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Sting had some nice tones going on during Police days. Rutgar Gunnarson the Abba bassist, some tasty tones - the playing and tone on One of Us is great IMO. Duran's John Taylor, Mark King, Paul Webb from TalkTalk just a few. All subjective and IMO of course, but being my era in my 20's, there was a lot of influential bass stuff going on between the 70's and the 80's, glad I was there 😆

Tasty, great harmonies too! 👌🏼

Some good advice on here 👍🏼 after singing and playing bass for 50 years, when I have a new song to learn it still takes me a LOT of practise time to nail it 😖 Bass line first. Got to have it perfected before moving on. Lyrics and phrasing next. Then the tricky bit 😆 I talk my way thru each phrase of a verse - whilst trying to marry the two up - then the same process, gradually working throughout the rest of the song. But as said many times on here, practise is the key 👍🏼

I had a Paulownia P bass, lightest bass I've ever owned, that looks like a really good lump 👍🏼

All the best to you Tony, loved your advice and input on here, glad to hear you'll still be sticking around 👍🏼😎

Convert the side dots. I'll not do it though @RonC I'll pass it onto a pro 👍🏼

Ordered, thanks everyone! 🙏🏼

Never fear @Gank Bass as previously said, Titebond wood glue is your friend! That is a mere scratch compared to some of the saves made on this esteemed forum, including mine below 😎 You've already shown your skills on here, now I look forward to seeing how you transform this bass into something usable 👍🏼 Oh, and remember Build Diaries golden rule....pics or it didn't happen 😉 Good luck 🤞🏼😀

More lovely work Ron 😉👍🏼

Really helpful from some top Basschat experts, thanks 😇 So, if I was to go ahead buying from here in the UK, where is the best source ? I'm thinking they have to come from abroad even if buying from Amazon. Presumably their isn't a UK distributor? 🤔

Thread hijack alert! 🤭 Proof 😆 just done some tonight 😜😎

Kudos 👏🏼 Love a well polished boot me 😉

I need to get mine out of its case and check it's still alive 😖

We do it over the end music of the last song, and we've always had a great response for each individual band member. We find that the audience love to show their appreciation for each musician after watching the band play for two hours.