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I see what you mean, I reckon it’s a 42” scale done on purpose

There’s a few on there that I mildly line some of their material, but aside from The Damned none I’d actually want to go to see live.

That bourbonburst is pretty stunning

A guitarist mate of mine who’s about 5’6” or 5’7” played bass on a gig when the bassist was unavailable and played an Epiphone Thunderbird. He said it felt like he was trying to do the Waltz all the way through the gig.

I’ve not got on if these but did have an SVT 3-PRO which advised the same, master on full, gain for volume. I’ll admit it did sound great if I was pushing it but I found that depending on how big the room/loud I had it the sound changed, so I went to the set input gain then use master for volume which evened this out.

Many years ago the band I was in were filmed for a TV programme. We all had a few drinks beforehand to chill and because we played better that way anyway. The show was never broadcast, and when I saw, but more importantly heard the tape I immediately knew why, we were appalling. Where we thought drink loosened us up and made us play better what it did was loosen us up so all the timing and precision was lost. Lesson learned for me, though I have to say to my shame I still played gigs drunk afterwards in both that and the next band. In my last band (fast forward some time from the above, and to where I no longer drink alcohol) the other guys might have one drink beforehand but we always worked on the thought that people were paying to see us so we should provide the best performance possible, playing drunk would be short changing them.

I’ve had two of the VM77s and I’d say they are fantastic basses, really feel good to play and sound it too. Not too heavy either. I changed the pickups on one to Fender 74s and that was a nice improvement but other than changing the bridge baseplate to one with grooves in I left the rest stock, no real need to make any changes.

Je suis un grand orangutan 🦧

Great venue, did my first ever “real” gig there.

Not done that exactly, but did arrange to buy a very nice 1978 Precision from our recording studio, so turned up, handed over the dosh, then did a day long recording session on it.

Fender JMJ Mustang Bass New band does a lot of car share gigs so aside from the benefits of reduced weight & size to me personally as the player it will be a lot easier to fit in an already quite chock full motor.

Yep, Dave will advise of the best replacement

Not for me. At our last gig one of the bassists was playing a Fender Mustang bass and for one it sounded great, plus secondly on gigs where we all go in one car I can really see the practicality of them. I like the look of the JMJ one and can see me buckling under pressure (of GAS) at some point.

Agree, and makes me wonder at the “having to have the cleanest sound” thing, when so many revered bassists of the past did the complete opposite.

After years of putting up with Levi’s I’ve found that Next do the best jeans for me. So a win situation as they’re about a third of the price. But it wouldn’t have bothered me if they were twice the price, they just fit so much better.

Yes a very 70s Jazz tone, sounds great

Makes sense, in the punk/Oi scene there are bands that are “difficult” shall we say, many promoters seem to only end up putting them on once (or until they kick off about something trivial) and these bands don’t seem to gig that often. Whereas some other bands who are easy to work with get a lot of said work.

That business about the A string/dots would irritate the hell out of me, irrespective of how the bass played & sounded I’d have to send it back.

Over-indulged on strings there big time, Dave.

In years gone past I used to have to do this every now & then

Exactly what I was going to say. The BF is just a lot less “coloured” in comparison to the 410 so it’s a case of getting there with eq.

I think Orange amps & Jazz basses are a good pairing, Dave, the warmth of the Orange stops the Jazz from being too harsh. Wow, I just wrote out a Christmas Cointreau ad from the 70s in respect of bass amps!

@Paolo85 I had a Wilkinson pickup in a Vintage Tony Butler Precision and to me it sounded very near the Tonerider & Fender CS62.

I’ve only ever been fired from one band. It went from rehearsal 1 with the new set up where the project/band leader remarked that the drummer and I could clearly play anything to about rehearsal 4 where he came up with the idea that we should buy our own rehearsal studio for £30k. So as there were 5 of us that would be £6k each. The drummer and I both said no, so clearly our playing ability wasn’t as important as our wallets as we were both fired. We still laugh about it today, especially as the project/band leader did get his £30k studio and did two-thirds of three-fifths of feckall with it. He’s been working on this album now since 1995!