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Why not continue a thread about Mark King in a Mark King thread so that all info regarding Mark King is contained in a single Mark King thread? Mark King, Mark King And once more for the lads, Mark King 😁

I have managed to get a set of Comply tips on the ZARs but had to use enough force that it took a long time for them to fill back out to their regular shape again. I used so much force that I thought I should have been using larger ones

I've just made the move from KZ AS10 to KZ ZAR as I always found the top end a bit shrill to my sensitive ears but I am having trouble finding the size of eartips that I need for the ZARs. Is it simply just a matter of measuring the outside diameter and looking for Comply tips that size or do you go for ones slightly smaller so that they don't fall off? The Comply tips I have for my AS10s seem overly tight to get them on to the ZARs. I have a set of digital calipers that I can use for this

I ordered one last year which arrived in a box in perfect condition but this was what i found inside. Suffice to say that it went straight back

The thing that always puts me off these is that they use that same awful massive bridge that all of the Chingrays had before SBMM was a thing. It makes a really good looking bass seem cheap and nasty looking. Even Ali Express sell the smaller EBMM style ones so it's not like they can't have them made https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32845656954.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.71.5f643IOS3IOSc7&algo_pvid=6d261ab9-c8db-4a8a-8d1f-a967595361df&algo_exp_id=6d261ab9-c8db-4a8a-8d1f-a967595361df-35&pdp_npi=4%40dis!GBP!10.14!6.69!!!12.82!8.46!%4021039e0c17242193480226654e3082!65171794813!sea!GB!2087865099!X&curPageLogUid=XvmOUqe9F450&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A

That's been done intentionally rather than being broken off. I wonder if they saw Bassassassin's Rick-a-like build thread from a couple of years back and decided to chop up the real thing 🤔

I was wondering if the seller was a Basschatter going by the last line of the speil: "you are welcome to arrange courier collection at your own cost and risk" This seems to be a phrase that is present in most for sale posts on the forum these days but I'd never heard it used outside of the forum until now.

I'm thinking about having something made and wanted to look at something other than Warmoth given that I could probably buy a second hand USA Fender Jazz for the landed cost of a body on its own. I've come across White Stork Guitars who are based in Spain and the prices look really decent. Granted I'll have to pay VAT but it would still work out at a fraction of the cost of Warmoth. Trouble is that I can't find much online about them - does anyone here have any experience of the quality of their bodies & necks? I've priced up a P bass body in olympic white, routed for 2 EMG35 pickups and it's coming in at £267 delivered + VAT of £53.20 = £320.40 delivered. Link here: https://whitestorkguitars.com/products/pbass-style-body

I'm trying to work out why they've done this. I thought that the affinity range especially was geared towards those just starting out with the goal of them progressing onto a full fat fender version but Fender don't do a 6 string bass. Unless of course they're just trying the market to gauge whether or not a 6 string bass will sell before releasing a Fender version. I have absolutely no need for one but it won't stop me hovering over the "buy" button at some point.

Could it be All Summer Long by Kid Rock? It has part of Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London mixed together in there so not monkeys but Werewolves and not a country but a city?

Many years ago I actually printed a '76 bicentennial Thunderbird style one out of regular sticky paper for my Goth Epiphone Thunderbird. Might be worth it to try before you commit to anything more expensive

I used to play in a wedding band so had to play some Ed Sheerhan songs. Those are about as miserable as it gets. The only man who could sing about the greatest event in his life and make it sound like his granny had just died.

From experience, one of the worst things about selling something that I hadn't used in a while was when I decided that I either needed one again or through nostalgia a few years later, the prices had gone silly. Take the batteries out if you don't plan on using them for a long time and put them somewhere safe.

Give it long enough and every bass player who's ever lived will be in this thread 😀

It looks similar to a Telecaster II but with the mudbucker in the regular split P position

I quickly read over the names and thought that it said Jim Carey 😄

First time I heard this I actually laughed. It's such a fun song and the playing is incredible https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9qpQRMSR1M&pp=ygUPc2x1dGUgdG8ga2FyZWVt

