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the finish is a bit iffy, the frets stick out a bit on the underside near the dusty end on mine for instance,, but as I said, they sound very very close to a 'proper' P bass, a great back up, in fact I'd consider selling my MIA Fender if I ever needed some cash

MY Vintage V4 has Wilkinson pickups as stock, tbh there's hardly any difference in the sound between that and my MIA standard

I use audacity, plug my bass into the mic socket with a 6.3mm socket to mini jack lead, I also use a Behringer BDI 21 to improve the sound but it's not essential, cost is next to nothing

having moved over to DR neons a few years ago it is noticeable that there is string wear where the frets are, so it may be that new strings have to 'bed in'

trouble is we were booked up for the year, so got no spare dates to do the gigs we've had to cancel, I would think most busy bands are in the same boat, plus the good venues will be booked up for the year anyway

I've now got a 64gb card in my phone, loads of room, there's not much solo Beatle stuff I'd want on there tbh, imo the sum of the parts is far exceeded by the greater whole, which is true of a lot of bands

Quite, when in the Beatles he'd got Lennon and George Martin to do that job, but, and I'm only surmising here, he surrounds himself with yes men who are on the payroll, well they're not going to turn round and say "That's rubbish Paul" are they? I remember an interview with him after the 'Give my regards to Broad St' calamity, where he said "I can see it's not very good now, but why didn't somebody tell me at the time?"

yep, but who's going to tell him? he won't, as far as I know, even lower the key so he can hit the high notes, the blokes in denial

judging by the recent Macca and Ringo performance on the last leg of Paul's US tour he has the best voice of any living Beatle 😀

no word from @blue yet? thought he'd be all over this 😀

not keen on all you need is love tbh, the trouble with that album is it wasn't really an album originally but 2 EP's, it was made into an album by putting on previously released singles

well that was interesting, I just signed in with a password I changed on Basschat about 6 months ago

just tried to sign in using my basschat password, says I'm using the wrong one, I'm not, I don't think

Octopus's Garden was a close call, but having already ditched Yellow Submarine I decided to keep it simply because I've not heard it that often You're ok the swearing is at 2:58 so still there, incidentally it must have been in one of the early tracks they laid down because Paul's singing over it and it's in the mono and stereo versions (not sure whether they did separate recordings for them by then, they certainly did in the early days, witness the wrong words being sung on the stereo version of Please Please Me)

I think you'd be hard pushed to find a flash of gold in 'Why Don't We Do It in the Road' 😀 Hey Jude is bloody annoying after 3 and half minutes, to me anyway

I suppose it's down to an individual's attitude to risk, some are very risk averse, taken to extremes you'd never get in a car or on a plane, I'm a calculated risk sort of person, having said that with the talk this morning of a total lock down I'll abandon the idea

I didn't think that it would be considered a good idea, but to me practice isn't just about learning new songs, we do that before we get together, it's about playing in a band. I suppose it depends on attitude to risk, if everybody was sensible and used a bit of common sense there wouldn't be a problem, when you see the rugby scrums round the bog rolls in the supermarkets or the dog walkers huddle together chatting away on the park, or the people sitting the pub garden being handed pints out of the widow as takeaways I think that's the real problem not 4 guys standing in a big room well over 2 metres apart

as already mentioned Favourite: And Your Bird Can Sing Least Favourite: When I'm 64 * *subject to change on a regular basis

interesting, I was only thinking today that to break the boredom maybe I should suggest a practice, we have access to a large practice room where we can easily keep 2 metres apart, take our own mics, surely the risk is minimal?

an interesting one that, and one I can live with, the stereo version anyway, the mono version sounds like it's been speeded up, Ringo almost sounds like a Chipmonk 😁 I can see a new thread, name your favourite and least favourite Beatles track and you're only allowed one of each, is that a goer?

but that would leave Eleanor Rigby on my phone 😀

yes I'm with you on Rubber Soul and Revolver is probably my favourite album apart from the single released from it, but as I've said it's probably because I've got fed up with hearing them for that reason And Your Bird Can Sing is my favourite Beatles track

funnily enough I just ordered a bigger memory card, 😊

well I did advise you to look away now 😀

yeah, I like the rocky stuff mainly and I don't think any of the others play on it, could be wrong, some I've just got fed up with hearing them, that's one of them