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Sire V7. Always gets used more than my P bass. I bought the P bass for a punk band...that I knew some if the venues we'd play my gear my get a knock or two.

I tap my foot, maybe saunter around a bit, but mainly just tap my foot. This mainly due to the 'stage' areas I've played have always been quite small, or there seems to be a lot of gear belonging to other band members around me. I dare not move too much for fear of standing on a lead and dislodging it from its connection or knocking over an instrument.

Friend of mine and fellow bass player, his band suggested Hit me... I just went 'ooof, best of luck. It's a bit of a work out apparently'. Next time I saw him the band dropped the idea. He could play it up to about ¾ speed but not faster. I told him he did much better than me...as I'd never contemplated learning it. 😁 I tell myself it's a horrid song and I wouldn't want to know it anyway. Lying to myself means I get to keep my basses.

As I wrote in the P bass thread, I really like the simplicity of a P bass and its tone. However, the bass I use most is a Jazz style bass. It's a Sire V7. It maybe just this bass, but I find the neck about the best and most com I've ever played. The only negative is the inevitable hum if you only use one pick up. It's never a problem if I'm not going through a PA, but does rear its head whenever going direct to a desk. I don't tend to use the active tone controls, but they're there if I want them. Tone wise, I was actually very surprised when my wife recorded me at a gig to find out what I sounded like. The intro to one song was just me, and I sounded really woody and upright bass...I was using flatwounds which helped. Perhaps it's just this Jazz bass, but versatile and just feels right.

I didn't realise until recently that a friend of mine lives with Sam Tanner of said Brother Strut. I knew she (who is a great singer herself) was with a pro muso but not which one. I might have to blag to tickets for their next tour 🤪

I like the simplicity of the P bass, there's no fuss. Even the look of it is simple and quite minimal. The bridge for example, it's neat, uncomplicated and functional. And then of course there's the tone which can work for almost anything despite being quite fixed.

I've never been and never wanted to go. And after watching the 50yrs of Glastonbury programme on BBC2 last night I think my stance is somewhat vindicated. I'm not one for being burnt to a crisp or alternatively drowning in a lake of dysentery. 😁

Definitely

Some strings, which aren't really gear I classify as sundries, and I bought some fret wraps....which I don't like so won't use so don't count either 😁 That's it.

I've only ever had basses with bolt on necks, but that's simply down to those basses being the best I could afford at the time. Otherwise it's not something I have a overriding preference for one or the other. I like Fender style bolt basses, the Ibanez SR I had with a bolt on neck was great. But I've always liked the old Aria SBs (?) with thru necks. At the moment I'd like to buy a Cort A5 plus with a 5 piece thru neck...IT LOOKS AWESOME. Phwoar 😁

Nailing a song on air guitar

Pinch of salt, pepper and garlic...

Not a chance. That said I did let a bloke at a gig ' have a go on' my bass. I'd got talking to him during our break. He'd been a semi-pro apparently and said how much he liked the Sire V7 I was playing. He had to give up playing because he had MS and could only play for very short periods. So I let him play with the band for the first song of the second set. I shouldn't have really, he was far better than me.

I'm 100% certain I'd be awful, probably worse than my fumbling efforts on bass. The closest I've got to drumming is when I sat behind the drummer's kit at practice and she said 'you actually look like a drummer you know'.

Stumbled across this, it's probably already very uncool...especially for a man of my mid-life crisis years. 😁

Probably way too many to detail, but... British blues that started in the 60s, it really makes me cringe. I think it's awful... Clapton, Green, Mayall and all the rest that followed. Howling Wolfe, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters et al that's blues. Loathe britpop with a passion. Glorified covers bands plagerising 60s and 70s material. God it was awful. Don't like The Who or Rush. The Stones (lot of time for Keith, Ronnie and Charlie) wrote a few good tunes but most of it really dull. Always thought Faces were a much better band. Jagger always sounds constipated and is midway through 'pushing one out' when singing (same goes for the guy in Reef). Coldplay = bedewttercore. Most contemporary acts are really dull. I've got teenage kids I should offended by their music not bored by it. I'm stopping now, I'm up early tomorrow 🙃

For me it depends on the bass. I've got a natural finish, maple body, heavily lacquered p bass. I shouldn't like it at all, but I love it. I quite like sunburst, I've got a strat in burst with a black guard, love that one to. I love my black with tort guard jazz bass. My son has a Squier Mustang guitar in orange with a double red stripe, looks cool as. I'm currently trying to suppress GAS for a Cort A4...in matt stained red with that awesome 5 piece thru body neck. Phwoar! I'm not mad on pink. But the only finish I'd not consider is exotic woods, especially burl finishes. That's about it.

BBC4 has TOTP from 1992 on...it's all bloody cover versions! What dross.

I've owned only 8 in total, never more than 3 at the same time. I'm down to 2. I doubt I'd buy another bass. Quite the opposite, I'd probably sell both before even thinking of buying another. I only play if I'm in a band, but being in a band is looking ever more distant. So for me the answer is when you've got no more use for them.

I use one of the wide padded Levys straps, they're the best I've found for me. I've got one of the Comfort Strapps. I didn't like the stretch of the neoprene. It didn't bounce as such, but I didn't like that the strap could stretch when playing. I wasn't overly impressed with the button holes and leather ends either, mine deteriorated quite quickly.

The blues band I was in a few years back used to do this one at the beginning of the second set. We tweaked it a bit. We started with just me and vox/harp then after a couple of minutes started adding other members of the band until we were all up and playing (drums, piano, guitar).

This: And some of this

Thank you. It was exactly this. I trimmed the black conductive plastic screen on both ends and the cable works perfectly now. (I'm not showing you my soldering though because it's truly awful...but functional). It was a cable I'd put together myself, so a bit less speed next time and a bit more research. Thanks to everyone for your help.