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Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley

The other Ezbass(no relation that I’m aware of)! That the dog is so unimpressed by such top playing always makes me smile.

Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

^^^^ This, all day long.

Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche

Ever since I first picked up the low end beast, I've been besotted with fretless. This probably stems from my love of Pino, Karn, and others from that era's sound, that first made me partially jump ship from the skinny stringed thing and dabble in the low end. Even when I made the complete transition to bass, it wasn't long before I had a fretless and I've always preferred it and, according to others, I'm quite good at it (checks door width against head dimensions to ensure some clearance ). However, when I moved into temporary accommodation late in 2020, I was limited as to what I could take with me and it was a no brainer as to which bass I would take, one of my fretless basses, obvious really; the others went into storage. However, after a while living in said accommodation, I acquired a short scale bass (something I had been planning to do before the move, but things got in the way). Once this arrived, I played it a lot (as you do with a new toy), even giving myself a touch of tendonitis (since remedied) such was the level of my practising (finger exercises to a drum machine FFS! When did I last do those?). I finally moved into permanent accommodation and was at last reunited with my other basses (a fretted and another fretless) and then acquired another fretted, short scale. The thing is, my love for fretless seems to have died. I'll pick one of them up, noodle for a few moments, then put it back on the stand - the sound doesn't move me anymore, I even find it a little irritating and I'm playing those great sounding '80s tunes on fretted bass, making the sound work (a little chorus goes a long way) and enjoying it far more. I look at my fretless basses and just see £ signs. Is the love affair over after nearly 40 years, or are we just 'on a break'? Has anyone else gone through something similar and come out the other side, love renewed or was that it, you walked away and never looked back?

I don't normally like 38mm width necks, but I'm loving the 38mm on my 'Ray SS. Therefore, I concur with your statement.

Croydon has a luthier too. The parallels never cease . I’ve just remembered that Croydon also has a craft beer brewer - Cronx (Croydon/Bronx). Spooky.

Vindaloo - Fat Les

Hot Stuff - Donna Summer

FTFY

True that.

Without FTW.

Basschat is like that, always has been. Folk here are genuinely willing and happy to help, not just with bass related stuff either, the breadth of expertise and experience is truly amazing.

When watching this, I was surprised at how normal (for a value of normal) the Fisher Price knobs looked. That was until Lobster started using them, when they looked quite awkward to use. Shame he didn’t solo the neck pickup, but that’ll come in the full review I guess. No lightweight tuners I see, bit of an oversight IMO.

Teenage Nervous Breakdown - Nazareth

Kick Start My Heart - The Crüe

Bop ‘Til You Drop - The Ramones

Are Ewe Lonesome Tonight - Elvis

First Cut is the Deepest - Jim Capaldi

The assumption that the bass is easy to play and that you're just a failed guitarist.

Is There Anybody Out There? - Pink Floyd

Hipshot Ultralights arrived and were fitted tout suite. It turns out that the original tuners were surprisingly light and the difference was just 130g lighter. However, it was for the better action in the tuners that they were purchased and that end of the bass is now a slop free zone. I still had to pack the ferrules a bit, but it was all pretty easy. Interestingly enough, although it's now only just over 4ozs lighter (a whole 7.2lbs altogether), because of where the weight has been saved, the feel on the strap is quite markedly different. All smiles at Castle MacEz.

Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police

Heresy!