Have you tried adjusting the EQ on your amp or using old rounds/flatwounds/half round strings? For years I fiddled, swapped, "upgraded" and generally tinkered with pretty much every bass I owned until I realised that the right bass for me was the one that I had in my hands at the time and the best way to get a particular tone was to adjust the EQ. (fuzzy,modulated and wobbly sounds aside) Unless something is broken or faulty I don't touch it anymore. On the other hand if your pots are scratchy or the pickup doesn't work then go for it. I prefer things that I don't have to solder so that makes it either EMG pickups, premps etc or Six String Supplies prewired harnesses and a set of pickups in the event that I do have to change anything out of necessity

The thing that eventually led to me deciding to leave was that the band leader was happy to take gigs 3 hours away as he thought that he was getting us work, not realising that the rest of us were trying to juggle work and family life. At the time he wasn't working so had all of the time in the world to gig at the weekends. When he did get a job, the first thing he told us was that he couldn't take gigs any more than 2 hours away and that was what really annoyed me. The fact that he thought that we were just making a big deal over nothing when he, himself, wasn't working, only to realise that he couldn't commit to long distance gigs when he did start working. That was what ultimately made me leave the band. the fact that one gig in particular had caused so many issues because of the distance involved, including the singer and drummer refusing to do it, but he couldn't see that and afterwards couldn't admit that he had been wrong. Had the gig in question come up after he had begun working again, he would never have taken it and the issues that it cause would never have arisen. Friday Gig - Aberdeen, Saturday gig - Bowness on Windermere! so the travelling was Falkirk > Aberdeen > Falkirk > Bowness on Windermere > Falkirk

I've been playing since 1987 and gigging since 1993 and I quit my band last weekend. I don't miss it yet. Unless I had songs to learn for a gig then I never picked my bass up at home and I haven't done so far but then this is the quiet time for a wedding band so I wouldn't normally have been playing much at this time of year. It's funny but I remember reading an interview with Jack Bruce many years ago when he said that he never played at home, only when gigging and remember thinking that I couldn't imagine not playing every day (I was about 14 at the time and still driving my neighbours crazy with my playing) I plan to keep a hold of all of my gear, I don't need the money for anything else and anything I own has a good chance of being worth more the longer I keep a hold of it. To be honest I have been thinking about quitting gigging for about 18 months now but something that happened during last year made my mind up so I decided to keep going to the end of the year as our singer had just qualified as a teacher and was leaving so I wanted us all to see out the year together. My wife thinks I'll miss it but to be honest I haven't enjoyed gigging for a long time now. the best part of gigging is having a laugh on the way to the gig and socialising with my band mates before the gig and at the break. The playing element became a chore. I have lots of plans to do stuff at the weekends that I haven't been able to do before. No more missing friend's weddings, family events, celebrations, my wife having to go to everything on her own. I can finally make plans to do things and not have to worry about bookings coming in at the last minute. No more using annual leave to take half and full day holidays to go to gigs half way across the country, I can actually use them to go on holiday. The other thing was that during the Christmas run I was working Monday to Friday, taking a half day on a Friday, driving up to Aberdeen, gigging on the Friday and Saturday, back down the road at 4am on the Sunday and then back into work on the Monday. That was for the whole of December. I had a Lethal Weapon moment when I realised that I'm getting too old for this sh!t. Gone are the days when the gigs were on my doorstep, at least two thirds of the gigs in the diary were at least 2 hour's drive away and I just don't want to do it anymore. For the first time in 30 years I can do what I want at the weekend, get to my bed at a reasonable hour and go back into work on a Monday having had a proper sleep at the weekend ready for the week ahead and not fall asleep at my desk. No more arguments, band politics, crappy WhatsApp messages when I am on holiday, no more stress

What I was implying is that the OP has been asked to learn songs from the past few years whereas my experience is that the older classics are the ones that most people want. Newer stuff is more disposable and easier to go out of favour. There's always been garbage in the charts, it's not a new thing, so only a select few make it through to become classics, even some of the garbage 😁

The problem with modern music is that it's popular for about 5 minutes then it gets forgotten about. We've tried to keep up with the charts but you're lucky if you get 4 or 5 months out of a song before no-one wants to know. Tik tok, Instagram and tv/movies are giving younger people access to older songs so we try to keep up with those

The first time I saw them on Thomann they were £300 when the Jazz was £400. Shortly after this the price jumped up to match the Jazz. I thought at that time that I had missed the boat for getting one cheap until they discounted all of them to £259

Here are pictures of a Melody Grabber fretless I had a few years back for reference. As MoonBassAlpha mentioned, it did look more like pine than maple but the routs look pretty much identical