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How could I have forgotten about the Queen of bassface? The marvellous Este Haim. She has great tone and groove and plainly really gets into her playing.

I’d add Tal Wilkenfield, Rhonda Smith, Ida Neilson and Juna Serita to the list.

Join Together - The Who

Strange Brew - Cream

Caramel - Blur

Maruszczyk Elwood, Bass Direct have a couple at the moment.

You should be able to feel the waves of envy emanating from north of the border. A pair of Jabbas, something to be green about. Congrats, enjoy your acquisitions.

Pie Ho Silver Linin’ - Jeff Beck

Unless you add up all the sides, 20 (the 1 is hidden).

These photos put me in mind of this… If it wasn’t so damned expensive, I’d be all over this as Rob Allen makes a very fine bass indeed.

Width of a Circle - Bowie

Turning Japanese - The Vapours

I like that, it's just different enough.

Love the video, you have set a new standard in NBD presentation.

Dice!

I’m not guessing, could be anything as I’m fairly sure there isn’t a bass out there that doesn’t have haters on BC. However, why is it always the way that once you digest yourself of a particular type of instrument completely, that a band comes along that requires exactly that type of instrument? When I first quit guitar to play bass pretty much exclusively (I still has an acoustic guitar) a band came along that required a guitarist and they asked me. Just like that, I was pulled back into the skinny string vortex. Did the band last long? No, of course it didn’t, but it was too late by then and it would be another 10 years before I returned to the path of righteousness.

It was a bleak time and so over hyped at the time. Hopefully, this is just a case of the music media stoking a fire because of a ‘slow news day’.

UFO have a place in my musical education, sort of. I was first inspired to play the 6 string thing by the son of my parents’ friends. He had long hair and played an Eko Ranger 6 and I thought it and he were the coolest things I’d seen or heard (this is the early ‘70s). During one visit to their house, he asked me of the noise emanating from his neighbour’s house, “Do you know who that is?” and of course I didn’t, as I was too young. “That's UFO,” he told me, although I was nine the wiser really, but that stuck with me. His neighbour was one Larry Wallis, who was UFO’s guitar player at the time (he went on to be in early Motörhead and The Pink Fairies). I became a UFO fan down the road a way when Schenker was playing guitar and performing his disappearing act. The above doesn’t really add anything to this thread, but it’s an anecdote I like to share.

Go Mustang, full on chubby P tones in a different package.* *Just to muddy the GAS waters, you understand.

Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult

If this thread proves anything, it’s that there’s a perfect looking bass for everyone and that bass will make others retch. Vive la diffence!

I know they have their devotees, but I can’t help asking, “Why, just why?” 🤢

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory

It's not just the Mustang that is ugly in my sound generation.

Lee Sklar is a force of nature and a total legend. However, eventually, you can't run around the country like that and then go and pick up a truck load of gravel when you're getting on; Lee is 75! I couldn't do all that he does and I'm quite a bit younger.