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Years ago, when I was broke, a guy I knew found a a Yamaha TRB 6-string made of some fancy, exotic wood for about €100,- He asked me for advice, 'cos he had no idea about such things. Had I not been broke and/or had it been a 5-string, I would have snapped it up. Instead, we flogged it for about €900,- (it needed some serious TLC) and split the money.

Birken Head?

This is a vocal line, not bass, but listen to the first 22 seconds. The note she finishes on catches folks every time.

An excerpt from an interview with Richard Bona, which very succinctly describes the dilemma facing those of us trying to make a living in the business.

What? A spare you?

Scott Devine, from Scott’s Bass Lessons.com the largest bass education platform.

This happened to a mate of mine with his white, 80s Les Paul deluxe. He was doing Björn Again in front of 10,000 people. Raised his arms and the crowd went “YAAAAAAAY!” guitar falls to the floor and they all go “OOOOOHHHHH!” - a real Wayne’s World moment.

…other manufacturers are available 😙

I can’t believe we’ve gotten this far into the thread without any mention (@chris_b excepted) of the most obvious candidate, bass.

Year started playing: 1981 Number of basses: 10 ish Music theory: 5 Technique: 6 Groove: 7

Nice job, whoever did this. Peter is a top chap, super helpful with all his knowledge around synthesis and groovy pedal goodness, so this is well deserved. I‘m only sorry I wasn’t aware of the gesture, thus unable to contribute.

Sounds great, which frankly isn’t helping 😎 I have bills to pay and a marriage I would rather like to stay in.

@Quatschmacher, fancy seeing you here 😎

Anyone familiar with Scott’s Bass Lessons will have seen Sharon Renold. I knew she was a great bass player, but only recently (thanks to my YT feed) realised that she also sings. Here‘ what YT sent me, followed by a link that Ben from SBL sent me. She‘s well good