miles'tone

There's far better and cheaper options on the Ebay mod shop 😉

Unfortunately the only healthy thing you can do is turn your back on the situation and look towards your next opportunity with people who hopefully will have more professionalism and higher moral standards.

Enjoy your time off the road. 57 years of making countless people happy as they took some time out from their day-to-day is a hell of a contribution by any standards. Hats off! I hope you continue to play and keep at least yourself happy now. 👏

Keep It Greasy - Frank Zappa (1984 band live version). Doing ok so far, pick skills being honed along the way, but it's going to take some time to get it at full tempo...

Totally agree regarding that line up. I was lucky to see them play on the old Jazz stage at Glastonbury '93. They were on just before The James Taylor Quartet who headlined. I danced a lot that day! Nick Van Gelder left to form Akimbo with Simon Bartholomew from The Brand New Heavies. Loved his drumming with the early Ozrics too 👌

Anyway, Stuart Zender... coolest of cats, supernatural talent so young.

I'd like another Jazz Bass at some point. I used to have one but it didn't speak to me. I realise now that I didn't understand the nuances of how to dial in the pickups for different sounds/occasions - user error. This SBL vid is what has piqued my interest again... @17.40

How could we forget?

How Soon Is Cow? - The Smiths

We should all take BC out for it's first legal pint 😄

😂 great stuff! In possible defence of the seller - During my yoof, while giving being an active musician in London a go, I used to sleep on a mattress on the floor in a shared flat. We also used to sit on 2 army mattresses in the lounge because we didn't have any furniture. I may have been living on packets of pasta n sauce but I did have a '78 Rickenbacker and an '86 Stingray! Happy days living like the Young Ones... Could be a similar story, could be BS.

My Sonic P arrived today. Overall I'm pleased with it as the modding platform I wanted and it's certainly a real step up from the Harley Benton I'm sending back. However I will have to do a number on the fret ends as they are all skin-slicer sharp. I guess it's a crapshoot at this price point. It'll be a killer bass when I'm done though. I love the neck profile especially. I will weigh it eventually but so far I can say that it's nice and light and well balanced.

I've got a black Sonic P on it's way to me this week. I hatched a plan to buy a cheap P to put all the decent P bits and bobs that I've accumulated over the years on. I bought a Harley Benton pB-20 bk but that's going back. Too much finishing off work than I can be bothered with plus I didn't get on with the forearm contour anyway. Hopefully my Sonic will be as light and straight as all yours here 🤞 Will do a nbd when all is good. Great info on this thread, thanks!

Maybe get a looper pedal to have something to play off?

That looks and sounds great. Have you got a link? Nice one!

Yes of course 👍

Yeah he was a trailblazer in the 90s, making music like a laptop creator years before those technological possibilities were realised. Plus he could write folk songs like an old man 🤯

Half Pronoun Half Biscuit

Just woke up but at first glance: New looking neck with block inlays and a '64 or earlier decal = nope. 60s tuners? Nope. Original era pickguard? Nope. The body looks nice but wary of it all now to be honest.

Set of Dimarzio Model Js, both individually wired in series like P bass pups. Done.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beck-talks-mutations-going-solo-from-himself-248322/

My favourite is the Mutations album - the album between albums (odelay - MNV) that his record company let him release as not the official follow-up to Odelay because it wasn't commercial enough but he was writing so much stuff. Here's some Diamond Boll**ks for your shell-like...