Geek99

Make the grade as a campfire starter ? 🤷‍♂️

I had six years forced on me whilst I turned our house into a home. I used the time re-writing other people’s lines that I heard in my head, and thinking about what I was bad at before when I finally got my bass corner, I was objectively better at playing bass

I look at it this way … I used to own an mgb it went wrong more often than you’d expect when the fuel pump went I bought a new & better one. I didn’t seek a rebuild of the exact fuel pump it started life with. It had lasted well, but was frankly a bit rubbish. Theres no use in pretending that every “old” bass was made perfectly with components that were functionally perfect and that the whole thing emitted magic sparkles unless changed, whereupon it became as lifeless as the worst 70s Kay I didn’t add a whale-fin spoiler to it and in the same vein I’d never re-fin an old bass. It is irreversible it still looked like an mgb and if it had optical ignition rather than clunky old points, no one will know. In the same way, it doesn’t matter if a volume pot has been replaced with a modern version of the same thing. Keep the old one for those of the potential buyers who might care, and use something better for you in your time owning it. No one truly gives a toss about original, unmolested solder joints. 🤷 afterthought: those “included original pots and pickups” where replacement has been declared to the buyer. I’d be really interested to know proportionally how many vintage buyers have gone to the trouble of having the original part repaired and replaced in the instrument. I suspect “quite few”… just as I preferred optical ignition and an electronic fuel pump.

It’s like being dad to toddlers

And laugh at guitards and their weedy sound

Yes an Ibanez 5 string (SBX) it had a fingerboard so wide that you’d need a native guide to get from G to low B and it sounded completely soulless I have large hands but only medium stretch and it was far too uncomfortable to play

I don’t have one yet, however youngest doesn’t want to go to Alton towers with mum and sis so I’m out, sadly I will try for @Richard Rs jolly next year

Holy f***

Youre not listening to the right people 👍

Welcome

They got better …🚑 nothing quite like renouncing the ways of The Dark Side 👍

Just so ridiculously talented.

If I have a job offer, I’ll be there

It was a bit 1982…

Who knew?

Sire v7 ? It’s long scale though

She plays better bass than me whilst riding a unicycle (see YouTube) And now I see that she is even more talented than I thought. What’s not to like ?

You’ve not heard of day-bleed then? Resistance in the fancier cables is higher on adjacent days to Friday - thicker and more goldish cables are more prone to it

I had heard that for optimum sound you should not connect any cables on Fridays …

Me? No. I liken being a bass player to being a dad looking after “stroppy teenager” drummers and “toddler” guitards. If they want you to use a pick they can “get tae f***”, is I think, the appropriate phrase in Scotland.

Nope. Haven’t touched a drop

What the f*** does a guitarist know about anything? I don’t know why you, someone smart enough to play bass, would even listen to someone struggling to get beyond baby-babble

No, it’s richly deserved payback and thus carries a stamp of approval from God