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    Post a pic of your Bass god from your teen years

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    24 minutes ago, bakerster135 said:

     

    I believe it was due to Johnny Marr mostly playing with a capo on second fret or tuning up to F#, and as Andy's basslines were quite busy it allowed him to get around easier while still being able to use the E string open.

     

    Obviously he could've also used a capo, but as any bassist who's tried that likely knows they don't tend to work too well on bass and often end up muting one of the open strings.

    I've often wondered if Johnny Marr wrote and played in that tuning to suit Morrissey's natural vocal range at the time. It worked for them anyway. 

    Post a pic of your Bass god from your teen years

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    Posted · Edited by miles'tone

    Andy Rourke 😗👌

    It was only relatively recently that I discovered that most of his beautiful, melodic and highly memorable driving bass contributions to The Smiths were performed using regular (and pretty high tension) Rotosound 66s, but tuned up to F#! He made it look easy.

    Fabulous talent.

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    3 more to go?

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    Posted · Edited by miles'tone

    1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

    If you reckon almost 100 instruments equals 4 wives' worth, you must have a hell of an understanding wife! 😵‍💫

    No, I've only got 7 basses and I'm on dicey ground as it is. I'll choose more wisely next time! 🤣

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    3 more to go?

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    8 hours ago, cetera said:

    Just logging all my gear and realised I now have 87 basses and 10 guitars. 😲

    Should I buy 3 more basses to hit the magic 100 total? Or sell the 10 guitars and concentrate on basses only? 🤔

     

    First world problems and all that jazz.... :facepalm:🤣

    Wow! Amazing...

    That's like, 4 wives worth.

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    Is a new mass-produced bass ever worth more than £1500

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    9 hours ago, Beedster said:

    Having started this thread a year or so back, and since then seeing even madder price inflation despite the cost of living crisis, I suspect the question should be 'Is any electric bass - even a true vintage - ever worth over £1500?', or is it all simply a dopamine-driven ego trip eagerly capitalised on by the sellers and dealers? Mid 80's Fenders and even Squiers in the £2000 bracket, Wals that could be bought 10 years ago for around £1500 now selling at almost ten times that, Mex Fenders selling used for more than a new MIA a few years back....? 

     

    Mad isn't it? 5 years ago I struggled for a while to sell an above average spec Fender Custom Shop '62 P for £1800, and now you're looking at that for a nearly new American factory reissue. 5 years ago people apparently had more money too.

     

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    The final devaluation of music ? Learn about Suno,Udio and exactly what A.I. is up to - scary stuff.........

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    I haven't watched it yet (I will, thanks for posting) but what I think before I do is that in music, there's room for everyone. Including AI. 

    It's down to the individual what they choose to engage with.

    I'll always play music and I'll always listen to good music that speaks to me wherever it comes from.

    I have no desire to make a living from music so I understand that it's easy for me to say that.

    I'll watch it tomorrow night, thanks.

    What's the bass/instrument you have had longest?

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    Posted · Edited by miles'tone

    Mine is a  Charvel semi acoustic which isn't a Surfcaster but it has the same body shape, I can't remember what it's actually called. 

    Bought it new in 1993. The electronics are long dead but it is the ultimate late at night on the couch bass.

    When it was 5 years old a mate accidentally dropped it on a barbell and snapped the neck into 3 pieces. Another friend glued it back together for me and it sounded much better than it did before! 

    It's had the same slinky strings on it for nearly 20 years and still sounds fab.

    It sounds so good acoustically (not loud, but loud enough to play along with tunes via my bluetooth speaker nicely, and it's tone and playability are fabulous) that I've always said that my ultimate electric bass tone would be that but amped up. Still not found it.

    I did record a demo with it once by miking up the soundhole with good results.

    The original electronics were quite unremarkable to be honest. I may put something better in there one day.

     

    *Edit for photo. Not mine but exactly the same as this

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    Are short scale basses really as bad as they say?

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    Posted · Edited by miles'tone

    I'm really loving my recently acquired Hofner Ignition violin bass. It's funny, all the short comings I kind of expected to encounter with it have actually turned out to be what I like about it most.

    The thick, slim and hardly tapered neck is a dream and the body shape proved not to be uncomfortable at all, in fact it's the most ergonomically correct bass, for me, that I've played. Light as a feather but sounds so heavy.

    I've got the intonation spot on too btw. 

    I always have a big grin when I play it, great fun.

     

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