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Back on topic of comments I don't miss, in the band mentioned above I solely play doublebass and, as mentioned by @Silvia Bluejayearlier, "That's a big cello", or "How are you going to get that violin under your chin?" gets tiring pretty quick, but they're only having fun and I'm gigging so it's all good.

I see no problem with that. 🙂 One of my bands is four blokes and a woman, I'm the youngest at 47 and the rest are ten years or more older, we do 'Love Machine' by Girls Aloud and it goes down a storm. We also do a few other 'girly pop' songs. Admittidly the woman is our singer but she sings loads of songs that are written from a male point of view without worry, we even do I Kissed A Girl with its bi-curious lyrics. I like to have a bit of fun, it's all just music after all. 🙂

Inaudible and an utter waste of time, if the majority here are to be believed. 😉 I wouldn't know on either count but I'd imagine the pride and joy you'd feel by one of your children learning, enjoying and sharing with you a song you've written would outweigh even the biggest of concerts. Lovely to watch. 🙂

The clarinet solo for the first half of Soft Cell's 12" version of Say Hello Wave Goodbye is beautiful. I love the song anyway but that solo is sublime.

I was going to suggest that as, strangely it was on the radio in the car as I got home earlier, I waited in the car for it to finish. Then I came in and saw this thread. Also love the sax all in Boomtown Rats' Rat Trap. The solo's great but the sax all the way through makes that song.

This thread has brought home the realisation that I'm a hoarder. I tried to remember if I regretted selling any of my basses, then I tried to remember if I've ever sold any basses. In thirty years I've sold two. The first was my first 'real' bass, a green Yamaha Attitude Special which I traded in for a new Yamaha BBG5s, the second was a silver Yamaha RBX374. A neighbours son wanted to learn bass and asked me if I knew of anything half decent for about £50 as that is what his son had saved up. I let him have the RBX for £50 as it wasn't really my thing, great bass though. I do wish I still had the Attitude Special for sentimental reasons as it was the bass I started gigging with, but have realised that if you don't sell anything you can't regret it. I really could do with some space back though. 😁

It may seem a bit harsh but plenty of decent budget P's and J's can be picked up for fifty quid so unless he can prove it's more than just a budget bass that would be my offer.

Not an instrument but when I got a multi effect I sold all my individual pedals with the velcro still on them. I had real trouble letting them go. 😄 Seriously though, I was using my Longhorn last night and thought a series switch would be cool. You'd recommend it then?

My first thought would be nut slot too low so the string is just sat on the fingerboard at the nut end. Does it do it if you stop (fret 🤔) the string as well or only when plucking the open string?

Weirdly, I had just finished fitting D'addario half rounds to it and having a little noodle to settle them in, when I sat down with a cup of tea to browse BC and this was the first post I read. I'm currently waiting for the flimsy thing to explode under the tension. 😄

Yes. 😁

As a teenager one of my favourite albums was a compilation titled 'We do em our way'. Punk bands covering classic pop songs and the Sex Pistols offerings were about the weakest in my opinion. I was trying to choose one to add here but I can't decide my favourite so I'll leave The Slits version of Heard It Through The Grapevine here and suggest you look up the album on the site if your choice. I lent the album to a work colleague sometime in the 90s and never saw it again, along with an Anti-Nowhere League album. Git!

This is not better but I like it equally as much because it's a different take on a great song. Sabbath and Cake with War Pigs.

There was a thread on this topic before and I think I posted this song there, but I'll post it again as I'd never heard of the band or the song until a few years ago and I love it. The original 'Thirteen Women' by Bill Haley and his Comets. Then the UK Renegades version which has quite a hard garage rock feel to it for the time it was released. Also tacked on the end is a bonus cover of Vince Taylors 'Brand New Cadillac' which isn't as good as the original or The Clash' version, which is actual better than the original so may as well get a look in here. Brand New Cadillac.

I love a bit of CCR but, like you, I think Hanoi Rocks has it on that one, I always loved it. Unlike the Tina Turner version of CCRs Proud Mary which appalls me every time I hear it.

One the one hand, you're welcome. On the other, don't bloody blame me. 😁 They do sound good don't they. As I mentioned earlier I've got mine set up as a piccolo bass, which I'm enjoying for some alternative noodling, but it's going to end up back as a normal bass sooner or later because it's such a gnarly little beast. Glad you're enjoying yours. 🙂

Nicky Wire in the early Manics days was a very cool figure. When I first saw them, him and Richey Edwards were definitely the cool pair in the band. Such a stylish mess of animal prints, spandex, make up and nicotine, oozing confidence, arrogance and attitude.

@Skybone, I've just seen that on the fakers thread, it looks fantastic. Walnut is my favourite 'colour' for the 4001/3 shaped bass. It looks great without the scratchplate too. How does it sound? 👍

I've got D'addario 50-105 half rounds on my Aria bolt on which are fairly high tension. No problems so far. 🙂

Oh no I've only just caught up with thread and that's not good news. But as Stub said, "Time and glue". 😉

That's a fantastic colour. I love a really dark fireglow.

It depends on your outlook. If you consider any bass with a bolt on neck inferior to an equivalent set neck bass, then yes. If not, no. If you want as close a copy as possible to a Rick then you'll want a set neck, but that doesn't bother me. If it's old and the action needs attention then a set neck can be worse. You want low action but the saddle has bottomed out, with a bolt on you can shim it, with a set neck it could be pop it in the bin time. It all depends what you want.

If you think they feel odd at first, kind of grippy and a bit rough, not like the silky smooth flats you'd heard about, don't worry. Just keep playing and they'll improve over time. Chromes can feel like this to start with. 🙂

I didn't have a tube down my throat, was that for feeding? As they laid all of my insides on the table for cleaning (surgeons words not mine 🙂) I wasn't allowed to leave until I'd eaten and it had completed the journey so to speak, to make sure nothing was twisted or blocked. The only thing on the menu I could even contemplate eating was soup. I was on a naval ward that did all the intestine issues, in the bed next to me was a fella who must've had problems with the final stages of the foods journey as his final contents were being slowly drained into a bag on frame beside his bed (I'm trying my best not to be disgusting here). Anyway with his clear bag on full view they brought me oxtail soup. 🤢

Not the best way to spend a birthday but happy birthday all the same. You have my total sympathy as I know the level of pain involved in peritonitis, did they do 'the rebound test'? I went from slight flu-ish symptoms in the morning to hallucinating and losing consciousness by late afternoon. I have never gone downhill from something so quickly. Blue lights to hospital but not operated on until the following afternoon as they weren't totally sure what was wrong. After lots of similar tests to yours they opened me up for an exploratory precedure. They didn't think it was appendicitis as the scans showed an organ that spread the entire stomach cavity from left to right, it turned out that organ was my appendix but had bloated to that size and eaten a hole into my bladder and leached all of its contents into it. Infected bladder, kidneys and related pipework, ruptured appendix, peritonitis and septicemia. Although I had no idea what was going on at the time, due to generally being off my face on either morphine or my own poison, I had a pretty close call, but I've got a cool scar. 😁 Take it easy and here's to a speedy recovery. 🙂 🍻