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I've just completed another bass part ex / sale with Martin from Wales - we had lots of communication both ways throughout the process and have been exchanging a few texts since about the basses we swapped. And it got me thinking as I was writing his feedback and looking at the three pages of feedback I've got....basically (bar one specific example - exception that proves the rule?!) I've had nothing but overwhelmingly positive experiences ( a LOT of them!) with people I've never met. Often involving quite a lot of money / expensive instruments and therefore trust of this unknown person. It's a great community of people who really do give bass players an excellent name. I'm sure other forums for different instruments may be the same (I'm not on any so can't really comment) but this really is a lovely group of people on here and I"m chuffed to call myself a bass player knowing that there's a lot of lovely people out there who also call themselves bassplayers! All good!

Yeah - and just as important as the gospel chops is the advice he gives about breaking down a rehearsal into sub sections - so many people don't do this. Or maybe some bands simply find this impossible - because the guitarist will NOT STOP NOODLING while the rest of the band is trying to check something out !!

Watching The Selector on the BBC Iplayer at the Biggest Weekend in Coventry. The bassist is playing a Squier Classic Vibe Precision, how cool is that! No gear snobbery there. Good bassist too, although I think Pauline Black is the only original member.

I’d say this weekend has been an emotional game of two halves. Friday we played a pub called the Nelson near Twickenham. Despite a decent crowd the whole band were on a downer as a previous and much loved drummer had suddenly passed away earlier in the week. We played through the tears and raised a glass or two of Guinness to him outside at halftime sharing some of the many great memories we had! This one hurt a lot though, we’d only seen him last month at our guitarists big 50 birthday bash and jam session.He came up and finished the evening with us and seemed as fit as ever! So last night saw us at a new venue for us, Falkners Arms in Fleet. Some of the locals who see us when we’re over that way had recommended us which was a nice touch. Nice slightly raised stage area, good sound and a massively appreciative audience from song one! Big cheers at the end of every song and lots of enthusiastic dancing in the second half. This was the perfect tonic to the previous nights more sombre affair, best moment of the night was when having done a stonking version of Parisienne Walkways the landlord jumped up on the mic and told us it had been his wedding song many years ago and had never heard a band do it so well. He, like my guitarist and myself, is a massive Gary Moore fan so this was a lovely moment. We’re back there later in the year and we all agreed it was a fantastic venue and can’t wait. Good payer and we got a couple of beer tokens each as well, shame I was driving, the Doombar was an exceptional pint!! Few weeks off now, but this weekend will live on in memory for a while.

Couldn’t agree more. I’ve had nothing but positive experiences both buying and selling on here. The cumulative value of the gear that I’ve bought and sold via BC is well in the 4-figure zone. Sure, I know a couple of folk who’ve had less than smooth experiences but such cases are definitely the exception, not the rule. So much love for this community! Big thanks to @ped and the team for keeping it up and running!

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Had a difficult day today, will explain in a bit. Started off where I left off yesterday and finished routing the pickup pockets. Then I moved on to making a jig to rout the bridge pieces which is where I had bother, no idea why but could I get the shape of the tailpiece right?? Three goes it took me before I got there, after that it was just a simple rout and that was done. I drilled through from the bridge, bridge pickup and tail piece for wiring; the neck pickup I got very lucky in that the front of the rout (which was angled remember) just nicked the rout underneath for the switch wiring so I can feed the pickup wire straight through there. I'd had a belly full after all that so I went and sat in the garden and had a nice cup of tea Some shiny bits just for fun

Glance admiringly at your gear, hands on hips with a proud look on your face and say: "Yes it is isn't it dear? Thanks for noticing, I've spent a lot of time and effort assembling it." It's good she's taking an interest in your hobbies, that's the foundations of a strong relationship.

I have two fantastic unlined fretlesses in the Classifieds at the minute.

I have two bass guitars and one six-string. She has loads of minging bowls, a massive thong, a proto-monotone, big bum, wagging tongue and a Rav 4.

I thought that I'd get the - max amount of options this side of buying a dedicated mixing desk, so I bought a Wounded Paw V4 blender... It's got 3 fully buffered loops, 2 with different high pass filters, plus phase, level and 3 different options for which way loops 3 and 4 go, plus it's got a clean blend which can also be used as a 4th loop. It's the Dog's!

You'll get lots of recommendations, but TKS S212 all the way for me. It sounds incredible, amazingly well built, and beautiful.

The only thing around here that's peaked is most of us!

Just bought this book about 1971 for my holiday reading....

Only Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Kings of Leon... Think for a minute what came after 1971 - Led Zeppelin IV, Never Mind the Bollocks, Back In Black, London Calling, Master of Puppets, Appetite For Destruction, Nevermind, OK Computer... rock music has never peaked.

