Maude

Miserable sod alert! Most specialist guitar polishes are a way of squeezing a teeny bit of standard polish used in the automotive or furniture trades into little containers and charging double the price. Still it gives advertising people an outlet to save them getting constipated with their shite. 🙂

Ha ha, that's the closest I've got to steels as well. I also have a pack of Hi Beams in the cupboard waiting.

While the lack of gigs is obviously not good, the rest of your post I look at in a positive light. To have instruments as assets is far preferable to having that money in the bank. Both can be exchanged for necessary goods if the situation arises, but instruments are far more fulfilling until that day comes, and fingers crossed it won't. 🙂

Greetings From Shitsville - The Wildhearts

Hanging Around - The Stranglers

Self Control - Laura All-branigan

I'm wrong, it must be a righty due to the length of the top horn, but the controls and jack must have been relocated. Or it was built from scratch for him. Intriguing.

I've just noticed the black bass is a lefty, converted to a righty to get the controls and jack out of the way but keep the E string at the top. He hasn't just stumbled on this way of playing.

She's Lost Control - Joy Division

That is quite the most bizarre way I've seen a bass played, and just looks plain wrong. But it sounds great and doesn't appear to be holding him back so crack on I say. I wonder what led to him adopting that style though.

Did you buy the Talman new? The Talman sounds just like a Precision using the P pickup so shouldn't sound tinny compared to a Jazz. I bought a new one and put GHS Boomer piccolo strings on and put the strings that came on the Talman onto my crappy old Kay that I restored. The Kay has about the most clear, bell like sustain of any bass I've owned and doesn't lack bottom end with those strings so it shouldn't be them, if they're the originals. That aside I've got D'addario short scale half rounds on my Danelectro Longhorn and it sounds and feels great. Plenty of bottom end but enough bite in the top end. I have the long scale version on my Rick and they sound amazingly similar.

Devil Woman - Sir Clifford of Richardsville

Does Alex Horne count? More of a frontman to The Horne Section than an actual musician but the unit as a whole is very good. I'm not sure about 'decent musical output' though. I used to quite like Richard Digance back in the day, he has comedic and serious acoustic folky output.

Burning Love - Elvis

Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears

I reckon "I've got a pocket full of pretty green", would mean something very different to todays youth.

Royale with cheese. What'd they call a Big Mac?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but if it's a technique that produces a usable sound that you like then crack on. John Entwistle of The Who had a technique where he did what I think you're doing. His fingers were kind of in line with the strings and he tapped with his fingertips to produce his heavy clanking tone, like a typewriter.

True, but maybe there should be. 😉

McDonald's probably has a trademark on 'Quarter Pounder' so they changed to 'Quarter Pound'. Quite what a pound has to do with it anyway I don't know, surely they should be 'Quarter Inchers'. That's not quite so macho sounding though I suppose.

Mr. Pink Eyes - The Cure

Falling To Pieces - Faith No More

No, burger off! 😄

It is a bit quorny.

More ramblings, mainly so I can remember what's in my head. 😉 The best place for a soundpost if needed? A doublebass has a bassbar running from just below the neck joint to around the tailpiece height on the bass side and a soundpost on the treble side. One foot of the bridge is over the bassbar which distributes the tension of the strings over the soundboard, the other foot of the bridge is over the soundpost which transfers vibrations to the rear of the bass, except that the soundpost is normally not directly under the treble foot and if moved around to fine tune the sound of the bass, too close to the bridge foot can choke the vibrations, it's a fine art I don't claim to fully understand. With this little knowledge, yeah I know, dangerous, I wonder where the best place would be on this Aria for a soundpost, and would it be detrimental to sound or an improvement? The Aria has an X brace which crosses about 30mm in front the the bridge, the edges of the bridge sit on this brace. A single soundpost could go directly under the centre of the saddle or under the cross point of the X brace. A pair of posts could go under the braces where the bridge sits but I then have to balance two posts tension so one doesn't fall out, so I'll stick with one for now. A DB sounds worse without a soundpost but acoustic basses don't have them so I assume they won't improve the sound, else someone would be fitting them, right? So we can rule out the sound improving by transferring vibrations to the back and say it'll just be for strength. But too stiff will stop the soundboard vibrating properly and deaden the sound. So I wonder if the post would be best directly under the bridge or the X brace in front of the bridge? Which needs to vibrate freely the most? It's no wonder I can't sleep at night. 😆