Frank Blank

Welcome @Biscuit_Bass

I think The Man-Machine is my favourite album but this live version of Numbers is hard to beat…

Met up with Sidney today in order to sell him a sat nav as he cannot find his way out of a well tied cravat without a liberal smear of premium brand peanut butter on his stirrups. In reality I met up with The Lord of The Dead at Bass Direct where he sold me a HX Stomp. As always, smooth deal, everything as it should be, a first class seller and a complete gentleman, deal with total confidence. Sid tried out some cabs. I showed my approval for one cab with a thumbs up and my disapproval for the other by dropping a really tasty air biscuit, we left shortly after, honour intact.

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Pele was rubbish on fretless though...

Welcome @Cpw1959

Welcome @Jan Dijkstra

...also, I think finding the right fretless is very important, perhaps even more so than with a fretted bass. I was all over the place with full scale fretless basses but as soon as I tried a Rob Allen I was much better almost straight away. Try a few out.

Persevere Sir, I listen back to tracks and watch videos of my fretless playing and some of it needs huge improvement, but on others I can see/hear that I have improved since starting and playing fretless has definitely improved my fretted playing and my ear for intonation. I say keep going.

I can confirm they make splendid pyjamas too.

*CALLING ALL 32" BASS OWNERS* My 32" short-scale ACG is a lovely thing, however, in my experience it is the one scale length that is incredibly difficult to find a good case/gigbag for. Any recommendations for such from any 32" bass owners would be much appreciated. If it helps this is the bass in question.

^^^Absolutely this^^^ buy the bass you like/feel comfortable with, @Delberthot is right on the money. Trying to play/feel comfortable on a bass you dislike is going to be extremely difficult, probably impossible but to tweak the bass you love to make the sound you want is much, much easier. My first ‘serious’ bass was a Jaydee Supenatural, I played it in a nasty, noisy thrash metal band and got lots of puzzled looks from other bass players but it was a bass I felt really at home with so that’s what I used, you’d never know from recordings what bass it was.

They are top quality schmutter.

Welcome @grendelkhan

Welcome @Drobny

Funny you should say that but on first glance I mistook it for the Dordogne and hurriedly got the family in the car to enjoy a couple of weeks in the sun. Mind you I was out of my noggin on space rusks so who can say?

Mind you, you were off your tîts on herbal flange biscuits, no wonder.

Not really, after all I’m off my tree on magnetic gas plums.

I am having exactly the same problem, listening back to several bass lines that I recorded over lockdown and can’t play one of them, not a one. Mind you, I am smashed out of my gourd on elastic spasm cakes so who knows?

Did you enjoy that after just one read?

This isn’t a derail, it’s in keeping embellishment, like some folk with taste put a turd on a doily.

I volunteered as an unsuitable forum poster at the village fete but was refused by the Vicar as I’d honked up in the tombola.

I learnt the whole of Topographic Oceans without listening once, granted I was off my mash on Rendlesham Sparklers and woke up in a ditch but nonetheless, nailed it.