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If the bedroom is of an adequate size, then this is all he'll need.... ...and maybe a couple of roadies if he ever wants to move it, but it looks damn cool.

Their Sharing Spaces album is great. I think Cog split up for a while so didn't release any new material.

Unless you've had a rack full of flashing lights and all looking very complex, then quite frankly you're not serious about being a bass player. I got rid of mine because I didn't understand any of it, all I was interested in was having lots of lights and lights flashing.

Andertons have Sire P5's for less than £400. I think the V5's are also under £400. Sqiuers, loads of them around. You can't really go wrong with the to be honest. My Squier Vintage Modified P bass was only £150 second hand, but that was before prices went a bit silly. Mate of mine has the Stirling, he loves it. I must admit it sounds great. I'm probably one of the only people on here who is at best indifferent to Yamaha's. The one I had was no better built than my cheaper Ibanez and was the dullest sounding bass I've ever owned. Ibanez are good. If you need spares for them though, in my experience, they're awful. G&L, as others have said, is good stuff. I know a few who play then

I don't play busy at all. That's nothing to do with confidence, it's that I've no idea what I'm doing.

I think I've mentioned this before. A band I was in about 10 years ago. I was a bit green, not having gigged really before. The guitarist was a real gadget freak and a bit OCD. We played our first gig in a pub that could hold maybe 80 people, maybe it was more I don't know. Gig started at 8pm, the guitarist who owned the PA gets there at 1pm, to set up. He had a BIIIIG mixing desk, a snake box to take the 'stage' sound to the mixing desk (which was on the 'stage' with us), the speaker stack was taller than me, he'd mic'd the drumkit with 5 mics...and on and on and on. A few things happened that night. First off, he'd borrowed some sub cabs from the singer, but forgot to use a crossover in the signal chain. Hence all the sound was trying to go through the subs and you could barely hear a thing out front, bar a horrid mush. We ended up turning the floor monitors around to face the audience so they could at least hear something other than a bassy mush. Next, the guitarist, rather than have another guitar ready that was detuned, decided to use a pedal that did this for him. This was fine for the song it was intended for however, he forgot to reset the pedal for the next song...he proceeded to play the next song a half step down, which sounded really bloody awful. It's worth pointing out that he had another two guitars, on stands, next to him that he didn't use all night (and a keyboard). Which brings us to the next little nugget. The guitarist had so much equipment and such a large pedal board that after he set it up he'd basically trapped himself where he stood. What baffled me was that I was by far the least experienced in the band and thought the set up was way over the top...the others thought it was all fine to play a moderately sized pub with a PA that could be used a a decent sized theatre 🤪

Whatever I feel like on the day, night...when/whatever. Even if I wear a long sleeve shirt though, I always roll the sleeves up a couple of turns because I don't like my cuffs flapping against my bass...but then I always wear my shirts like that, even when I'm not playing.

I've never had any taste...

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 🙂