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There was enough lacquer on this to flat and polish so that's what I've done. It's all shiny now without the annoying orange peel finish. I'll post some pictures once rebuilt as we all love a picture 😎 I'm onto wiring now and have put a post in the 'Repairs' section, if you know your electrics then please take a look and help me out if you can, thanks.

Right, finally got around to rebuilding this bass and it's wiring time. This is a diagram, crudely drawn I'll grant you but hopefully adequate, of how the bass is wired at the moment, two volumes, two tones, a three way selector and a blend. I would like to just add a series switch if its possible, if not then just wiring the two pickups in series through one tone and one volume would have to do. Are there any electrical geniuses out there that could guide me through this please? I added a series switch to my Jazz with no trouble but they are simpler and the diagrams are online, I can't find anything for adding one to a Rickenbacker. If someone could help I'd be extremely grateful 😊

My Bex4 is one of my 'never selling' basses. It's just far too good an instrument for the prices they make. Not entirely sure I'd want the extra PU and electronics in the BS, the standard ones are simple and extremely versatile tone wise. Good luck with search though.

The Killers took their name from a fictional band in a New Order video...... I think.

Also, while we're talking about Sting and his lies about being in the police, I bet the fooker's never been to the moon either.

Ooh conspiracy eh? 🤣

The Romans?

Slightly different but I see your point.

I took the OP as tongue in cheek but maybe I was wrong. I do it as I'm a particularly showy tw@t, our audiences are there for the whole show, not just the music.

Oh my, have you been saving that post in your handbag for the right time? 😂

From memory black Pahohoe strings are available from Road Toad Music in a few different lengths. I much prefer them to the white Thunderguts. Less 'grippy' and a more focused tone.

Well he shouldn't 😉

So what? 😉

I'd buy it but neither of my bands play Dancing in the Moonlight so it's no use to me.

Any comparison to Bruce Thomas, however tenuous is welcomed with open arms (and strings). 😎

I've really never understood twin necks with a bass and a guitar neck. Fretted and fretless bass if you must or six and twelve string guitars, but who plays guitar then stops halfway through a song to play the middle eight on bass, then carries on on guitar again? And if there is a genuine reason anyone buys a guitar/bass then my clavinova/trombone combo should sell well.

What a load of old waffle!

Also we do Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars, but it's a Ska mash-up with Lip Up Fatty and Special Brew. Always a firm crowd pleaser.

What about if you take your left hand off for a second to relieve carpal tunnel pins and needles, then notice someone with a camera while your simultaneously catching your breath after being too energetic and the resulting photo just looks like you want to kill someone. I was really enjoying this gig as well, honestly 😁

Even better if it was the future for PAs. It would be like a silent disco except you wouldn't need the headphones. Everyone within range (ie in front of the stage area) would hear the band but zero noise pollution in the rest of, or outside of the venue. People could chat at the bar easily and those complaining d¡cks who bought the house next door could go f themselves.

That's not a very 'punk' thing to do is it 😉

Surely if Slaves are appearing on mainstream TV and being played on Radio 1 then the ripples of that punk stone being thrown into the music industry pond must still be being felt.

Just stumbled across this whilst on one of those YouTube journeys. I think it really works well and the dancer's none too shabby either.

I thought Dizzee Rascal made some good points about bass in his sections, points that we've probably trying to make people see for years. He said "it's like a conversation with no conclusion, yeah you've got some melody and some drums but what's your point?", and "it's like the glue that holds music together". He also emphasised the problems of listening to music on phones or laptop speakers when he nearly didn't record his hit 'Bonkers' with it's huge bass riff because he just didn't hear it on the little speakers, and that his audiences go mad in the bass drop in that song. I may be a miserable old fart but I can see D.R. is popular with youngsters and if someone on their radar can inform them in this way then he fully deserved to be featured. Now back to playing some big dirty stinkin' bass 😁

There was always going to be a guitar thread but nobody was quite sure when it would start. I mean, we all knew when it should start but it doesn't appear to have materialised. Have you checked the other forums? Maybe it was started in completely the wrong section and it's thrown you. Once it does start it will probably go on forever, contain bizarre word choices and drive you completely nuts.