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I question your usage of the word 'rehearsal'.....

I used to get terrible leg cramps many years ago, but have never had cramp playing. I have been on a plant based diet for many years, which seemed to solve my leg cramping issues and I have not consumed alcohol for a couple of years. As a family, we do not add salt to food that we cook, in general. Have a look at diet and circulation/Sedentary lifestyle, some very simple changes can fix these issues. **Probably best to avoid inviting me on a night out with the above factors in mind! Right miserable b*stard!

Ray Luzier plays Sinatra...!

Turn up with a banjo and a sliver of buckwheat between your teeth...

Good luck dude

My ‘1’ bass is called ‘bass’...I am not terribly sentimental. Though, i did name all of our chickens after porn stars. The kids and wife did not realise, my wife only found out after a fox got to them and I exclaimed that I would have to remove cicciolinas head from a large tool, which rather amused me.....I do hate it when people question why you think something is funny and then get all moral.. Though in bass world naming i don’t think that ‘Thunderfunk’ will ever be beaten, unless Dave Funk teams up with Ernie Ball.... BallFunk? FunkMan?

Handbag?

If you are on here, good job on the bass sir!

Wonder if Guy Pratt will auction off some of his basses..?

Might pop in and see the collection in London. As above, massively undervalued - I expect there will be 'silicon valley' buyers for all that stuff.

I had some trouble with my HH Stingray action. It was tricky to lower without buzziness and I didn't want to shim the neck like crazy, for a £1.5k bass I figured it should be built to a much higher tolerance. The neck relief measure up fine, the saddles are low, but I simply don't wanna go down the route of shimming. I have a compromise where it is about 2.5mm from the 12th fret, but still not my ideal. My old OLP is way lower with a shimmed neck and does not buzz at all. Any thoughts on lowering the action any further? I guess I could use smaller string guages - i use 45/100

Looks like something for the teens, passive, short scale? I want to see a Stingray Electric Octobass - with 1 control, for more bass only......!

@Hobbayne So, basically, he has no one......as we all got rejected.

So, i got the rejection letter. He rejected the singer and drummer too! apparently, he agonized over keeping me, but felt my sound and general look did not fit with his vision. well, at least i have all my own hair....! Must admit that it has taken the weight off me telling him where to go. on the lighter side, great practice tonight with the usual band!

Nearest I got to dance was this old chestnut; you can kinda hear it at this outdoor gig we did at a VW festival someone else’s badg edited montage video. Bass was a Fender Jazz Modern Player V with an east preamp, Markbass F500 head DI to PA and SWR golight 112 cabs onstage;

I probably would tell Paul McCartney..... **I might not....

I think Hipshot make an Xtender for that.......

Almost impossible to play disco on the bass at 45 BPM! I suspect no one will come up to the standard, of which 'the leader' was not capable himself......and it will go nowhere.

Great stuff - love it! The synth seems to swamp the vocals and bass a bit, but that could be laptop speakers!

Oooh, I will admit to being a bit fastidious....! For example; Gun 'n Roses 'Sweet Child 'o Mine' simply has to be played as the record as does the solo on 'Livin' on a prayer'. I am all for it being fun, mistakes and willingness to learn and educate, but when you can hear something that is being played plain wrong when it is a key component of the song, I gotta say something as it is so blindingly obvious. As an ex guitar player, it is tough not to show people how to do it and there is a way of phrasing your eagerness to get that bit right 'can I help you rehearse that? can I show you a trick to make that bit easier?, Shall we slow it down just there and get your fingers in the zone? etc etc' and TBH, in my current band the guitar player and I regularly swap when he wants to try something on bass or I can do the guitar line more fluidly. He sings as well and some guitar lines are beyond him when he is singing. Hells Bells by AC/DC, as an example, is an instrument swap song for us.

You rock!

So, I think I will keep the Epifani UL212. It is ~20kg, but I cannot be arsed with the carrying any longer..... Any small folding sack truck recommendations? Preferably one that won't fall to bits on rough car park ground!

My wife is an ex lawyer....now a painter and actress, I.e. I pay for everything....