gjones

His tuning method is very logical.

Dont get me started about playing for free in Edinburgh during the Festival/Fringe. Exploitation is everywhere up here during the summer. Somebody is making money but it ain't the performers.

Nah.... There are so many ways to scam people out of their money on Gumtree and this sounds like one of them. Take cash, at your door, from the person who is buying directly from you, or don't sell it at all.

I have had to draw the line with my country band, as to how many new songs we can learn. They're not gig orientated, they just love country music. So I had to explain to them that 20 songs that we know well and can play tightly at a gig, is better than 40 songs that we know vaguely and can stumble our way through, in a shambolic manner. I'm forming another band, with other musicians, and I was very impressed by the two guitarists, who were very focused and had done their homework before the rehearsal.

Friends of mine, who play and sing, are getting to a certain age. It's an aid to early onset dementia

They are SERIOUSLY loud. My MB500, plus Barefaced Compact, would empty the bowels of a room full of people if I turned it up full. I also have the MB800 which takes 'silly loud' to another extreme (bought that to power my BC Super Compact, which needs a bit more grunt). Very clean amp and very small. They go stupidly cheap secondhand. Never figured out why?

They brought back the antigua paintjob for a while, about 10 years ago.

Ray Wilson as Genesis front man.

I'm the roadie for my niece, Stina from Honeyblood, up at Solas in Perthshire on Saturday. She's doing a solo gig.

It may not be the bridge. Sometimes you just need to loosen the neck, adjust it so that the G string is no longer too near the edge of the fingerboard, and then re-tighten it.

I would email John East. When I had problems with my j retro, he fixed it free of charge.

MIM Fender Deluxe has a Jazz Neck. Also the Nate Mendel signature has a slimmer than normal neck.

I understand Mr Bonamassa's point of view, that the sound of his amp, driven to a certain level, creates his particular sound and when he's asked to turn down by the sound engineer, he can no longer get that sound. On the other hand we have bass players, including me, who spend a fortune on getting the best amp and cab that we can afford, then allow the sound engineer to take a DI (usually pre EQ) from our very, expensive amp, straight to the front of house desk, without a squeak of protest. Hmmmmm?

I went to see the band last night in Edinburgh. They were great. Slightly concerned that the sellout crowd appeared to be mostly middle aged men? Odd......

I have a super compact as well as a compact. The super compact is not as loud as the compact and struggled, to keep up with a loud drummer, with the MB500 through it. I had to buy a MB800 to drive it, which seems to have done the trick.

A good combination. I have the same - light and VERY loud.

All these P bass pickups sound pretty good and pretty similar. You could buy a whole Harley Benton P bass for the price of a custom shop P bass pickup. The point being, there's not much difference in the sound of P bass pickups. So don't spend silly money.

There's very little I can see, in people's lists, that was recorded in the 21st century. I suspect, we are all extremely old.

The neck on my 2017 USA Precision is much chunkier than on my 57 Japanese Precision. I much prefer playing on the 57. Asking a luthier to shave a bit off the neck of your USA P makes sense (if it's a keeper).

I have carpal tunnel on my right hand (had an operation on my left). I use a weight lifters wrist brace, which is cheap and very effective. I also play my bass as low as it will go, as it straightens my wrist out when I play. I've had no problems with pain or tingling, while I play, for years now. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Neoprene-Wrist-Support-Brace-Strap-Gym-Weight-Lifting-Arthritis-Sprains-Strains/123763929115?epid=2256367668&hash=item1cd0e7b01b&enc=AQADAAADIFjVrDbVsZ8oH%2F8PNHtt9VX4%2Fw7FZcmMuqsX8uaFEduVKzBVSN0iFumH%2BEOEaVMB3WHmpZB1UWBU9JqKRXXim3PlpTzKva8dELl%2Bovgb1L7Ie%2BGdebgqGdvs%2FsONKq87RDy393lmN18xnG9tminb3RfpYO0evSa6KXueS%2BUbE55iXnQNqQ4kCELYv4PE2UflzdlXkXC0HsxwON0g%2FI8MR48%2F9Ry4NFQcw2L0or97gwoEOInCDeWDLIfXsxWvxvS0CbucyCMhc2H4ZTHM%2FzAA0WM%2FqmQdFW%2FUDHjf6noR4y1qHMiVDyYNpC7FvNCl09xEI9gf1VtS68AeLWCISg2KixUBYX8lLs0QPhABJGpQudI9SYqtAGALE1KdeT%2Fw5teT4S85i%2FPHqNs5flZqK%2Fd2iKKyyczY4CQjsc4lXQLZuvKrhsAM%2FCWQ9sXnTtZta5%2BtimliIzHVplFuX%2BVt41sjFlChkEPEILOYAuhBeJy0Zf7zcH%2FfmsucFCDamq5TnZfo5DHu%2FqNCwFaZ8%2BsxMGCQ3ZLbRD2zaDIkjWZSThUwx%2BDOnfB30n61orMhrn8Qn4QluFZ0WEIzgx5xR8joU4eDDF%2BAg4foXgeJr0xzJIChitK3N2snVMe%2FeOwjukXvqbNOhZSYoI43%2FJIF7sA8RUAmUlU5iRabCjT0T1klyWroKcpbnRgFl2hfnMDsD3vB85IPyGHjAglyruxxUxcY0mJzdZ21Yinc8%2BUR%2B2qJPEtKezpCN0UV7iRFW6sc%2BgDSeLZGehgJKVBXyBsDxl86jVT2wNkGfgVje6s8Psm8mkiEGdPe0p5Nxd%2FR0bh7D1gVzFXdoR7eJ0Lk5kUfVbV28pbXSXyhyJ12EToFfX13b5NgIFCQ2%2FQ7N7IQ%2FGUA%2F6pKnziz0g1oSvzFvAUCJDBCY9eGqLS4qon2pogkJtNS9apbUL3dSMdhUjiL6VdJL7HU04Z33RgWJybYzlYa1DoONGMnH66O%2BKsL%2FVp%2FJBmIXcUoae2EOw3JFSoW7cJhCpt6PfhwkHPaVSQv8QMZwT3SvscOTAMvyZrU90QlbVBSoj8LmV9y&checksum=123763929115f52246c25c7d4941bc26ec796f1f551d&frcectupt=true

Did you have to get a CITES certificate for it (due to the rosewood fretboard)?

I hated my Carlsbro Stingray with a vengeance. I always had to turn the bass down on it, or the speaker would fart like a flatulent hippo. Pile of shyte.

The time will speed by and once you hand the bass back to your tutor you'll be hungry for more. It's a great feeling to get up and play with a decent live band.

Probably nicked 😃 I've found two of my stolen instruments in that pawnbrokers over the years.