Jackroadkill

Balls, you beat me to it!

I reckon that as long as it's something you're aware of you should be fine, really. At least punk and disco have some commonality (as in they're both fun and danceable), whereas rockabilly and moody faux-goth aren't really all that similar! I can also report that Enter Sandman, Chelsea Dagger and All Day And All Of The Night become pretty wearing when played in that vein, too.

My mate was in a band that played rockabilly versions of all the standards. They were a great band in the sense of the playing, arrangements etc but it wore pretty thin pretty quickly. The first time you heard She Sells Sanctuary played that way it was brilliant, but by the fourth time it was getting dull.

So glad I didn't sign up; so far it's a scratchplate and a chorus pedal, but there's potential for so much worse.

Nope. I'm going to buy an HPF and a compressor, so I've failed already.

That's a great version of a great song.

I use Roto 45-105 on my Jazz bass and that's tuned to C standard. They're a little wobbly but only a little.

I'm trying to sneak on into our band's setlist. Bridge Over Troubled Water would be a favourite but I don't know how well it would sit alongside Breaking The Law or Los Angeles Is Burning...

I use two basses anyway, one tuned to E and the other tuned to Eb. We have about five songs that are in the latter tuning in our set so we play them one after the other, and then change instruments to return to standard tuning. Whichever bass I'm not using at any given point becomes a de facto spare. They're both Player Series Precisions with the same pickup, wiring loom and strings, so they sound pretty similar to my ears, and as mentioned above by @neepheid, no punters have ever mentioned any difference in sound regardless of which I use.

My uncle "played" the violin in that project. On the cover of the LP he's on the left at the front.

Now that's a review!!

I used to do this back in my roadie days and it was effective because it made sure the band, the gear and the audience were safe and that everyone could have a good time.

It sounds like you could do with a roadie out front on wilder nights.

That looks grand - glad it turned out well.

I'd play that. Who gives a crap if it's already had a life?

Is this the George Michael equivalent of being Rickrolled?

Not a big fan of Christmas songs but this is cool!

Low hanging fruit perhaps, but... Oasis?

That's very true, and making the leap can take a surprising amount of courage. Do what's right for you when it's right for you, and look after your head afterwards.

I did the same; many attempts to get a band together, many false starts. I gave up completely and didn't touch an instrument for a few years. I drifted back to playing guitar after a friend persuaded me to jam, but that didn't go anywhere particularly (although we wrote some great songs and had lots of fun playing them), and when it was obvious that it wasn't going to be a long term thing I had a word with myself and thought: what exactly do I want from playing music? It turned out that fame, fast cars and success wasn't what I wanted at all - I just wanted to have fun with my friends, so I did what I thought I'd never do, and formed a covers band at the age of 43, moving to bass as I did so. I've never enjoyed playing as much as I am now. Perhaps tossing it all in is what you need to do, I don't know. What I do know is that until I changed what wasn't working, I was in that endless cycle of starting bands and them slipping through my fingers until it was no fun.

It sounds like it's time for yourself and the singer to branch out on your own and find some more inspiring musicians to play with. I think that's what I'd be doing if I found myself in that position.

It seems we have some similarities; it was getting my head sorted that led me to pick up the bass and get a band together with my friends, so I'm just starting too. I'm very glad to know that the bass is working for you.

Not cheap but he'll never need another tuner. These work brilliantly, are fully programmable and are easy to see on a dark stage.

I saw Ministry at The Big Day Out at the Bowl in 1999 and weirdly Paul Barker was playing what looked like an Aria bowlback acoustic bass. It's annoyed me ever since.