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I've got to start checking the Jam House website more regularly. It's a great music venue, if I'd have known about this I would have been there.

It's been posted before, but both Chas and Dave played on this ...which was later sampled by Dr Dre for Eminem's breakthrough single 'My Name Is'. So, in conclusion, RIP Chas Hodges, international hip hop superstar.

No idea what that is, but I like it.

I like the new aesthetic a lot. The vintage reliced body with the hi tech neck give it a sort of steampunk vibe. I'm sure it sounds and plays fantastically well too.

I believe there's an obscure law that states that there must be a former member of the SAS stationed in every pub in Britain at all times.

He makes some valid points about every generation predictably denigrating the music produced by the next. But the stuff about your musical tastes being set when you're a teenager is complete BS. In my teens I was listening pretty much exclusively to heavy metal bands like Maiden, Megadeth and Anthrax. I stopped listening to that stuff in my early twenties. It would never occur to me to put one of their albums on these days. Now I mainly listen to to soul, funk and jazz stuff that I would have turned off if it had come on the radio when when I was kid. I'd guess most people are the same, eventually we get bored of the same old, same old and move on to something else.

Tuba Hip-Hop Reggae Jazz.

Result.

There's something a bit odd about that clip. There's a quite a lot of it where what the guitarist and bass player appear to be playing doesn't seem to be the same thing that's coming out of the PA. And what's all that strumming the strings halfway up the neck about?

A bit more Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai's first album was actually a bit of a turning point in my musical tastes. Before that I was mainly listening to rock and metal, this helped me to realise that there was so much more out there. Plus the bass was phenomenal.

This always gets mentioned whenever this question is asked. Probably because it's perfect.

That was my first thought, but the strings look too thick? I saw an Ed Friedland review of the 3 pickup Music Man Big Al and that came across as a really versatile bass. I have to say that I prefer the looks of this one.

I downloaded a 70 track Sun Ra 'box set' a while ago. That covers a pretty big spectrum just on it's own. Some of it is pretty straightforwards other bits are absolutely bonkers and quite a lot of it falls into the mysterious category of 'music I'm not sure I actually like, but find fascinating to listen to anyway'.

Apologies if it's already been posted but this just came on as I was watching Better Call Saul.

Graphite neck? I think Flea would approve.

Jazz is a broad church. I like the funky stuff and the smaller ensembles where you can clearly hear every instrument. The Glenn Miller style big band stuff leaves me cold.

If you post a positive review I can imagine the people at Revelation being somewhat puzzled by a sudden spike in sales.

This is the second time in the last few days that an instrument has broken through my strong aversion to sunburst finishes and tortoiseshell pickguards. I'm starting to wonder if I'm unwell..

I've only really gotten into jazz in the last few years, after I got a bit bored with guitar bands. I started listening to a lot more 70s style funk and that led me to Herbie Hancock and things progressed naturally from there. I'm still not keen on the traditional big band type stuff though.

Lost for words, eh? I think that 'doodle' had that effect on most of us.

This has almost certainly been posted before, butJames Brown's band recorded this as a response to Pick Up The Pieces under the name Above Average Black Band.

I had a similar experience with Andertons a few years back. I bough a jazz bass from them online, a couple of days after I received it the bridge pup stopped working. I rang them up and told them, there were no questions about how it happened or whether the problem might be my fault, they just delivered a new bass 2 days later and picked up the faulty one at the same time. No fuss. That's the real customer service test, how a company reacts when something goes wrong, and, in my case, Andertons passed with flying colours.

I don't often chip in on this part of the forum, owning as i do the technical skills of a drunk koala, but I feel compelled to say that it's a genuine pleasure following your threads. You really don't need to worry about your writing skills.

That's the most horrible thing I've heard in a long time. A long, long time. Just to clarify I'm not singling out the bass, I mean the whole performance was really unpleasant to listen to.

Assuming your're after the 'natural' look, if you do end up being disappointed with the wood underneath, have a look back through the build diary threads. @Andyjr1515 has done some very impressive work with veneers. This is just the first example I could find.