Bassfinger

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Wait until the payment has cleared properly and made it into your bank account. Once it's there, coolio.

Will you be wearing one of those pointy bras as well?

Some flavour of passive Jazz Bass.

I'm only am pretend soft southerner, but my nickname is Chopper. Aside from being quite tall and very well upholstered, it would seem that I bear an uncanny resemblance to Mark Brandon Read, albeit both of my ears are intact. My mate Lee is from Brum, and he's called Swede because he's my height and powerlifter.

I agree with La Bam's first paragraph above. Hold your ground and tell the venue that they can explain to the happy couple why the love music they'd organised won't be there. My guess is they'll retreat right quick.

Do Brian May fans have to get an Anita Dobson lookalike to go with the Red Special?

Tricky. I'm a big admirer of Phil Lynott's playing. The downside is I prefer the Jazz to the Precision. Upside is Lynott used a Jazz early in his career. Downside is there are few pictures of that particular bass, and zilch information out there to enable me to recreate it. So, I'm just building a Jazz to suit me instead.

I was born in the Northern Isles but spent most of my adult life in England, so can switch in an out of either accent at will. Obviously I love the Scots, but a tiny minority of mainland Scots have a real chip on their shoulder, so on the rare occasion one gets smug with me thinking I'm English I break into Orkneyjar and remind them who the soft southerner really is.

Good luck. Hopefully you'll be well enough to work around it. If it's any consolation I had to give up guitar after knackering my elbow and shoulder in an accident, and losing the feeling in 2 finges and partial feeling in my thumb. I was a guitar player (spit) and while I could still knock out a tune I can no longer finger pick etc, and it was depressing me. Mrs Bassfinger went out on a limb and bought me a cheap (but surprisingly playable) bass from gear4music, on the basis that the bass has a third less strings to pluck and I might be able to play it more extensively. She was right, and I'm really digging it and I'm now in the middle on building a Jazz bass to go with the cheap one. Anyway, point being that you're not alone and you may yet be able to work around it, or use your skills to try something else. With luck and a following wind your love of playing may still get soothed. Good luck

Do bands these days not take burly minders along with them, if only to fight off the groupies?

Telling someone to get to France? That's really out off line!

I'm designing a bass guitar tatt for my right forearm. The left is already taken.

1.92M? I don't get this low calorie metric stuff. What's that in old money? About 5'2"?

For crying out loud, and I did a search too! 🤣

I've got all the usual tatts. Nudey lady from my youf, which I'm not especially proud of. Motorbike themed tattoo, and a Led Zeppelin job. I'm thinking of a fourth to even things up, and I've decided that a bass guitar themed tattoo is in line to be my next. So do you have any musically themed or bass tattoos? Don't worry about me copying them cos I'm designing my own, but I'd be interested to see what my brothers and sisters in bassland have got.

So, it would seem that guitarists are a puny bunch compared to us lofty bass playing Adonnis's.

She's fallen out of a time warp from 1979.

It's how Inspector Clouseau would look if he had to go undercover as a jazz muso.

Perhaps you shouldn't have ended with a final sentence of "P*** s*** w*** c******"?

John Paul Jones is actually very tall indeed, but due to his modesty only allows himself to be pictured in extremely large building, or stood further away from the photographer when in the company of shorter people, this giving the illusion of being diminutive.

With a bit of creative combing of my quiff I could managed 6'7" in my heyday. Alas, without the assistance of Donald Trump's hairdresser thats no longer possible.

Very unscientific, but it would indeed seem that us bassists are a loftier than average bunch.

So, 6 feet or over, or 5 feet 9 and under, few in the middle ground.

Surfing the interweb trying to get my fix of bass related news and I found this... http://www.thecavanproject.com/tall-musicians/ ...postulating that us bass players are a tall breed. Is this true? The first example that came to my mind was myself, and I'm 6'5". But does the correlation hold water? Are we a breed of Hightowers, or a random mix of heights?