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Well, I for one am glad to hear a positive review at last. Perhaps it will come good but it would have better to have it all tickity boo from the get go. Photos please.

Get It On - T Rex

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Or going for the skullet. Mind you, it works for Lee Sklar.

Paper In Fire - John Mellencamp

Mad World - Tears for Fears

His current and long standing choice of coiffeur seems to have been a good decision. I find it interesting that he doesn’t look dissimilar to a mid ‘70s Peter Gabriel.

She’s A Woman - F4/Jeff Beck

Quiet neck pickups (in comparison to the bridge) on modern Rics is common, but thin? Not so much.

Girls on Film - DD

Bald bass players FTW.

Get thee behind me, oh horned one. 😈😆 Fortunately, heavier than I go for these days.

Hubba, hubba 😍.

Interesting fact, Down The Dustpipe was originally demoed by The Man Band, pretty much as we know it today. The story is that the demo was played to Quo who were probably looking to shed their psychedelia image and sound and the rest is history. I learnt this from Deke Leonard’s book, Rhinos Winos & Lunatics, so it’s all those Welsh boys’ fault. Apropos of nothing, Francis Rossi lives just down the road from my old house in Sarf Lunnon.

All By Myself - Eric Carmen

My fault, I wasn’t clear, it’s the haircut I was referring to, Nick is great fun and a top, top player. I saw him with Steven Wilson on the To The Bone tour, he was great and as you say, funny as f***.

Oh goody, another "Yes it is," "No it isn't," BC thread.

We were trying to 😁

Long Tall Sally - Little Richard

Business in the front and a big old Rush party in the back: Geddy's mullet...

I had a 5502 Skyline. I went out fiver shopping and tried many at The Gallery in my price range, the Lakland was the only one that ticked all the boxes (just needed a truss rod tweak from their workshop to make it the winner by far). However, in the band situation live, whilst being totally acceptable and fitting in well, failed to excite. In retrospect, perhaps I should've swapped out the pickups for some Nordys, or something to make it tickle me in all the right places and put that big grin on my face that I need for a keeper. If I were looking fives again, I'd rather like to get a 5501 in cream and swap out the pickups for some Big Singles/Splits. I'm sure my bandmates were shaking their heads when my 5502 went the way of so many other basses (but I don't regret it), but at least I still have the memories in photographic form...

Instrument? Doesn’t matter, but wider string spacing helps to start. Strings? Doesn’t matter, although some prefer a lighter gauge with a low action. I’d go with a clean tone, certainly to start with. Happy, smiley, mid-scoop EQ, to start with. Comp helps, if you have it, but not super important at the start, fast attack, and release to taste. I feel it comes from the wrist, but your forearm can’t help but follow and keep the thumb loose (keep it all loose in fact). The rest is all what you fancy/feel comfy. For me, again, FOR ME, I like to slap against the last couple of frets and pop with my index. The action feels like it’s straight down, 90° to the neck, but given I use a rotation of my wrist/forearm, it’s probably more down & across the string towards the floor. In terms of up and down (double thumbing), I’d stick to down strokes to start with, as double is probably more an advanced technique, but try it if you want, it may feel easy and natural, especially if you’ve used a pick and use alternate up and down picking. As with any new technique, start slow and easy, maybe just thumb with no pop for a while. This is all what I would do, again, WHAT I WOULD DO, there are no hard and fast rules as this is still, in the grand scheme of things, a relatively new technique and there is certainly no right or wrong way to do it. However, watch out for bruising on the side of your thumb (just look at how much tape Mark King puts on his thumb).

Walk Away Reneé - The Left Banke