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24 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

To be fair, though, there’s few other bands that will have you with your hurdy gurdy 

You leave my hurdy-gurdy out of this! The doctor says it's a perfectly normal one for a man of my age.

20 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

Agree with you mostly  but there is a case for artificially enhanced buttocks. 👍 Not all are blessed with great posteriors 😥. Some I've seen look like sacks of spanners or are even cheek-less!😱 .

As for the Queen film I'll be giving it the same wide swerve that I've given to their musical. If I'm gonna be shelling out a tenner plus for the privilege of risking DVT I'll save my dosh for Sharknado VIII ☺️

Nah, for me it's 'real bum or no bum'. Sharknado! Now you're talking! Never fails to deliver.

On 31/10/2018 at 09:59, drTStingray said:

...you could almost hear all those eardrums popping as the died in the wool folkies wrenched their one finger from one ear in unison...

I fecking hate folk and folkies! Wait... that would explain why I don't like our banjo player *revelation* 

58 minutes ago, 12stringbassist said:

The backlash in the press about it seems a bit ridiculous.

It might be pretty good, then. Back in the day when people read reviews in Time Out before going anywhere in London, you could be sure of a good time if you exclusively went to things that the Time Out journos didn't like... but generally if the public like something, then I won't. Viz: Strictly, BGT, EastEnders, any currently-successful pop act, pizza, burgers, painted-on eyebrows, the Ford Mondeo, artificially-enhanced buttocks, and on and on.

Actually, the Mondeo is a good car. But you get my drift.

On 27/10/2018 at 17:17, drums1977 said:

I guarantee whoever gets this will giggle with happiness.

Just the pictures are making me chortle. But my bank balance is making me cry.

This thread is an emotional rollercoaster!

I had a seized Limelight bridge too. Soaked it in WD40, left it for a day or two, heated the saddle screws with a gas flame, done. Works perfectly - it's now on my Jazz Bitsa. Non-issue.

Wow, bargain!

6 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Maybe it was a 2007 us fender jazz bass.  Did you want the card back 😀

Ha! Not mine. Keep the card, my pack has at least five aces in it...

14 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I took a shim out of a neck pocket once and it was the ace of spades 

Was it one of mine?

19 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Er, I’m about to leave the house and drive to Gatwick for an early morning 14 hour flight to the Caribbean.

Holy crap! At least you're not flying the plane. Or are you?? 

Just now, Bridgehouse said:

...it seems everything inanimate hates me at the moment

Switch off your electricity at the fuse box and carefully make your way to bed. Try to keep very still during the night. You'll be fine.

2 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

He doesn’t have an office in Penckham you know 

I dont know where that is. 

9 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

...he might be able to offer an explanation...

'No refunds.'

On 29/10/2018 at 13:30, Newfoundfreedom said:

I doubt I'd even recognise Brian May if his hair was in my soup. 

Actually, his hair looks nice in a bun.

9 hours ago, cetera said:

'John Deacon' anyone?

No thanks, I just put one out.

34 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Jons view is this is a catastrophic truss rod failure - I tend to agree

In all seriousness, yes. It's very difficult to physically break a neck in that way, regardless of cack-handedness.

1 minute ago, Woodinblack said:

Not a great thing to happen. Would love an uberhorn, but maybe not so much now!

Don't let Bridgehouse's cack-handed fettling put you off! 

Don't know where I was or what I was doing when these came out, but I like it! Something very MM Sabre about it.

2 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

Should you use a red or a black suite playing card to shim a bass with a through neck? Enquiring on a behalf of an acquaintance.

Depends entirely on what's trumps. 

I think the ULEZ is a fantastic notion, especially as my car seems to be exempt. Yah! Boo! Sucks! OK, that's not very sympathetic. But we gotta get diesels outta the city, man! What about the children? Won't somebody think of the children??

2 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

 Cheered me up tho

That's the main thing. As long as you're not thinking about your broken bass - D'OH! 

Just now, Bridgehouse said:

I only got them cos they look neat. 

Well that was a complete waste of invective.

17 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

I’ve got a set - it would be hard to do this with a card as the shims are wedge shaped - the pack comes with different angles.

You really don't need a wedge. A thin strip of material will do the job across the neck pocket at the heel end. There is of course a huge thread on TalkBass about the merits or otherwise of leaving a (God forbid) GAP under the pocket end of the neck, but in my experience it really makes no difference to tone or sustain. Assuming you had any tone or sustain in the first place. Need a more extreme angle? Stick another bit of playing card in there. It works.

There are those who claim to be able to tell if a neck is shimmed, what it's shimmed with and if there's a (gasp) GAP under the heel end, but I put those people in a box along with those new-age types who claim to be able to tell the difference between different types (and prices) of mains cables by the SOUND, can tell how much an effects pedal battery is DRAINED (sounds different!) or can tell how OLD pickups are by the perceived level of MAGNESTISM they have - or don't have. It's all a great big steaming pile of DUNG. 

I use a 1cm strip off a playing card cut to heel shape - doesn't seem to compress like other card or paper, works very well. If I want to raise the whole neck I'll use a whole card in there - usually a Joker, or the Ace of Spades - for mojo and coolness. Yes, I know. 

17 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

I’m struggling with it. Probably natural I expect. I’m sure a week away will help me to get my thinking straight. I’ve been contemplating a 5 for a while - I now need to decide whether to go fretted or fretless with it. Thinking about a five is helping me to not think about it sitting there I must admit. I’m just not sure whether to go fretted and replace the Finn 4 with something more flexible or go fretless and have that as my gigging fretless bass.

Just get rid of everything except for the 4-string P bass, and play that. You're wasting time. 

Edit: JOKE. Sorry.