Been away for about 15 years...Who did i miss?

[Mokl]

Hey @Gizmo, I think you bought a Roland Bass Cube off me many moons ago!

 

Mononeon is my favorite notable player of late. Genius-level talent imho. Some of his playing with Ghost Note in particular is 👌

[Mokl]

The guy has the most astonishing sense of groove I've ever heard.

 

 

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[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Hellzero]

And let's not forget Fender's extraordinary achievement of having offered 7526 different versions of the exact same model each and every year for the Namm show since your 15 years of absence...

[SteveXFR]

12 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

And let's not forget Fender's extraordinary achievement of having offered 7526 different versions of the exact same model each and every year for the Namm show since your 15 years of absence...

 

Steady now. They've had some serious innovation. They did a new colour about 5 years ago. Thats serious innovation. 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The closest Fender got to perfection was in 2017 when the JMJ Mustang bass was launched. If they could now innovate with an identical bass, but with a 'closet classic' level of roadworn, their work would be done and no further innovation will ever be required.

[SteveXFR]

Id like to see a Fender 5 string headless fan fret active with triple pickups and built in cheese board.

[Gizmo]

On 23/01/2026 at 12:12, Dood said:

Welcome back Gizmo! It's been a while ey! 

Do you still have the basses you made? Will you be planning to get the luthiery tools out again? 

 

All the best!

 

Dooooood

 

Hey Doooooooood /bow you still rocking/proging that custom 7 string?

 

& Thx for the welcome back  Yep i keep those basses around.....mostly as a ref for "how not to build stuff" & While i've been away from the Bass seat (i got into shred/fusion & classical guitar....sorry  ) i did keep building stuff and even moved over to CAD/CNC just before Covid hit, I've been doing custom body and neck/fretboard work for folks who need a bit of help with their own builds or want replacement bodies for old gear etc etc for a few years now as well as some of my own guitar designs/builds, all spare/part time stuff but TBH im thinking of jumping into it full time later this year as a close death in the family has gotten me thinking about what i should be doing with my remaining days in this mortal shell (it also prompted me to pick up my basses again)...Im sure i'll get around to posting some build logs here soonish (i did post a few pics of current builds in the 3d printer thread) again thx for the welcome back

 

 

22 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

To get famous as a YouTube player, you need to slap 100 notes a second with an expression that suggests you've farted and its bad news. The playing should absolutely not sound good. 

 

New basses should be attacked with various abrasive tools to scrape off the paint in areas it would never actually wear through use.

 

Joe Dart is mostly about the smug expression. 

 

Metal bassists must own every Darkglass product and a fan fret, 5 string, active bass.

 

Jazz bassists now only use BC Rich Warlock basses.

 

Picks are now compulsory. 

 

You know if i only took note of YT as a ref for my  question it seems you are 83.33333333333333 % correct ! (apart from the Warlock thing  )  & YT was my first port of call to check in on what was New in the world of Bass....which i why i came here to ask the good Folk of BC for their input/output....seems Doublethump/sounding like a dotmatirx printer became a big thing !

 

Big thanks for all the feedback and replies /bow , Some of it is up my street, & other stuff not so much (although i am a lot more open minded that i was 15 years ago so i will give it all a listen) 

 

Other guys i've had on the new bassist (to me) playlist these past few days are 

 

Antoine Fafard (Sphere & Ad Perpetuum are both KIller prog/bass/fusion albums)

 

 

& 

 

Felipe Andreoli - Resonance

 

 

Johannes Zetterberg, some late 80/90's style fusion very CC EB 

 

 

Again thx for the replies and keep the rec's coming 

 

Cheers

Gizmo

[Gizmo]

12 hours ago, Mokl said:

Hey @Gizmo, I think you bought a Roland Bass Cube off me many moons ago!

 

Mononeon is my favorite notable player of late. Genius-level talent imho. Some of his playing with Ghost Note in particular is 👌

 

Hey Moki, I did i did (a cube 20) and it was a great little thing,these days im forced to use cans (please keep that noise to yourself) now i can't recall if i sold the cube on or if it got put in the attic or workshop somewhere...humm thanks for tripping the grey matter i'll try and find it!