Maude

What's the Kala Sub done to you to not deserve a name? 😁

I'm not sure I'd agree with your last paragraph. I consider myself self taught and I've spent the last twenty-five years soaking up as much knowledge as possible from as many resources as possible. I know I've depended on other people for my musical development.

Is it wrong that I don't actually know? They are in various places, some in our rehearsal room, some in my man cave, some in pieces awaiting fun projects, some in the living room and some in the dining room. From where I'm sat I can see nine. The thing is two are ukes, fretted and fretless, two are full sizes acoustics, fretted and fretless, acoustic db, eub, fours, a five, short scale long scale, bass vi and so on, all very different from each other. The silly thing is my main gigging electric bass is a Variax which has most of my other basses included in it My family don't go without, all the bills get paid and we don't particularly want or need anything we haven't got, so it's no biggy keeping them all, it's my hobby. If hard times came knocking I'd just sell most of them.

Can't argue with that

Because Jazz basses always 'look' like they're going to be better than a humble old Precision, but they never are 😗😁

Yeah I guessed that I know the AE ones won't be good, but they will be a 4005 shaped body and neck as a base. Fill the pick up routes and holes and start from scratch with decent, appropriate hardware. Still not cheap but significantly cheaper than genuine, which I couldn't justify even if I had the money.

@SpondonBassed It's not mine, I quoted Wateroftyne's post above mine. I have considered buying a Chinese 4005 from AliExpress as a base to make a decent faker, only for myself, not to con anyone. I love the sound and look of a 4005 but they're getting close to 10k second hand. Way out of my league.

I love the look of the 4005. The 'normal' ones are a bit 'Christmas tree decorated by an excitable child'.

And then a liberal application of creosote to protect them.

This week, I have mostly been listen to, the Soft Cell 12" singles collection. The 'Say hello, wave goodbye' 12" is sublime, with it's long oboe solo, ooh matron

I love Welcome to my Nightmare, must be time to dig it out again

I'm not even convinced wiping them down does much apart from push any dirt into the windings, unless you use your cloth 'with the grain' so to speak, so as to wipe dirt out of the windings. I'm sure any wipers on here wipe 'against the grain', up and down the length of the string, and probably never underneath anyway where most dirt will collect.

+ a lot of numbers So many people seem to spend ages laboriously taking the paint/primer/sealing coat off and then another age trying to cover/fill the woodgrain and prime it to get it back to where it was when they started. Leave the original finish if in good nick, a quick rub with some scotchbrite or Micromesh or the like and you're good to go. I really love that colour BTW, I seem to share your love of cream basses, I paint a colour to be different to all the cream ones and then wish I'd done it cream.

To be honest, I'm not sure what brands they are, maybe they are all from G4M basses but I'd guess a company manufactures and supplies them to a few lower end bass sellers. I've just checked ebay and there aren't any I just remember seeing them for sale second hand for very little money every now and again. I saw one go for less than twenty quid because I considered buying it (just in case) but I chickened out in the end as storage was a problem.

I don't know if you'd class them as strictly blues but a while ago I quite go into Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band after hearing this on a free magazine compilation.

One of our gigs last weekend was at a pub whose landlord, Phil, used to own a different pub. We used to play regularly for Phil at his previous pub but the new owners cancelled all the bookings when they took over. At last Saturdays gig two minibuses turned up full of locals from Phil's previous pub who'd come especially to see us, a thirty mile round trip. Money in Phil's till and two fingers up to the new landlord at his previous pub. We were delighted to see them

Sorry, can't help with the GK but I have spent far too long watching your avatar going round

Just had a look (your linky didn't work) and you should be able to get an as new second hand one for less than fifty quid.

Don't know how much the G4M ones are but you can usually pick up the hardcases supplied with the cheaper doublebasses second hand for next to nothing. Folks don't tend to keep them as they are massive and unwieldy. Have a look on ebay/gumtree/facebook etc.

Fender 9120 black nylon strings are nice and slick feeling and should be less than £30 if you haven't settled on strings yet.

Could it be a little trick whoever recorded/produced the song used to give the song a retro feel? Slightly off pitch that gives the feeling of a stretched tape or something.

Following on from my post from last night's gig, we've just taken a wedding booking off the back of it. Even the bad venues have their positives

We're playing a place I'd be happy to drop right now, on our break in the middle. There's a really nice outdoor seating area, a really nice bar and a room between the two where we're playing. Just people passing through from bar to outside. The reason we play is the owners own another venue which is always epic, so if we turn this one down we risk losing the good one. Oh well, tomorrows is a good venue so tonight is just a dress rehearsal

The first clip reminds me of The Fall.

18 here in the UK.