martthebass

Love a bit of Rezillos......ahhh to be back in that era.

Not exactly HM but Alan Lancaster didn't do too bad with his.

I'm failing miserably. A new MarkBass Little Marcus 500 and a EBMM Sterling 4H acquired in a PX. Must try harder.

Couldn't find a Mikey Way - I'll have to look harder.

There’s definite blurring of the edges though; pub rock to punk to new wave. Some pub rock bands morphed into punk/new wave like Dury and arguably the Stranglers.

The early 70s was more than Glam and Prog. I always thought the Pub Rock scene with the likes of Ducks Deluxe, Feelgood, Ian Dury, Brinsley Schwarz and the like was like high energy 'proto-punk.'

Think we'll have to agree to disagree on this BRX. If you do decide to employ playing scales to improve speed and dexterity then, for some, it helps in the general playing of basslines in general. I accept that it doesn't work for you, but that's you, not everybody else.

Nice use of metaphors Doug!

Great basses these BB - well worth the money. As said above, the neck is easily sorted by some rubbage as it can get a bit sticky (mine did). It the case of the SUB I had, I had the black paint removed from all but the front of the headstock and had the back gloss lacquered. Hard to get all of the black flecks out but looked good to me and played a lot better for it.

So, it's a personal thing. Some people perceive a benefit (e.g. me), some do not (you). You can know all the notes on the fretboard without them meaning much if the relationships are not well known - without the relationships they are just letters, IMHO.

I gave you my two...but we're all different.

From a personal point of view it gave me a better appreciation of the inter-relationship of the available notes on the bass and how to better understand how basslines in popular covers songs were constructed. Your mileage may differ...... Do I practice on scales - no.

Not sure if it's a popularity thing? They didn't sell too many of the US built SUB in Sterling format (I had one - very nice bass, foolishly sold it) I believe.

Glad to see that, I thought the Sterling was in the departure lounge. Just acquired another one after a few years on its bigger brother. Forgot how awesome they are.

I think every WM Club that I play has that backdrop. The company supplying them must be up there with Apple profit wise....

Maybe it's because 4 string players thought they were missing out on something? Not taking your comment as directed at me, but in my own case I didn't find out that there was no benefit to me in a 5er until I'd spent time with one, and like a fool having determined that to be the case had to try it again (and again) until I finally got the message. To be honest, on some stuff I think some of the stuff I played was easier on a 5 because of less fretting hand movement but when it became clear that that wasn't essential then I stuck with 4s. If the need ever arose to have to have a 5 then I would have to go the whole hog and move exclusively to 5s.

This. Tried to get on with 5s a number of times, it was the switching that killed me every time. I had to make a decision and in the end decided I can play everything I need to on a 4 so...... I also thought part of the reason was string spacing but I have 4s where the string spacing is all over (Mustang, Rick, Stingray) and it's never bothered me.

Don't know what a 'sewer hero' is on the English version though....

Another shout here for Mustangs. While I'm happy on long scale I use 2 Mustangs (a Squier Mikey way and a CIJ Fender Comp Stripe Re-issue) for gigging exclusively. Very competent basses.

I'd agree with this Pete. The band I've been in for the last couple of years isn't a tribby per se but is heavily themed and entails theme correct dress and acting. As such the set is pretty fixed and choreographed. Despite the sets only changing slightly from gig to gig I still enjoy them and find little tweaks/variations to entertain me as a player. As you say one of the main benefits is the audience knows what they are getting so we generally don't get the 'do you play 'sex on fire' bit and when we do it's easy to brush off.

Is that at the Cutlers Pete?

I had the Jag SS and confirm it was a passive PJ. I've also had the 'Indonesian' Long Scale Jag which was also a PJ passive. I think the active versions were long scale and MIJ/MIM? Anyhow, the passive PJ short scale was easy to dial a good sound on, very clear and punchy, preferred it to my Mustangs in many ways but just didn't like the neck dive.

That's what I thought pfffft

Used to do this but got a new singer in who was called Gordon and, you guessed it, his wife was Julie. He wasn't keen.....