pineweasel

Great song. My band has jammed this a few times - half of us are keen to do it but haven’t persuaded the others yet. The bass part is in drop D and played by Marcus Miller originally.

With a £2k budget the first thing I'd do would be to check out the current Stingray Special. If that doesn't work for you, then look at Classics or used options, but everything I've read and seen about the Specials has been positive.

I watched Easy Lover last night and he said exactly this afterwards

This one belongs to the drummer in my band, a fellow lefty:

They’ve built a few at last. They’re being sold through The Vault, EBMM’s online store, and are for USA delivery only. But an interesting development nonetheless. I’d certainly like to try one. https://shop.music-man.com/instruments.html?instrument_type=5465&left_handed=5515

It's the rest of the band messing up. Trevor Bolder is correct to go to the chorus there. Compare it to the second verse.

Gilmour played a lot of bass on the Floyd albums over the years.

Wow, I didn't know this existed. One of the influential albums that made me want to play bass. And seemingly unobtainable!

You don’t need the latest and greatest iPad to do this. I’m happily using Garage Band on my 2014 iPad Air 2 with the Focusrite iTrack One Pre, which they were selling for 25 quid a few months ago. It’s true that any class compliant interface should work, but it will need separate power.

My band are experimenting with BandLab, an online DAW that runs in a browser (there's also an iPad app), so you can access it using whatever device you have. I'm not sure it's capable of producing pro-level output but it seems pretty capable for us to work on arrangements so far. I did find that audio recording was sometimes a bit glitchy on my 2012 MacBook, but I have a newer one from work which worked really well.

I had a recent rattle that was cured by reseating the ball end of the E string, which was a new one on me.

I'm working on two great ones that will probably get played live when normal service is resumed: Springsteen's Born to Run and XTC's Mayor of Simpleton. I'm slowly getting the hang of Dean Town as well, as an exercise.

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. The first time we played it I had a horrible moment of onstage terror halfway through the prior song, but it went OK in the end. We couldn't really hack it convincingly though, so it got dropped after a couple more performances.

Yes. I haven’t heard anything from them yet.

I have a ticket for Brand X at MK too. They say the tour is going to be rescheduled for 2021

My ‘96 seemed rather quiet when I got it, then I checked and found it had no battery. It definitely produced some output without one. (edit) it’s a 3eq as in the post above

Worth noting that David Hungate overdubbed the pops on the original, so it’s impossible to play it precisely as recorded.

It was his classic trio with Tim and Keith Carlock on drums. Excellent show.

He played the BiSonic with Wayne Krantz at Ronnie Scott's last month too. Super looking basses, and they do long scale models now as well. Slight thread derail but how was the gig? JZ Replacement was one of my favourite gigs last year, but I couldn't make this one.

I've no experience with the TU3 but I have no problems with my two, a Korg plug-in type, and a D'Addario clip-on. Both support various instrument tunings so need to be set to Bass mode, however. Are you doing this with your tuners?

Great album. Some excellent Allan Holdsworth on here too; I prefer his playing in other people's bands, rather than his solo albums.

I have read somewhere that a Special style update for the Sterling is in the pipeline.