Simon C

A PRS SE 24-08 is the answer. NGD today.

Oddly enough I was just listening to a recording of "Pride and Joy" that I did a few months ago. I agree it's a lot of fun. In the OG he does make sure he uses a lot of the neck as I recall. I didn't learn the original line, but I did enjoy walking around with it.

Thanks Daryl.

I was away from this thread for a while trying to keep up with, and occasionally contribute to, the UK General Election thread - I've now recovered sufficiently to start re-engaging with the Bass Chat bit of Basschat😀 . Also I found the first night at the new Jam Night venue a little underwhelming, so wasn't inspired to write anything about it. It didn't have the same "good live music" feel as the previous venue and several of the better bands didn't turn up. This month's was better - the atmosphere wasn't back to the previous venue's but the bands turned up. Except mine, so I talked a couple of members of the host band into playing with me and a new bloke on the guitar joined us. People sang along to our set, so I guess we made a good call on the songs and I felt we played them pretty well. Here is our version of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" by the Georgia Satellites - a bit of a one hit wonder and I suspect not that well known in the UK - do any of your bands play it?

Good question. The work bonus is due to be paid with this month’s salary. I have 4 basses (I’ve discovered the perfect number is 3.5), and enough pedals to be going with, so some of the bonus will go on a guitar. I’ll let you know what the answer is when I’ve bought it.

I went to Andertons a month or so ago. They had some G&L electric guitars in, but I didn’t see any basses.

I went on Saturday night too. 3 of my (now adult) kids came with me (Mrs C isn't a fan) and they all enjoyed it, though they are all fans. It was just amazing hearing Dookie and American Idiot played in their entirety on the same night. Saviors has some good songs too. At the end of the show Billie Joe just sat down on stage and took it all in. He certainly gave the impression of having a connection with the fans. Maid of Ace were good (but F*****g sweary), and so were Anything But Thieves (less sweary) I think it's easy to say your best ever gig was the last one you went to. So I need to go to a couple of others and see if I still think the same. And the obligatory photo of me and the girls resplendent in our stadium acquired "Stash" (I'm the one in the foreground 😀)

A tier 2 fail. With the GE on Thursday that could well be viewed as a Tactical fail. 😀

…alternatively. Last year I had numerous itches. Various strategies were employed: Feed the itch by looking on the marketplace and note that stuff you want keeps coming up. Go onto the builder sites and build different basses. You could get a SSO and put different tuners on it. (This is another feed the itch strategy). Take it a month at a time. i never got as far as saying the addicts prayer, but I guess that could work too.

Take some anti-histamines. It will go away.😃

I bought a TC Electronics Spectradrive pre-amp pedal a year or so ago from Mike. I’ve only just worked out how to use the feedback, hence my delay in posting the feedback. He communicated well. The pedal arrived promptly in good working order as described. A recommended Bass Chatter.

I bought an Origin Effects BassRig pedal and a pedal board from James. He communicated in a timely manner and answered my questions honestly. The items arrived quickly and were as described with no problems. A recommended Bass chatter.

I have Cobalt flats on my shortscale Ibanez (EHB1000s). I bought them for my fretless, to try something different to the D'Addario Chromes it came with. They were useless on the fretless as they were so sticky / high friction that I couldn't slide into notes. So they came off and went on the EHB. They are fine on there. I thought that as they are flats they may last a good while. To be honest though I'd quite like them to die a bit more than they have so that I get a bit more of the signature shortscale fundamental.

Was it a replacement for an unrepairable power supply? Allowances in both tiers: - Strings (sticks, skins, reeds ........ - If something breaks through no unusual intervention of your own, and is unable to be repaired, you may replace it.

I’ll have a listen. 12bar blues is good for Jam Night: the other musicians know the secret and the punters don’t so are always amazed that you can all get up on stage having not played together before and play a song that sounds good 😀. Knowing the song so that you can contribute some vocals is a bonus.