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I was surprised by how bright they sounded (at first) for 10 year old strings... They have mellowed a little now though... 🤣

I'm guessing it was the age of the stings that caused it, and not my highly acidic (alkaline?) sweat?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ABqTkjYyPqkscjTRlTly8RjpAvNuI9tJ/view?usp=sharing Just out of interest, would/could these be Elixirs? The bass is a 10 year + old Ibanez SRX 390 (that had never been played before I bought it). According to the catalogue, Elixirs were not fitted to this model (this model was supposed to have D'Addarios), but Elixirs were fitted to the higher end basses. I have never seen D'Addarios peel like this... No silks and plain old brass coloured ends to the strings. Any ideas, oh wise Basschat?

But at least they are "new" tuners. Oh, and a new neck "with crazing in the varnish on the head"? Anyway, sorry. Thread drift... Did you buy the one you posted, Paul S?

Ahem... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fretless-Hondo-2-Telebass-p-bass-by-PCsGC/193378642992?hash=item2d0643ec30:g:YC8AAOSwKsReaSMR

TC Unitune for me too. Nice clear display.

Is it? I thought it was James Jamerson?

So who plays bass on this recording then? And why is he not credited?

Rehearsal went well, so well that we're going to try again next week. We didn't do Paint It, Black, because our new guitarist didn't know it.

At least the title isn't as bad as The Gene Genie...

Whereas I just put the record on upstairs, and then wander downstairs to listen to it. 😉

This is how I've been attempting to play the verse, with the B as the downbeat. Is it wrong? I notice a few You Tube videos start on the E, which doesn't sound right to me.

Maybe I just need to relax, and be a bit quicker on the change... I've got another evening to practice tomorrow.

I know! But I still want to... When I play it slowly the B-E, then B-Fsharp, notes fit, but when I play it full speed, I'm doing some weird stinky poo.

I'm having trouble playing the verse in straight eighth notes. I want to start and finish, every bar on B, which just doesn't seem to add up? I don't know what I'm doing, do I? 😂 Edit: Got first rehearsal with new-ish band on Thursday - panic setting in...

Have I got too many Es in the second bar? 😆

I've possibly got this next on my list, now that I've escaped my tyrant band leader (escaped with the singer and rhythm guitarist - tyrant leader effectively thrown out of his own band 😙) So, from the top, is it: |----------|-9-9-9-7-7-7-6-6-6-------|----------0--0--|---------0---0-|| |----------|-------------------9-7-6-|-----------7----|-----------7---|| |----------|-------------------------|-7--7-7-7-------|-7--7--7-------|| |----------|-------------------------|----------------|---------------|| ?

Sounds familiar...

I think this is why he's insisting I'll go out of time if I go all the way up to the octave and descend on the next bar? Thursday night established that what he wants is double time, ascending runs only. But I'm still playing two bars of the V anyway... Oh, and apparently playing higher up the neck of your bass (towards the bridge) gives your sound more bottom end. I think I know what he means - play on the thicker strings, but the way he demonstrates it is to go up an octave... Hopefully only another week of this poo to put up with. I will be getting my gear out of his unit for the gig, with no intention of taking it back.

I've got a Mikro, and I'm very happy with it. I don't play it very often, but it comes out to band practice when I have a bad back. I had a look at a Bronco in a shop, but wasn't that impressed with the bridge or the look of the single pickup. I didn't actually plug it in to play it, so can't really comment. 😝

And then the next time we practice, he'll say I should know the song...

That's what I heard - in the original, but then "Chuck Berry was sh*t when he started out"...

Got a feeling it probably won't. It's more the rhythm guitarist's 60th than my, errhhhmmm, birthday (closer to his birthday than mine, and his is bigger), but we all agreed we would do this at the beginning of the year.

Think I might put my foot down and insist on the original 12 bar version... it is my birthday do we're practicing for, after all!

Isn't the intro (on the film version) a little variation where it starts on the I (not sue how many bars), but then goes IV, IV, I, I, V, IV, I (instead of bars IV, IV, I, I, V, V, I)... Sorry, don't know myself if that makes sense? A bit like last night really. Oh, and I'm not allowed to count bars - "you should just feel it"...