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Regarding Mohini Dey, I wouldn't condemn her as being a bad person for playing unnecessarily complex bass guitar, or for trying make some money from it by endorsing AI, or whatever. I just think she's either made some bad decisions, and/,or been badly advised by someone on how to further her career via social media. In the Internet Age there's so many more opportunities to make bad decisions that can be instantaneously shared with the whole world forever. Everybody makes mistakes, I've made plenty of my own and then made more when I should have known better. It's important to keep things in proportion. No one has been irreparably harmed by Mohini Dey and whatever she does on social media. Myself, I couldn't care less about AI, it's going to do whatever it's going to do. Nothing is going to hold back that tide. Bring a crap bass player and trying to make a few quid doesn't make her The Wicked Witch of the West.

That's very helpful and informative, thank you. So essentially there's nothing too wrong with the Legacy in itself, but it's still distinctly different to the HAZ that's such a big part of the Spector tone. That's fair enough. I don't have a HAZ-style preamp as a point of comparison, but my assessment of the CST with the Legacy preamp is that played through my Bass Driver and Diamond BC1 Bass Compressor the tone is pretty epic and easily identifiable as a Spector NS2. It certainly seems to get fairly close to the sound we all know and love. As I said before, I'm no expert and this CST is my first Spector, despite having wanted one for more than 40 years. I'm in the market for another one, maybe even a USA model so I'm doing my research. I've got a lot of nostalgia for the Kramer-era Spector basses that as a young hopeful, I used to oggle in upmarket guitar shops in the USA in the late '80's. I've been toying with the idea of ordering a custom NS2 that looks like one from that era, with a HAZ pre, of course. That said, my CST seems so good that I might just get a Euro Doug Wimbish to keep it company. It certainly makes more economic sense to do that.

I first saw/ heard Danny Sapko demonstrating various basses on YT on behalf of Gear4Music. I remember being impressed with his playing, especially because his style of playing actually lets you hear what a bass sounds like. It might sound simple but it's a trick that eludes so many other would-be equipment demos. A four minute double thumping slap and tap fest doesn't really tell me much. And he was wearing proper clothes.

Never mind bass influencers scrabbling around for money, you ought to be making your shameless depravity pay. Only Fans Terms and Conditions are easily accessible online. You owe it to yourself and all the other sick bastards out there.🙂🐕🐍🙆

Leonard, are you trying to claim that mantle for yourself?

Regarding Mohini Dey being one of the best bass players on the planet, it's more accurate to say she is one of the most bass players on the planet; she plays an awful lot of notes, but it never seems to add up to much. Yet another bass prodigy who never found a way to make meaningful music. Myself, I'd put Danny Sapko way in front of her in terms of being useful on the bass guitar. The vast majority of these bass "influencers" are all fairly similar in that they have formidable skills but lack enough self-awareness to realise that their playing isn't very interesting in itself. They don't seem to have the creative intelligence to make something more worthwhile. And yet they are offering advice. I like Danny Sapko because he has no such pretentious or delusions. To me, he's not part of that world and long may that remain so. I certainly don't begrudge him if he gets some free bass stuff, though. Better than that even, someone should to send him some proper clothes to wear. He is undoubtedly Britain's Worst Dressed Man, and that is quite an achievement considering both Dominic Cummings and John Barnes still live in the U.K. Never mind YT videos about visiting Andy Baxters ect, he could do with a trip to Primark at the very least.

My mistake.

Those embroidered denim jackets with patches now on display as artefacts at the V&A Fashion Museum. Quite fitting, I thought to myself when I saw that, considering that so many of the blokes that wore them at the time looked like Vikings and Anglo Saxons.

You're not wrong, but for a generation of drummers, particularly British drummers, Cozy will always be an icon.

Another big Joe Jackson/ Graham Maby fan here. I went to a Joe Jackson gig back in those days and at the time it was by far the best gig I had ever seen. Graham was and still is a consummate bass player and has always been a role model for me. Can't say enough good things about his playing. Thinking about that late '70's era, artists like Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and The Police were to an extent lumped in with the punk movement. Seems incongruous now, but at the time every new act had to try incorporate some of that punk edginess into their image.

I suspect we were listening to a lot of the same music forty-odd years ago, but hearing very different things in it and coming to different conclusions. I don't think there was anything remotely new about what Peter Hook did on the bass, except that the punk craze (and it was a craze, not the ground-breaking artistic movement it has been elevated to in retrospect) meant his amateurish efforts made it onto record. Anyhow, I've now seen the first episode and it was just as I expected. I still enjoyed it though, and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series. I don't dislike Peter Hook as a person, but he is so enamoured of his own "legend" that he has an inflated idea of his importance as a bass player. He seems to think he took playing the bass and improved it with his lack of ability, and that other more accomplished players just don't have the wit and imagination to be like him. Watching the programme, I'm even more convinced he genuinely believes that he invented the idea of using a lower note on an open string as a pedal tone to play a melody over. Do I need to explain how ridiculous that is? It's also interesting to hear Peter Hook rationalising after the fact his use of the Joy Division/ New Order back-catalogue for his live act. FWIW, I personally think he has every right to perform those songs, but I know that there has been a major falling-out with the other remaining members about some of his choices. It's obviously something he's very sensitive about because he keeps revising his reasons for doing so.

EBMM know how to make a nice bass when they want to, no doubt about that. I don't know how much Pino might use his one, but that's not really that relevant. I wish EBMM and Flea would bury the hatchet and bring a Flea Signature Stingray based on his black/ rw 'Ray from the early '90's.They could have my money now.

I wasn't there, but in his explanation of how he managed to run himself over, Brian claimed to have eaten three large tuna and cheese jacket potatoes, the resulting nausea causing him to fall from his reversing car which then ran him over. I cannot help think in light of that event that Italians are wise indeed to insist that cheese should never be included in seafood dishes. Brian's increasingly wretched plight since that unfortunate day is testament to the efficacy of that dietary rule.

There was jacket potato involved, apparently. I met Brian, Tony and their bodyguard when East 17 were in the first flush of their success. They were what you might describe as robust individuals. It's not an act, they are genuine chavs.

These look like basses someone will get a lifetime's worth of pleasure from playing. Just a really nice old-school Stingray, so much fun to be had with that. Three and a half grand-ish is a lot of money, but these basses look pretty good value to me in the current market. A Stingray Special in a nice finish is now over 3k, and compared to Fender Custom Shop basses these EBMM Pino basses are a veritable bargain.