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I had the same thing. I now tape the finger up at night to stop me curling my hand into a fist. It seems to have done the trick and I now have no more trigger finger. Hope yours has not got any worse.

I'm shocked! The Basschat world has been turned upside down!

I used to own a black MIJ P bass with a maple neck and it was lovely. You do have to change the pickguard to black as well though, to get the full effect. So on the basis of looks, I'd go for the maple neck.

Is it just to be used as an onstage monitor? The Fender Rumble 100 V3 is a great little amp. It's small, very light but loud enough to be used on it's own, with quiet drummers. I bought mine used for £165. I use it for small gigs,where it would be overkill to bring my big rig and as an onstage monitor for louder shows, where I'm going through the FOH PA.

They look real purty.

This is the title track from Justin Currie's first solo album. He described it as a diary of doom, full of songs he wrote which were too miserable for Del Amitri. He also said it got 5 stars with all the reviewers but sold eff all. Despite that it is a fantastic album and definitely has no filler.

I have a friend who used to play his original 70s Fender Jazz with his Americana style band, which had a very traditional bass sound. He then discovered, while in a guitar shop, an Ibanez fretless. He liked it so much that he bought it and now plays it exclusively in his band. He plays it in the same way he played his Jazz Bass and you can't tell, by listening, that he's playing a fretless. My point is that, if you can play your fretless like a fretted bass, then there's no reason for a band to not hire you because you play a fretless, as long you can be versatile and change the sound of your bass to suit the song. If you want to play with only one sound - the fretless sound in your clip - you'll only appeal to bands that want that fretless sound.

My opinion is there's nothing worse than grown men getting up on stage, in front of an audience, and sounding like a school band. I'm constantly bamboozled by some of my musician friends willingness to get up on stage and make a complete derrière of themselves, because they haven't been prepared to put some work in rehearsing and learning the songs to a decent level. I have great admiration in your loyalty to your friends. The singer definitely sounds delusional. I would definitely have bailed by now.

I bought a couple of basses from BD. The only personal interaction I had with Mark was when I'd missed the courier and he called me to give me their address so I could pick up my bass. He seemed fine over the phone. His specialised shop is a great facility for bass players and, however grumpy he may seem at times, we'll miss it when it's gone.

I though they were updating their website? It looks just the same to me.

My Experience of the Markbass CMD 121 P, is that it will do the lot. It can keep up with a loud drummer and can be used as an onstage monitor when going through the PA.

It's traditional for bass players to stand rooted to the spot looking like they don't give a f*ck.

My first gig with my old band for 2 1/2 years, as the singer had serious health issues over the lockdown. Luckily she has made a full recovery. It went really well, I had a great time and we've got plenty more booked in the diary.

When I bought a G&L 2500 I was amazed at the sounds I could get out of it. It has two humbuckers which can be put in parallel, or series mode. You can have any sound from a fat Precision on neck pickup, Jazz bass on series mode (good Jaco sound on back pickup), or Stingray on parallel mode through the rear pickup. It's also active and has a bass and treble boost. When people talk about the 2500, the first word that comes to mind is versatile.

The days of playing toilets are far behind me. Not that I play super, well paying, gigs all the time. I just play venues where we don't have to drive for miles, the audiences are enthusiastic and the sound engineers know what they're doing.

I know the feeling. I bought a Fender Elite PJ that cost just shy of two grand. I'd seen so many great reviews of the Elites and it was supposed to be 'The One' but although it is a very well put together bass and is very versatile for a P bass, I just haven't bonded with it. On the other hand, I had some parts hanging around.....a Squier VM jazz bass maple body, the maple neck from my ever first P bass(which I'd played a thousand gigs on over the years) and a set of USA 70s vintage pickups. When I put them all together everything felt 'right' and I fell in love with that bass immediately. I say go for the Tokai if you feel the same about it.

The head of Fender, Andy Mooney, said in an interview recently that even pickup wire is hard to source these days and that availability and prices of electronic components vary wildly. He said the demand is there but the ability to satisfy that demand is very limited due to the state of global trade today.

When the music is good, I don't have a problem. My neighbour across the street occasionally plays her music loud but she's got great taste in music. I had a neighbour who played sax and he was excellent, so I didn't have a problem with it. My neighbours came up to me, a few months ago, and asked if it was me playing the electric guitar the other night? I said 'Was it any good?' and she said it was great. I replied, 'It couldn't have been me then....'. 😊

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That's great to hear. Gail appears to be enjoy playing with Matthieu Chedid. I got the feeling that she wasn't too comfortable touring with Lenny Kravitz.

You are right of course. But some idiots still lust after them. Like me 🤪

Ha, ha, Fenders business model is unfortunate. Its products don't have built in obsolescence, like other manufacturer's products do. With care their guitars and basses will last forever. If Ford had this problem we'd still be driving around in Ford Zodiacs our grandfathers bought in 1965.

I bought a Fender TV 15 Bassman from GAK about 12 years ago. It was reduced but didn't state on the website that it was B stock or a demonstrator. When it arrived it had signs of use and the tweed covering was pretty badly marked. I kept it because they were only minor surface defects and the amp worked as it should. Some music shops have a record of not being totally honest as to why a product on their web site has been reduced, in the hope that people won't return items they're not 100% happy with, due to the hassle factor.

Natural fibre eh? They'll be making them out of wood next........ 🤔