Cuzzie

I do have a pick from our very own @12stringbassist

Fishbone drummer - which says fish sticks with their band logo - it’s great - about 30 years old now

High 6!

Yes please!

I lived in Norwich!

Beach Volleyball?

There is no doubt you will pick a fault somewhere - when I move a pick up knobs and a jack between basses, there is a difference. If I change the neck on the bass between wood and graphite, there is a difference all else being the same. No doubt you’ll trot out I’d have screwed it differently or the strings are 3 hours older and been restrung so they sound different blah blah blah..... There will be a a difference between species, within each species there will be a difference depending on growing conditions etc. How they piece together you are correct is another variable. It’s a spectrum with overlap. It’s 2 separate questions being merged for the sake of point proving. Is there a difference - yes, even the most ardent would not disagree - this is an absolute Does it make a noticeable difference - possibly but not to everyone. Does it play and sound how you like - if it’s no, is that because it’s rubbish or because there is a certain combination of things/tonewoods that you consistently don’t like - if that’s the case then it does make a difference

Gabrielle - Liverpool in the 90s - thank god it was a freebie

Massive waste - toxic people around her causing a demise

But you are prepared so that’s fine. when I was young and single I would always go out in hope of meeting a young lady and be ‘prepared’ but i have a face for radio so N inherent lack of success - the one time there is a chance - unprepared due to past history - consequence - home alone

Yep Shells sand or stones so long as their is ice cream and chish and fips it’s fun

No - it’s resin and lead-they are tone metals and tone sap/glue - they will have their own resonance properties - you wouldn’t catch me calling the plasma bass or acrylic bass a tone wood, that’s just silly. Feel free to look up the different tonewoods, densities, strengths, pores, water content etc that will give you information - from there you can decide how much difference there is. I know definitively my tone thing graphite bass sounds different to my tonewood one - and even if you jumped the electronics between the 2 it will be the same

Cool - Cedar is a tonewood

Not disputed - people need to do what’s correct for them

Very sad - incredible talent

Don’t you think

It’s exactly the points - it’s a solution for the circumstances - if your amp goes down, and you have DI to PA - job done. If your amp goes down and amp to cab easily your only means of amplification, no PA - then what? Re-thinking playing is exactly right as well - some songs I do ‘normal’ tuning some in a drop tuning-one bass I was using didn’t have the drop tuner so incase I forgot to tune between songs I practiced playing the songs in both tunings - and predictably I forgot to tune, but muddled through. Professionalism in this instance is just about being the best you can be for yours and others enjoyment and being the best prepared for the same reasons.

Unless I intercept it on the way down

I think there are very few builders who would shape a body and neck - pop it together, insert all electronics and hardware - play it, remove all electronics and hardware, shave some off, reload, unload, shave etc. but experience and care about all the processes/materials along the way and checks before final assembly will iron out most faults and give incredibly consistent results. You may get the level of detail you are looking for from a luthier and that’s fine, all I can say is I have seen each and every stage of guitars being made at Sandberg and the care take I don’t think anyone would complain at

Sandberg The body shapes are of course standard to their range as much as possible, but they are hand finished at the end - I don’t think it goes as far as taking their precision shape and making an SG shape - but care at every step is taken

Some manufacturers do take care - i have seen personally. Planks will be cut to get the most out of a tree - nothing wrong it’s that as wastage is terrible, but unless its a deliberate patchwork bass, tone woods will generally be matched to be the same variety of wood and have grain similarities - not always, but ones that care will

Sounds professional to me covering eventualities. Microphones are a funny one - cardioid, super cardioid, on axis, off axis what vocals do best with what - singing/vocals i would always take my own especially nowadays with the old transmission of droplets which i was never keen on ages ago anyway, hence using my own.

Even Boris makes an exception for you on this matter

Don’t rest - keep walking the path to enlightenment

You are correct - it is about mitigating risk in a situation - correct me if i am wrong, but the bands you play have 2 guitarists - 1 acoustic 1 electric, bass, drums, vocals x2 and sometimes you have wind instruments depending on which one of your bands is playing. That is a whole wall of sound which can easily fill in for potential issues - lead guitar breaks a string, the rhythm of the song carries on with the rhythm guitar, lead singist has a coughing fit or something, second/other singer steps in. Go down to a three piece - any one element goes down, the whole bottom falls out the songs. When i was doing hip hop multiple modalities for the backing tracks and there were 3 of us, everyone learnt everyone else’s lines for an instant drop in - its what necessary