Grahambythesea

I feel free - Cream

A precision of bassists

Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree - Tony Orlando & Dawn

Cocaine - Eric Clapton

If you want to free up space, sell the piano🤣

I would ask why would anyone make it? It’s a bass and 5 strings are plenty, why double it?

Epiphone issued one for a while, never played one so won’t comment further. I’ve also seen one by Maya . I believe these are generally considered boat anchors 🤪 Hope you’ve got a good strong back!

Out of time - Chris Farlowe

Don’t join!

Haha, Cambridge near Dover.

Buying unseen/unplaced is always a risk. When you’ve invested substantial cash, you’re expectations are pretty high. I hope you settle with it and enjoy what looks like a really nice instrument. 🤞

It wasn’t so bad with Little Richard 🥴😁

Go now - Moody Blues

The Hollies - that dreadful out of tune wail which I think is supposed to be harmonica at the beginning of He Ain’t Heavy. Elvis Presley - Live in Las Vegas (I think), he’s introducing the band and forgets the name of one the backing singers. He has rather a lot of them so may be forgiven for not remembering, or may be it’s too many cheeseburgers and pills.

Comeback ABBA all is forgiven 🤪

Thanks @neepheid for the factory info. So probably just the marketing people saying let’s change the finish, we’ll sell more if they are a bit sparkly.

Was the batwing, which I think suits this bass, the inspiration to a certain Mr. F. when creating the headstock for G & L?

Any one who had a heart - Cilla Black

To think that Australia used to volunteer to be European for a night for this evening if ineptitude. In that 2nd video they look like they’re trying to invade Europe. Perhaps that’s how they got in with this dismal dirge?

I suppose if you play that well you can get away with a bobbled tea cosy on your head. Did he tell the drummer to shut up.?

It’s still difficult for those involved in church. We can sing/play as a band, but the congregation is not supposed to unmask or sing, unless we go outside. So we’ve stopped people parking in the car park and towards the end of the service we all troop outside. However muggins (or on alternate weeks the other bass player) has to take a load of extra equipment down the day before ready to set it up outside whilst the congregation is on the move, hoping that the rain is keeping off as we have extension cables running out to the amps. Coming with high winds this week was challenging, our rhythm player was trying to stop his mic blowing over, play guitar, sing and catch his music simultaneously. How come the set up role falls to the bass players?

It seems very strange they took them out of their range only to reintroduce them just with some different paint choices. I wonder whether they’ve switched the factory making them or changed the woods they’re made from. 🥴

Why not a fretless, that’ll give you a different sound.

It’s years since I bought a new a fender, it was a 5 string Jazz. It arrived barely playable and had to have a shim put in to get any reasonable adjustment on the bridge. That was in 1996 and I don’t think the QC has got any better.

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