JellyKnees

Totally mexico.

All originals, so hopefully not too boring, although others may beg to differ... Only one Fender, and a couple of fairly eclectic/one off basses along the way. I like unusual instruments, I just don't like to shout about it I guess!

In my 38 years of playing, I've never owned either a bass or a guitar that wasn't in one of the 4 most popular colours... not sure whether this means that I'm really boring or I have classic tastes...

Man, I once knew someone exactly like that. In addition to the fact that he constantly spewed BS on a grandiose scale, he was also very large, incredibly loud, and possessed a laugh something akin to an even more stupid, adult version of Butthead on speed. For a while he used to get really canned down at the local rock nightclub and then turn up at my mate's cellar where we all used to 'hang out' , smoke a few doobies and jam endlessly. He foolishly fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the couch a few times and all manner of evilness was visited upon his person... roaches up the nose, simultaneous dead arms and legs which caused him to writhe like a monstrous slug, that kind of juvenile stuff. The amazing thing was that he came back week after week for more of the same... The only saving grace was that he wasn't a musician. My worst gig was probably back in the mid-80's at a high class entertainment establishment in Bootle known as the Firehouse. Some argument between the locals and the bouncers developed into full blown carnage, involving baseball bats, flying bottles etc, all resulting in various split heads. Thankfully we were skulking somewhere out of the way at the side of the stage, but it was pretty frightening stuff at the time...

I tried an Ashdown combo once... nah. My TNT 130 stood me in good stead through most of the 80's and 90's... a fine piece of gear.

Probably not as much as this though...

In that case show me the video... you'd better be smiling! 😁

How about some videos of sad overweight middle aged men playing mediocre cover versions of awful 1980 tunes in a selection of grotty little venues in a variety of dire Brexit voting market towns? Something like that maybe?

We could. I guess ships are named because they tend to be unique designs. Still a bit weird tho if you ask me.

God no. Naming inanimate objects? What is that all about...

Of course it flippin' was. Next.

I saw these dudes quite a few years ago at Womad... No idea what it's about but I really like it... if there are any Hungarians speakers on here, feel free to enlighten me!

Ha ha, the host with the roast... excellent!

Backing tracks I'm fine with up to a point, if it is to augment the sound of a live band with elements that could not easily be performed live. Lip syncing is pretty meh though - although I would question whether it is anymore dishonest than auto tune.

Another Newtone user here. Love them on my Dingwall, less harsh than Dingwall's own strings, plus I can get a custom gauge to suit my needs and they are UK made to boot. What's not like?

I believe the correct protocol when buying the Mail is to simultaneously purchase a copy of Razzle magazine. That way, you'll have something to hide it inside and thus avoid shame and potential humiliation when leaving the newsagents.

I've been ordering custom sets of Newtones for my Dingwall for the last year or so and totally agree, excellent strings and British made to boot. Last well too! La Bella low tension flats on my Lakland 55-94 for some greasy old school thump.... D'addario half rounds on my spectorcore fretless 5 string - these seem to work particularly well with piezo pickups for some reason.

The thing is though, the OP is claiming that's not what he meant, which I find disingenuous at best. If you want to make a leery, boorish nudge- nudge type comment about a girl on a publicly visible forum (which I think is the real point here), at least have the balls to admit it. Or possibly just keep it in your head where it belongs.

Nail on head. Hubba hubba indeed. FFS.

I love the smell of thinly veiled misogyny in the afternoon...

While it's true to some extent that no matter what instrument you play, you will always sound like you (with regards to character, phrasing or whatever), on a crappy bass (or even a good bass with crappy strings) you will never sound as good as you will on a decent quality, well strung instrument. All nuance and subtlety will be lost - a poor instrument will simply not be able to capture all the details that your fingers are (hopefully) producing. Of course this may depend entirely on what style of music you are playing - if you are plodding away on root notes to some three chord fuzz tone dirge, then there probably ain't much room for subtlety/nuance to begin with, so it undoubtedly matters a whole lot less... I suspect this also applies for point 2, i.e. audiences for different types of music will have different levels of awareness as to how good the overall sound of the band (including the bass) is, and will also give/not give a solitary flying fornicate to wildly varying degrees...

Or this one I found in a charity shop in Liverpool... anyone fancy a spot of self emptying with Father Sean?

There's a ton of these out there... how about this gem?

Vinyl for rolling a fat one on and enjoying the occasional evening of nostalgia, CD for listening to new music at home, digital for listening to in and to/from work...

Mmmmm jazz, it's just like the Bonzo's said... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcNAwytrOY