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No not being rude at all. Thankfully we cut the set list to 20 songs The first half of the gig went well, almost flawless. The second half was mostly ok but a few bum notes, mostly in the song that I anticipated that there would be (tried to get the singer to axe that song but he won't) , thankfully none of the audience seemed to notice and we received a few compliments afterwards. All in all I consider it to be a minor success and hopefully we will play tighter on the next gig.

A rule of thumb that applies across most 'durable' goods is that once they show any signs of use the value drops to about 60% of new. You might get more for immaculate with-box items, most most buyers willing to pay, say, 80% of new value for a perfect example will usually consider going tehe xtra mile and buying new to get a warranty etc. It's very easy to assume that because I paid X for this and it's 'still as good as when I got it' that it should retain most of its original value. Obviously these rules don't apply where scarcity/collectability is a genuine factor. Also worth bearing in mind that (a) 'there's one born every minute' applies to buyers and sellers and (b) the secret to selling for a good price or buying a bargain is patience and willpower (plus a little luck).

It did! I'd link to my post under the gig last night thread but I can't find how to link a specific posting, so: We were the 'Grizzly Beers' and on second. The sound was spot on as you might expect from a venue with a proper stage and a list of past bands like this: Were were hoping not to make fools of our selves but in the end we had a great reception and everyone was saying how good we were, especially how we fitted all the instruments together. We started with Going Back Home as easy to play and a crowd pleaser. The Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting which is a tad more challenging! Our secret weapon was Boulevard of Broken dreams where we got all those stops spot on, including the end - our effort to practice endings really paid off. We did 40 minutes and finished with My My, Hey Hey. I started it with my HM2 pedal dialled and a plaintive howl of feedback, calmed down a bit for most of the song, and finished with HM2, tremelo, flanger, EQ and chorus on and the compressor off! The plan was to go out with a bang and it turned out we managed to make a picture fall off the wall at the far end of the building in the next room 🙂 We ended witha group hug! A few moments of sheer terror, but in the end we all had a brilliant time and the other bands were great too! We are meeting up in a couple of weeks top discuss a plan for world domination!

I've just received a custom pedal from James and wanted to let everyone know what great service I received from him. Originally, I just wanted a simple A/B switch with volume control, but with an added tuner mute. James said no problem and sent me a design and quote. Then I realised I could add in the EQ switching for my Little Marcus amp to reduce clutter on the floor at gigs. Again, a revised design and (very reasonable) quote sent through in a matter of hours. Pedal arrived today. Looks terrific. Kudos to James and BOP!

Ok people... I couldn’t resist. I have to say the neck on this 1100s is gorgeous, I can’t believe anyone would sell it. Just restrung with some roundwounds, nothing special, I’m thinking about some flats. Got some lovely bottom end and nice and bright too when needed. Not bad for a 30 yr old!!

Did you know that "jurassic nonsense" is an anagram of Joe Bonamassa?

Dinosaur twaddle

Exactly! Just as 'jazz cigarettes' aren't just for mirth-hoovers with black turtle-necks & goatee beards By-the bye... The origin of the word "jazz" has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to "jasm", a slang term dating back to 1860 meaning "pep, energy". The earliest written record of the word is in a 1912 article in the Los Angeles Times in which a minor league baseball pitcher described a pitch which he called a "jazz ball" "because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it". The use of the word in a musical context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a musical context in New Orleans was in a November 14, 1916 Times-Picayune article about "jas bands". In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, "When Broadway picked it up, they called it 'J-A-Z-Z'. It wasn't called that. It was spelled 'J-A-S-S'. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, you wouldn't say it in front of ladies." Mr Fender probably had this in mind more that 'jazz music' when he named the Jazz Bass. Just sayin'

It's interesting just how many people know about this yet continue to pretend it doesn't happen. I think we're all in a state of denial. Some interesting work has been done on this by a guy from the Ballistics Studies department of the University of Southern California. He suggests - with certain caveats - that the perpetrator may have been Gibson's friend Paddy Voorman. At his trial Gibson said 'I was present at the shooting but I wasn't involved'. Dorothy Ford herself said that she wasn't entirely sure who pulled the trigger, only that it was "a European with a pudding-basin haircut" and that "he was wearing ankle boots with a Cuban heel". For myself, I am inclined to agree with the 'Gibson Shot Mary Ford's Mother' theory until someone presents contradictory evidence of a more robust nature than that advanced by some dope-smoking, pencil-necked Californian academic.

