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Rothman’s or possibly Benson & Hedge’s.

Plenty of information to be had here on BC and not just about playing bass, the membership has a very diverse and wide range of experience.

Must bang ãss 😱

Protection Racket make a great bass bag.

Yep, PJ fanboy here. I run a Flightcase into a PB300 (when I need the extra power). I’ve also owned a Cub and a Bass Buddy. Quality gear, perfect for gigs or home practise and 5 strings are handled with ease.

That control cover looks pukka!

Given that you’re in Croydon, head over to Guitar Guitar in Epsom, it used to be my nearest outlet and I always found the staff helpful and not pushy. I was always also impressed by the way The Gallery just let you do your thing too.

I had to learn a whole stack of songs for a black tie, jazz gig a few years back. I’m not a jazz player, but I’ve played in a few blues outfits where I’ve used walking bass lines. When learning the set, I desperately tried to show horn walking lines into everything, only to find that a good proportion of the originals just had a nicely swinging root/V bass line. Once I became away of this, things became easier. Walk where appropriate (underpinning solos is a good place to break them out) but don’t overlook a simpler line that swings, remember that a lot of the original lines would have been played on a double bass and walking everything on a DB is exhausting, so those guys may well have kept it simple, just to be able to do the gig.

There's one of these for sale in a secondhand shop in Perth at the moment for £699 IIRC.

Sorry, Silvia, I’m in the tort camp too.

Pearloid.

Yup. 🥺

My Mustang fits very nicely in the Maruszczyk SS bag.

“..hello, my name is ba55fr33k and i am a bass-oholic..” You’re amongst friends and similarly affected folk here.

No it’s not. Having been the victim of bullying and witnessed it both in a commercial setting and as an educator, I know what it is and this hasn’t been it, or anything close to. In this instance, someone mentioned that it felt like a DoI type thing when said thread contributors were uninvolved. Curiosity then ensued, naturally. It’s become no more weird or existential now than when it started and there was no name calling from those who frequent the DoI, which is more than can be said of others. But, hey ho…

I like the wee, monochrome, floral one.

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“This is a long video and I talk too much.” I stopped right there. Thanks anyway.

What’s an aooordeon? I used to go to the Odeon, but I’m not sure this is the same thing.

You’d think and normally that would be the case, but he was genuinely amazing. When he died, I was given one of his accordions, which I immediately sold and bought a US Fender Tele (it was plainly quite valuable).