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First bass was a PJ, black, that my dad bought me. Couldn’t comment on the quality at all as I knew even less than I do now about what makes a good instrument. Sold it in the car park of the Sun Valley factory if I recall.

Girls just wanna have fun

Sorry, I’m not quite sure what you mean. I think Cuzzie had the extender on his but mine is unmodified. I do notice the neck lean more since I got the LB100 but I hesitate to call it dive, it’s ok with a strap in the right position. She is heavy though! And on topic, not a stingray.

That's one thing to bear in mind. The MFD pickups are extremely high output and your amp will need the headroom at the input stage to take them. Unless you're more grown up than me and can manage to use the bass' volume knob and turn down a bit. Stingray's are more manageable but I'm in the inaudible G string camp, (oo-er missus) and prefer the G&L vibe overall.

This photo should explain what I went for in a similar situation. The ASAT features the l-2000 electronics in a tele body style. Not everyone’s cup of tea but I love it.

Apparently he owns more or less every vintage left handed guitar/ bass in the country. Wouldn’t be surprised if a precision was in the closet somewhere.

Welcome to the Vulf Pack.

Something logical and brief. It doesn’t take a long time to establish what a bass tone is, and there are clear benchmarks, P, J maybe Stingray and ‘coffee table’ bass sound. DI and cab sound separately would be useful, and concise demo of the eq. Pick and fingers is obviously important. I thought the recent WD800 vid by mesa was decent, and proves it can be done in less than 5 minutes. Seeing as the vast majority of viewers are going to be listening on ear buds grandiose extracts aren’t going to provide information like what it genuinely feels like in the room anyway. And most importantly, if it must feature slap leave it to the end to save me skipping through to find out when it’s over!

Idle boast but I’ve done sessions with the engineer on the Montserrat sessions for that album- I think they had 2 tape machines each and he used 32 mics on the kit.

I used to bass for a Ceilidh band and there was a set of clients that insisted, in the Scottish tradition apparently, that the band ate first. A meal I remember with particular fondness is Eastor Castle banquet hall, all to ourselves, roast pork with sweetbreads and all the trimmings. Delicious!

Sectionals are perfectly normal practise in the classical world. Efficient use of time and stops the most mischievous and adhd sections of the orchestra- the brass and percussion going out of their tiny minds counting bars rest- only for the conductor to go back to start because the fourth desk viola was caught with their bow an inch above the strings.

Great call, love Bjork.

Peter Frampton?

Apologies for the earlier quotation marks, that was my recollection at being what I felt was fobbed off and in my defence I’d overslept, was late for work and shouldn’t have been posting at all! Here is the actual answer I received: ‘‘We really prefer not to get into those discussions because there are no set standards for how companies come to their RMS ratings and the number Itself doesn’t really mean much on its own. We use the ICE 700 power module in the BH.5 and the Pascal SPro2 in the Bullhead 1K and they both have detailed specs online. I wish I had a more satisfactory answer for you as I know the RMS value is a popular number to use to compare amplifiers. But unless the number is achieved using identical testing procedure the number really confuses more than helps.’ Still don’t know if their amp would blow my speakers or not be loud enough, even as a ball park- no sale.

I asked Trickfish straight up about their power ratings and they flat refused to give an answer. Similar to a post further up there was the ‘its impossible to qualify and there are so many variables’ argument. So I did vote- I didn’t buy one of their amps.

Many thanks, fortunately a fair way away!

Where’s he based please? I can only find ‘South West’ after a quick google.

I was at Bridges for the last Kingsley extravaganza, although I left before he was on the dancefloor still entertaining after the rest of the band had packed up. My wife and I were there with Lisa Ward, we’re good friends with them after 15-20 sessions at the studios over the last two decades. I’m based in Hereford and work with a producer who uses Rockfield a fair bit, (he’s just had a number 1 record in Holland where the drums were done at the quadrangle) if he needs a bassist once in a blue moon I get the call. I love the place and I don’t think Kingsley will be turning it into a museum anytime soon if Lisa can help it, they’re super busy at the moment!

Rockfield, the epicentre of Welsh rock'n'roll! Ever get down to visit Kingsley et al?

Our drummer gets super nerdy over the two different cowbells in Hard Days Night.

The thing about West side is although it is tricky, there’s not much in it that is stupid, because it’s arranged so beautifully. The Rumble certainly has some ‘corners’ (we never managed it the same every night!) but it’s clever. Let’s Have Lunch from Sunset is 10+ pages of bass concerto practically, key and time signatures changing constantly, all over the neck and just incessant. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMR6ecEPXI

Spamalot is a laugh, I’m on that this week. Legally Blonde is a good one, Sunset Boulevard is a beast but WSS remains the best in class for many reasons.