Frank Blank

Brilliant. Technical proficiency is just damn sexy, I can barely get the top off a boiled egg without calling the RAC (Royal Albumen Club).

😉

No idea but something popped up somewhere, probably behind the potting shed or in the orangery.

John Thomas? Edna Thomas’s boy? The luthier, harpsichord wrangler and world renowned expert in oyster cultivation? Last I heard he was doing six months in Wandsworth for embezzlement with menaces.

Well. I have had further pm conversations with Jabba and I think we have settled on shape C. but with a top wood that matches the body. However, I cannot get D. out of my mind so I have asked him to make me a pair like D. as well, that way I can try both out. There is something about D. that really has a hook in me, it triggers all sorts of 70s styling memories and that, as we all know is a good thing. I just know that if I simply settle on C. then D. will claw at me in my dreams until I take up heroin and drive off a cliff.

I believe I'm right in saying I discussed this with Jabba and it is possible but I specifically requested the aluminium lines to kind of match the fret markers.

Exactly what I said to Jabba last night but having slept on it I think I share his concerns about how the square top will look on such an otherwise curvaceous body. I think I've settled on knob A. with an aluminium marker line like C. but no veneer line. But he more I look at D., again, the more I like it but I am really not sure about the square top. Gah, why does he have to do such an excellent job? Because they are all lovely it's difficult to decide!

…and out of the blue this morning I awoke with what is, Shirley, one of the lowest points in the entire history of music running around my brain totally uninvited. That’s right, the Bowie/Jagger version of Dancing in the Street *shudder*. How did it get in there? Why can’t I erase it? I’m off out for a spin in the car with Reign In Blood on at high volume.

FTFY

Well I’ve messaged Jez yet again this morning about the choice of controls. I’ll be amazed if he’s still talking to me let alone working on the bass. I went from choice A. through choices… 7. Q. Ovaltine. A keep left sign. Borneo. ♾️. 🆙. Wantage …before essentially settling with A. again.

I’m all discombobulated now, so many knobs to choose between.

I have to say that no one has ever emailed me knob pictures before and then, like busses, three at once! It was like Knob Xmas 🎅

You’ll be hearing from Cynthia Dente’s solicitors and yes, where are my pills?

Al Dente was a Jazz musician who played the double bass, although he was never involved in any particularly famous recordings he was notable for being one of the first players to boil his strings. He was also known for his intricate macramé portraits of the Jazz greats and his detailed knowledge of the baroque harpsichord.

Likewise. Loving this track!

I can build a 6 skinner on a toothbrush, mind you, I am currently doing six months in Wandsworth for fraud.

As an old 70s punk can I just say we didn’t mind.

Thanks @prowla I’d forgotten this important facet of Bass Bashes. Another point worth mentioning is that we are also mostly masons so we tend to drink pints of Crème de menthe.

I think there's a whole group of us in trouble. As soon as I have my two Jabba basses these are next on my list for checking out.

Welcome @By_gaslight

Welcome. Then you are in the right place. Ypu turn up with whatever basses, amps, FX, anything else, you feel like bringing and then we all look at/try out whatever we are interested in. That and talk about basses all day long. It's a gas and it gives you GAS. You do not, just turn up on the day, pay a tenner and you're in. It's the best tenner you'll spend all year. No problemo.

But I’d pay up to three groat to see Bruce Springsteen performing a medley of Focus tunes dressed as a Morris dancer.

A lovely little village by all accounts, Under Duress. Never been myself but I had an aunt who ran a badger refuge behind the church. I also suffer similar paroxysms at the thought that life might not be long enough to offend everyone with both verbal insults and les biscuits de l'air.

Oh yes, he’s appearing at the… …Wantage on Boxing Day 2022. Luckily I’m in cahoots with The Grand Poohbah so I’ve got backtemple passes.