And this is why guitarists are always a nightmare when it comes to inears. Playing for themselves instead of the overall sound of the band. Bad for your hearing? In the fact that you can have a lower SPL? If JB has explored Klang and all the ambient options available, then I would be receptive of his wide, sweeping statements. In Ears have reduced the amount of people that have resulted in having chronic tinnitus... I'd say that's saving your ears. I find it interesting that all those that don't advocate the use of IEMs (typically the old school rockers) - are all the ones that are struggling with insufferable ringing ears. As for comments about the dynamics... the sounds engineers are in control of the dynamics that audience hear anyway, whether you are using IEMs or not. If your guitar rigs are overpowering the PA, then the balance of music that the audience here is greatly compromised anyway. Better to have a set of ears out front where the audience are to balance the mix. Fatter and fuller sound - he's saying a desk full of processing and a PA with full range reproduction can't produce a fatter and fuller sound? Err... try getting a fuller and fatter sound out of your kick drum without any processing and see how far you get. If you can't get a fatter and fuller sound, it's down to poor engineering or inadequate tools... not down to the concept of running a quieter stage with the PA doing the work. I think we can say that JB is a dinosaur who doesn't give a stinky poo about the health of his own, or other people's hearing. But hey, that's rock n roll.

I recently put TI flats on my Fender 74 AVRI Jazz Bass and they have been a revalation! I can now pretend to be Larry Graham, Robbie Shakespear or just a middle-aged bloke with aspirations to be a hipster. Win-Win!

"Come on, guys, let's tidy the joint!" 😀

….Born To Be Mild....

Well, this has been quite a project. A little over two years ago I bought my first Precision. I wanted a shoreline gold one, but since those only came in unaffordable price brackets, I bought a Mexican P with the foolish idea of refinishing it myself. Having had prior experience with utterly destroying a guitar’s resale value, the one good idea I had was deciding to build my own body (with help) and finish that instead. So far, it’s already had a pretty rough gigging life, but it’s my absolute favourite guitar ever. After swapping out pretty much everything else, I decided to purchase a lovely carbon-reinforced neck from a builder in the south of Holland. So, after an agonising period of waiting and having to miss my favourite bass - at long last - here’s the result. On the right is the old bass, and on the left is what resulted from changing pretty much everything about it to my personal preferences. It’s frighteningly resonant and it has ridiculous, Tufnel-esque sustain - even if it turned out a bit heavier than I imagined... Anyway, there are many P’s out there, but this one is mine. Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with the old one.

None of the readers of that who will pay attention to it will be actual musos who play big venues. they’ll be bonermassa fanboys banging out shoddy blues in the dog and donkey on a Saturday night - obnoxiously loud. Dangerous ideas for people who are easily lead. i have tinnitus from similar thinkers

The first band I was in had a terrible name but we were popular locally and couldn't change as pubs would just advertise us with the original name. The events leading to the hasty naming involved a group of mates that got together with instruments in someone's kitchen once a week, not a band as such, just having a laugh. We went to the pub one evening to see a band and one guitarist was trying to chat up the barmaid with the old, "Oh yeah, I'm in a band you know", line. It worked so well he got us a booking and she asked the name of the band to put in the diary. We weren't a band and we had no name. He looked around for inspiration and a random bloke was wearing a bobblehat, erm "The Bobblehats" he said, Tw@t. Anyway we had to choose who would play what a get a set together in three weeks. The gig was horrendous and amazing at the same time. I had massive feedback issues for the first half but got it sorted in the break, at the end a bloke came up and congratulated me on my amazing sound in the first half but didn't like what I'd done to it in the second. It was noisy, raucous, and ferocious and people were dancing on tables and anything that would move got dragged out and danced on/broken. We were paid and the banned from ever playing there again. I learnt a lot that night, not least that we were The Bobblehats and the name stuck. Moral of the story, pick your name wisely, it might haunt you for a long time.

And if you try it, please film it

Have you read “This is Hawkwind - Do Not Panic”? Apparently Ginger Baker wasn’t too impressed with Harvey and kept telling him what a terrible bassist he was. But then if you look in the dictionary under “silly billy”, I’m pretty sure whose picture you’ll see..... ”Silly billy”? Really?????? That’s not even close to what I actually typed.😂

Some friends of mine formed a band after many years in separate bands...."Old Country Union"

I'm in Sad Lovers And Giants The name was contrived to suit the acronym...oohhh 39 years ago....

That's a bit rich coming from ol' Fifty Shades of Teebs....

NO!!! There are RULES!!! And they must be followed!!! Deviance will not be tolerated!!!

Right. Melfunkshaun! The OP can't have this name until I have exhausted all possibilities of getting a Melvin and a Shaun in my band and then being happy that they aren't going to assassinate each other because it sounds a bit like Melvin jumps Shaun's bones as a part of the performance. It's that or bully some innocent musicians into changing their names by deed poll on the thin promise of a lucrative five year touring schedule.

Yep - I actually don't associate the sound of a Jazz with zingy top end at all. To me, the sound is round and full like JPJ, or all bridge pickup burp like Jaco. I'm aware that people like Marcus Miller use theirs for bright slappy tappyness, but it's not a sound I could ever see myself needing.

Oh please. Read the previous comments. We all know a jazz bass isnt just for jazz.

