Ricky 4000

Yeah, welcome - ye big fat spammer. 😬

And don't go sticking another cheap plec' dispenser on another bass. Jeeze... 🙄

It's using your thumb both ways. Like downstrokes & upstrokes, as you would with a pick. 👍

Ummm, I dunno, is it white boy day? If today isn't white boy day, then it's gonna be L.G. 😃 Here's a much longer thing by L.G. if anybody's interested. Sound is a bit dodgy, but there's some diamonds in there if'n you stick with it:

Larry G. is your man for the hard-hitting style! The last 2 minutes here are probably the most useful, although as I watch it through, he is so dynamic with his thumb (and thumb nail).

In my small and not very good at it way - I'd have to say all, and also none of the above. I'd say it comes very slowly, and while the finer points of action height, strings, EQ settings etc, can help - once you get a bit of a feel for the playing, you can probably do it on any rig... I think the challenge is feel and control with the thumb as well as you can probably already control the fingers... that and teaching a finger to hook under and pull... And (again, in my small experience, FWIW), Forget Me Nots isn't the easiest song to get right for a beginner. 👍

Vinegar. Doesn't work at all, and stinks like vinegar. HTH

Logistics. Perhaps JH is thinking of buying that very golf course? "Hall's Hurlston Hall Golf Club" has a certain ring to it - like a duff D string... oh no, that's Ernie's ball. Silly me. Please play through.

Glorious! 😃 I've been listening to more of your stuff as well, and you're really f***ing good. 😎

That's fine for writing love songs, I suppose... 😀

It's just a warm up for the stadium gigs... and then of course it is festival season...

Well that's a problem. My own things move swiftly toward sounding like the work of Derek Smalls, which is not where I want to be! 😃

That's nice And a lot more accessible (easier) than the Jerry Preston one, that I've been working on for months (and still nowhere near on it!).

I think so too. Jerry Preston's playing here would seem a perfect example of the blending you describe: I don't see anybody there complaining about the bass.

I'm more than half convinced that Larry used flats on "Hair":

I'm going! And I'll be wearing my Rickenbacker tee-shirt. 😃 Where the heck is Ormskirk? Sounds like it's in Norway or something. 😬

This thread shows that a lot of people here care about you, oZZ (me included). 👍 How about ye olde: If you could change some things in your life, what would you like to change?

Cheers Stew, sounds good. 👍

I can't work out whether that's a good or bad thing. 😉 I never intended to start a fight in a phone box. All I meant was - It looks fabulous. I'd like to try one (or perhaps an Epiphone semi) some day. 👍

Your "R" is more like a cartoon "R".

Fabulous! Looks a bit like Mani's:

They look great in that colour with the black B&B necks... only thing those boyos need to do is change the knobs IMHO. 👍

Well I bought it, arrived today, and it's terrible. It's not even pink. Mainly like kinda purple... Before: After:

Finally got around to watching it. Christ. I could only stand it for one minute. Sounds like she has sciatica. 😬

Nice! I was going to post a similar version of that great track ^^^^^. As a second thought, I hope this just-about fits the thread: