gjones

Are you a coal miner?

By the way, that's a decent sounding bass for the cash. I hadn't heard one played properly before, by a good bass player.

When you get the bass you want, I recommend learning to set the action up on it. For decades I struggled with badly set up basses, until I found basschat and realised how easy it is to set them up properly to make them easier to play. Oh.....and buy secondhand if you can. As when you upgrade you won't lose money when you sell it on (basses and guitars are one of the very few things that don't depreciate if you buy them secondhand).

My male pal really had the hots for the bass player in Kagagoogoo, after they first appeared on Top Of The Pops. He was really heartbroken when I told him the bass player was a guy.

I have recently picked up a P/J and although I prefer a Jazz neck, I'm in a git/bass/drums band and I have to admit it really fills out the sound.

These days Phil Collins reminds me of Mr Grace, from are you being served. I'll not be buying a ticket.

If you want to practice, hire a generator and do it in a field, standing 20 ft apart.. That should be safe enough.

I have a lot of posh Jazzes with very posh pickups (Lindy Fralins and Fender Noiseless pickups) but I also have an old beater with Wilkinson pickups in it and they sound really, really nice.

Entered Non Zeros, in Dundee, to be welcomed by a shitty old Laney trannie head with half the knobs missing (looked like it was from the 80s) and a knackered old 4x10, with the cloth grill kicked in. It sounded absolutely excellent. I was dumbfounded

I've been lusting after that Fender Original in Sonic Blue.

If you don't use the tone and the treble is up on your amp then, unless you're using an old Hofner with 20 year old flats on it, I suggest you think about investing in a hearing aid rather than upgrading your bass

I thought, with jazz gigs, you had to pay the venue to let you pay

Venues are staying open because they have no other choice, at the moment. Mainly because they can't claim on their insurance if they're not ordered by the Government to close. I have a friend who is playing his, probably last gig for a long time, tonight. I've decided not to go, as I am visiting a good friend tomorrow, who has a 3 year old boy with asthma. If I passed this virus on to him and there were complications, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I have a gig on Saturday, which I really want to play, but it's probably 50/50 whether it will go ahead (because the venue may cancel or band members may decide it's not worth the risk). Update: venue has cancelled as they're closing the bar.

My Niece, who is a professional musician/songwriter, has set up a Gofund me page for musicians who will perform gigs live on the web. https://www.facebook.com/yumhoneyblood There's also this lot who will stream gigs live on Youtube for you. https://www.rootsmusic.ca/2020/03/15/please-do-this-right-now-it-will-take-5-seconds-and-help-us-stream-concerts/?fbclid=IwAR0lIgpPCwzpaBMEAKHAG4eBYvnP88rAD2OYmQ9b2mcllfJ49H37czeHW6E People want to see live music and musicians want to perform. Where there's a will there's a way.

None of the UK numbers are accurate. Certainly, tests on people who are not presenting themselves as severely ill, or already in hospital, are not being carried out. It's all total guesswork at this time. Even if you get ill and recover, people in the UK will have no way of knowing is they were infected by the coronavirus or just standard flu. I assume all the other statistics, for other countries, are mainly guesswork as well.

I'm going the other way. After years of being a Jazz Bass guy, the Precision sound lays a very solid foundation for all my 3 bands. I bought a P bass for my country band and it sounded excellent. I then bought an Elite P/J and then introduced it to my blues/rock band and my classic rock band too. It really does the job. The Jazzes are gathering dust at the moment.

I bought an elite Precision about a year ago. It's got a great sound and is made very well but I'm not too keen on the neck. The Mexican version (the deluxe) has a jazz type neck, as do most other P/J type Fender basses. The Elite and the Ultra have chunkier necks. My other P basses have the 57 type necks, which are wide but shallow. I recommend that you have a play of the Ultra before you buy it.

Just my kind of thing. Here's them playing live. It's very Marvin like.

Weirdly, my band have been getting offers of gigs due to coronavirus related, band cancellations. We had an offer last weekend, which we couldn't do because we were already gigging that night, and we have just had an offer for tonight, because a band has pulled out, due to illness. I don't know if these bands are cancelling because they actually have the virus or because they're afraid that a crowded music bar is an unsafe place to be, at this time. My opinion is that I'm going to get this virus sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner I suppose. So I'm happy to do the gig.

If you're a pro musician, I have a lot of sympathy for you. I know a lot of people who make a living from music and are going to be in big financial trouble. Edit: Musicians union is thinking along similar lines https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020/Mar/Dr-Rosena-Allin-Khan-calls-for-better-support-for

Next gig is a week on Saturday at a crowded music pub. Our singer has had a problem with colds/flu turning into pneumonia, in recent years. I tend to think that if the venue doesn't cancel, she will.

I've only had my 2014 Stingray for a few months. When the battery went it started to fart. If I'd continued playing with it, I assume it would have cut out pretty quickly. It has a quick access, plastic, battery box. No screws.

A bar called JJ's, opposite the banana flats in Leith. When we first entered there were women were rolling about fighting on the floor. The barmaid was a 70 year old woman, with no teeth, in a leather mini skirt and thigh boots and a full pint of beer was thrown at us and smashed against the wall just as we were about to start. On the second gig (which I refused to play) a guy got beaten unconscious with the heavy end of a pool cue and a poor unfortunate, who stupidly entered the pub in a Hearts top, got glassed. It was definitely NOT the Barony Bar. It was just before this incident https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12412813.man-killed-in-knife-attack/

Got asked to play a gig for the Countryside Alliance once. It was on a ship which they were planning to sail up the River Thames. We all quite liked foxes, so we turned it down.

I've turned down gigs because of fears for my own safety. I played the toughest bar in Scotland......once. The band got asked back and I declined. They got another bass player to fill in for me. It didn't go well