Marvin

Sounds like a Judas Priest album title: "Paint stripper (destroyer of souls)"

Probably sounds better than a Judas Priest album 

Brain the size of a small planet & I'm sanding down paint 🙄😁

Excellent!  I taught myself to do it during the first lockdown and found it most satisfying.  Since then I've done a couple of full wiring installs to my basses, made up a load of custom patch leads for my pedal board, and changed the plugs on a couple of leads.  Great fun, and the more you do it the better you get (and quikcly too)!

@franzbassist I made a bit of a hash of the first one, it works but it seemed to take forever.  The second one took a matter of a few minutes.  It's very satisfying. I've got some cable left over that I'll make up some short leads with.

I've been prescribed some tablets, I can't remember what they are called but they take the edge off.  It's the most irritating thing I've had.

My brother phoned me today, first time in ages, asked how I was. He nearly wet himself when I said that on Thursday evening I was so dizzy I nearly fell off my beanbag (I rarely sit on the sofa).

Had that last year - mental! Got out of bed, fell on the floor. Stood up - fell on the bed. Wee doctor was excellent - said it's either an infection or dehydration. I drank litres of water a day and it was gone two days later. `Hope yours clears top quickly.

I'm suffering from it at the minute - unfortunately looks as if it could be Menieres though.   

Love the sentiment but....

I now have the song of the same name by John Miles playing in my head.

I see what you did there @Clarky 😀

Well that was a close call. When it happened to me, I bought a banjo. And now look.

That sucks. Too many employers are all too ready to play fast and loose with their employees' wellbeing. I sincerely hope you stay well and manage to dodge the lurgy. I guess you're having to isolate from your loved ones too?

My neighbour is currently in Intensive Care at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage with COVID.

He is a Liver Transplant patient so is more vulnerable than most of us.

Bugger - fingers crossed for you.

I'm so lucky to have no immediate pressure to return to the office. It's crazy how slack a significant majority of people now appear to be with precautions.

I had a friend who went on tour with a singer who had a fear of dentists. He got severe toothache halfway through the tour and because he couldn't bare a visit to the dentist, asked my friend to pull out his tooth with a set of pliers.

Which he did.

Do you have any friends who are handy with a set of pliers?

That's a bit extreme 🙂

Extractions I can't sort of handle, it's the root canal and crown he wants to do that's put me off going back

If there's not much salvageable of the tooth, a cap is the best way forward (or go with a gap). Root canal pre cap is also sensible, I speak from experience of having to have a cap drilled through to do an RC as the cap wouldn't come off. I'm an odontophobe too. At least I was. If you can find someone who is sympathetic to your fear, it makes all the difference. It took me years to find a dentist who understood my fear and I was happy to visit, but I did. Unfortunately, I then moved 500+ miles away. 

I've always purposely not grown one as it makes me look like a clone of my Dad (who's had a beard a long as I can remember, 47yrs). But what else is there to do at the moment  

I like to think it makes me look like a Victorian explorer but it probably makes me look more like a morris dancer 😂

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Lightweights, the lot of you!

People can be proper gits!

Good luck with whatever you choose to do - it may yet come good for you

Part of the reason I quit bass for about 10 years and played flamenco guitar (tried to I mean). But I came back. You'll be back, just need some time out. Consider a change - get a fretless and find some unplugged / electro-acoustic guys - whole different vibe and nice people in my experience.

Marvin , I know that feeling I've recently bought myself a electric guitar has I started on guitar and love playing the blues ,I'm at a cross roads I will probably keep one bass and a combo and sell the rest + gigs the late nights band politics you can keep its not for me my time is to precious and bass is boring me to death in a band situation these days good luck with what ever you pursue 👍

Cheers @gary mac. I thought this band had some longevity, but clearly not. I managed to join at the tale end. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Yes, I know that story well. Sorry to hear that - looks like it's happening to one of the bands I'm in as well
It's the reason I always feel I have to be involved in a few bands / projects....
Still, onwards & upwards - it's never a "waste of time" - as long as it keeps you playing, and you continue to improve. Good luck with the search & next band

I've been in a fair old number of imploding bands, but at least we never diarised the event!

Bassists are always the organisers in any band ... start your own.