Owen

People put themselves forward to serve. Not all of them have the correct skillset. Sometimes that can be nipped in the bud and they can be told "yeah, but let us walk through techniques etc for a couple of months before we let you loose on a Sunday morning". Teaching that skillset is time consuming. Time is not what a lot of us have. This means that people slip through the net and as we play we are thinking "is that ok?" and "why would you play that there?". Not every week, but some weeks. The beauty of it is that a lot of it goes over most people's heads. It is SUPER frustrating for those of us who have put the hours in. But I guess it is a mentoring situation - a bit like Brass Banding. The tricky bit is the "you are not doing that right, let me help you" and the finding time. But being in community is costly. I would prefer to have one acoustic played well and one vocal and leave it at that. It is leading, not performing. Sometimes that is a difficult convesation. As long as the congregation have a cue to start singing in the right place, everything else is secondary. If we are relying on a stellar band rocking it out to whip up something, then there is a problem right there. I very certainly do not look to playing in church to get my musical jollies. It is to serve - like stacking the chairs, and no more than that.

Sadly Caerdydd is further from me than many, many English Bass Bashes.

It is one of my own. I give it to you.

I have spent too much on kit. I have had 90% of the lush preamps out there - I know which one I prefered. I have owned what I consider the best backline out there - there is a pleasure in amplification which reaches all the way down there without giving up. I have had a solid 80% of bass guitar options. An instrument which responds equally across the range will always make me smile. I like a 33" scale because the strings are a bit more rubbery. As soon as Drums Rex and The Guitarmageddon kick in, any subtletly just dissapears. And after too much time in loud environments I cannot play without earplugs so even if any of the subtlety is there, I miss it. Does this stop me owning more basses than I need? Nope. But it is cos I like them, not because anyone else, including me, will hear any difference when the chips are down.

Whereabouts in Wales?

That control plate gave me cause for concern until I realised that it was the carpet reflecting!

Cadbury Dairy Milk Bongo 5. A lot to love there.

That video is giving me a migraine. It must have taken days to edit. I am aware that this makes me sound like a miserable old git. I own that.

If getting the right size is an issue then you could look at using the present ones rewound using the physical cases. No routing, no mess. New magnets, new wire. Job done. https://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/ has done some great work for me, and it will be significantly cheaper than any of the "big names". Pickups do not have magic in them. Right magnets, right wire, job done.

All the strings you crave, just not in the right order.

Thanks. Not a bad price for sparkly goodness!

Yummy! My MTD Kingston has the most comfortable neck I have played. I am old and have played a lot of basses.

Asymetric neck carve?

Excellent news!

Out of interest, because I REALLY NEED a 4 string bass, what do they go for in the shiny finish?

That was Silver Sparkle and it has been painted red? What is wrong with people?

I cannot deny, I am proper gutted. In my mind's eye you were 6'5" and probably wearing some sort of platforms on stage becasue of your screen name.

He had a thing, I fancied it. I paid, it came. He is a professional packer!

YES! Right there!

There is a lot of it about. https://reverb.com/uk/item/52022127-fodera-wal-emperor-2003-crotch-walnut

Excellent news. I do not actually like them, but I am in a minority of 1 in my close and broader family. The rest live for them. I get the process and the way the flavours morph from one to the next, but coriander is not for me.

I am a bass tart and will go with any bass.

Bass Police are coming for you.