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I have to be careful being a recovering addict so I watch out when I see danger signs. GAS is the only exception. Can't control it I'm afraid. A while back I fitted flats to a semi acoustic bass just because I wanted to try them out. As time passed I picked it up in an increasingly desultory and infrequent fashion, finding the strings unlovely in the extreme. Uncomfortable, unresponsive, lumpen brutes which had an effect not dissimilar to that an olive has on my mouth; they sucked the joy from living. Then I read here that you need to play them in a bit so I resolved to learn a bunch of songs using only the flat strung semi. I reasoned that as the instrument was so hard to play, the fast twiddly bits would therefore be a doddle when I tried them on a bass slung with proper strings. But a weird thing has happened. After a couple of weeks learning the songs I duly retrieved my Stingray with it's normal roundwounds and recoiled in horror at the fizzy, twangy, brittle sound and strings so weedy and thin it was like playing a six string guitar. Now I don't feel I'm playing a real instrument unless I'm playing my lovely warm, gentle flats. I even have the tone knob turned off on the guitar to minimise any residual nastiness from the upper frequencies. Are these things addictive? Will I ever enjoy the twang and sizzle of skinny round strings again? Is there help?

I'm not sure if this will be helpful or not in resolving the concerns of the OP but I have some butter that tastes like a Jazz bass.

Me too, mine kept asking about my tax arrangements.

The inside of the original hard case for my Ovation Magnum 1 smells like a tramp's trousers, but only sometimes. I think it may be haunted.....

Did someone mention bad miming?

I tend to swap back and forth. As soon as I feel that I’m starting to get hooked - I swap. And it’s really hard not to get back to flats. I just swapped to roundwounds few days ago. Oh, I love flats...

One that always makes me laugh - "Best bass I've ever had but I'm selling it". "Best girlfriend I've ever had but I'm moving on".

Always pays to be honest and the seller will feel better knowing he hasn't misled someone. Everyone's a winner with an honest sale. Now I'm selling my Made in Dumbarton Jazz bass original copy with the lowest action i've ever seen. The strings actually sit on the 12th fret. Bridge is fully adjustable UP the way. Intonation doesn't matter with this incredible bass. Plays itself and the Truss rod is now glued in a fixed position to ensure staright-ish neck. The pick ups are so active i needed to fit them on the back of the bass and she plays like a Scotland mid-fielder on a soggy wet pitch with no boots. £3500 collection only as too valuable to post Anyone interested ??? EDIT to clarify :- the above bass does not actually exist it was merely a joke about ridiculous claims on basses. Dave

I might just have to take my 1980 SB-1000 out one of these nights. I've never gigged it since it was refinished a year or two ago. It was my only bass for about 10 years, so it did a few gigs back in the day

I genuinely put up why I sell stuff. ”I keep on buying stingrays, when I know I don’t get on with them” ”I buy 5’s when I need one for a project, then I quit projects...so I sell them” ”I have no money”

I once picked up a Rickenbacker...only once mind...

Or “like butter”? Seems like all of the second hand basses advertised online have that in the description.

Sorry, poor grammar,. 1 tea please sugar

SIT Silencers. Size , cant remember. Why, price Roto 77 . As above

TI flats. They just seem to improve with age and I love the floppy feeling that many others hate. Frank.

Damn he got me then. Hook, line and sinker.

I think Dad was having a little joke of his own.

Hmm... my sister has a printer that can print onto cloth, about 2 metres wide....

Marillion took it to extremes with Lavender - Fish had lost his voice so had the lyrics on a flip chart and pointed to them : Andy

If you'll excuse the 'analogy', it's a little bit like asking 'Why does a triangle have to have three sides..?' It's defined that way, and, in most music theory (not all, I'll admit; dissent is the spice of academic life, after all...), a chord is defined as being three or more notes heard together. Why does an interval have to be between two notes..? Because that's what an 'interval' is. Why does unison have to have only one note..? It's its definition, that's all. Same with chords, I'd say; may be wrong.

I'm going with " Yes, very addictive " Thought I'd give the Curbow some attention this afternoon. Cupboard revealed several sets of TIs,La Bella,Chromes,Cobalts,GHS,Olympia,Optima and Fender I went with the Sadowsky Blue Label for a change

What took you so long?!? Enjoy!

All the bands were miming, the audience knew they were miming and the people at home knew they were miming, what is the point pretending well? Some people took it to an artform, stand in dummies and the like, sure iron maiden, quo and motorhead did that. Then there are people that didn't even get round to it:

Second coat looking good:

I had this problem too. I've taken to using Herco thumbpicks and they've proved to be the ideal solution. One of the things I really like about them is that I can swap between pick and fingerstyle on the fly mid-song.

