Skinnyman

Yes sir, sorry sir...

Well that's just charming, i must say. I'm sure that old Mother 4000 is a delightful lady who did her best to bring her son up properly and teach him some manners. It's hardly her fault that he's got in with a bad crowd and got a cheeky tongue in his head since 'e left 'ome, giving lip to 'is elders an' betters. 'e ain't too big to be sent ter bed wivaht 'is supper, you know....

Not if you're nicking next door's and their router isn't very powerful. Then you prob'ly have to sit on one of the bins to get a decent WiFi signal.

I think it can only help your case if you do....

Good man, keep it up

You had to go there, didn’t you.....?

I think what you're describing is pretty much universal, sadly

In my case, with very good reason

Depending on how stocks and such like perform after The Big Day in March (or whenever), I may be looking for something in April.... But for now 😀😀😀😀😀

Early retirement, young whipper-snapper

I bet there's a list somewhere of the top 50 female vicars....

Right now I'm listening to "The Ferryman's Curse" by the Strawbs. I've bought every album they ever recorded and Dave Cousins has pretty much chronicled my life - and this, their latest, is superb. When so many bands of the seventies are - quite understandably - trading on their back catalogue, I love the fact that DC still has things to say. His voice is sounding weaker these days (although apparently he recorded the vocals for this while nursing a hernia so that might explain things) but it suits the introspective nature of the songs well. I'm so gutted that I missed their recent 50th anniversary tour....

I tried, I really did....

And then there’s this.... https://www.snap-dragon-guitars.co.uk/snap-dragon-e-bass-4-p.asp

I spent quite some time looking at the many travel guitars on the market, some of which have demountable (not folding) necks. I don't believe that (apart from the Hofner? Shorty) that there is a similar travelling bass. A Steinberger is pretty portable though and may already be a reasonable solution for the traveling bassist. I have no idea of potential market size but if you come up with a decent solution it should work for guitar as well and that's where the money seems to be. There's a shop in Brighton who specialises in travel guitars - can't remember the name offhand but a quick Google should turn them up - their website was very comprehensive and showed the different solutions that already exist. A final note - a friend of mine had one of the traveller guitars and I found it virtually unplayable. The string action was at cheese cutter levels and the design meant it couldn't easily be lowered Good luck with the research

Exactly - and how many female bassists are also cyclists and will be affected by it? Huh? There - that should do the trick....

Shrewd move....

I was distracted by the two little bald-headed chaps sat on her knee

Good. They should be free to choose their own...

I don’t have names for my basses but Mrs Skinny does. We started with Scary Bass, Sporty Bass, Posh Bass, Ginger Bass (which is actually a ‘burst finish) and Baby Bass. The more recent additions have been called, in order, Nora Bloody-Notherone and Annie Moranamoff.

I’d want them to come ready fitted to a nice Precision for that price.

Unless they're playing Crazy Little Thing in which case it's handy to know the major scale at least twice during the song 😀😀

No, I'm not confusing these two things. We just have a difference of opinion about their relative importance. We both agree that it's important to know them. I find it useful to practice them, you don't. Our mileages vary. Er, that's it

And that's your experience which is fine. I was describing my experience which is also fine. Our experiences are different and that's a Good Thing as the OP now has two different perspectives.

Which is fine and I agree..... But in answer to the specific question “what is the point of learning to play scales?”, for me, when I play live, I am inevitably playing selections of notes from a scale, so I feel that it’s important to practise said scales in order to improve my speed, dexterity and muscle memory. I’m not a good enough player to get away with not practising and scales are - for me - an essential part of my practise routine.