ezbass

Shout At The Devil - Motley Crüe

Good call @Jean-Luc Pickguard.

Hold The Line - Toto

We’re just moving into a new house. It’s not a dream house as such, but we like it and, despite wanting to downsize, it’s bigger than our last house. Lady Ez will have a room for her office and I’ll have a full sized room for my music (in the last house, it was a very small box room). Whilst I’ll have the vast majority of my musical stuff in ‘my’ room, I want to have a guitar and maybe a bass in one of the living rooms. In an ideal world, I’ll finally get a DB/EUB and that will certainly live downstairs in one of the living rooms (Lady Ez does like the idea of them as a piece of furniture, so it’ll need to be a proper DB or an EUB with one of those small bodies).

No, that’s a feat of heroism.

Although it seems counter intuitive, being busier during solos works. Check out Jack Bruce during Crossroads or Tommy Shannon during Shotgun Blues (IIRC). There’s also the tritone/chord option. Martin Turner does some some full on, Quo type boogie on Blindeye.

She’s Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze

Robert Palmer covered Toots & The Maytals' Pressure Drop

Onion of the Snake - Duran Duran

Come Together - The Who

Holiday - Madonna

Andy Summers, The Edge, Johnny Marr, etc, all do something different from the shredders, which I always found refreshing. Their standpoint that it’s easy (and I take issue with that) fails to take into account they did it first, at least on a world stage. It takes so much more rhythmical awareness to achieve their effects drenched sound than just widdling over the Lydian mode. It’s the equivalent of looking at a Picasso or Mondrian and saying, “I could’ve done that.” Well, you didn’t, did you?

Even without the footie kit.

Broken Wings - Mr Mister

Hole Hearted - Exteme

OK, I've thought about and I think that the guitar player in my trio would be playing an ES335 or similar. They're playing it as it is super versatile, without being overly flashy, which suits their personality. They have a smallish pedal board with a Fulldrive 2, some sort of tremolo, a delay, a swell and a compressor which they only use sparingly as an effect when required. Amp-wise that have a Brunetti or a Suhr combo. In case of string breakage/guitar failure, they have a bound body Tele Custom on a stand, ready.

Nice and very tempting. Sadly, I am the reverse when it comes to nut widths, but I have the JMJ which is great and dreams of a Wilcock Mullarkey.

One of these then... https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/short-scale-bass-guitars/sire-version-2-marcus-miller-u5-short-scale-alder-4-mint IIRC, they have a J nut width.

Can't Stand Losing You - The Police

You are a bad, bad man! 😂

Tom Sawyer - Rush

Strange Man Changed Man - Bram Tchaikovsky

In that case, I will assume a favourable reaction.

Near enough?

Gah! Too slow! Working Man - Rush