Richard R

Endorsements have certainly never cropped up before. I am inclined to think that an ongoing endoresment is sort of a business relationship, and should be outside of the scope. But setting up a new one as a way of getting round the rules is clearly dodgy. But so brilliant I would let it pass. 😁

So my lunchtime has gone down the tubes and I am still trying to pick a best set of three songs in a row from nearly 50 years of collecting records. Curse you @Rich!

Welcome aboard! I like Greenwich, one of the nicer parts of that there London 😀

A surprisingly useful bit of kit. We have one at church. Not because we play a lot of doom metal but because it's a cheap active DI for passive basses, does a decent range of amp simulation, and withstands being kicked and trodden on! You should get some drive no problem, especially if you dig in and up the trebble on the bass.

So of course I'm being nosy - trying to read the CCLI number to identify which "Praise" that is and looking at the personal monitor software to see which mixing desk you have. 😁

Oh - and if you're starting late (like I did) don't beat yourself up about progress. Brain and fingers take a while to get warmed up, but they will.

Welcome aboard! Hope you're wife is better. Wives, husbands and family are far more important than playing bass. Just don't ever let on to them. 😉

Has to be Welsh silver. Check with @Owen as I'm sure that's his secret.

I won a copy of "Yes - Complete Deluxe Edition" at a Bass Bash raffle. It has this on the title page: I can follow some of the dots. But four odd time signatures in five bars is hard to count:

Should be fun. She can really sing. Let us know how it goes in the "how was your gig " thread.

I think I would ideally want to spec a machined aluminium neck, with a richlite fretboard on a headless bass, so that there is no wood on the instrument at all. And then use a Roland pickup and V-Bass synth so that the bass could sound like whatever it needed to, without worrying about tonewood and all that stuff. When are you going to be taking orders, Rob??

Looking good! What's the tour?

Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard!

.. wasn't supposed to have been on my hand at all 🍌

Corrected following review. Hope the therapy sessions start soon

Yes you can. And if it's Scotch then you definitely should!

Never had a problem. The only time I would take it off, even assuming I could get it off now, would be for using machine tools or where it could get caught. Bass playing isn't as dangerous.

Gets kinda funky at 49 minutes in.

I would leave it there too.

Welcome aboard, EB!

Just done my tax return. If I've got this right then HMRC owes me the nice @Andyjr1515 single cut that's for sale in the marketplace 😃 Or more likely the cost of the roof repairs following the high winds. ☹️

A bow is OK. So are ribbons, stickers, and flowers. But you will feel a bit daft at Symphony Hall with a DB looking like that.

That quite happily worked for the first few years. But there is such an interesting variety of basses, different choices of tech, design, priorities, thought processes. It's not like a clarinet or a violin where the design is fixed. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!