Doctor J

Your hot is inside the white sleeve. The earth is the currently exposed copper.

That's a very genre-dependent generalisation 🙂

If you were sent a tuner that is not 1/2" then demand the shop take it back and send you the correct one. You ordered a 1/2" tuner, you don't have a 1/2" tuner, it is up to the shop to sort it out. Do you have the packaging it came in? What does that say?

Would you not consider an Ibanez? You seem fond of the Willis bass. Ibanez have over 30 years of expertise in building 6 strings and the Japanese stuff is always toq quality.

I suspect Nilorius is thinking 34" scale B-B sixer, not a Bass VI.

Unless someone travels back in time to get them to make one in 1963, I'd say it's very unlikely.

Besides, they advertise themselves as a rhythm and blues revue... for your dancing pleasure 😁

Not all of it

This thread should be written phonetically in Geordie so Blue gets a real taste.

Don't waste your money on a neck, just get a string appropriate for that kind of pitch. I use a .145 for A and occasional dropped G on a 34" scale jazz bass. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B000OR75QQ/ref=pe_27091401_487027711_TE_SCE_dp_1

It'll be quite the logistics challenge to recall all copies of this recording and replace it with a perfect one. Still, it'll be worth the effort after allowing this to ruin people's enjoyment of the song for the last 45 years.

I'm sure somewhere there's a crestfallen civil servant asking "All I want is these bastids to pay their tax, is that too much to ask?

Not quite. The honest declaration of the final destination should be made by the sender and, in this case, any tariffs should be collected upon arrival in NI. Welcome to the complexities of the NI Protocol.

It's time to rock again. Rock > Ramp.

Later used to be fantastic. The first few series had some wonderful performances and a great mix of musical styles. They might not all be to your taste but surely that was the idea? Any time I have seen it in the last 10 years or even longer, I can't recall seeing anything which did anything for me. It might be that my tastes no longer accommodate most contemporary music... or... it could be, as I have suspected for a while, that new music is generally terrible and it's not me at all! 😁

Love KJ, there are tasty basslines through their entire career. I've a soft spot for the last three albums. The Great Cull is very enjoyable to romp through, the less subtlety you play with, the better.

I think I read here recently that 40mm is Sandberg's standard nut width. Neck depth is important, too. I have an old Ibanez Saber and a Hamer Chaparral, both have 40mm nut widths but are not alike at all. The slim Ibanez and chunkier Hamer make for very different feeling (and playing) necks.

Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous Rock perfection

Ibanez, if I want something which reflects that life continued after 1965, purely because they keep evolving and the Japanese stuff is always superbly built. Whatever the top 4 string SR is at the moment will do very nicely. If I want something Fendery, I'd build it myself with Warmoth bits.

In 1995 EBMM Stingray 2005 Bacchus Woodline Out 1995 Yamaha Trb6 1999 Yamaha Trb4 II 1995 EBMM Stingray 2005 GMR Bassforce 1985 Yamaha BB1100S 2003 PRS EB 1991 Fender Jazz Plus Which gives me a score of -5

Bacchus Standard 04

After sitting through countless demo videos of almost every pickup brand I could think of, single and dual coil versions, I put a Seymour Duncan SCPB-1 into the 50's P I built as it sounded best to me. It 's got meat, a bit of growl and can be heard here with a set of Chromes on it https://thehomeball.bandcamp.com/track/fortgeschrittene-h-rtechniken

Schon and Cain despise each other. It must make for a terrible atmosphere within the band. There's only one way to resolve it... one of them needs to be leavin' and not stop! I'm terribly sorry 😁

Get thyself to Ishibashi and trawl the u-box for an old Bacchus Grooveline. Scaled down J body with Stingray guts, weighs about 3.5kg. Not cheap but, still, a handmade Japanese bass for less than a US Stingray. Lovely.

Actually, just thinking, Geezer doesn't spend a lot of time playing low low notes whenever Sabbath tuned down. He was usually a octave up from where one might expect him to be.