the Bach prelude from cello suite 1. Just feel it could have had a bit more expression- it was very metronomic, and zero changes in dynamics. Just my opinion of course, but sometimes you have to question why you are performing such a towering masterwork if the instrument you are playing it on cannot express what the composer was saying.

The bass intro which starts at just after 5:00 in this version often featured the biggest Phil Bombs, especially during the Wall Of Sound era. Always loved playing this myself in various hippie bands I played in over the 70s and 80s.

Not at all boring, dear Mr Toad, not in the slightest... but it's kind of “a given" that Flea is gonna inject something... Where & what, who knows?... Seriously though, any track that this particular Siphonaptera is a part of WILL very often be pretty darn A-Awesome!! Oh my!!!.... BIG BASS DROP!!!! 1:40 (if you can't wait) Such a despicable band... Hate to love ‘em!!

Just smile and nod politely... 😄

Contender for best thread title of 2020.

I cant work because my tools are for service and all the shops are closed due coronavirus.but here is a pic holding the two 5ers

You can have synth fun with a bass. Every now and then I have a listen to this to remind myself that a bit of commitment to your instrument never hurts. Damn youngsters with their commitment. 😁 Using a Source Audio Hot Hand on bass.

Personally, I think bands practicing is a no no in the current situation.

As pointed out its your list So no such thing as a bad choice. But cut Eleanor Rigby? Seriously? The string arrangement is wonderful.

This since I got it a year ago....immediate bond.

I dropped a bass once. That was the last time I trusted blummin' schaller strap locks.

Can't decide whether to look up 'bass drop' to find out what the expression is intended to signify or ask here. Maybe I'm better off not knowing.

I can always find more The unique Percy Jones on fretless P bass

After acquiring and really liking the Mesa Subway Preamp pedal, I decided I would like to buy a Poweramp - ideally small - to give me a small but powerful gigging set Ultimately ended up buying this: GSS Sumo 1000 Thus far I am blown away by the size and power. My Mesa MPulse 600 is a very loud amp, the Subway/Sumo combo is easily as loud whilst giving me the Mesa tone I like at a fraction of the weight. Pretty good on “girth” too! Still needs lots of road testing etc, but so far so good!

Right you are then, patient zero reporting in:

Six reasons to play guitar instead of bass: Lack of any sense of rhythm. Tab too complicated, prefers things like ' G - C -D'. Weak character, lacking moral fibre. Small hands. Thinks 'advanced musical knowledge' is memorising the blues scale. Small willy.

Whitesnake- Fool for your lovin....dear god it’s making me feel sick just thinking about it🤮

I saw that on the MTD Instagram. What an absolute peach 😍 I see an MTD build in my future at some point... unless the economy tanks beyond repair following Coronavirus 😕

The lessons take the form of a video which is usually somewhere between 15 and 25 minutes and a pdf. I backed up all the pdfs (several times as I’m cautious about hard drives failing). I also printed it all out. You have access to it all while on the course and if you get a week or two behind you don’t need to worry as there are 48 lessons each year. I found that I rarely needed to go back to the video other than during the week of the lesson. The videos are clear and concise, as are the pdfs. The course I took was an intermediate one, The bass mastery Course. https://www.joehubbardbassvideos.com/bassment/ He also offers a one year a foundation course but I can’t find the info about it at the moment. You’ll need to be able to read music notation as there is no Tab. Please note this doesn’t mean you need to be able to sight read. As long as you can work it out slowly you’ll be fine and you’ll also get better and quicker at that as a welcome byproduct. He also offers a package with one off lessons (the lesson lounge). These you can dip in and out of as you want. I had access to both as I was on the Premium package. There’s some good stuff in there but what I needed was a coach and the basement was perfect for me. I’ve now been playing for nearly 40 years and started off trying to get bits of information from friends and also the one bass column in Guitar player each month, eventually getting down to some serious study about 7 years later working through Jerry Coker’s Patterns For Jazz. I’ve since worked through a lot of books but really needed someone to tell me what to do each week. I’m fairly good at self study but felt I needed some help with a focused study plan. I play double bass and bass guitar and felt that my bass guitar playing was getting left behind. The course provided a great way to get my practice organised and there’s plenty of stuff that can be applied to my double playing too. I can’t remember the exact amount but I paid around £200 per year but this was after a 50% special offer. It’s worth signing up for email notifications as Joe offers discount to a limited number a few times a year. Every now and then he offers lifetime access to all his courses for somewhere around £600 which, if you can afford it, and importantly, are prepared to work hard is a bargain.

@Quatschmacher Play list is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLse4iJAB00SvQkR1t_U1NxlHOdI4MIdCl I've added a few more and deleted a load from the list above. A couple of them could probably benefit from a remix - for example, no one has managed to do a great remix of Sweet Dreams and there are literally hundreds out there...but it's a classic.

End of the day, music for most on here is a hobby. Is it worth you or an at-risk relative dying because you wanted to do your hobby? Change direction, send each other tracks, work on them, jam by recording.

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Sub is a no brainier. I sold my black and maple neck one for £160 and it was brilliant.

“If you end your bass training now — if you choose the quick and easy guitar path (as Vader did) — you will become an agent of evil.” – Yoda