Baxlin

I wish I had the choice, osteoarthritis in my ring finger means I can’t bend it enough to be reliable enough to use. Playing six-string is interesting, most root position chords and playing much more than half a song are but a memory....

Any chance of a link?

Would it be unkind to say that with all those apparent scratches on the body, he could have replaced that as well, and completed Trigger’s broom?

Thanks, but I wish I hadn’t asked now....

Can you post a link please, I can’t find it and I REALLY need to see it to believe...... Thanks

Must get my ears checked, I always thought the words were “it’s the wrong way to tickle Mary”

Nice resurrected thread... +1. For Linda Ronstadt Also Barbara Dickson (bass the late Pete Zorn)

Yes, I just googled ‘bass backing tracks’, particularly enjoyed Sunny and Fly me to the Moon.

No, it’s just ballast to stop neck dive.....

Oops, I thought music could be my ‘specialist’ quiz round, but I have to say I don’t recognise any of these tracks, and apart from Medicine Head, none of the artists either! But half the time nowadays, when seeing an artist and a song title, I don’t know which is which... I describe myself in various profiles as ‘an old rocker’, which probably explains a lot (accent on the old).

Georgie Fame’s version of Sunny. Various Stax offerings from the 60s Rene and Renata ‘Save your love’ but maybe there’s a very good reason for its lack of airtime, (and it’s outside the remit of this thread - as it shouldn’t be played!)

And it’s a welcome from me too - I’ve recently discovered bass-less backing tracks on YouTube, lots of different music styles to explore and enjoy.

Thanks, I’ll explore!

Forgive my cynicism, Dave, and I apologise if he’s squeaky clean, but you have to wonder how many students paid in cash......

Is the bridge end of the body I bit wider than the Hofner?

I would imagine it wouldn’t take much to put it back as it was, and might be a bargain? (unless the reserve is as unreal - imo - as the conversion?)

One of these? I can’t get the headphones socket to work - I can record onto my PC with it, but can’t hear what I’m playing! I think the driver is installed ok, as far as I can tell, but the instructions, inevitably aren’t clear. Thanks

Had a frustrating day yesterday, I couldn’t get my PC to recognise a new (to me) interface jobbie, so had to record my bass part without really being able to hear what I was playing. I used my 335 style bass, and only one earbud, so there was a bit there, but not much. For some reason our tecky prefers sound through Audacity, and the picture recorded separately (simultaneously, of course) on tablet. With the worship leader’s original track on my phone, that’s 3 devices to tie in, before you’ve played a note... It was only 4 songs, but three recordings as one was two songs together (double chance for error😩). So now introduce the far from occasional errors and bum notes (and with not being able to hear them, erring on the side of caution) into the mix, and you get my opening statement - “had a frustrating day yesterday”! But I love it. Malcolm

^^^^ What a great band. The brass section would be the Mar-keys, Stax’s “other” house band alongside the MGs. if I had to choose one style/genre/label/etc, the Stax stable would be it! Love it. Please forgive a personal anecdote - The line-up of a (can I say two-tone?) band I was in during the 60s was guitar, bass, drums (me) tenor sax, keys, and vocals. For one concert though, where we stood as the house band for most of the acts, we added alto sax, trombone,2x trumpet, and female BVs. Inevitably the acts had to decide who was singing which Otis Redding song......

Mmmm I place it in the “an article written only because I was told to write an article” section, and tbh, I didn’t find it particularly funny. (but having said that, for some unaccountable reason all my basses are black, and to the casual observer they do look rather similar to each other......)

A pearl white Hondo P-bass, bought secondhand, complete with a grey gig bag, the latter having the names of various metal and underground bands I’d never previously heard of scrawled on with felt-tip pen. Funny, I remember the gig bag more than the bass...... I swapped it at a secondhand shop for a short scale Strat copy guitar, which I still have and use regularly.

In the Nottingham Boat clubs (yes, really, 3 dance venues next to each other by the Trent) in the late 60s.... ‘Sock it to ‘em, JB’ by Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers I kid you not! (don’t know how to post a YouTube link, sorry!)

‘Je t’aime’ isn’t bad to dance to........

I hope when you’ve sharpened and set them you’ll place/store them on their side so as not to damage the blade.👍 Re saws, my son-in-law gave me a laminate saw, which has a very slightly thicker blade, but the teeth are set ‘inwards’, so it tends to give a cleaner cut. It’s my ‘go to’ general purpose saw now. Before Covid, and hopefully again before too long, I volunteered at the WorkAid charity, in the hand tools refurbishment dept, cleaning up/repairing all sorts of hand tools. These had been donated, and which typically came from ‘Grandad’s shed’. By their nature, there were some very old, but lovely tools, and some which were conversation pieces, they were so unusual. Generally speaking, the older ones, once cleaned up, were much better than the newer, built to a price jobbies. Even respected names, such as Stanley and Draper, have introduced shortcuts, such as riveting on hand-drills, rather than set screws, etc (I once did a complete renovation on a hammer - it needed a new shaft and a new head. I did a good job though, it looked like new when I’d finished.......😇)

If I lean any of mine in a corner (without a stand) I always put it face to the wall, to ‘relieve’ the strings. Daft, I daresay, both expecting it to make a difference, and of course not using a stand.