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And a valuable one - that offer of a free hour's worth a lot of money in lost fares to him. I'd do more than than 'keep him in mind' TEJ.

Don't confuse Stratford (a not particularly nice part of east London ) with Stratford upon Avon ( where Bill Waggledagger came from).

Hey PBS, I'm always taking black cabs. Why don't you put a small sign on your partition window. No one not on here will pay it attention, but any members who've seen this will be able to Hi you up.

Wunjos in Denmark Street, central London, is a great bass shop but on a smaller scale than the Bass Gallery. There are various Python fan sites that might help, e.g. : https://londontopia.net/guides/monty-pythons-london/ . This site may help with fish and chip shops https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/londons-best-fish-and-chip-restaurants When you say special foods, it's a bit harder. Despite a reputation for having rubbish food, London and the UK generally offers a far more sophisticated range of foods than most other countries, in my experience. North and south England have different specialties. Whelks and jellied eels are ethnic to London (not everyone's first choice of num nums though). Chicken tikka massala and other Anglo-Indian curry dishes are now as 'English' as - well, jellied eels and may be had very widely. You don't say how familiar you are with the UK and London, or what your other interests are. The Tower of London is pretty cool for old stuff and juicy bloody history. Edit: If you are interested in history and art there are more world class+ museums and art galleries than you can shake a tour guide at. The London Eye wheel will give you a bird's eye view of London, including the Houses of Parliament but these are currently festooned in scaffolding so won't look their best again for years. Talking of tour guides, London is a major city with a vast concentration of interesting stuff. Four days should give you a decent chance to see lots of things, but best to book on a tour or two so you don't waste time wandering around. I doubt whether you're a Harry Potter fan, but in case you are the Harry Potter exhibition on the NW outskirts of London is a must, but it is eye wateringly expensive - around a $100 US per person. Have fun

La Bella RX nickels

Hey, at 63 I see you as a mere child! Start with root notes, play something simple that you like. Get in a band as soon as you can. Focus on hitting the beat more than the right note (although both is ideal, obviously). Join Scotts Bass Academy even if money is tight, it's worth it. Don't waste money on face to face trainers.

I'm doing it even though most of my time is spent doing sax now. If its rubbish or too boring you can always get your money back within 30 days. I doubt it will be... although 6 months just on where you put your pinky seems a real deep drill-down.

It can be the nature of some cheap cabs. I had two TC BC210s which sounded great at practice volume. The sound of both cranked was ugly. Not farty like there was something wrong, just unpleasant. So I bought into a couple of Fender 12 cabs, ditto. I ended up with eye wateringly expensive Barefaced cabs and finally quality wasn't inversely proportional to volume. There is a reason some things are expensive and others aren't. Depends on what you want from a cab. If you're never going above the fifth fret and holding down a rock line in a crowded pub full of pissheads anyything cone shaped will do. If you're into bass as a musical instrument then you may need a cab to suit. I'll get my coat.....

Hohner B Bass VI - yesterday, now and forevr... neck through, lovely wood OK electronics, lovely tone with the right strings and £250 on average. Come up on here about once a three month.

I do an hour a day cos I can. Sometimes I have to leave it a few days cos of work and quite often I find the solid px beforehand has bedded in all of itself over the gap. But don't rely on that bedding in process to continue. You have to go back to the daily practice to keep moving forward. I respond very badly to chores so have my bass and sax where I can reach them and leap on them when the inclination motivates.

I play bass and I play sax. GAS is a subsidiary hobby with bass. They're cheap enough, and varied enough, that you are always buying more. I've been through 35 basses in 7 years. [For scientists: the optimum number n of basses is n=X+1, where x is the number of basses you already have]. And the next one will always transform your playing. Of course. With sax, they're expensive and they all look the same. So I've bought a Yamaha alto which my sax tech assures me will last me out my (few) remaining years. And I've just bought a posh mouthpiece. Ditto. So no more cardboard boxes - mourn. I've peaked

Went to the local music pub, the Burston Crown in Norfolk, for the otherwise great band Nebula Sun recently. It's a tiny pub. It's a loud band anyway with bass, drums, two tenor saxes and guitar, but PA'd up? The mixer man ( not the usual one) was doing such a loud sound check I had to go outside - and I'm half deaf. When the band started a mate of mine who's an acoustics professional went home in protest at the volume. When I had a gentle dig on Facebook I just got the equivalent of an invitation to enjoy sex and travel. Another tiny local pub had a rock band setting up with 4x10s and 1x15s stacked! I left before they hit the On switch. Is it stupidity, wembley-envy or what? I'm happy with loud - I play in a loudish band - but these extremes are insane.

BB300

Well I bought a Hohner VI B bass for under £200 and that amounts to theft. If you know your basses and you predate the market you can get insanely good basses for £300. I've had 30+ basses and only three have been over that.

I had a heart attack three months ago. Never been better. People paid me loads of attention, I got to contemplate death and realised it was for losers. Young women pretended to listen to my crap jokes. Really positive experience. I say go for it. If you get pressure on your breastbone, indigestion, mysterious fevers and a fizzing feeling in your heart - and the cat isn't lying on your chest - call 111 and let the pros take over.

I don't have the choice. Every time I take my bass to a tech round here they look at me as I'm mad "It's easy enough, do it yourself" they say. This is also a part of the world where teachers won't teach me - both bass and sax - cos I'm 'a natural'. This is also a part of the world where they rarely have any money. You have to have lived and worked in Norfolk for a while for this to make perfect sense.

Geetar, then bass, now sax (and bass). Folk>blues>funk

Not my bag at all. Wasted my money. I used to be a total Dadd fanboy and still am of their flats but love the La Bella RXs now.

Strengths: rock solid with a drummer, know my kit backwards and everything is fettled for the sound I want (AKA years of tech talk and GAS), love sixers, loathe 4 strings Weaknesses: all over the place without a drummer, much prefer twiddling badly up the top end to doing anything down the bottom, get bored half way through, huge ego and get insanely grumpy too easily. I'm a troll in real life. It may come as a surprise I'm not in a band.

As unpleasant tit and employer of ghost writers, Lord Archer, once snapped to a nagging hack: "I've got 50 million in the bank, you haven't." While Scott hasn't got that much and I'm not about to tell you how much he does have, it's a sufficient percentage of that figure to justify him in making a similar rejoinder and not changing his approach to training and making video one iota.

Gotta be the opposite Lozz, and as you know I bought a pristine BF 210 off you. I sold that and replaced it with a MB Traveler 112 which to my ears sounded infinitely nicer and better matched. But OMV

I adore my Markbass LM2. But in the Camden bass gallery I did once accidentally have a go on an Aguilar rig (don't know which one) and instantly fell in love with the sound - it was really that good and different to anything I'd ever tried. At that point my wife heard the warning vibration of a stressed credit card and dragged me out.

I have a bitsa P bass: old Squier neck off the slightly later model than the JV with Tonerider pup, KiOgon loom and a 'balsa wood' Affinity body only a few years old. This does everything I could possibly want. ... or did until on a whim I bought an MiM Fender P. Everything about the Fender was better, including the playing and the tone. This prompts me to two advice options. Expensive: buy a proper Fender Cheap: Buy and fettle a cheap clone and don't play the real thing so you don't know what you're missing.

So that's under £20 a month - an hour's lesson with a bad personal tutor.

Nay, lad, sithee... he does do a monthly option. See https://scottsbasslessons.com/profile#manage-subscription Best to email support and ask, they're prompt and friendly and will sort out any questions you may have.