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(Insert adjective here) Jukebox - Day-Glo, Big Hair, Hit Factory, Leg Warmer, whatever.

Can’t help you with the strings, but

Big, bold move, I’d keep a bass around too*, but that’s me. *You can always buy something cheap later if the need arises.

Does that mean no more bass going forward?

Since You’ve Been Gone - Rainbow

I have been in my current band just over a year and we’re about to move onto drummer number 3 . We have a gig next Friday, which the outgoing guy said he’d cover, although his departure could still be regarded as without warning (I actually doubt whether many folk who quit give a lot of notice). Would I use a previous member of a band again once they’d departed? Probably, provided they were good at the job and not absolute jerks.

Son of my Father - Chicory Tip

Mystic Rhythms - Rush

Gold - Spandau Ballet

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves - Aretha & Eurythmics

Day-Glo Shoulder Pads

There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis - Kirsty MacColl

Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

Peanuts - The Police

It is, or at least it was for the original model.

Slow Poke Music - Whitesnake

Smooth Operator - Sade

Thigher Love - Steve Winwood

ABACAB(acus) - Genesis

Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross

Coming from guitar (I know - burn the witch!), I was determined to play with my fingers because I wanted to make a complete break from the skinny stringed beast. Decades later, I still predominantly use my fingers, but i have been known to play gigs with a pick just for poops and giggles and always use one if the song demands that tone (anything by The Jam or Yes for instance). I like the attack you get with a pick and in a dense mix it can really help focus the sound. I know a really good sound engineer who prefers a pick played bass for that very reason. Having played guitar (🔥🧙) for so long with a pick, I already had good pick technique, so it’s not a chore on bass at all, the only difference being the type of pick used (I prefer thick on guitar, thinner on bass).

Kenny’s in Dundee is much the same, the basses are in a sort of corridor, probably no more than a dozen or so total. Perth has nothing other than a secondhand store that falls under the general heading of Crack Converters. Fortunately for me, Guitar Guitar in Edinburgh (Costorphine really) is only 90 minutes away, which is only half an hour more than Dundee from where I am and was well worth the visit I made last time.

I went Sharpie for my home made pedals.

Into The Valley - The Skids

Joe Le Taxi -Vanessa Paradis