Bassfinger

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.

You are Keith Chegwin AICMFP!

The green kinda works with the cream pup covers.

My Geddy Lee was my main live plank, but the Sire has Immediately replaced it for live duty. The feel, the non-stick neck and the mid range punch make it the best all round live bass I've played in a long time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do mine.

Our rhythm guitarist uses mine to cover bass duties for Losing My Religion while I play mando and he is amazed by how nice it feels in the hands. A very tactile playing experience. It is a Fender killer in the sense that the P5 is around £400 (mine was £370 from Andertons because the box was damaged so could not be sold as 'new' despite the instrument being u marked) and the Player series starts at £759 and does not feel or sound any nicer, although the Player series just edges the Sire for finish although it's a close run thing. Even Squire Classic Vibes, of which I am a big fan and own two, don't quite match the Sire for feel or sound and theyre starting to creep well beyong £400 for many versions now. Sire have managed for find a sweet spot for price/sound/finish that seems difficult to match.

I hope the thieves drop it on their toe, get gangrene and have to have a leg amputated. Light fingered toe rags.

Last night went well. Was a private gig, 40th birthday party for o e of Mrs Bassfinger's closest friends so the band agreed mates rates for her, and then I played for free. Good crowd, venue were most helpful which isn't always the case. I did my mando turn for Losing my Religion and our rhythmist covered bass for that and I sang for our hard rock version of Common People, which went down well. Only issue was I forgot my IEMs. I nearly went home to get them but decided to just man up and used the floor monitors. Wish I hadn't as my ears are ringing this morning, not good. Won't be doing that again!