Clarky

Making my fourth appearance on this page (yikes), I just traded my fretless Wal for Jack's Alleva LG4 (which i sold to him a few months ago - don't ask). We really should stop mucking around, dig a tunnel between our music rooms, and pool our gear! If Beedster can tunnel from Canterbury to West London, he's in too!

Perhaps get some 'budget SIMS-alike' LEDs from Fretfx until you are comfortable with your fretless intonation on stage and then take them off and throw away? [url="https://fretfx.com/"]https://fretfx.com/[/url]

Best of luck! However I bet I wasn't the only one that thought from the title this was another of those flouncing off, "I'm leaving BassChat" threads that ends up with the protagonist being flamed for being too sensitive ("It's only a an internet forum, blah blah")

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Wonder why they said nothing? Here's Nigel's band by the way, folks: [attachment=90735:Couple70sDisco7500.jpg]

Make some lovely Thunderbird-alikes and I know chris_b rates his PJ5 very highly [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Mike_Lull_On_order.html"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Mike_Lull_On_order.html[/url]

Don't give up Al - advertise for a drummer (or lean on your ex-drummer to find a dep, playing the he-owes-you card) and keep the rest of the band together. You can rehearse without drummers (drum machine, tapes, click track) to keep the band motivated. Best of luck mate.

Great looking basses there

Sorry to hear this Gareth

Had just over two weeks off this summer in sun/beach locations and it was staggering how my callouses disappeared with swimming/lack of playing etc. The first rehearsal back was a painful blister-wracked affair

I'm 48 and I still live in hope of making it!

Hey Nige, if by any chance it doesn't arrive in time, I can lend you one of my basses mate

Tom Waits - Mule Variations

At least it wasn't dull! Well done for carrying it through ... And surviving to tell the tale! The next gig will almost detainly be a sedate affair:)

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1317582709' post='1392049'] Also, let's hear it for two DB players who died in their twenties and had already made a massive difference to the way the DB is played - Jimmy Blanton (24) and Scott LaFaro (26). Who knows how DB playing would be today had they lived to a good age. The latter died in a car crash ten days after recording possibly the greatest jazz trio album ever - Bill Evans Live at the Village Vanguard. [/quote] Absolutely. Scott LaFaro is my favorite DB player and the Village Vanguard albums my favorite jazz albums (I recommend the hard-to-find full unedited album with off-takes, interrupted takes etc). I even have the Kolstein LaFaro bass as my own mini tribute. Amazing player who revolutionised DB playing in only a few short years

Yowza! That is SO you Nige

Feaster red apparently! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JAY-TURSER-JTB-40-FR-FEASTER-RED-BASS-GUITAR-NEW-/250653034612