AndyTravis

I spotted 2 🧐

They’re very nice - equally as good as the (much more expensive) Taylor. I have the big brother 😉

I have 2 😉

Some people have said to me, the “best” bassist is the kind you will only miss when they stop playing. That’s in a band setting. Also in a band setting, I’ve had a songwriter base songs from stuff I’ve been doing - to add tension in a song I’d do a little run of notes and he’d get the rest of the band to follow it. I can send you a link to that song if that helps? He also walked in on me doing volume swells with harmonics one day, and wrote an entire song around it. He said I was “the best bassist” - for him. I’d equate that version of “best” to the likes of McCartney - an integral part of the band’s “sound”. And then there’s “best” with the idea that music is a sport, and you’re all technique and party tricks. That to me is fun but ultimately futile because there’s always a bit flashier, faster or more technically gifted - and The musicality takes a walk the flashier you get. But I’ve done that route too - and just allows you to develop tools for the second type of “best” bass player. The reality is, the “best” bass players are the ones who are paying their mortgages by playing bass and not stuck for a job. The rest of us humble mortals got day jobs and are now too entrenched in “real life” to make the jump into a job as a professional musician. I sold a bass to a guy once who was a “pro” and reeled off an impressive CV, but when he played the bass to check it over...I couldn’t believe how sloppy and amateur it all sounded. But fair play to the guy - he was a busy man... Whatever “best” is, it’s whatever makes you happy and sits well in the music you’re involved in.

Dunno but I sort of want it

My lad and Eldest daughter both have instruments. Ella has lessons and wants to be a singer/songwriter. Dan just wants to play computer games.

Interesting

Finishing for 9 days tomorrow evening. Going to enjoy a nice Malbec or 12. Negotiating starts on bottle 2 😉

Not at all, bud light x3 on a School night 😉

Not at this hour 🧐

What you need is a guild...

Maybe I’m having a “start all over again” this time next week I’ll be clumsily fumbling through Blood Sugar Sex Magic and getting a pink Mohawk

Can’t recall now - they were a new formulation of the RB strings (think this was about 3 or 4 years ago) and someone contacted me through here about trying some.

Sold a rig to a polish lad through here the same way, he sent a bloke in a Mercedes van who had a motorcycle, a washing machine and some guitars in the back. Apparently, the pound was so weak, he had a roaring trade in driving over to the UK to collect eBay purchases etc. paid in cash - never heard from the guy again.

Makes two of us then...

You should knock some up. Then I’ll buy a bass with those pickups and get some from you

Yeah, was in a band with a singer like this...3 lads fawning over her. And me...and the other singer totally unimpressed. We quit on the same day 😂

I had some SIT’s in a trial and they were fantastic but I couldn’t get them quickly enough for my next restring and reverted to d’addario... A shame really

It’s extra fingers in Stockport (worked there for a year)

Normal in salford...