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On 04/07/2020 at 11:55, Roger2611 said:

The placement of the "contoured body" decal is right strange! Looking at online images it is correct for these basses but I wonder what the story is as to how it ended up there!

The neck refinish by Wal looks interesting?

Looks like a nice thing? Refinished neck?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Jazz-Bass-Jaco-Fretless-MiJ-2004-05/193520832431?hash=item2d0ebd8faf:g:-FAAAOSwcH5e6MdN

1 hour ago, musicbassman said:

I teach English to groups of mostly European students at summer schools, due to start at the end of this month.

Just had the entire seasons bookings cancelled. Not just me, whole school is closed down for everyone.

I'm OK, can manage without the income, but what about those people who rely on this sort of thing - and all the associated staff - cooks, cleaners, coach drivers etc etc?

I really can't see how this loss of income/employment for millions of the mostly lower paid in the hospitality industry is going to be resolved quickly and successfully.

 

Yes exactly! It’s fine for all the professional ‘middle management’ types to work from home. What about bus/train drivers, postman/couriers dustmen etc. But the biggest concern are those that cannot afford to stay home sick and unpaid, and will plough on regardless, using public transport!

34 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Bloody love Genesis.

Rock & Roll all night, party every day!

I admire guys that just walk out of the ‘day job’ and follow their dreams. Even more so when they have kids and a mortgage to worry over.  It was an interesting point that Dan made above about music being the new ‘job’ and not ‘fun’ like it used to be? 

Quite impressed reading some of the stories on this thread. I’d guess for guys that aren’t still living at home with mum & dad, the motivation to pay the rent/mortgage at the end of the month is motivation in itself to get out there working? 

14 minutes ago, BassTractor said:

Yup.
Not that I'm a pro anymore, but that was indeed what I did: quit my job and started studying music.

BUT I had a little trick up my sleeve: even before getting the decently paid job, I'd already taught music pupils with the sole purpose of finding out whether I could live as a music teacher.
I needed that knowledge before even starting at music college because I knew that sooo many music students start studying with the aspiration of becoming world famous musicians - only to wind up as local music teachers instead.

2 hours ago, Rich said:

My basses are quite happy in their wardrobe BassDrobe©, but if I was to hang them on the wall I'd definitely do the single-plank method.

School coat hook look?

15 minutes ago, ambient said:

I think this thread is becoming rather pointless. It’s veered off track so much. As with this everything else with Brexit, two sides with very entrenched views. Here though, you have musicians and artists who have got experience of performing and working across borders, being told they’re wrong, by people who have absolutely zilch experience or ambition of doing so. 
 

What bands did forty years ago, has absolutely no bearing on what artists do now. 

Sad but true. As much as I have enjoyed the debate, your concerns are constantly being side-stepped in favour of the usual cut & paste stuff, and we are just going round in circles. 

We’ve been put out to pasture.

Just now, Happy Jack said:

Well obviously those awful foreigners keep coming over here and taking all the well-paid gigs away from talented-but-starving hard-working BRITISH people who have paid for the social services and stuff that they want to nick and take back to foreign-land with them when they steal all our best tunes and leave talented-but-starving musical geniuses to rot in garrets while they take all the cash which should have been ours but it's OK cos we're going to kick out Johnny Foreigner and tow Britain out into mid-Atlantic where we can become the first-choice trading partner with North Korea and Peru.

 

Only the ‘clever’ ones earning more than 26k?

Rezillos - can’t stand my baby

5 hours ago, mikel said:

Why "Verses". Its not a knockout competition. Aspirations aside we all do the best we can with the time we have for music. Some have, or chose to prioritise, lots of time for music, others have to fit it in around life. I like to think I am an amateur with a pro attitude. The only way I would have loved to be a pro would have been in a band with my mates playing and recording the music we had writen.  As for a hired hand or a session player, no thank you.

Semi professional? 

Finally, we’ve traced the origins of the corona virus!

As above, hearing JJ made me want to play bass. That little run down at the beginning of ‘princess of the streets’ was one of the first things I ever learnt to play! 

2 hours ago, paul_c2 said:

Do they shift it or do they advertise it?

One guy in particular ‘shifts’ a lot of stuff? 

1 hour ago, lownote12 said:

Impressed so far. Trying to clear bass and photographic backlog from last year’s GAS. Items are moving much quicker than on BC, even quite exotic stuff. Who’d have thought a general punter would want a 6 string bass. Now getting responses within 12 hours.Same bass items haven’t had a tickle of interest here.

Pleased that your stuff is shifting on FB, personally I find it’s like the Wild West? Interesting that you haven’t had any luck on BC because there are one or two guys that shift ‘huge’ amounts of high end computer and camera gear regularly?

Well, the 'sell anything' section is always doing well. There's a bloke on there who always seems to be selling newish Macbook's, quality cameras, or quality HiFi. Good luck to him, and not that its any of my business, but wow?

1 hour ago, Maude said:

Ooh guess the word, I like a good quiz.

I know what my guess is but would anyone drop the C bomb this early on New Year's Eve? 

Christmas can be a very stressful time?

14 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I’m loving the scratchplate , can I ask where you got that. nice build btw 🙂

Yeah, and do they have a Universal Credit version?

We were off out tonight but I think I'll stay home and follow this thread instead!

You don't have to set up 'fast and low'! Most manufacturers provide a range of adjustment to allow for players that require higher or lower action. If you prefer a high action and don't mind working harder, then go for it?

And now peds BMW has returned we can let Christmas joy be unconstrained!

On 11/12/2019 at 21:00, lemmywinks said:

It would explain the woodwork, probably carved the whole thing with a shiv made from a toothbrush handle and a safety razor.

.....after lights out when 'the screws' aren't watching!

23 hours ago, Delberthot said:

I used the videos on the Elixir website to get a rough starting point and then took it from there.

Personally I think that it's important to measure your relief using a capo, feeler gauges and a straight edge to get actual measurements as once you know what you like it's a lot easier to set up your next bass than using your eye and doing it roughly. Most of us are guilty of GAS and don't want to spend too long setting up each bass as they come through the proverbial revolving door of gear.

This is something that I have only recently begun doing (this year) after 32 years of playing and setting things up roughly. I wish that I'd learned to do this years ago.

 

I agree. It’s all part of owning an instrument. When you read some of the comments on here you’d think setting up a guitar is a black art? Plus the amount of times I here guys complaining about the set up they’ve just paid for not being right. Crazy.