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Flash, Bang, Wallop - Tommy Steele

Not a band with two basses normally, but on this occasion they were, and bloody good it is too.

I apologise for that, it was trivial. But so vehemently stating you are right while posting statements that contradict each other made me bite. I actually am out now. 😁

This is also further down in your link to Talkbass, Then the next question is "What oil should I use?" If you are looking to inhibit moisture loss, then a polymerizing oil is the best choice - linseed, Tru-Oil, gunstock oil, tung oil. But if you just want it to look pretty you can't beat mineral oil - that's why so many products made for fretboards are mostly or all mineral oil, and that includes most "lemon oil" products. Just below your post promoting the use of furniture cream on your fretboard to moisturise it. I'm not actually disagreeing with you, but putting everyone down who dares to disagree with you doesn't sit well. I'm out. 🙂👍

That's fair enough, so the point is not to overly oil your board, rather than not to at all. I not a blind oiler, but was struggling to find the actual point to your ranting. I'm reading the stuff you're posting from Talkbass but it doesn't back what you're saying. Your quote says it doesn't prevent, but does inhibit moisture migration. I'm saying if an oiling every now and again keeps the board looking pretty and inhibits moisture migration, then I'm happy to do it. It is in line with what you are posting. Yes and no. I was saying what I thought about wood structure, not stating it as fact. I may have used the wrong terminology, not being a specialist in wood, but we actually had the same view,. Unfortunately your aggressive posting style wouldn't allow you to see that.

You said, "All it does is make it look pretty". Then carried on to say it would "have the luthier hurling expletives when they're putting in new frets". Unless looking pretty would cause a luthier to hurl expletives it must do something else other than make it look pretty, ergo contradiction. Would the risk of frets lifting really cause a luthier problems in replacing them, surely it's helping in the removal? Inhibit verb 1. hinder, restrain or prevent (an action or process). So it inhibits moisture ingress and makes the board look pretty. I'm happy with that. The rest we can ignore as it's merely pointing out what it doesn't do. 🙂👍

Why's that then, can a luthier not work on a pretty board? 😉 Perhaps if you explained why it's such a bad idea rather than just ranting (and contradicting yourself as quoted), then folks might better understand.

Crest of a Wave - Rory Gallagher

I don't own anything previously 'celeb' owned, but I get the appeal. The rational side of me says it's a daft notion, but the sentimental side of me looks at it in same way I look at anything vintage, the stories locked within. If these instruments could talk what stories could they tell? I have a few non valuable vintage basses just because they're lovely things that have seen more years than I have. What pubs, parties or stages have they played, what songs have been written with them, what emotions have they stirred in people? If they've made it through fifty years then they deserve some respect I feel. I have some vintage tools and wonder what have they fixed, what family crisis have they averted or how much pleasure have they brought the old man tinkering in the shed? My 1949 Rudge came with the original toolkit in a leather saddle bag, who have those tools saved when their bike broke on the way home from work? A celeb owned instrument has stories to tell. BTW, I'm a sentimental old fool! 😁

Wow! That's looks like a great bass for forty quid. Someone should be happy.

I agree, but where does Punk end and Post Punk and New Wave start, and where's the boundary between Post Punk and New Wave, then where does New Wave become Synth Pop, and Post Punk become Goth, and all of it become Indie? A debate that can go on and on, but labels are as relevant as the one in the back of my pants. Good music is good music. That said, I offered Gang of Four's Dave Allen up and I would say they are Post Punk, not New Wave. 😆

My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council Do I get double points?

Gang of Four's Dave Allen always played a perfect counterpart to Andy Gill's jagged guitar lines.

Stuart Morrow is not "often forgotten" in my house. Even the simple bass line of 'Smalltown England' absolutely drives that song along. It helps that his lines were mixed prominently, absolutely killer tone.

Would - Alice in Chains

I feel I should point out that my description was purely tongue in cheek. But also realise that my lack of smilies means nobody knows that. I'll happily take the twerp tag though. 😉👍

Well at least Sleaford Mods are stirring emotions in people so they're doing something right I suppose. Personally, I'm not a fan. It's like watching a scumbag kicking off in Primark that his £2.99 t-shirt ripped when he fell over pissed, and his timid mate looking a little nervous at the scene being made.

Shiver and Shake - The Cure

I like Crafter acoustics. I feel they are a bit like Yamaha in that there is a range of prices, but at each price point you're getting more than your monies worth, and I've yet to play a bad one.

Nothing Lasts Forever - Echo and the Bunnymen Useless pop trivia, some very early OMD recordings featured the use of a 70's drum machine, the Eko Rhythmaker, which was subsequently lent to an up and coming bunch of fellow Liverpudlians, who eventually named themselves after the Eko unit, Echo and the Bunnymen. You might need that snippet of info one day, but I doubt it. 😁

I saw this advertised a week or so ago, it looks like it should be good.

Wheels of Steel - Saxon

@KiOgon did me exactly what you're after, a rotary switch that goes through single coil, dual coil, series and parallel and a standard chrome knob fitting. My bitsa Stingray has a three knob plate with volume, tone and the rotary knob, it just looks like three chrome knobs.

I like that. Where were they built? It's got an Italian vibe with all the pearloid like an Eko.

On the red or the stripped finish?