Bassfinger

Oh Lord, I'd hate to choose because I love them both. However, I think never the twain should meet and PJs should be burned for heresy.

I discovered last week that GAK don't even open the boxes to eyeball the instrument before dispatching them to the customer with parts missing...

That's my ad!

I don't own a daily car but our singist liges in the village and picks me up. I always ensure he is kept in beer and snacks during rehearsals to show my appreciation (we rehearse in our drummist's pub on a Mon or Tues when it's closed.)

I very much dislike those cheap bolts with the code numbers in raised letters on the head. Would have been a first class job with better quality fasteners.

Our USP is taking lightweight pop songs and reimagining them in the hard rock style, and that makes even the most dire tat palatable to listen to and fun to play. Stand and Deliver and Video Killed the Radio Star are fun to hack away at when you're hamming it up.

I'll play anything and if it's fun to play will enjoy it regardless of whether it's my type of music. Thrashing away at I Predict A Riot or Buddy Holly are great fun to play just for the fun of it regardless of any technical merit or taste. But some stuff is so easy, or just such a dirge, it's almost painful to play. Titanium and Pompeii wpu,d be high on thwt list, but so many people paying good money to hire us ask for them I have to grit my teeth for the greater good. Thankfully I do the mandolin as well, which gives me something else of Interest to play and a chance to dodge playing some dull bass lines.

It's reckoned by some sources that greedflation - or excessive rises in corporate profits - is a bigger contribution to inflation than other oft stated factors (not naming factors, don't want to wander onto the realm of the political)... https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2023/01/greedflation/

And don't forget what the tabloids are calling "greedflation", unscrupulous retailers hitching their own extra percentage on the back of inflationary price rises.

No so much on electric instruments, but nato is fairly easy to find on vintage acoustic guitars and the like. It's a versatile tonewood, and not terribly expensive so it's a win-win.

It'll be on one of their sorting office temp's ebay store.

But then if I take the 5 I need to take 2 x 5's in case I break a string, and it all starts getting a bit daft. Unless I'm playing loads of songs that need the 5 - and I habe never done so year - sticking to the 4 is logistically a lot simpler.

I don't find mine unduly heavy. I love the broom handle neck, and the finish is lovely. I initially pepped mine up with a Retrovibe pickup, and then went mad and shoehorned a mudbucker.

I use the digitech Drop Box. Latency and tone are ok, but it does lose a little volume to my ear.

I used a crowbar and a mallet to precision engineer a dirty great mudbucker into my Squier 50's CV transition P bass. It's not everyone's cup,of dried leaves in boiling water, but I find the result highly pleasant.

Marvel type straplocls are my favourite tipple. Very robust, inexpensive and the cheap far Eastern knock-offs are actually very good.

I'm down to 2 P basses. It doesn't matter. So what if I do Jazz now and again? I can control it. I can give up any time I want.

Batch22. There are reasons for it, but I still don't like it. I was outvoted, but it's not offensive or the like so what the heck. We're old gits who do hard rock versions of pop songs such as Hungry Like The Wolf, Someone You Loved, that sort of thing.

A P-Jazzle?

About half the Dooleys would have loved to get mixed up with the Nolans back then.

We need a tumbleweed smiley! 🤣

Next they'll be telling us they never heard of Legs & Co.

What a quaint idea!

Might I be radical and suggest.... A Harley Benton MB4, perhaps in black. Add some Wilko tuners and bridge, Warman pup, strings of your choice, and (most importantly) skull and crossbones knobs and you'll have a decent playing, fantastic sounding, snarling rock beast of barely £200 all in. I use just this recipe myself as my backup live tool, and sometimes out of badness use it as my main bass live and it acquit itself in a manner many £1000 planks couldn't match. As a rock beast this combo punches several divisions above its weight.

Just tried that method. Made a right mess of my Y fronts.