Happy Jack

I'm afraid that 'affordable' probably needs clarification, and I'd suggest quite strongly that you go pre-owned rather than new. You can buy a perfectly playable pre-owned DB at the £300 level but it won't set your world on fire. At £1000 you get a very different experience.

Love that.

Bizarrely enough, I did wonder the same thing. Seriously. My (limited) experience of playing in a band with two female vocalists is that, after an unfair division of the spotlight, there will have been a bust-up in the band room later.

As the OP, I feel I have to ask @Jakester if he understood the title & subtext of this thread. The band on display comprises three musicians and two pairs of boobs. The boobs can't sing worth a damn, but they have very clearly and obviously been presented in a particular way for a particular reason. I didn't do that, nobody here on Basschat did that, and I think we can all take a pretty good guess at who did that and why. If they don't want to be objectified, then why are they dressed like that? If you're determined to be offended on behalf of the boobs, then the least you can do is to contact The Devil's Dumplings first, just to see if they're offended. While you're talking to them, do feel free to point out that their clothing was perhaps a tad revealing and that everybody would find it far easier to focus on what could be loosely described as their 'singing' if they were to wear baggy Arran sweaters under duffel coats.

... And Judge Me For My Music Incidentally, quite possibly the worst version of that song that I have ever heard. If only there had been something else to take my mind off it.

I don't do relics, especially unconvincing ones - that upper bout? Eurgh! And why couldn't he rout the pickup sockets to be the same shape as the pickups? Ah well ... each to his own.

WronGuns don't kill people ...

Sorry mate, it was a (failed) try for irony ...

At gigs, of course. 🙄

Coming soon to a pub near you. Or not, as the case may be ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55794674

Nah ... your timekeeping has improved. 😉

I'm sure I don't know what you mean ...

Outstanding! Then you also saw @Silvia Bluejay running the sound for us, as always.

Yup. In all fairness, not very often these days ...

Having played slightly-wrong basslines to famous songs for years, I see this as a chance to come back to them 'fresh'. 😎

I see what you did there ...

Compare the F A N N Y version to the original and two things stand out for me ... the cover really misses the dominant piano part of the original, and production-wise the original uses the full width of the stereo whereas the cover puts 90% of the sound in the centre making a big lumpy mess while very little happens out at the edges. IMHO YMMV DILLIGAF

@plaaty, it would help people to offer useful advice if you gave us some idea of what you plan to use the bass for (gigging / studio / home practice / learning) and what style of music you hope to be playing on it.

Did the song really sound that bad? I don't mean it's a bad version, but the production is just dreadful. I wonder if that's a poorly-converted mp3 or an early iTunes jobby, and the actual vinyl would have sounded way meatier?

Makes you wonder if this is all a bubble (no, not that sort) and, like any other inflated market, there will eventually be a crash. It's not just the tat that's gone crazy. In 2005 I was routinely buying beautiful vintage Hofners for less than £200 a piece, occasionally pushing the boat right out and investing £300 or £350. Those same basses now sell, equally routinely, for £800 - £1500. Mind you, in 2007-09 I was also routinely swapping vintage Wal basses with @Clarky and, whilst prices varied of course, we were typically looking at £1800 - £2000. Seriously. Look at them now. And, picking up on the comment from @casapete, new stuff just keeps getting better and cheaper. Even some of the big names. The best Rickenbacker I've ever owned wasn't my 1983 4003 or my 1974 4001 fretless, it's my current 4003s5 which I bought new last year for less than £2k.

These days I mainly signal the band using WhatsApp.

So the suggestion is that the Silk Cut is a Substitute for cheese?