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Let’s not forget the flying Mr Foxton....

There's a difference between being inspired bgy someone and being inspired by a photo of them 😞 Sorry Norman!

Every time I buy a new bass I promise myself I'll sell a couple of the cheaper ones to cover it. I'm rubbish at keeping promises.

Excited to see a Taiwanese Kay bass. 😂 Go on then, a sneaky peak. 😁 I ended up putting a black line on the neck as well because the white binding got lost against the cream/beige paint. I've got a load of flatting and polishing to do tomorrow. This little lot are all ready for flatting and polishing tomorrow, then rebuild time.

Evening, Well another frankenbuild for me. Always fancied a sneaky hidden pick up so..... Regular jazz body (unsure make and Wood- but standard Fender dimensions). Seymour Duncan AJJ-1 pick ups all wired standard vol/vol/tone. I am adding a Bassculture humbucker bar under the pickguard close to the neck. I want to experiment with some more deep sub type tones alongside the standard Jazz affair. I plan on simply wiring the bucker with a push/pull volume pot so it’s series/parallel. I’ll then send that straight to the output jack. Obviously drill a hole in the pick guard. Used a Noll one for this before, trying a CTS this time. Red Splodge is approximate knob placement (May change) and blue is sort of where the wires are going out into the original cavity rout and in. The output wire will be back out the long horizontal. Doing this to keep pick up wire length for any other fun if I don’t like. Awating pot and the plate so did this to pass the time and I wish I had a router - a Firsch Forstner bit and a dremel is fine, but takes ages! I’ll borrow a neck from another bass. when it’s wired if I like the sound I’ll get a black kickass bridge and ideally a Status jazz neck. I could use from another build for proof of concept. Bridge pick up output is 3.2, neck 4.2 and bucker 5.2 - so I hope it all matches. Nothing as adept as some of the other chaps here and their building skills but hopefully a fun mod, which suits what I hope to achieve sonically

For me it was bass lessons with @chrisaxe where he had me analyse JJ's bass line to Ain't no mountain high enough. The breathtaking ability - alchemy I should say - to create bass gold from the same mundane, every day scales we all have at our disposal. As a poet who, having no more than the same 26 letters that you and I employ to ask for directions to the bus stop, creates a delicate, unexpected and powerful piece of written art, so Jamerson's work, at its heart has nothing remarkable and yet is extraordinarily beautiful. The master indeed.

This ...

It lives! Finally abandoned the £15 diago rip off PSU I've had for 10 years. With the bulk of it being DIY the PSU is now the most expensive thing on the board by a long way. Half ambient nonsense, half bone crushing distortion.

Burke Shelley - Budgie

Don't take the risk. I'll take it off your hands for a fiver. I know. Selfless of me, but that's just the kind of guy I am.

Thats weird because thats exactly what I said to my wife yesterday as I pressed the buy now button on a Yamaha BB734! Promises, promises....

Welcome to my world:

Watching Supersonic yesterday, during Oasis' car crash gig at the Whisky a GO Go I noticed the front centre monitor (which did look a bit war-worn) had 'NO FEET' written in tape over the speaker grille. FTFAGOS! The only reason I'm in a band is to put my foot on the monitors!

Take it out of the box and then blast it with a jet washer. 😀

This is the classic sterling I mentioned in an earlier post, I think I would miss that 3 position switch!

All polished, as with the Longhorn, this'll be getting a ceramic coating and a buff before rebuild but here's an idea of the pearl in the paint. Outside in the shade. Outside in the sun. The side view, it's so skinny 😁

I just got mine! I really like it. I had to lower the pickups and change the string height. I know the dealer and he didn't do anything to is setup wise. He knows I do my own setups. The only thing I would change is the locking output jack. I would rather have a regular one. Maybe I'll change the pickups later on. Right now I don't think it's necessary.

This is where I'm at as well. I keep thinking of selling some but in all honesty I try to buy at the right price so I won't really lose any money when the time comes to sell, and I don't need the money at the moment so why sell? If in the future I need some cash I can sell some basses. Money in the bank has little interest to me but basses are nice. I take some money out of the bank of Lloyd's and put it into the bank of bass, when I sell I'll put it back into bank of Lloyd's. A money collection is dull but a bass collection is great.

Except. . . . . . Vodka is only good for a tipple after you've done the job. At 40%, there is not enough alcohol in Vodka or similar spirits to be effective in killing bugs. You need at least 60% alcohol.

Every one of my basses has a bit of something that makes me want to keep them. There are ones that I will never play live and still they stay. Some it's because of their price, some because of memories.

This is a tune by a Breton guitarist called Soig Siberil. Just testing out a new microphone I have bought, an AKG Lyra. Still judging how well it performs, but anyway, this is a project I have been wanting to get off the ground for ages, an arrangement of mine for acoustic guitar and acoustic bass. You can see hopefully why I have always loved this acoustic bass that I have just got back (even if temporarily)- I don't think an electric would give me the same tone that blends with the acoustic, and that growl it has...!

