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Seeing Messin' with the Kid reminded me of a very loud version we did a few years back

Got to start them early 🤣

She's dabbled with a few instruments. Piano, violin  trumpet etc. The only one she really was into was drums but between Covid and some incompetence at school her drum lessons never happened. Her friend is learning guitar and another drums so it was an obvious choice now they are heavily into decent music.

I have a decent idea how she learns as we are very similar, so can teach in a non boring way where she'll end up knowing the fretboard by stealth. She's already making conscious decisions about playing an open A vs fretted which is totally unprompted by me.

She's got a very decent bass now and a coach available 24/7 so there is every chance of her becoming proficient and having fun.

Well it's exactly as expected. Great quality. Zero defects. Nearly a decent setup etc.

My daughter Audrey loves it. She learnt Where is my Mind by Pixies as soon as it arrived and practiced for ages.

I'll give it a little bit of time to settle in and give it a tweak to get a more even action  its a tad higher at the dusty end right now.

My 13 year daughter has started playing bass, and has been using mine. That is either an unmarked USA P or my pre CBS pre. The chances are she will drop one at some stage and I'd hate for her to feel bad about breaking one of mine so I have got another one for her to play. Purposely not calling it hers, so that I can play it and sell it if she loses interest. I tried out a non FSR model in a shop and it was absolutely brilliant. Super light, neck felt nice, high output and interesting sound. The pink one is being delivered today, will report back.

Best I ever played was a black 1974 P, amazing thick neck, a sound like no other P I've played, growly/burpy amazingness. It weighed more than the sun and I sadly passed on it.

My 63 p

I've only got expensive basses, what am I supposed to play on a gig now?

16 hours ago, msb said:

I have a couple of Epi basses , and a couple of Gibson basses. The Epis are both from the Unsung Factory in Korea and I have no complaints about the quality , they are very well made. I’m ok with the Gibsons too. Same deal with Fenders and Squiers. The US made instruments are worth more , not necessarily a superior build. 

Having had a Squier and a Fender, absolutely nothing wrong with the Squier but I felt so much more into the Fender.

3 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

A lot of them seem to be using Epiphone or Squier budget instruments. Why would Fender or Gibson choose to sponsor pros with their budget kit? 

 

Because budget kit sells in volume. I have no doubt they spent a lot of money working out what to give endorsees 

43 minutes ago, msb said:

Much of the offshore production has been great . Initially Japan was the source for cheap labour , then Korea , now we’re to Indonesia and China. Being manufactured in Japan does necessarily mean it’s superior to something from China. But we just like to think that if something costs more , it must be better. 
That isn’t always the case.

True, most of the Korean made stuff in the 90s was crap. A lot of the Japanese stuff that came before it was good if not great. Times however have changed and as I said in a previous post the Chinese Squiers are all pretty much identical and all decent out the box.

1 hour ago, Crusoe said:

 

 

Correction, it's an '85

Well now we are talking. As good as the good Korean ones are I'm sure the Japanese stuff is better.

1 hour ago, Crusoe said:

I saw a video on YouTube recently, with Ron Thorn, one of Fender's master builders. He said that out of his collection of guitars, his favourite is a '95 (I think) Squier.

Wasn't a Pro tone was it? Those guitars embody the 90s hit and miss thing. If you were lucky you'd get a single piece body, well finished, and everything else was what you'd expect from a top of the range guitar. Others were basically made out of off cuts glued together

1 hour ago, Bassfinger said:

Dunno about bassists, but read a piece recently about Steve Hackett who got stranded abroad during covid.  He had no gear available so his guitar tech went about bought 3 or 4 Squier strats.

 

Hackett was apparently blown away with how nicely they played, even more so after a change of electrics, strings and setup.  Mr Guitar Tech offered to remove the Squier logo and replace it with a more socially acceptable one but Hackett had him leave it. "Its nothing to be ashamed of!"

Just watched a live show of his from 2021, he was playing a Fernandes Les Paul

7 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Roger Glover mentioned how impressed he was with the Squier Classic Vibes and records with one (amongst others).

 

Not surprised, I thought tge CV Jazz was a really great guitar and all the ones I tried felt exactly the same. Unlike Fender which all needed a setup done.

7 hours ago, jimmyb625 said:

 

We're touring in October and November... I'm not a pro bassist by any description

If you aren't touring for free you are 😀

Been revisiting this, listened to it about 17,000 times 

7 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Really???

Yes. Post up some that you like.

Just now, hooky_lowdown said:

do they think their own P basses look better than any P they've EVER seen?

 

Yes, I do

My two are pretty in different ways. 

Good times bad times. The little solo bit are always rubbish when I play them and I find the verse bit almost impossible.

"Do you know Foxey Lady"

"Nope"

"It's in F sharp, it'll be good"

Our opener from our last gig

On 21/12/2018 at 22:04, Buzzy said:

I looked around for a blues jam as a way of meeting other musos when I was between bands. I found one that wasn't too far away and thought I would give it a try. Luckily they were posting clips on youtube ..... I didn't bother.

 

I missed this when it was first posted. That is pretty awful, but it's a shame you never went. There are some good guys that used to go to that Jam

Paul Campbell is always fun to play with, when when he forgets all the words.

One downside is one chap in particular regularly calls a bass solo. I just can't stand it.

3 hours ago, peteb said:

you inevitably tend the same guts coming back playing the same stuff every week. 

That's what makes it for me. It's a social club for music nerds. We get them in, the landlord makes some money and everyone has a good time. At the one we did for several years in a pub that sadly got converted into housing it was weekly and rammed out every time. A good mix of musicians and people from the surrounding area. We've had some fairly big names in so maybe a bit more of a draw than is usual.