Dood

Hey Dan. Dood is the dutch word for dead. I hope you're alive chum. 😂

I did know that yeah! And yeah, I am more alive than I have been! Things must be looking up!

Yeah, I'd go with a white guard on the red JH or black on the black. Or none at all for that matter. As I've a spare preamplifier here, it could be a good donor for some upgrades too.

I don't have an MM bass in my artillery and listening to the reviews this one (JH) does a pretty good job of sounding alike.

I had the earlier Korean model - GB75 JH which I liked a lot (so much that I got Jon Shuker to model the neck on my Shuker 5 to the same dimensions). Didn't get on with the active circuitry. Now have a GB55JJ as a backup, and to have a fretted, roundwound J to be completely different to my fretless flatwound Shuker P. Again, really nice playing bass. Very good B string on both.

Had a pair of GB75JH models. Both in trans black and both sold on here earlier this year. Missed the general vibe of those basses after they went so picked up a trans red GB74JH last month. It’s the cheapest bass I own but I like it out of all proportion to its value. Great instruments (I also own a flame maple GB94 with binding and blocks which is another fave rave of mine)

I need to just give up trying. Deleted my YouTube channels and a whole bunch of SM accounts today. I might keep Instagram as that’s fun, but I think I’m totally hovering over that FB delete rather than disable this time. 

@dood Do it! Facebook is a monumental waste of time and gets you precisely nowhere. I don't miss it at all.

I use FB for  advertising gigs & messaging , DO NOT START SCROLLING LEAVE THAT ALONE !!! I don't want to know what sort of pizza I'd be & all that crap .

Not yet, but it's a possibility. It's very likely that we'll struggle to gig with the frequency we used to, and I was already getting a little 'bored' with a lot of the gigs we used to do, so I'm rethinking my 'musical future', to spend more time writing and recording with others and less live stuff (certainly fewer projects), and switching my attention more to other activities that are more financially useful to me (computer based)... 

I've already completely rearranged my 'home office' to be more work and a lot less music, as I'm working from home these days. I think I might sell a bass or two and cabs that I don't need and put a fridge and a nice espresso machine in the room instead... 

I had a good run, but I think I want to spend more time visiting family and travelling when I have proper holidays, and work more from home.

If you are thinking of selling off because of revaluation rather than financial need - consider waiting a year. 
too many basses glutting the market will push prices down and there’s probably going to be some folk selling off basses because it will mean they can eat. 

Yeah, not a good time to sell. I was about to sell my Audi A3 just before things got complicated... and looking at the market, there's a lot selling but I see the same things again and again, I don't think there's many people buying. 

Does everyone who turns up have to play only Flat?

*I'll get me coat*

One of your side projects D?

Spill the beans @Dood, what have the incompetent fools lost? 

Actually quite bizarre, if you are a doctor, sales rep, footballer you are required to have above average skills in your chosen “career”. Not so with couriers, it appears you need to have zero sense of direction, be nigh on blind, have no sense of responsibility nor any understanding of customer service

A vintage bass has mysteriously been ‘lost’. It went missing between being collected (not scanned) and being brought in to the depot (again not scanned) - draw your own conclusions but it has taken way longer than it should to ascertain it’s whereabouts.  The levels of incompetence displayed up to this moment in time are astounding. Indeed I even received a phone call asking if the parcel had arrived, even though said operative had spoken to both the source hub and the delivering centre and neither “had seen it”. 

There are literally a mere handful of delivery drivers around here I trust. They are brilliant and I see them often. Those are definitely excluded from the torrential outburst I feel bubbling up inside when I think of courier services.

Last week:  "It's being dealt with urgently" they say! Chased them today. NOT A PEEP.

And me. 🤣

He spends most of his time counting the massive pile of wonga he's sitting on..!

On the financial side of things, I understand that the all members (John and the Freddie Mercury estate included) still very much profit from the touring and shows of the active members. I think folk think that Brian and Roger are just out for themselves now. It's a great thing to know that it's still Queen as a business entity that looks after all of it's members. 

Constable!*

*Was probably wearing handcuffs at the time.

I meant a couple of turtles...

@TheGreek ... I... slow.... ha ha ha ha!!! 

Interestingly one does have a pocket, the other doesn’t!

Is it just an easy one off purchase for their merch or are there any strings attached?

BOOOM!!!

Ha ha ha ha! That's niiiiiiiiiiiice!!

