JoeEvans

Love the colours,I would keep that colour for the plate even if you upgrade to a nicer one...

To clarify, and to avoid getting bogged down in my eccentric opinions about time signatures, the feel I'm after is disco, but triplets - basically like Knock on Wood by Ami Stewart. https://youtu.be/XKuJUxGntRI?si=KcntLEJGExpq118A

So the 6/8, 12/8 and 4/4 shuffle would all have an accent on the first beat of each triplet, in other words...

If I transcribed 'The way you make me feel' three times, in 6/8, 12/8 and 4/4 with triplets, then gave the transcriptions to three different sets of musicians, you wouldn't be able to tell which group was playing which version. They're just different ways of writing out the same thing. I see this in practice in Irish traditional music - slides are conventionally written out in 12/8 and jigs in 6/8, but there's no difference between them for the listener because it's the dances that are different not the tunes.

I also just thought of Michael Jackson's 'The way you make me feel'.

It's so consistently in triplets that you could score it out in 6/8, so counts as 6/8 for my sinister purposes... It would actually come out a bit neater on the page if you wrote it out in 6/8 or 12/8, the 4/4 renditions are covered in triplet indicators.

Anyone got any suggestions for disco / funk / soul tunes in 6/8? I can only think of Stevie Wonder's 'Higher Ground' but I'm sure there's loads of others... EDIT - 12/8 would also be fine, or 4/4 that could be characterised as 12/8. It's the triplets that are important!

I find the concept of relic basses bizarre and annoying, and many of them look awful. But I actually wouldn't mind owning one because I like the look of battered old instruments. Consistency isn't really my strong point...

Reverend basses are pretty much universally liked and should be in your budget.

I would say get the bass you want and get it repainted, rather than buying a bass you don't want just because it's the right colour.

Surely all bass gear solves one of three key problems? 1. I haven't got one of those 2. I've only got one of those 3. My collection of those is unsatisfyingly small

It would also stop scammers from using the delicious, borderline pornographic pics of desirable basses often found here as the basis for scams elsewhere. Much more difficult to edit a post-it out of a pic, especially if it's on the neck or headstock where there's woodgrain beneath.

I had a great rehearsal for a dep gig yesterday then last night I had an actual dream about playing my bass, which is an ACG Border Reiver. In the dream I was on stage with a band and I could just play whatever came into my head, effortlessly, which is not always the case in my waking hours... So I guess that's my dream bass.

Bose S1 would do very well although £300+ I think.

One of the long ones with four thick strings.

Playing rock music in four and five-piece bands will be a specific era in music, just as big-band jazz was a specific era. It might be that we're already in the tail end of the era.