Plus Sting, he gets a lot of flak but he was influential to me ...

The virus can live for a 9 days on hard metal and plastic surfaces (less on cardboard). Since there is metal and potentially a plastic varnish finish (bass depending) on an instrument it theoretically can transmit the virus. Friends of mine who are having to keep their business running are leaving carboard parcels for 72 hours after arrival, opening with gloves and then cleaning the contents with alchol. Leaving your package for a few days then wiping the whole bass down with alcohol on cloth will basically kill anything that's survived the shipping period. On an aside I want to get into the habit of wiping down any plastic food packaging I get from the shops.

As a teenager that was into the no particular kind of music except the classical I was being taught, images like this blew my mind. I regularly watched live after death, wearing more than one vhs copy out as well as the cassette, and poring over the booklet inside the vinyl. This guy, along with Gene and Cliff. When I finally met him a few years back, I physically shook for days and I almost cried, and was a complete fanboy 😳. at the time, and still now, he holds almost a mythic status- playing wise- in my eyes. Im fortunate enough to be playing, writing and recording with one of his ex drummists, so I do have a little more insight into his business dealings, but I will always hold him in high regard musically, and be grateful for this picture’s impact on a spotty teenager 😉🤘

Pete Way for me too - late 70’s/early 80’s UFO were at the Apollo in Manchester every 6 months or so it seemed. I used money earned from doing my paper round to buy tickets. Happy times!

A Pointer sisters track from the 70's, featuring a fantastic bass part from James Jamerson. I guess this is from his LA period. This is nothing like his Motown tone, but sounds equally good IMO. Impeccable playing a fat punchy tone. I can't see why those producers didn't like him. Enjoy.

In order to keep my chops up whilst on lockdown I've been going through the real book. I thought I'd share the Spotify playlist for anyone who fancies a bash. I'm taking the song order from EU Edition of the Real book 6th Edition. I'd greatly welcome comments on versions and I'll change the list up accordingly. Also many of the tunes are in different keys, which is also keeping me on my toes. Enjoy. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1txl2OfqRmhAYlDzpwq4sM?si=5bI8rA_HTbSOVYewDiOwKg EDIT: Now complete.

You were lucky to have a lake.

I have a P, a J and a Mustang ...for the smaller stages of course, not because I’m a massive hipster 😀

"9 feet by 9 feet! Eee….Luxury My workshop were less'n half o' that. And it were at bottom of lake...." (etc)

That’s exactly the same as me, I’ve got 14 but 2 are going , and a few are not particularly expensive but I still like them, I’ve photographed my P a few times to sell , but then when I play it I remember why I bought it .

I totally agree. I've actually been threatening to sell my Jazz bass for ages now (and still might) but everytime I play it, it just tugs at my heartstrings -- all four of 'em! -- and says, "Oi, NO!"

My eldest daughter is a Suzie, I usually spell it without the E

Yep, he certainly tried all sorts: Explorer shape? Check. Red? Check. 8-string? Check. Fretless, maple board? Erm...check? I really, really wanted that bass when I saw it...it would have been next to useless for me, but that's hardly the point... 😁

Here's the body polished, it will get a ceramic coating and another buff before being rebuilt to help keep the fingerprints and dust at bay. Onto the neck in a mo. The sparkle is really strong and bright but I just can't capture it in a photo, it needs to be moving to really sparkle.

Here’s one of Mike that definitely caught my eye back in the day:

Big Jamerson fan the reason I picked up the Bass....he sounds so different on this track and it's well documented about his falling out of favour with producers, personally if you hadn't pointed out this was Jamerson I would of never thought it was him, I prefer the old Jamerson tone but that's what I love about him he remains in my opinion the best ever....RIP.

Looks lighter on the bass than it did on the bus!

This is absolutly awful... 😇 And for sale for a lucky buyer !! 😂 Helheim

Yes, JJ sounded great on those early Stranglers albums - it was his sound, more than any other bassist that made me want to play But I thought he looked pretty cool too. Leather jacket, black jeans & shoes, Black P bass with black guard and maple board..... His onstage Karate kicks also added to his image

I have been given a one bass only rule by my lovely wife, if I buy one I need to sell one. I now own 3 basses! P Squire Flea Jazz PJ Ibanez

Bought, thanks for the heads up! Incidentally, some blue ones are available on eBay, starting at £27.50 incl p&p here - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-SESSIONCAKE-SC-02-MIXING-HEADPHONE-AMP-FOR-GUITAR-BASS-VOCALS-KEYBOAR/303490882018?hash=item46a97759e2:g:SdsAAOSwgNZeRpAO

I made the wings using alder, black veneer and cottonwood burl top. I have to rout the battery boxes. What you see here are cavities for the controls, and the headphone amp.

As well as seeing and hearing him on Doremi Fasol Latido!

Not forgetting this of course...This was on A LOT in our house as kids.

Definitely. Alive II and Maiden’s Live After Death were what got me started. The gatefold sleeves on both those albums keep me entranced for years as a teenager.