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Good week for me. Martin Harley at The Lantern (Bristol) followed by Ezra Collective at The Beacon the following evening.

there is an all parts jazz bass neck on bc for sale maybe put together a bitsa? i have a neck plate, dimarzio pickups and and probably a loom and knobs knocking about that i could donate.

The Skatalines, Lille. Great fun. Kudos to the bassist who had to be assisted to the stage with his walking frame but once seated rocked out with a Hohner B2B. Absolute legend.

The Skatalites, tomorrow night

Edit: Sinking Probably not the ‘greatest’ bass line of the ‘80s but this album made me want to learn bass. Just checked was released in’85. Time flies!

well if you play your cards right big boy

It was my civic duty

Fettling Mr Blank. Felting a gazebo. What kind of madness is this. This is a sensible topic, for sensible people.

I doubt many members of the general public know who Shed 7 are. On that note I was on a bus a while back and sat next to someone wearing a Joy Division T Shirt. Great band said I. Blank and confused look later… Joy Division I said. A band? said my monosyllabic passenger. We didn’t discuss Hooky.

Shed felting without proper paperwork is nearly as serious as fettling a gazebo with undue care and attention. You can’t escape the long arm of the dibble in these matters. Now for something completely pointless. Famous bassists you say? Not arf.

I think it’s been conclusively proven that even the wives and offspring of bassist don’t know or particularly care about bass.

Just asked my son. He can’t name a single bass player and has never heard of Mark King or John Taylor. Hang on a minute… he just said Sting. He knows Macca, likes the Beatles but didn’t know he plays bass. He could name 10 rappers and 10 DJs but I’ve not heard of half of them.

I love the idea that the general public would know that lot. Maybe Ant and Dec Jaco ( and his moonwalk) Windy Miller Victor Meldew Larry Grayson Tigger and Poo Boots the Chemist Weymouth Kim Jong that Korean bloke with the dodgy barnet Paul McCartney

That Ken bloke from Bros?

FTFY

Kim Deal Patricia Morrison Carol Kaye Melissa Auf der Maur Sheryl Crow Kim Gordon Et al

By all accounts what Pete Best lacked in the drumming department he more than made up for in the looks department and attracted Epstein’s attention.

I think that if you look up “forum” in the Oxford dictionary it says Forum: A remnant of the early days of the interweb. Place for grumpy old men to argue. I would think that the yoot are on SnapGram or TokTik or whatever is the latest app of the moment.

Just my tupence worth: 1. She sounds pretty good to me. If I were a young lass rather than an old(ish) bloke I would definitely think yeah I would like to play like her. 2. When festivals first announced a more equal split between male/female artists I thought it was a bit unfair and artists should be judged on merit alone. I have to admit to being wrong on that one. The quality and number of all female bands has definitely been on an upward projection since.

caution mini rant! I don’t think this is confined to courier companies or large companies. The amount of times I have to clean up and fix work by builders or other trades (independents getting paid well) mechanics, monosyllabic service industry staff etc. I do everything possible myself now and only reluctantly use a “professional”. I’m not sure when or why this lack of professional pride or courtesy started but if you want a recipe to be miserable in life it’s guaranteed if you work purely for money and not the intrinsic pleasure of doing what you do well and taking pride in whatever you do (however humble it may be). Rant over Edit: From personal experience I don’t use courier companies for anything over around £50. Obviously this is not possible for a business. The state of that package is just shocking. The fact that someone could deliver that or process it through its journey without feeling a sense of shame or a professional responsibility to escalate the issue is pretty shocking.

To cover the holes for aesthetic reasons, unless it doesn’t bother you in which case you have somewhere to keep your lipstick.

Just get a custom scratch plate / pick guard (whatever term you prefer)

You would be surprised by how many people won’t use a phone these days and only text or use apps. Just Eat is just taking advantage of this. Never really understood it myself.

Doah. If I had known I would’ve ventured out to see you. Saw The Men They Couldn’t Hang a bunch of times in the late 1980s. I had no idea they were still going.