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Indeed, after spending the equivalent sum as for a Squier they'd be an excellent mod platform. £150 for the VTC preamp, £10 for a proper headstock decal, £20 for a Hipshot string retainer, £250 for noise-cancelling pickups, and for less than £800 you'd have a banging bass.

The Milk Snatchers

If they've let you down in the past they'll let you down in the future, is a good rule of thumb I reckon. If they had good reasons to quit last time and didn't really have a choice I'd give them a second chance, but if they either ghosted you or were a bad bandmate before they quit then they can do one.

Bit arrogant, I reckon.

Exactly! I have this argument with our keyboardist every time we start learning a new song and he complains about it being too complicated or "produced". I just show him a live performance of it being different to the recording (Club Foot by Kasabian being a good example) and then he settles down.

I really wish someone could beat this argument into Jeff Berlin so he'd finally shut up.

I'm sure I don't play anywhere near all of the basslines I can play note-for-note perfect, but I think what I play sounds close enough and good so I'm not overly fussed.

I suspect they're clearing the decks before introducing the new SMX ones.

If it's any consolation there a lot of famous bassists that don't get it right either...

Well props to him for being up for it, I've seen vids of other rock stars *cough* Bon Jovi *cough* looking very affronted at the suggestion that they do a turn.

I wonder if he normally kept a combo amp in his car or if he was just expecting to be called into service that day.

The Flamingo ballroom is now a Morrisons. The local nostalgia groups are very grumpy about that turn of events.

I know that works with eBay purchases because I've done it, but does it work with Reverb as well?

Speaking personally I can appreciate the technicality where someone's playing a blizzards of notes, but quite often it just seems really out of place or just showing off for the sake of it. Pretty much every time I feel like that is when players are playing fast slap and all you can hear is the clackityclackityclackity of the string on the frets but there's no time for any kind of timbre of note to be heard because the next fret clank is only a tiny fraction of a second behind it. The problem isn't that I don't like the sound of it - I love the sound of it but would actually like to hear it!

Are we talking about something like an audio version of aphantasia?

Same, when he's playing melodically I quite enjoy it but there's too much of the slappityslappityslappity in most of the stuff of his I've listened to for me to get into it.

I got put off iTunes and iPhones when I had one back in about 2009, and I loathed iTunes with a fiery passion. I had a work iPhone in 2017-2019 but feel no desire to have one again as a personal phone, and iTunes is definitely a part of that.

Spotify because I use it for music, podcasts and audiobooks and it's handy to have all that in one place.

The domain is currently unregistered

I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole...

Time for Hayseed Dixie yet?

Or just this bass face in general?

Sick of playing Go Your Own Way? Are you sure you want to join this band?

Break a leg!