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My P (flats) and J (rounds and yes I took a saw to SIRE head)

For me there is no such thing as ‘the one bass’. The P should be on flats, the J on rounds. Both keepers, and both different and worthy in own right.

Wow, how nice is this! And unusually also available as a lefty https://harleybenton.com/product/enhanced-25th-firemist/ 443 notes

I use Meguiar's Gold Class Carnauba Plus Wax on my nitro guitars. Only apply one a year, and needs only a quick buff every few weeks (to take off any sweat marks or grime) brings back the shine.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304437248956?hash=item46e1dfc3bc:g:8AgAAOSwQQxiU1Ai Action seems to be cm rather than mm though. 😔

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine

My mirror twin. Love mine too.

Armstrong empire. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=465071758111873

Moog grandmother, just googled it. Wow that’s quite hardcore. Moog emulator on your iPad not good enough? 😉 I also don’t gig anymore. Trashed hearing. Hearing aids shut down at high volume/pressure of the bass and without them i struggle to hear the rest of the band. But it’s not all woe, with headphones, AmpliTube, loopers, 6 string guitar etc I am producing and hearing sounds that 20 years ago I could only have dreamed of! creativity and expression has never been more accessible, shame that most youngsters seem to be more interested in Instagram and image. 😢

Their website says that lefties are out of stock. Such irony. 🙈

And now I get to get synth gas also? 😂 TBH this thing is likely to be above my grade for some time, and even without bringing in samples etc the built in synths have great sounds. What’s amazing for me is that it’s taken me right back to when I first started playing music, 16 year’s old with two mates when parents out at work. All taking it in turns on guitar, bass and drums. No skill or knowledge, but just driven and amazed at producing ‘music’. It’s good to have a fresh start at something. 😃

I got fed up with the wait for left handers continually being pushed back. 😒 So, on a whim I bought a Teenage Engineering OP-Z groove box, and it’s awesome! Plan was to just create some beats and sequences to play along to. But I’ve had it a couple of weeks now and I’m lost in a world of techno dance groves. 😍 Weird for a 55 year old whose never been to a rave, and last time in a nightclub was during the ‘Hitman and her’ era? I guess I’ve always like Faithless though. 😀

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/gb-spitfire-bass-guitar-left-handed-/1401192851 Wow. Someone will get an amazing bass at an equally amazing price. 😳

TBH I only know about the Smith reference through posts in Talkbass etc but this article goes into a little detail. https://www.bassprofessor.info/index.php/bass-museum/bass-hunter-2012-2018/1350-bassmuseum-ken-smith-chuck-rainey-5 “It is an open secret that these two powerful sound wonders come from Kent Armstrong's pickup forge.” It also seems that Kent made the original pickups for Status (then Strata) basses.

Kent Armstrong has posted a little clip about his life. Amazing humility saying “built and repaired pickups for 50 years” when he is the guy personally hand making the pickups for the amazing Ken Smith basses. Does he still make them? He certainly used to. Also interesting that he credits so much to Bill Lawrence. https://www.facebook.com/kentarmstrongpickups/videos/825181878079226/