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Just sold a bass to Stewart in a suitably windswept, Covid-secure carpark somewhere in the neutral zone. Lovely guy to deal with, super-reliable and went out of his way to arrange a meeting rather than risk couriers. Deal in confidence fellow BCers.

And it matches your table

I concur with @Eldon Tyrell love mine too.

Are you saying you no longer are fully sparkly Dave?

Goodness, for some of the prog bands I enjoy that's about a song and a half

Picked up the bass today. Absolutely stunning in the flesh and beatiful to play.

40mm iirc. Between a J and P at any rate.

I've had a custom colur on a VS4. Very easy (bought through Classic & Cool). Sandberg send colour swatches and you pick the one you want. By colour swatches I mean a whole book of them not just half a dozen. I don't thing they do nitro but not sure tbh as never asked.

Nice; love the simplicity of the entire package.

Love the board on that fretless. What's the full spec @Crawford13 ?

The bass is ready, collection on Monday

Yes, I love Awaken with the orchestra.

Did CS ever record with that green Mouradian bass or was just just for the live shows?

Machine Messiah is definitely one of my favourite songs. Good shout ref Homeworld & Magnification to which I would maybe add The Ladder too.

Geoffrey Downes (keys on Drama) is no Rick Wakeman for sure. If you are liking the newer Yes then maybe give Fly From Here a go? IIRC some of the tracks date from around that time.

Always good to listen to stuff outside your normal play list but not compulsory to like anything no matter how highly regarded the musicians may be. I listen to all kinds of 'unfashionable' music from 70s pop to math metal. One genre I really struggle with is Jazz though. Try as I might it just doesn't float my boat although I nearly liked some acid jazz once. I happen to really like Yes but then I rather grew up with them, the very first LP I saved up for and bought was Close To The Edge. Goodness knows how many Yes gigs I've benn to.

Yup always a risk. I anotate the set list in big writing

I used to have an obsession about swapping any BBOT to something more substantial. I then realised that my basses work for a lving (at least they used to) so in the context of a band I could never hear a difference so I stopped doing it.

Always on the look out

The covers band I play uses a few different tunings so for rehearsing and gigging I use one of these for one or two semitones down. Dead easy and you can keep everything at std set up and tuning: https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/guitar-pedals/pitch-shifter-pedals/digitech-drop-pedal Purists will of course hate it, and tbf I would never record with it, but it's fine for messing around with. Everything from Greenday to slower stuff.

Midnight Wine for me. No pics as the Fender ones all have Rosewood boards, sorry.