Woodinblack

The control layout is horrible, for the same reason it is horrible on a fedora. I have nothing against gold on gold though, thats just down to choice, I can see it working, but then I don't really like gold basses. As to whether they will sell many, that is hard to say, people buy all sorts of weird stuff.

Most companies are like that though. Apart from fender. I got a fender vapouriser, and asked fender for the circuit diagram of it and they sent it to me, which impressed me. Mind you, that is a valve design, I doubt they would do it for something more modern.

Have you checked the battery? If its not that then a wire has come off the battery probably. On a normal G&L 2500 and a decent amp, it is very hard to tell the difference between passive and active (active with treble boost is more noticable).

I don't know how good a song it is really, but it goes down very well, a lot of women dance to it, and it is fun to do. Which works for me.

Noticed a pf20 turning up in the bass players marketplace. Is it one from here?

We are a 4 piece band, I am 52, the others are 30-40s - we do love machine.

I would assume that the potential for conflict is proportional to the amount of people in the band. There were a lot of them.

I took one for the team, I looked at a live video. There were a lot of violins, but no tromboner in sight

Yep - well, maybe both sides - that one is the standard, there is a custom too...

little finger on the 15th fret of the 4th string, and the index alternating between the 12th and 14th of the 2nd string. That is fairly comfortable and 1 fret shorter!

Same here! Luckily I am sure it will be way too expensive to consider

Yes, no room left in the car

Dingwall now have a DBird 5, so now I am a bit interested! https://www.dingwallguitars.com/d-bird I think it might be time to give the dingwall another try, or at least fine one where I can play it. Prefer the white over the others, but the gold is probably the only gold bass i haven't hated Anyone tried the original DBird, the 4?

No, but I might be more likely to buy it a drink in a pub...

That one - is that a Yamaha? that looks a lot better. I guess the side bits are like make up contouring, you don't really realise how fat the side bit is!

Really, no. Big old slab body and droopy mr blobby headstock. No, far from pretty, and that jazz pickup gap is screaming at me. I would say that it looks functional. The ones with the metal pickup surrounds look better (and would cover those unfinished pickup holes), and I guess in black it wouldn't look so big. I am sure it is very good but.. no.

Our guitarist loves blues and given the choice would play just that. He isn't given that choice, but we do play a few. They are incredibly dull, doesn't seem like anyone wants to hear them, but we play them anyway. Which is lucky, considering how much hostility you get round here for not wanting to play oasis, not wanting to play blues is probably a lynching offence!

I am guessing there probably is

I am sure the yamahas are great (I have no doubt), but they are not the prettiest things are they, and that headstock is most certainly in the top ten ugliest. That white one, the stupidly expensive one, that looks better (and the white tones down the headstock), but that is a bit expensive. I think the arias (at least the 80s styled ones) win by quite a margin on looks

Honestly, I have over 10 basses and my only fretless is up for sale currently. I like playing it when I play it, but I really don't reach for it often, I never have an opportunity to gig it, and it gets less use than the 8 string. So I will go for two 5s. An expensive one and a cheap one. OK, they both technically do the same thing, but I can take the cheap one into pubs I won't take the expensive one!

we get asked for some very strange requests. We got asked for 'come on Eileen' at a party we were doing because it was a 'family song'. This was a private party where they had hired us, 6 months before. Maybe they could have mentioned that one at all. There are some songs we do now because they were requested, whether the requestee ever came back who knows.

There are several groups in the local area who are very good. It would be complete arrogance to say we could do it better than them. We are different, because we have different instruments and we play different songs, but the more we play the same thing, the less different we get. I am not interested in a race to mediocracy.