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Black body. Maple neck. Immense. I always like a contrast between the body and neck. (Why? I have nob idea!)

Beautiful.

Do Fender own Charvel? Look very like the Charvel basses minus the J pick up?

Pretty close to my journey but must say they really lost something when Hackett left. His shows these days are magical.

Personal view? Go to the last page in the BC for sale page….look at the prices. I got back into playing 2007. From memory, a MIM guitar was about £390 and US around £600 (corrections welcomed.) Now the ratio is similar at £699 to £1600 but wages have not kept pace. So what do you buy? A good MIM or similar, or if you want USA you go second hand.

Oh Boy!

Tom Bukovac is one of the top Nashville based session guitarists in the world. Currently playing live with Heart so into Rock and Country Rock big time. But during lockdown his passion was playing in his garage. Here he is with his soon to be ex wife Sarah Buxton (look her up) doing Ripples. It's magical. (If you search his vids, he also does More Fool Me and Your Own Special Way. (ps - Trick of the Tail is my favourite Genesis Album) Ripples

Looks great. Is it MIM/US bass? Where did you get the neck?

Loved the video - dont have a clue which is the P-bass so I'll wait till the answer is forthcoming ands I'll edit this!

Datz purty pardna

That is absolutely stunning! Well in @cetera

“And the G string….it’s too tight!”

Interesting you say this, I love the Rock n Roll series of books by Graham Forbes….genuinely funny.

Reply to MoonBassAlpha Just came on the post the same - his chops in that last song were unbelievable! (Around 20:40 in iPlayer) EDIT: seems to be this guy... Tarron Crayton @TarronCrayton

Macca, working at 80, something many will experience inThe near future…..😇 Personally thought the band and performance was excellent. No miming, odd wee wobble, but just magical. Noel Gallagher said something profound earlier along the likes of, “I’m just blown away seeing kids sing and rock out to songs I wrote years before they were born. Try being McCartney…..

Correct. But ...silicone isn't.

I think Ricky Gervais hinted at that recently. Asked why he tended to employ the same actors, "Cos I like them and they are fun to work with." He mentioned one big name who was a nightmare and swore never to do it again.

Jings J! You did the right thing - up front and honest. I sacked my self from a wedding/covers band once because they treated rehearsal as a 'learning' space. I had learned about 10 songs during the week as requested, they popped up on a Sunday giving it, "What are the chords to...., does anyone have a recording of it etc" After 6 weeks the band had learned 2 songs. At that rate, it would be about 5 years till we'd learned the set.