Agreed. It was such a wonderful surprise today - that thing I didn't know I wanted but now I'm so happy that it's here. I may actually be irrationally happy about this.

I'd like to be able to toggle them, personally. I think they look messy in the mobile view.

You can - button top right

Wish I had the reddies. Always fancied a Status 5... 

Good luck with everything @Dood

Didn't know you had one of those Dan

How was it?

I did wonder if I was going to be able to get HX to deal with the complex chains in my LT, but I spent a lot fo time cutting them down, maybe doing away with some of the parallel loops. Through IEMs and FOH I don't think anyone else noticed the slightest difference between the two! Ok, so it took ages to sort out, but I am confident that for this current gig I won't need LT. I also managed to rock up to the gig with just two basses, my stands and one case! I'm really impressed, I think it's staying.

I'm feeling excited at the prospect of turning up to a gig with a battered old P, but I've got a lot of work to do on some of the sounds that the band uses to fit it in. I do need that low B for a few songs though.

Ah, simplicity is a wonderful thing! Like you, lately I've had a hankering for a 4-string Stingray, which was all I played for years back in the 80's. Unfortunately I've been playing 5's for nearly three decades now, and all the 4's I've picked up over that period (for mainly nostalgic reasons - although I've never had another a Stingray 4, oddly enough) I've moved on again fairly quickly because I missed the low B, or 'the thumb rest' as I call it, too much. It's all in my head, I'm sure of it...

I'll be running through my gig sets hopefully next week if I have a chance. The worst case I thinks that I'll need to punch in an Octave pedal when I want those low notes. I could even try out a -5 semitones on a pedal to get the "low B string" (100% wet effect) - which won't sound the same but for the odd part of a song it might work.. but that P bass though... yum!

I love a good impulse buy...my bank account doesn't always.

As HKH says.."pictures?"

I never put any ad on the social media. 🤣

Pics?!

If I get a copy will you sign it

He is a bass player, not sure he can write. 

Thank you everyone  

Yes, I feel like I am 100 years old. I sometimes wonder if in my universe time is moving faster. It only feels like yesterday I had ten posts; I'm old and grey, 100 seemed to arrive in no time at all and typing 80,000 posts a year happened in a blink of an eye. ha ha!

Yes I will sign anything.. probably how I ended up in this mess in the first place lol... 

On my screen, this was beautifully truncated to "Expect to see it plastered."

Which is nice.

I looked up her website.

When I saw the words "artist and recovering groupie" I left because I am far too young to risk being corrupted with that kind of malarkey.

Which bit of your anatomy would you immortalise Dood?  Your fretting hand or your plucking hand?

I've no idea who Cynthia is and I'm not sure I want to look it up ha ha!!

What part would I immortalise? Goodness I've no idea. I'm not really sure anyone would want that to happen lol. Think 'my other half' would probably use my head as a door stop maybe.

Can you bump statuses? Let’s find out.

Hey no problem @JapanAxe! I'm just trying to spread the bass love! Would be good to share as I am hoping these reviews offer a great resource. Just want people to know about them!! 

What a trooper!

I'm going to see what I can do about making it easier for everyone to access the reviews (and of course know about them) - I just haven't figured out how yet as my mind has been elsewhere for a while. Maybe a decent signature?

Will look forward to checking it out, Dan!

Looking at the photo wondering whether a) you scrub up pretty well, or b) were on the way to a court hearing when the band said “Don’t forget the photo-shoot...” 

PMd

The job's a good 'un.

The Room is a nicely polished work.  It has a great blend of classical strings, male and female vox and the prog ethic.  Like all sophisticated works, the first listen is a tease.  I will enjoy listening to this again and again.

That man had a BIG screen presence.

He'll be missed.

Poor Mini-Me, seems like he suffered a lot with depression and substance issues.

Doodles

I nabbed one locally and its a fine unit - lot's of old school bass tones lurk within!

Is that not a bit like rubbing Dood's nose in it?

Heeheehee

I really ought to stop stirring it up.

Yessssssssss! I’ve been composing music for my channel!

Done  

Thank you Teebs  Cheers!!

Hahahahaha!

Smileys and emojis are reminiscent of school when girls used to put little love hearts over their "i"s instead of dots.  They're meaningless to people like me.

Mwah! Hee hee

The internet probably isn't the best place to hang out if Smileys, Emoji's and digital aren't your thing. 🤣

so many likes

I was quite excited when I had the message, rumour has it EBS only made 50 of them