Twigman

My real life surname is Gibson - my 'signature' bass would confuse people - it wouldn't be a Gibson. I'd favour my EB Musicman USA Sterling 4HH black with rosewood board, a matching black headstock and green pearl plate...would look odd with a Gibson signature, mind.

My kids shouting at each other about whose turn it is to go on the X-box. It's half term and their mother decided to spend the week in Spain and so I am full time Dad this week.

Our singer has at least 2 guitars, a load of obscure percussion items, a guitar pedal collection larger than mine and 3 saxophones so. Nope

1.78 m Can get to over 6ft with back combing

The one jazz album I will never tire of: Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell Wavy Gravy just gets me every time @ 19:10 on the linked youtube video - try it - you'll love it!

How disappointing. I was hoping to widen my vocabulary.

Yes you should feel guilty - isn't that what the catholic church teaches? The whole of your life is run on guilt. If you feel no guilt you're not doing it right Oh sorry I shouldn't bring religion into things.

Take one of the songs on a previous album and stick a wav of it in your DAW. Reverse the wav file and play it backwards. play along with it - you'll have a new bassline, that works, in no time. I've done this a few times when lost for inspiration. Ooops - giving away secrets!

Another option would be to use 2 of the 9V 100mA outputs and a parallel adaptor: https://www.thomann.de/gb/t_rex_dc_current_doubler_50cm.htm

Put on YouTube and post the link

It's awful - it needs a much hotter iron to even get close. I bought a huge reel (probably a lifetime's supply) of the leaded stuff a few years ago.

so many covers - am I the only one in a non-cover band that posts video?

Should've gone to Specsavers

the bass gallery did one for me

We've come across a few of those - a festival in Berlin a few years ago provided a kit with only 1 leg on the kick drum and no drum stool......we worked around it!

Our drummer has no kit. He has cymbals, a snare and a snare pedal. He uses the kit provided in the rehearsal studio and borrows this if we have a UK gig - and we rent his kit with the backline locally for the non-UK gigs. I suspect he's parted with the least amount of gear cash over the years out of all 5 of us.

Why do i get the impression you're building up to something? Perhaps an exposé of a Basschat member?

We need a video in the gigs forum........to use a cliché : this thread is useless without pics

If I move much at all I flip it up

Ah so that's where Simon Gallup gets his moves from

Tell me about it!!! I made a Warmoth PJ lined fretless a few years back.....it's been played probably for a total of about 10 minutes. I'm clearly no Jaco

Do you never play chords* on your bass? By chords I mean notes on the D string and G string at the same time - 2 note 'chords'

I would still have chosen bass but, having dabbled with synths and computers that might've got a look in. I had many ideas of how synths and samplers could be used but I didn't have the funds at the time to invest in all the frighteningly expensive gear that I needed - back in the early days of midi and using CV as well....many of 'my ideas' have subsequently been done - I'm pretty sure I invented psy-trance in about 1983 (in my mind)......the money required for the gear was what kept me on bass - it probably still would if I went back in time now, unless I could take a stinky poo load of cash with me.

I know I've gone way off topic and the genre but one of my favourite meaningless lyrics is Numbers by Kraftwerk: Eins, zwei, drei, vier Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht Uno, dos Três, quatro One, two Ichi, ni, san, shi Adjin, dva, tri Li, tva, tri