Beer of the Bass

A conventional repair would usually involve access from both sides, so a top or back off job, which is either going to be an expensive luthier job or a big DIY one. And it's pretty much in the location where some modern bass makers have put sound ports. The example in the link uses multiple small holes, but one oval just large enough to cover the missing parts would look neat and deliberate. I think I'd want some sort of cross-grain reinforcement on the inside of the hole just for stability and to stop any hairline cracks from spreading https://uptonbass.com/product/arnold-schnitzer-upton-bass-ergo/

Moe Foster did some articles in the 90s Bassist magazine, as far as I can remember his Jazz bass looked fairly conventional. He did say the ebony fingerboard had come from a double bass, but presumably it had had been cut down to normal Jazz bass proportions. edit; OK, in the link it looks to have a somewhat extended fingerboard, but not so much that it only had room for one pickup, maybe 2 octaves or so?

Also Georgie Born with Henry Cow in the 70s, she was coming from cello and I think she hadn't played bass before the band. Though that was on a short scale Dan Armstrong bass which would have been less stretchy for the left hand than a Fender.

I got distracted with various things and missed the date slipping by!

Usually four string sets are labelled I to IV in Roman numerals, with O for Orchestra or S for solo on the other side of the ball. But I've never had a low B or high C, those might be labelled differently.

I know a couple of years ago when I was looking at acoustics in Glasgow, GuitarGuitar were just a little more engaging and able to chat about what I was looking for in a helpful way than the other shops with new guitars were, and I like that they have some used guitars too. I ended up with a used 2020 Gibson G45, not an option that was originally on my shortlist, but playing it in person next to to others I just liked it.

That's a shame, I'd nip in for guitar strings sometimes, though I think my only major purchase from them was the great Ampeg PF50T blowout of 2018 (that one's still serving me well).

I *almost* posted about it, but then I thought it was surely the one album that anyone talking about his double bass playing would already know. It's a great one, he's all over the bass and it certainly changed the whole business of latin jazz bass playing, but the focus of the group setting steers away from some of the excesses he might go for on solo albums.

It's a good sound overall, I can hear the noises you mean but it's only on the first example that I might consider trying another take if it was for a recording. It sounds like it's in the way you release stopped notes with the left hand, I suspect you'll instinctively adjust your left and right hands to minimise it as you get more familiar with the new setup.

Ah, so it also carries the implication that you'd like to whack them with a drumstick!

It's a shame in a way, Mr Sapko does have a good feel for a particular flavour of rock bass playing, I'd be way happier to see that front and centre rather than becoming the callout guy. But I guess that's YouTube again.

If both surfaces are flat and clean, 3M 467 double sided adhesive sheet should do the job, it's the stuff often used to apply pickguards to acoustic guitars. The K&K guitar systems (using similar discs inside the guitar) are usually applied using a drop of gel superglue, which is not as drastic as it sounds - provided you don't use an excess amount it can usually be popped off again by prising it with a single edged razor blade.

Jeff Berlin is one who could probably warrant his own thread (though it wouldn't go well). Facebook keeps thrusting his posts and other people's responses at me, and I can only think that however fine a player he may be/have been, he hasn't been a well man for the last decade or more.

It's confusing; to be lifting all those lines as closely as he is, he has to have fairly high-level transcribing skills even if the actual playing of the lines might be massaged a little. It's a surprising amount of work to put in for something that's still passing off other people's work. I feel like most people able to do that probably have the skills come up with their own variations "in the style of", if they wanted to. So beyond the "what" and the "how", the "why?" part is puzzling me.

That was definitely a factor in going for the PF50T rather than holding out for a bigger beast going cheap (as they sometimes do). The cost of one pair of 6L6 isn't going to be too much of a financial catastrophe, and now it's out of warranty I'm fairly sure I could figure out most issues myself, where some of the bigger lads increase in complexity too.