miles'tone

Nearly 50 🤓🤘

This is solid gold! Amazing to see all that extra footage after all this time! 👊 Always thought Flea played the Wal sitting down a lot because it was heavy. Didn't realise he was wearing a cast on his foot! The Funky Monks film is so inspiring - I've owned a copy on every format since VHS! 😁 Thanks for all these vids Bart ✊😎🍻

Honestly, the first thing that came to mind was Batfink 🤷🏼‍♂️

Hopefully The Cure will save the day.

Yes. I'm pretty fly for a white guy. 🕺

Thanks! I have seen the Gail Ann Dorsey interview on YouTube actually which is fabulous. What a lovely soul she is!

I really like Scott and I've learned a lot from just his free vids over the years for which I'm thankful. I don't mind him popping up everywhere I go online - it does remind me to get my derrière "in the shed" more often instead of just looking at gear to buy that I don't need! I'll probably sign up for the academy eventually.

Because I'm very impulsive and have the attention span of a gnat crossed with both a magpie's eye for shiny things and Steptoe's eye for crappy looking relic stuff. Had I been a banker I could have easily caused the global financial crash single-handedly.

I had a bass dream last night! In fact some of my most successful modding ideas come to me in dreams. Last night's was me playing my Stingray at an improv jam in a club somewhere (there was no social distancing going on whatsoever! 🤘), and I had modded my 'ray with an added Novak Bisonic in the P position running through a Glockenklang pre. It sounded incredible! As did my playing.. I did say I was dreaming 😆

Bagsieblue got in first so off they go!

Tried these flats out on my Stingray, fab strings but I've moved back to rounds for the foreseeable. They'll be good for another 100 years probably! 😆😉 I've been gifted free strings here to try out in the past so just passing on the BC good vibes to whoever fancies giving 'em a go! First come, funk served! 👊

I was just going to suggest the same thing! A funky modern take on a 4005 would be ace. Maybe with bisonic/dark Star pickups?

Indeed! I saw the Roses live 'back in the day' and it was Mani that mainly caught my eye. He was actually the one that inspired me to buy my first bass and give it a go.

Ian Brown of The Stone Roses originally played bass in The Patrol alongside John Squire, the band that would later morph into the Roses.

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I'm subbed to her YouTube channel too. https://www.youtube.com/c/juliaplaysgroove19 During the lockdown her bass vids really cheered me up and really inspired me to pick up my bass when I hadn't felt like doing so for a long time. I joined her patreon thingy and send her $5 a month as a 'thank you'.

If I was to start from scratch I'd be shopping for a Stingray Special H and a 2x8 Markbass combo. Done.

I have a feint memory of his strings being GHS Brite Flats because Stingrays were shipped with them on in 1978. Prior to that they were shipped with GHS Precision Flats. Can't remember where I read that though!

Sounds like the cobalt steel they use has a very slim +/- tolerance margin between some sets sounding amazing and others being so hard that it's too brittle and corrosive to be fit for purpose. The normal Ernie Ball Group flats are consistently fabulous though fwiw..

Currently listening to This Is Lenny Kravitz playlist on Spotify. Damn fine bass player is Lenny. I haven't had him on for years and listening back now, I realise how much I learned from him in my yoof.

Is anyone here using their phone to record music on? I'm a complete tech simpleton and my android IS my computer! I've bought Audio Evolution to try. I've also got a usb interface to plug into. Apparently Audio Evolution records at CD quality... I'll report back when I've had a good go at it! 🤞

"The Bonnie Situation"... HNBD!

Just a random thought.. I've had a couple of Stingrays (one from 1986, the other a 2003) and both were fantastic. No quiet G. Was surprised to hear eventually that this was 'a thing'. Another 'thing' I hear is that Fenders usually have dead spots thing. I've owned many Fenders over the years (and other brands) and have never experienced dead spots on any of my basses. Either I've spent the last 30 years being incredibly lucky or I'm just completely ignorant to such things! I hope I'm lucky 🤔😄 Right, as you were...

Just completed the sale of my Fender Japan Jazz Bass Special to Ben and was surprised to discover he didn't have a feedback thread yet so here it is! Ben's a great guy and we had a good chat over the PMs and finally WhatsApp. He paid for the bass right away and we checked in with each other until he received the bass today. Dead easy friendly deal. Ben's an ace BCer and I would happily buy or sell again with him. Cheers Ben! 👍