I had a wee blast on a couple of Basic Ken Taylor 5ers. One a 30th anniversary & the other a bubinga. Compared them next to a Sadowsky Metro, a Mayones Jazz, a MM Bongo & a few Ibbys too. I loved the sound of the Bongo, but I’m not sold on the shape & a gold finish isn’t my thaing. The Sandbergs sounded very similar & the lows from them are immense. I actually prefer them to every other bass that I played. I liked the Mayones & the Sadowskys, but despite their higher premiums, didn’t play as well as the Sandberds. I think I may have found my bass! 😎

I have seriously gotta stop buying strange stuff.... Anyone know anything about the Belarus made Bass, the guy I bought it from calls it a Borisov, not much on the net. Action is a bit high, so will look at setting that down, but seems to hold tune and could do with new strings..... and before anyone asks... here is some pics

Malcolm Bruce shares this rare photo of Jack Bruce with Jaco Pastorius. The sax player is Butch Thomas who said, "That was a spring night in Greenwich Village. I ran into Jaco on the street and he asked me to come and play with him. I met him at 55 Christopher bar and we were sitting there playing and your dad walked in and sat at the table with us and we played jazz standards, and drank beer."

How about a flyrig? Loads of sounds, equipment and FX to play with including a great di.

Go on then, you've peaked my interest! Your four greatest bands of all time would be?

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Maybe. But from that list, I'd definitely put down Muse as one of the 'greats' of the current era. Some bands I like more and some I like less, and a few I consider special for their time. Muse are one of them. I think we tend to admire 'greatness' more in bands that we grew up with, perhaps because we 'discovered' music with them, and later bands do not impress us as much.

Motivation for French language learning (I'm her mentor, not her academic supervisor). My own MSc students are mostly working on assistive software.

If you've not tried the Darkglass stuff and have a recording interface setup at home, give the Darkglass plugins a whirl (I believe they have a free trial) to see how you get on! There is also a Pike Vulcan XL for sale in the classifieds which is very similar.

My wife is (quite) tolerant of 50 guitars, 3 bass rigs and a few guitar amps, some of which make it into the house.

I played one of these at the Dawson in Liverpool yesterday. It played very well and sounded amazing. Just how you'd imagine a vintage one to sound. It's got me looking for one now. If anyone wants to sell theirs, give me a shout. I'd prefer the sunburst, but ebony would do.

I don't think my nerves could take living in a house where a massive gong could be deployed at any moment.

The words "attributed to" in my book almost always mean "there is absolutely no proof to this assertion, but I want the Fairy Dust of a Cremonese maker, and the scroll looks vaguely right" I'm sure it's a magnificent bass, and worth a lot of money just for that. Amati though? Who knows? And if you don't know, don't claim it. Gary Karr's bass, now thought to be French, was amazing, but REALLY hard to play...

Mooer'd right up mate...😊

You could do with looking at something like a TKS 1126 which will handle a ton of watts and truly be a one cab solution, similar to some of the Barefaced designs but MUCH better looking cabs, if you care about that sort of thing. Another one to look out for, although rarely seen in the UK, is a Baer ML112. There are others but those two are the first which come to my mind.

Great news and all the best to you and your gorgeous family.

I have tix for Truck. Consider yourselves voted for

Lovely job.

I've always said the Summer of '70 was the greatest time for great RnR when everybody was still alive and most of the best hard bands were established or gearing up to become big names. a few unknown favorites like Captain Beyond, DUST and Budgie were a year away from their beginnings but most of the asskickers were stomping around the globe making a Rock n Roll racket that had never been heard before or since.

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Wish I'd known you were going to be at the Stock Dove - just up the road from me, I would have been there.

Barefaced Supercompact with a Quilter BB800 head does the job for me on a variety of different gigs with different basses and without PA support, I'm thinking particularly of a pretty loud blues/rock band I play with occasionally where I thought the one cab would struggle but it handles it effortlessly... The SC is just 10kg but it feels even lighter... I'm really pleased with this rig!

i was just browsing the web and saw this thing on offer.... stranger the better...my neighbor fixes up guitars for spare cash, so I will try and get it sounding a bit better, intonation seems off, but the neck is straight. Its in mint condition,.

Nice one! I played there in the dim and distant past... It was a bit smaller then.

Can I say the reason was I was too stoned when I posted it.?

Thanks for your kind words, they really add something to this thread.

I managed to pickup an ebay bargain this week, this wonderful beast of a mesa 4x12. I picked it up yesterday but only just had chance to give it a proper test at volume. My word! What a body of sound, this is a seriously nice cab, warm where it matters and punchy with plenty of clarity and super tight bottom end. I was intending to use this just with my thrash band but it sounds so nice i might use it for my main melodic metal thing when we play bigger stages or headline gigs too. My trusty barefaced super 12t will take duties on smaller gigs and venues with stairs though, this thing aint light. Overall im very very pleased with it, to think i nearly didnt bid as i though it would be out of my budget lol :^)

He only wants to edit his PM messages as he sent me a picture of his willy (geezers hung like a donkey) and had after thoughts but to late I cant unseeit lol