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I think you'll find that the notes are in a slightly different order on the Jazz neck compared to the P, they're slightly more random as I understand it, hence the 'Jazz' name. Maybe ask at your local music shop about this, I'm no expert.

So, the original link is for the WD40 contact cleaner. On the Amazon page where people have asked questions about this, there is the following: Question: Can it be used on volume controls to stop that awful interference when altering volume levels? Answer: It might help, but only if it is an open potentiometer you are trying to clean. Volume knobs usually are not open. However, a tip I learned many years ago - turn the volume knob from one way fully to the other way at least 10 times rapidly. This cleans the slider and can improve the crackling noise you speak of. By Dave S on 17 October 2017 As far as I know this is what it is made for. I used it on some guitar potentiometers and it sorted them out. By Allypally on 16 October 2017 It should be fine but may not fix your issue, that will depend on whither it is mechanical damage. By Amazon Customer on 17 October 2017 My question is - if you have a noisy pot, is that a mechanical problem or an electrical problem ? And, if the pot is of closed design, then how do you use a cleaner? Do you try to squirt some fluid inside through any convenient small hole in the pot case?

Yep, she (apparently) bought my natural finish '63 P around 1986 which I'd put up for sale through Andys in Denmark St. I remember it sold with it's enormous ally flight case included. You could have driven a truck over that thing. I never saw her use it live, but she did have a natural P with a maple neck around this period also. (mine was a rosewood neck). Maybe she was always searching for the perfect P bass! It's a lifetime's work.

Just for smiles. Genevieve Artadi (Knower) messing about in her kitchen with Aya to reproduce a Disney-esque version of a Snow White tune. She has a real problem keeping a straight face! Look out for the outtakes at the end. 🙂

I agree the one on the right has a face that only it's mother could love, but.... errrr.... surely the question should be which one sounds best ???

Ha ha - many years ago I had a run of gigs with a Welsh comedy showband doing cabaret around the clubs. The band used to play the same half a bar over and over again at the end of one number to imitate a stuck record, and then the singer would produce a comedy sized inflatable hammer and whack it down on the bass amp, at which point we'd abruptly stop playing. On numerous occasions punters would laugh and jeer - but I suspect not because the idea was ridiculous and funny, but because they genuinely thought we were miming to a record. Maybe they weren't the sharpest tools in the box, mind you.

Yep, he's the biz. Here he is having a laugh with the lovely Rossanna Carraro. 😊

She's obviously about to attempt a new World Record in Female Weightlifting (Senior Class)

Yep, this is true. Flats can sound OK for slap with a bit of EQ tweaking, but not the best. I do deps for cover bands, and usually find that I might need to use slap for just a couple of numbers out of a whole evenings playing. And I'm not going to change from my usual PJ with flats just for the sake of a couple of numbers ! By the way, the most common covers I come across that really do need slap are Forget Me Knots, or Somebody Else's Guy (Jocelyn Brown) or Never Too Much (Luther Vandross)

Cardiacs? Yep, we know, they were like Marmite, love 'em or hate 'em. Ludicrously complex music, and very few covers done of their material for this very reason. And the few that are about are generally well meant but pretty poor. But here's Joey Frevola and a few mates doing an excellent cover of 'It's a Lovely Day' I bet they didn't learn this in a couple of hours. Enjoy.

Absolutely brilliant interpretation! 😊 ...and here's the original:

I think that getting ANY gig will be a major achievement for the foreseeable future. If wedding events are allowed in 2021 then I guess there'll be a short lived shortage of decent bands for these due to carry-over of cancelled events from 2020, but apart from that, I'm sorry to say I think the club/pub scene is pretty well over. You all know the reasons, they're well versed, and Covid has been the last straw. And I can't imagine what form of 'social gathering with music' will replace this, if anything. 😳

Robert Fripp and Toyah - to an outsider possibly one of the most unlikely pairings you could imagine. But they're obviously doing something right - they've been together for 35 years. If they can still happily mess about like this then things must be really good between them 😉

Well, she's singing something about l'amour, and that's good enough for me.... Absolutely delicious.

What an interesting isolated bass track. I'm amazed at how much he pushes and pulls the beat, and there's so much damping going on. Re the 'ponkiness', I'm sure that BC ers could develop a whole dictionary of words to describe certain bass sounds. So, maybe Ricks go 'dang, dang' Old Jazzes go ' ponk, ponk' and maybe P's go 'dom, dom', (or 'tm, tm' if played with a pick)

I beg to differ, I wasn't being serious Trevor ! Re pipe lagging, I have tried this in the past, and found it much too dense unless you want a full-on palm mute effect all the time. Hence my suggestion of good old scourer sponge, which seems to be the best compromise. If I want a palm mute effect I simply do a physical palm mute, but obviously understand this isn't possible for those who can't or don't want to play with a pick or thumb.

Well done mate, that's a tough one ! 🙂

Hi Mick - did you ever see his one-man show? Sounds like he was a fantastic raconteur and wit. How many of his books were published? 😉

I don't understand it. I've tried to follow James Jamersons hot sauce recipe exactly as he first made it... But somehow it just doesn't taste the same as the original............

Elvis Costello - a fine musician, excellent songwriter and he displays extremely refined taste in choosing other songwriter's material. It's a shame I've really never liked his voice - always sounds to me like he's just recovering from a bad cold. 😟

01 Ever played a gig sitting down? Yes, used to play with a Peddlers style trio in restaurants in the 80’s, always sat for these. 02 Ever gigged on a different instrument? Ha ha – I arrived at a little club gig a long way from home to find that I’d somehow left my bass behind. Someone from the audience went home and fetched their Strat copy and I played ‘bass’ on this for the whole night. 05 Ever signed an autograph in a dressing room? Yes, back in the day. 08 Ever gigged with a band you hadn't met before the gig? Yes, quite often when I’ve been last minute depping. 10 Ever played in different bands on the same day? Yes, it's confusing. 20 Ever been told that your bass isn't loud enough? Yes – the most recent dep gig I did, just a couple of months ago. The drummer was one of the loudest drummers I’ve ever worked with, not surprised he couldn’t hear me. I couldn't hear me either...

Oh , come on Stew, your answer is yes , apparently, so please tell us what happened? Great idea for topic, by the way! 🙂

The 'Lionel Digby' referred to was actually a real agent based in Torquay. The very first proper band I played in which was Exeter based used to do work for him occasionally !

Well, err, obviously...... Methinks maybe you're missing the whole point of trying to learn or break down something like this....