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Yeh - should we really be compiling lists of best female bass players? In fact, lists of "best" bass players is pretty ridiculous full stop.

Somebody groped my wife at a gig and SHE beat the crap out of them and threw them clean out of the front door. I know my place 😄

Used to... well, I used to be a percussionist in orchestras, theatre bands, brass bands and so on. I was never a very convincing kit drummer. I think it was a really good grounding for playing the bass. For one thing I can read music and for another I seem to have a very good sense of timing. Unlearning having to read everything from music and learning to play by ear was a nightmare though.

Yeh - had a few close ones myself. Have also run up against the theory that, "no matter what we don't involve the police". You might want to play there again...

What are you talking about? Bass players don't move! It's the law 🤣

You can buy a really nice Jazz bass for about 300 quid. After that it's ALL diminishing returns - we all know this. You're paying for small things that cost loads and add little. My go-to bass is a USA Lakland. It was bloody expensive. Do I think it's better because it is or because I know what I paid so convince myself it is?

I have a five string (USA) Lakland and it's both very light and sounds amazing. The down side is that at well over £2K it was far too expensive. However, all round it doesn't leave me unable to get out of bed the next day due to a locked-up back so it was probably worth it.

I'm not sure which I like better... that you have Jah Wobble on guitar or that you come from Wigan and actually do wear flat caps 😄

I bought maple syrup last night... just because I can 😈

It's timing. I don't feel entirely comfortable. It's hard to explain - I guess my brain isn't wired up the right way.

I'd rather not get into this but you're talking so much sh*t that I just can't let it go. So called "cultural appropriation" is a perfect example of being offended on the part of somebody else. I don't know who you are but I'm going to bet you are some reasonably well-off white person. You have no right that I can see to dictate who should or should not play Caribbean music. I make no pretence to "pass myself off" as a Caribbean person - I'm a fat, bald, old white bloke. I play it in appreciation, not to mock or to pass-off or to pretend I am what I am not. Most complaints about "cultural appropriation" are a nasty example of left-wing politics going so extreme that they have become indistinguishable from far right politics. This needs called out for what it is. However, this isn't what I asked about. I didn't ask for your opinion.

I didn't imply that you are - but a lot of people into music can be. Just be careful what you type into the damn thing. If you don't tell it then it doesn't know. Avoid all these personality test games and that sort of stuff.

You're too fussy. I do understand but go out and play in some crap bands. Or sub-optimal anyway. What's the worst that can happen? But some of these iffy bands turn out to have a decent drummer who knows someone whose looking for a bass player and so on. Put yourself out there. Join Facebook. I'm not massively younger than you but I find it a PITA dealing with musicians who can't work social media. It's where bands live these days - it just is.

I've played for nearly 20 years (even though I'm now in my mid-50s) and have never learned to improvise. It's also a small matter of frustration. But it's just stuff... I can't slap or play with a pick either but I'm pretty confident that I could learn if I really had to. There are are only so many hours in the day. My day job is the same. I work in IT. People ask me to look at their home computers. No chance. I haven't a clue about Windows. I work with big servers and Unix stuff all the time and have no great need or desire to branch out.

Thanks guys.... if nothing else, I'm finding some great new music to listen so 😎

You can spot them. It's those guys leaning against the wall at the back with their arms folded. 😂

I live in Scotland... we don't have cultural appropriation. We just play music we like. Sometimes it comes easily, sometimes there's some effort involved. Sometimes it's a disaster 😂

Also happy to help... can work a soldering iron, meter, etc. etc. Capable of doing setups most of the time. Happy to help. In the Clyde Valley, south west of Glasgow

This is clearly a similar issue to my inability to play that "baggy" 90s stuff (e.g. Primal Scream). The basic problem is not taking enough drugs 😂 AND... I now know that song is called "54 46" 😉

It all started with a cover of I Shot the Sheriff... I can play the notes. I can even play them more or less in the right place. But it sounds rubbish. I just don't have the feel at all. Solutions appreciated. Yeh - I know it's a bit of a stupid question

It always makes me sad... I've never exceeded the status of average on the bass and I've never really been without a gig. Lucky I suppose. I think as long as you're getting out there and doing what you do... that's the important thing.

My Lakland Dual J... in a non standard colour apparently

Does anybody actually buy Gibson basses. I can't remember the last time I saw someone playing one...

A Vibrophone.... I always wanted a Vibrophone 😫

Autumn Leaves? 🤔 Checks YouTube... nope, never heard it before. This explains a lot!