You have inspired me to learn this now, although I'll have to be downtuning my 4 string.

Thank you for all the lovely comments guys. So I am now in the process of pricing this up as an A2 print, to include P&P. I will have to source and buy some postage tubes but that's something that I've been looking at already as I have other poster designs that I'm trying to persuade people to buy... 😉😆

Interesting thought SB, and I think I can see why you make the point. Unfortunately the analogy doesn't carry over. As an anecdote to support the argument it has a certain cachet, but it really is no more than that.

Seems to be rackmountable, too...

mojo there was a thread recently on faceache cant remember where , the jist of which some young(er than me) whippersnapper was commenting whether he could justify calling something 'relic'd' to which i responded that you possibly could but beware of miserable old cynics such as myself who have been around the block a few times and know what roadworn look like as compared to careless and neglectful handling

It might have looked like I was trying to discredit your earlier reference to this book. I am sorry if it appeared so. That was not my intent. I am now thinking laterally about it. If you try to draw a shape (call it a chord for this example) using only two straight line segments (notes, if you will) you will not have enough lines to make a two dimensional drawing of a shape. You can imply some of the dimensions of the intended final shape but until three or more lines are present, you wont know whether you are looking at two sides of a triangle or a quadrangle or a pentagon.

We've gotta find this guy. Get him to the Bash next September.

That’s bloody lovely! The details are fantastic- lovely birdseye (?) neck, the fact it goes all the way through from back to front even on the fretboard, just, lovely! What does it sound like?

Got mine this year! Cellar guitars

Well having sold my AVRI 62 P and feeling rather sad about it. I decided the best thing to do was buy an AVRI Jazz. Found it on a Facebook group at a decent price so off I went to take a look It’s in pretty much brand new condition complete with the plastic on the plate and pegs. It does need a setup and the board needs oiling desperately, however I’m rather pleased with it ! Just need some flares now. Aint she pretty ?! ;-)

Maybe we're all spoilt with the Internet nowadays if there's folks complaining about seeing a bass for sale 500 miles away and the seller not wanting to post it. Perhaps go back to pre internet days bass hunting techniques, when all this gear was still for sale around the country but you just didn't see the adverts, so you didn't want it. You had to scan local papers or the stock a local shop carried, if you were lucky enough to have an instrument shop that carried basses local. Down here in Cornwall there was/still is very little. Personally I prefer it the way it is now. Even if 50% of sellers didn't want to post I've still got the opportunity to purchase a vast amount of instruments from around the country/world that just wasn't readily available 20 years ago. Nobody used to post basses because nobody outside of say a 30 mile radius would see the advert. We all coped back then and I think things are slightly better now

Tom Petersson's original basses were made by Hamer. The idea being that Cheap trick wanted the biggest sound they could get. The singer Robin Zander occasionally plays a 12 string guitar. He still uses one to this day and his most recent one is a beauty - a Gretsch White Falcon the price tag is eye watering but I think in terms of looks it might even beat the Chandler Royale

Why do you need to? I don't like thirds much (especially the major 3rd) which on the guitar always sounds slightly dissonant to me so I'll either leave it out all together or replace it with a 9th which I find far more interesting and musically pleasing. And to answer the OP as soon as you play more than one note at the same time it's a chord IMO.

Chords are lovely on bass.

Wikipedia's topics 'Dyad' and 'Power chords' are worth a glance, too.

3 is the minimum.

I think people are nervous about couriers, and giving the relentless rise in web-based retail and the 'next day delivery' promise the pressure on the logistics side of the business is only going to increase. The slightly inevitable consequence, given the power of the big players like Amazon, will be price pressure on the service deliverers and therefore probably less care. The delivery vans are routinely over programmed each day and surprise, surprise most companies use transits as they are not required to have a tacho to monitor driver hours and rest periods, not to mention speeds. I spent some time working in logistics management so I know a number of the 'compromises' being made.

Got it in one! When we were working on the 12XN Gen 3 models we also looked at replacing the '69er and Super Fifteen with some improved versions (using the same drivers) which we planned to called the Retro610 and Retro215. But then we ended up developing our 10CR driver which meant the new Six10 could also do the job of the 2x15" in terms of huge output in the lows (which the previous '69er wasn't so good at). Since 2008 we've made the following bass cabs (grouped in rough times they were launched): Compact, Big One, Vintage Midget, Super Twelve, Big Baby, Big Twin, Super Fifteen, Dubster '69er Super Midget, Super Compact, Super Twin, Big Baby 2, Big Twin 2 Six10, Two10 (these were briefly called the Retro Six10 and Retro Two10) One10, Eight10, Four10 The ones in bold are all still in production.