EssentialTension

2 hours ago, Grimalkin said:

Unlined fretless? I'd want lines on it anyway. I'll bet the board is pretty clean above the twelfth if it is unlined...

I vote unlined, just side dots for me.

1 hour ago, Marc S said:

 

It has been said before, but - Elvis on a P bass, wearing lilac trousers.... it just doesn't get any cooler  

4 ... Understands when you say 'If I had known we were going to play the song that fast, I would have written a different bass line'.

25 minutes ago, Cscsiga said:

... But it’s interesting how devisive this topic is. 
 

You're divided about it yourself or you woudln't have asked.

1 ... 1 x kick drum, 1 x snare, 1 x rack tom, 1 x floor tom, 1 x hi-hat, 1 x crash, 1 x ride, stool, sticks, brushes - that's plenty.

2 ... 2 x metronomes, 1 x digital, 1 x personal.

3 ... a sense of musicality.

2 minutes ago, Cscsiga said:

It’s not that I don’t have a fretted bass. I’m grateful to have 3 other perfectly serving fretted basses. But that P has a totally different sound than the others and it would serve me better with frets in the music I play. 
But it’s interesting how devisive this topic is. 
 

... and if you have it fretted will it still sound the same?

You can and will do whatever you like.

I would keep it as it is.

2 hours ago, petecarlton said:

Ah, gotcha!

 

But... Elvis?  On bass? 🙃

Check my avatar!!!

6 hours ago, petecarlton said:

I'm sorry to have to show my ignorance, but what is the purpose of the "Hootenanny button" on the back of the headstock?  Looks like a strap button!?

 

7 hours ago, casapete said:

As well as being the finest UK female vocalist ever IMHO , Dusty was key in getting many

Motown acts on British TV for the first time -  although the Motown RSG Special was put

out by ITV I believe.

It was ITV ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Steady_Go!

4 minutes ago, Grimalkin said:

I would credit Jamerson ...

Fair enough, I am sure most of us would give him massive credit, but let's not forget the rest of the team.

Bassist on the 1965 UK tour was Tony Newton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Newton_(musician)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/23T7t4T4KPRCr05cCWyq4F8/a-brand-new-beat-the-tamla-motown-revue-1965

I remember it too. It's a shame it's such poor quality picture.

Dusty Springfield introduces all the Major Motown acts of the time to a British audience.

1 minute ago, paul_5 said:

Eddie Van Haley ...

Any relation to Bill Haley?

No such thing as blasphemy.

If you're happy and band is happy, that's it.

If punters are happy, even better.

I had cobalt flats on an Epiphone Embassy for about a year with no rust problem.

... and if I recall correctly, Peerless also made parts for Duesenberg - there being some similarities between the Retromatics and the Duesenbergs.

Spot the similarities ...

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On 27/09/2022 at 18:51, Grahambythesea said:

Looks like I’m the only person with one.

I had mine from about 2015 to 2018. Did we overlap?

1 hour ago, Richard R said:

 

Is the chicken-head switch a frequency selection or tone switch? What are the units? Ohms?

 

It changes the tone. I don't know if it's resistance or capacitance. I aways used it in position one.