PaulWarning

can't think of any that I'd want to do that haven't, there's a few I love playing but we don't anymore because, inexplicable, they didn't go down very well, the Lemonheads version of Mrs Robinson springs to mind, real fun bass line. Another Girl Another Planet, never went down that well, just because we enjoy playing them doesn't mean the crowd will enjoy them

I usually find stuff cheaper on ebay than Amazon, delivery not as good, but if you're not in a hurry it doesn't matter

it was a rhetorical question, according to @paul_5 who does work there, they're not as bad as rumour would have you believe, but that doesn't fit the narrative "large successful company, must be a right bunch of bastards who exploit the workforce"

we've got about 1 million vacancies in the job market, everywhere you look firms are advertising for staff, if Amazon treated their staff anywhere as badly as some would like to think, why would anyone work for them?

I'm with @paul_5 and @Maude I think there's a lot of Social Media and paper talk about about how bad working conditions are, a few disgruntled employees spreading malicious gossip maybe, I don't blame any company for paying as little tax as possible, who pays more tax than they need too? it's our inept politicians fault for not being able to stop it

he certainly is, the was why I posted the picture, apart from it's of Boris, I'm sort of guessing he's not really a guitar player 😂

well I reckon they've just sped it up by a factor of 10 😊

@mlauritsen ought to be thankful he's not in a band with this guy 😂

I think what he's saying is if the capo is on the 2nd fret a open string G becomes an A but barre chord G is still G on the 3rd fret regardless of a capo,

I thought it was only valve amps that needed to be connected to the speakers?

was that written about our singer?

I used to use them but could never find the bloody things at a dark pub gig on top of my dark amp, so I switched to .94mm luminous ones https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271293877634?hash=item3f2a600d82:g:tsUAAOxy-sRSVCjC

won't the intonation be all wrong? Ah, I see he's moved the neck back, for people with short arms, makes a change from fat fingers I suppose

I would have thought a drummer with out a kick pedal could be a good thing, bit like a keyboard player with no left arm, more space for the bass

a lot depends on the venue, a while ago at a gig every time I played a B note it boomed, last Saturday we played outdoors on a concrete floor, perfect acoustics

I started off playing a right handed Hondo flipped (I got it for £40), it was symmetrical, so looked ok, I took off the volume and tone controls because I kept catching them with my arm (after the photo was taken), I used it for quite a while I've still got it, it still sounds good and has nice neck, heavy though,, bit more trebly, than a precision, sounds a bit more like J J Burnel, surprisingly. Would I do the same now? probably not.

my No 1 hate, overly loud kick drum, just invades my bass space, unfortunately it seems the modern way, on too many recordings as well

I bought a cheap acoustic guitar from there last year, returned once because of a fault, the replacement had the action as high a Mount Everest, at that point I gave up and asked for my money back, no problems at all

yes that occurred to me, but Steve Jones played bass on almost all the tracks on NMTB (except Anarchy I believe), presumable with a pick, and Sid definitely used a pick, not that that's a recommendation for pick players😂

they're not Paul Gray, on the OGWT Annie Nightingale says there's a new bass play Alister Ward

it was the story put our by Maclaren that the Sex Pistols couldn't play, totally untrue of course, and it sort of stuck for all punk bands, in 1977 all the first wave of punk bands had been around for a while so had learnt to play, although it was fairly basic rock and roll it was well played at speed and some interesting bass lines as well, listen to some of the tracks on the Rezillos first album, it was a year or two later that punk emerged where they couldn't play very well, I know, I was one of them 😊

on the subject of Rics in punk, I can think of 3 players that changed from Rics to P basses, Michael Bradley of the Undertones, Bruce Foxton, and Glen Matlock, can't think of any that went the other way, though someone will not doubt think of one

The Shapes Wot's for Lunch Mum (not beans again), is great, the bass is really up in the mix and superb playing, I was almost tempted to get a Ric when I heard that, almost

TBH, there's a lot of truth in this, it's more about the look than the sound

with a few exceptions, a P bass with round wounds, a long strap and a pick, finger players doing punk just isn't right YMMV