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AFAIK the only white version is the BJ5B which is the 5-string version and is essentially a TRB5 with the SBV body and headstock shape. It's also massively heavy. I'd say good luck trying to get one because there were only 50 made, but I managed it:

IME Rotosound are very good at making round-wound 4-string sets in 34" scale length and 40/45 to 100/105 gauges and very poor at all other strings. Also IME for 5-string basses getting a decent sounding a feeling low B string depends on both the player and the bass. What works for one person on a particular bass won't necessarily work for another player and might not even work for the same player on a different bass. Case in point, when I owned lots of 5-strings basses I had different strings on nearly all of them because those were the strings that worked best for me for each bass. Having said that I would try Warwick Red Labels as a first choice and if they aren't doing it for you then have a look at Warwick Black Label or LaBella Steels. If none of those are what you are after then try some DRs.

M is for Medium Medium

That's a lot of money, considering that you can normally get a bike box for free from your local bicycle shop (IME they are more than happy to get rid of them) and the cardboard they are made out of is considerably thicker and stronger than the typical guitar packing box.

Well I was going to take my own advice and finally upgrade Logic, but it turns out that I can't do it. About a year ago I bought a second hand MacPro 5,1 to replace my previous (also second hand) MacPro3,1 because I needed to update OSX from El Capitan to High Sierra in order to run the latest versions of the Adobe Creative Cloud apps for my work. At the time I spotted that my copy of Logic 9 no longer worked after the OS update, but as I wasn't doing any music due to lockdown, I wasn't that bothered. Last month the keyboard player from Hurtsfall got in touch saying that we had been invited to contribute a new track to a compilation album and here was his initial idea for the music. Would I be able to add some Bass VI to it? He'd just bought himself a copy of Logic since he knew that's what I was using. No problem, I thought I'll work something out to the MP3 I've been sent and then when I'm ready to record, I'll take the plunge and buy a copy of Logic Pro X. By the beginning of last week, we'd got the structure of the song sorted and I was ready to record. It turns out that sometime in the past 12 months Logic Pro X has been updated and the current version now requires Catalina as the minimum OS. The App store won't let me buy a previous version, even though there is an older one that works under High Sierra. A telephone conversation with Apple support reveals that it might be possible for me to get hold of a version that will work with my Mac, but I will need access to a Mac with Catalina on it in order to be able to purchase the latest version of Logic. I should then be able to go to the App Store on my MacPro and it will allow me to download the most recent version that is supported under High Sierra. However Apple can't guarantee that method will be 100% effective. I have half a mind to buy a the cheapest new Mac I can find from Apple, get my copy of Logic (if the method works) and then send it back for a refund under distance selling regs. In the meantime I was able to do my recording in GarageBand (although even that complained bitterly about being out of date) and I have been investigating the cross-grade options for PreSonus Studio One which does run on my Mac.

I'm not on Twitter - I've never seen the point, and therefore I don't think a Tweet from someone who has obviously just joined to have a moan at FedEx is going to carry much weight.

Does anyone have the contact details for the head of FedEx in the UK? Tried of being lied to on the phone and then cut off whilst on hold.

And add FedEx to the crap list. Printed proofs coming from China sent by FedEx. Unfortunately the printers forgot to send me the tracking info so the first I knew about it was when I returned from a 10 minute trip to the shops yesterday morning and found the "We Missed You" card. Not a problem, I didn't know it was coming so it's not really their fault. I'll organise a redelivery. Go onto the FedEx web site and sort out a delivery for today. While I'm on there I notice that there is also an option to to nominate a neighbour for the delivery, so I thought I would do that as a back up. However once a redelivery has been arranged it is impossible to add another option via the web site (and the phone number on the page you to call because there is a problem, just tells you to use the web site). Spend 5 minutes scouring the web site for a customer service number and trying to persuade the "virtual assistant" to let me speak to a human being before I get one. Fifteen minutes on hold finally gets me through to a real human being who is very helpful and says that she is able to also add my neighbour's address to the delivery details. Sorted, I think... This morning some time between 8.00 and 9.00 FedEx try to deliver again. The first I know about it is when I spot they have put another card through my letterbox. Again not a problem I'll just go and collect from my neighbour. She's not got my parcel, no-one has knocked on her door all morning. Phone customer services yet again (it's a good thing I wrote down the number yesterday when I found it) This time it get escalated and I have been told that they will contact the driver and tell them to make another delivery later today. If this is true that will be great, but it really shouldn't have happened in the first place. Compare and contrast with my "damaged" DHL parcel which was sent again this time by Parcel Force. On my return from the shops yesterday morning, I spotted a PF van in the street, the driver waved me over and said he had a parcel for me, which he handed over and told me to ignore the card through the door. He's spotted me coming down the street, and had waited for me in order to deliver the parcel. Now that's excellent service.

Looks like a Burns Sonic neck. Pity he didn't use the rest of that bass.

It's the same interval as the two notes in the bass line of Walk On The Wild Side although they are C/E and F/A

There were some rather unusual (IMO) choices, I certainly didn't recognise Robbie Grey, even though Modern English were one of my favourite bands of the early 80s...

I was thinking Robert Smith since he played a lot of Bass VI in the "Pornography" era Cure, but is not really know for being a bass player.

OK - next question: how many of them are bass players? I make it 6/7.

I found the Clare Grogan one when I was trying to work out which of the illustrations was her (the other possibility turned out to be Bellinda Carlisle).

Thanks. By myself I got 77/100 (did get 10 wrong that I though I knew). Still not convinced by some of the likenesses and Aimee Mann certainly didn't look like that when I saw her in the 90s!

I'll take your word for it. I've just done a Google image search and I can't see the similarity myself.

Thanks! Tom Bailey. I actually saw the Thompson Twins in 1980 when they were still 4-piece indie guitar band. And not Trevor Horn, I meant the bloke next to him who I thought might be Geoff Downes?

And I would never have got that. I think I have names for all of them except (from the bottom up, left to right) - Row 2: 3 and 7 (got these two now although I'm not 100% convinced about #7) Row 5: 5 and 7 Row 6: 3

No I think he means Elizabeth Fraser in row 5

Good call. In Google Images that very picture is in the 4th row of results.

Hope that helps. Feel free to disagree with any of my choices. Can anyone fill in the blanks from above?

They're both in the second row down.

I think you may be right.

74/95 which ones are you stuck on? Two are particularly bugging me because they look familiar but I just can't put a name to an illustration. The tall guy roughly in the middle of the picture with shades and a grey coat, and the bloke with the long face two rows down and slightly to the right.

The Yorkshire Ripper was in the Beatles? Is that like Charles Manson auditioning to be in the Monkees?