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I won't touch frets, the nut or active electronics (unless it's a loose wire). Everything thing else is straightforward. I'm not great with a soldering iron, but I'll happily repair or change passive circuits in a bass. My brother's mate had a p bass that just made a low buzzing noise when plugged in. I told him it was probably just a loose earth wire. Neither would touch it, so my brother brought down to me from Bristol (about 130 miles) to fix 🤪.

It could crash the whole site. It's a very worrying development

Gives you quite a boxy tone, apparently. I'll get my coat.

That's probably considered quite lumpy, as it's just over 11lbs. My 1st generation V7 is about 9¾lbs, my Squier VM Precision a few ounces lighter. I'm not someone to worry too much about the weight of a bass however, 5kg is getting a bit heavy imo...that's assuming Bax have their information correct, I've never seen Sire quote the weight of any of their instruments.

D'Addario Chromes. They've been on there 3 or 4 years. I restrung my Jazz with rounds about 6 months ago, but they only stayed on a week. I suppose I've got very used to flats.

Not true at all. Hermes is a private German company...owned by another German company called otto.

I sold my first bass to a mate. It was a truly dreadful Westone Spectrum II. My mate asked me a couple of years ago if I wanted to buy it back. I politely declined...especially when I found out it had a nice split in the headstock.

Phwoar. They'm lovely.

Outside of their most well known bands, I wouldn't have a clue who was playing on any particular track. Billy Sheehan plays on a Richie Kotzen track called Locked Out, the only reason I know that is because I read the sleeve notes, it doesn't sound very Sheehan.

Or a predatory stalker...

🤣 the ever elusive Tim. One of BC's most well known members, but never seems to post.

Lots of bands got lumped in to 'grunge'. Almost any slightly heavy rock band that wore dirty jeans and check shirts were grunge. One of my favourite bands, Blind Melon, get classified as grunge on some lists. Then again, Janes Addiction are grunge according to some. I don't think so. (Neither are STP) It was the last interesting wave of music for me, perhaps that's my age. It was miles better than Britpop, which was abysmal dross. What irritated me about Britpop was its unfounded confidence and arrogance. The singer from Franz Ferdinand said that Britpop connected better with British audiences than a check shirted rocker from Seatle, utter drivel. I've just listened to Pearl Jam Vs, a cracking album no doubt.

The roasted maple does look great

I thought about getting one, but it would mean selling my V7 and Squier VM Precision...and I quite like the both of them. The thing about the early V7's like mine, that I really like, is the neck. 38mm nut, 7.25in radius and it's lacquered finish. If Sire put that neck on the P5 I'd go for it 🙂

I see what you did there 😎😁

@xilddx @Tinman @Mrs Tinman @OutToPlayJazz @ShergoldSnickers @discreet @Zoe_BillySheehan @Josh @jakenewmanbass Of course there was @OldGit, who will always be missed. I seem to recall their being someone called The Butler who was in a band called Midas Fall, bought their first album which was very impressive. There was The Funk (?). @discreet is one of the funniest people I know. I don't think I've met anyone else who's got a euphemism for almost everything. I'm probably in a small minority of the people, who've been here long enough to remember Beefy, who found him to be a complete derrière.

I've had a look at that yesterday, lots there. I watched the one he did on barre chords, he goes into the mechanics of it all, very impressive. I can't play guitar and always gave up because I could never make a barre chord shape sound right...turns out I was doing it wrong. I'm going to give this one a real go, and suggest it to my son. Thank you

I know this has been asked many, many times but, can anyone recommend an online resource for guitar, similar to TalkingBass Online Bass Lessons on YouTube? Cheers

I made the mistake of watching some of the Coldplay documentary on Sky Arts a couple of weeks ago. They really encapsulate what is bad with current music...the sheer blandness of it. How much more magnolia music can they inflict on the public. It's all so safe, lacks creativity or risk. Apparently they've taken 20yrs to release 9 dull albums! In comparison, The Beatles recorded 13 albums in 8 years, many of which are still highly influential. Weren't they the ones who someone coined the term 'bedwetter core' to describe them.

IN: a packet of strings (that I'm yet to open). OUT: nothing

I've not read his biography, I did, however, watch the documentary about him shown on BBC4 (?) a while back. His birth mum seemed thoroughly unpleasant and his almost non-existent relationship with her seemed to account for some of his own unpleasantness. He even admitted to not being nice, but then used drug and alcohol abuse to hide behind. You'd hope that someone who knew they'd be an awful person would change their ways...in Clapton's case it seems not.

As Chris Witty said a few days ago, it's too early to say anything like that. Even if it may not be life threatening it can be life changing. My oldest friend has long covid, my work mate has long covid, a family friend in her mid 30s has post covid complications (she's struggling to walk now), friend a few doors down from me gets pain in his joints regularly, wife's work friend has serious post covid fatigue (someone who was very active and fit and ran marathons), and my wife has post covid arthritis. Our GP says it's either a post covid infection or covid has 'caused arthritis. I don't know or have a large group of friends but I seem to know an increasing number of people hit hard by this.

Get well soon, hope you have a speedy and full recovery.

I see Robert Cray has cut any ties or links with Clapton after Clapton likened lockdowns etc with slavery. For someone who made a fortune from ripping off black American music, Clapton has an unenviable propensity of looking like he's either thick, nasty, a racist or all 3.