Ultimately, does any form of music have to 'say' anything? Giving pleasure/provoking an emotional response should be enough. Rock used to have 'something to say' when it was new, brash and anti-establishment, but the passing of time has made it part of our culture and, therefore, makes it more difficult for it to shock or be confrontational (but not impossible). There's plenty of new stuff out there and my gauge is whether I like it musically, not whether it has 'something to say'. YMMV.

I think you are way too hard on yourself. English is hard. I followed your meaning without difficulty. I work with native born speakers of English who are much less understandable than you.

I'd try to provide a video, and at a push I would provide proof of ID (albeit suitably redacted for MY peace of mind), but I'd definitely draw the line at social media 'friendship'.

Shout out to EBS_freak who suggested a couple of IEMs. I went for ZT ZS10 and I'm bowled over just how good they are and the quality/definition of the various instruments and voices in the mix. The drums, in particular, had a wonderfully full sound - the kick and floor tom were to die for (obvs I was playing them!). An absolute bargain at around £40. Peace Davo

That was after they did the place up in 2012. It’s gone downhill a bit since then.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know...you remember when it was all fields, proper values, bovril, lard, Empire etc... Does he really? Hmmm... Oh yes, I'm 'The Metropolitan Elite' me... ...but with attitude This bit is true, at least

Hahaha. Saw what you did there, you young scamp, you. It looks quite pleasant - there’s something almost....’english’ about the look of it even though it’s an all USA thing. Not really my cup of tea though so your GAS attack missed by a country mile I’m a straight Class D kind of gal and I have all the amps I need, thank you. I will restrict my GAS to a nice walnut 4003s (with flats) just as soon as I’ve sold a few things to raise the funds 😋 The kids, for starters. They can go. And it’s not like we really neeeeeed furniture. Packing crates were good enough for my mum and dad so they’re good enough for me. As to the Nexus strings, they’re fantastic on a guitar and last for aaaaaages but somehow I just didn’t get on with them on a bass. You clearly like them but, as Ricky says, that’s probably more of an S&M, art-rock thing. You sophisticated metropolitan types up in the meedja city there, with your black bass strings. It’s like the Citadel out of the Hunger Games. But more rainy, obvs

This song is 21 years old...

I suspect that many of the 50+ers no longer look for new music - after all it's young'uns who tend to do the more interesting and ground-breaking stuff and the oldies plough the same old comfy rut... Not only that but the kids don't know what rock is and are more interested in textickling and them vlogs about make-up. And you've got to remember that looking for new rock'n'roll is a lot of bother when your joints are aching and the nurse is telling you it's time for your cocoa dear 😜

I normally just google it to see who’s doing deals, they’re not cheap and they seem to have gone up recently too. Wunjo sell them for £45 if you need them urgently and you happen to be in central london. They last forever though, I only change them when they get damaged, the nylon wrap doesn’t like getting bashed against hard surfaces.

If tuned correctly, I imagine they're E A D G (from left to right in the photo). Hope this helps

I don't think a short video demonstrating the instrument is a particularly unreasonable request, but I'd run a mile from anyone demanding proof of ID and social media acceptance just to buy an instrument, or anything else for that matter. I've sold cars worth thousands of pounds with nowhere near that amount of hassle. I'm not being funny but I wouldn't sell an instrument to you in a million years. You sound like you'd be a nightmare to deal with and life's too short. I'd rather lose the sale and sell it to someone else, or even keep it before sharing personal details (other than what is necessary) with a potential buyer.

Daddario tapes on P’s, J’s and PJ’s all the way for me. I don’t slap but I don’t think tapes would be ideal for slap, they have a very dark and juicy tone for finger style, and they’re great for digging in, but they don’t have that metallic sound at all, it’s a much more subtle tone than that. I love them though, if it wasn’t for tapes I don’t think I’d be able to play the music I like playing, I swear by them.

Perhaps it’s cold.

Got mine a few days ago, a lot of book for £22! Only downside is now I want more basses!

Malfunktion.

We were going to call our pub playing, covers band, Quiz Night...

Friendship on social media? I don't think so.

Keep the old one as back up or fit different strings, flats maybe?

If somebody asked me for a video of a bass I was selling I'd have to say no. My phone doesn't take videos. On a general level, if a buyer requires the level of information the OP seems to be demanding then the buyer needs to decide if this kind of sale is right for him. Seems like he needs to see the bass and play it before he hands over his cash. I understand that once bitten twice shy is a valid view point and bad experiences make people wary, but if the OP is so particular or worried then he needs to see that bass. As a seller, I have dealt with a very picky buyer and in the end I decided it wasn't worth the hassle because after I had sent him the bass he was probably going to find a fault and try to back out of the deal. To the OP, there will be another bass along later. Wait until you can try the bass.

This just arrived today, bought on here from Ovi. My gawd it’s epic!!!!

I made one. It's self adhesive strip foam stuck to an ice lolly stick. It works brilliantly. The mute effect is quite strong so I'm going to experiment with different width of foam. Might even angle it so the D and G have less muting. $40 for a Nordy one can sod off. I've got enough foam and sticks to make about 50 of them for about £10