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I vote nothing at all because it helps the 'wood' breathe 🙂 🙂

I knew Noel, and he woiuld most certainly have agreed with you. And he would have quickly added "or the money!" For my money I much preferred Billy Cox's playing - much more solid imho.

Obviously we haven't heard what you have heard, but for my tuppence I'd vote for it being 'just you' 🙂

I'm limited because I don't use leather but I really like Couch (USA) and the 'Mojo' range from RightOn! (Spain). I have a strap by either of those companies for each of my eight basses. I've got a couple of the recycled seatbelt straps but depending on the bass they can be just a bit too slippery.

I'm really pleased you are giving one a home 🙂 We have two greys and two lurchers. We lost the other of our greys last year. 😞 Yes, he's a greyhound - one of the big ones at around 40 kilo. For some unknown reason the black ones seem to be harder to find a home for. He had never been in a house before we had him so we had to coax him in. He wouldn't be in the same room as the TV when it was on or let us sit next to him at first. But over the weeks he settled in and now just wants nothing more than to be where he feels safe at home and have somewhere comfy to sleep the day away, which is all any of them want. Now he's just a big daft lazy lump like our other grey (who settled in as a soon as he walked through the door) 🙂 It's a common misconception that they need a lot of excercise - most of them seem to want to sleep all day 🙂 Some of them don't 'do' stairs at home because they may never seen them before so don't know what to do. Our big boy in the photo went bounding up the stairs afer a few days then stood at the top wondering how he was going to get down. We had to coax him down, leg by leg, stair by stair. Now he's up and down like a yo-yo and often spends the day in (on the) bed upstairs. Our other grey has never been upstairs and has never even tried the stairs. The girl we lost happily did stairs too. Where are you getting yours from? I'm sure you'll get plenty of good advice from the adoption people you get yours from. They really are wonderful dogs to have around and it's often said they are quite 'different' to other dogs. Be aware though, they are very addictive and you may find yourself in the cult before you know it 🙂 There are lots of great (greyt) FB pages out these and lots of greys have their own pages. I especially like this one https://www.facebook.com/groups/382413792223534 A fun but true read https://www.bluethegrey.com/10-reasons-not-to-adopt-a-greyhound?fbclid=IwAR0ZcEWvDP2WL-RQQjmapMYXcRVXpAnV0Eh6X-mdpQllnp1cKiN-gsm4gkY Sorry I've rambled a bit but it's one of my 'pet' subjects 🙂 Please be sure to post pics of yours or send me a PM Have fun Dave

Or any guitar shop on a Saturday afternoon 😕

Very much likey indeed! Now I'm wondering what I could sell to fund one, ha ha! And in the 70s a friend had a very nice Guild JS2 which often comes to mind. I see the bass player from Ken's Groundhogs uses a B301

Declan sums it up as the spokesdog for his household 🙂

Our four will never knowingly find out if they like slap bass or not unless they accidentally heard a moment or two on a Youtube clip before I managed to hit the 'back' button. But who knows, when they are kicking their legs about like crazy when they dream ... they might just be running away from hearing slap bass 🙂

I always trust a dog's judgement 🙂

Thankfully we always have the same delivery/collection chap. He's very reliable and even chats about guitars sometimes, But who knows what horrors go on once parcels are well into the system.

Here you go 🙂 https://reverb.com/item/26320868-nos-1970-s-fender-flatwound-stainless-steel-bass-strings-950-053

http://wilkesguitars.co.uk/instruments/the-answer Local-ish to me, Doug makes very fine instruments and came up with this design

I just came across this. You're right about the strings fitted to Ric basses back then http://www.rickenbacker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15631

Even though the style of music isn't really my cuppa I very much enjoyed it. What a cool sound and groove you had going on there with that bass 🙂

I think that's most probably why I didn't take to them first time around, I was expecting them to feel about the same tension as my rounds, Once I stayed with them second time I suppose I knew what to expect and I don't find them too tight at all now.

Nice thread 🙂 About 10 years ago I tried a set of Fender flats - went to a couple of rehearsals and changed back to my usual rounds. I just couldn't get on with the feel or sound, but I know now that I didn't really give them enough chance. About this time last year I thought I'd try again with Fender flats so put some on one of my P and stuck with it for a few rehearsals. After they've been broken in they feel and sound just as I hoped they would, so I'm sticking with Fenders for my flats from now on - and they're great value too imho. I also put a set of Fenders on my old 4001 and to my ears it sounds wonderful.

My first bass, when I was about 13 or 14, was a Jazz copy, I can't remember the make, possibly Columbus, but it was very shiny and I did my first gigs with it. It came with black flats or tapewound strings that I don't think I ever changed. The neck ended up so bowed that Robin Hood could have happily added it to his armoury, and (honestly) the fingerboard fell off in the end. I didn't know anything about fancy exotic things like truss rods in those early days 🙂

Thanks everybody so far - this has turned out to be much more interesting than I had anticipated.

Wow, look at those prices! Here's the "HP agreement" on the back of his card from an early 70s white P I bought from the local muso shop in about 73/4ish. It's painful to see and I wish regularly I hadn't sold it.

I'm sure this is going to be a very short topic, but I've been wondering what makes of flats were generally available in the UK in the early/mid 70s. Rotosound would be one of them.

Not bass related so please feel free to pass whatever judgement you feel necessary 🙂 The first two were back when I was in a band playing guitar for a few years. Two milestone purchases after completing chemo. 1: Black MN 70s (reissue) Strat. This guitar is doubly sentimental, not only for me completing the chemo, but because over months I had become friends with the eBay seller who lived a couple of hundred miles away and we used to send each other clips of our bands. He sold the Strat to help pay for a Jimmy Page sig LP which he loved; I hadn't heard from him for a while when one day a mail arrived from his wife telling me he'd been killed in a road crash in the snow. She said that (like me) he didn't make friends easily but he used to talk about me a lot. She had to sell his pride and joy LP to help pay for the funeral. I think of him each time I look at that guitar and it holds a very special place in my heart. 2: A few years later and more chemo - I bought an SG Standard. 3: Martin D-28 which has shared many special times with me.

I've still got all my old vinyl (in the loft), CD duplicates of all my favourite LPs and many more (also in the loft) and now digital (ripped) copies of my favourite CDs plus a ton of downloads on my laptop and backed up on an external drive.

We live in a solid 1930s semi but unfortunately the party wall is very thin. I don't plug in any instrument in the house and if I play acoustic (guitar) I'll play in room that doesn't ajoin next door. For a couple of years we had a noisy inconsiderate and unfriendly millenial on the other side of the wall, so I know how easily sound travels and have no intention of upsetting the nice new(ish) quiet and freindly neighbours. I was the same with the previous good long-term neighbours.