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The only way I will go to any kind of festival is if I was playing, and be there only while I was playing.

My amp, house cab for this evening...

Rounds on a P bass 😁

Well, look fast. Im only in the video for about 8 seconds. Blue

Hate the whole 'Hack' thing... How many times has the 'spring gone ping' and stuck to the magnet on the underside... so here is a P Bass Pickup Fitting Tip... works equally well for J and other pups... I added a foam off cut to the body, as the foam on the back of the pickups was not thick enough to hold the bobbins in the covers... the pickups were too low and the springs were also getting fully compressed... Cocktail sticks in the screw holes... Springs on... then pups over the cocktail sticks... you can get a pointy thing in there to sort the wiring run. Remove one stick at a time and replace with adjustment screw... Use a sandwich bag between screwdriver tip and screw head to protect finish. I like a fairly compressed spring as it makes the pup a stronger anchor, lightly compressed springs, and/or soft or lightly compressed foam allow a lot of movement... pushing in.

Just having a little trip down memory lane with Sparks. Still as mad as a box of frogs. Voice is holding out though.

Hard Hobbit To Break ～ Chicago

GK MB112/MBP!

Our little Mexican project will be playing in our favourite old dive on Friday. It’s well rehearsed , we have two trumpets in the band , it will be our second gig.

I regret never going to Glastonbury. With the crazy demand and hype nowadays I doubt I’ll ever get the chance. However, every year I smear h as much of it as I can in the Big British Castle. And every year I love it. No different this year. Day 1 has been excellent. Foos (I’m not a fan) Unknown mortal orchestra Carly Rae Jespen (never heard of her) Billynomates (first ever listen) All been excellent. Royal Blood …..🥱 It really is a magical weekend. Right, I’m off to have too many shrooms and sleep in my garden. ✌️

£255 which is amazing. Think he lost £450 in the scam so I’m sure this has eased his pain a bit

You can't get a roller into a paint pot, either, but folk paint walls with 'em. Imagination, son; imagination. +

I’m nearly ready with mine there are just 3 things that I don’t think are quite right yet. the start the middle and the end

Here are some of my favourite exercises that I suggest to students who want to maintain their technique while practising things that actually get used in the music they play:

The unloved child of the Fender corporation? I'm rather taken with mine. Both US Deluxe HH, one has an extra string.

Well that's a mouthful! 😁 I've had a Squier Bass VI since they released them but, like many, have never really got on with the string spacing, it's fine if you played it like a guitar. The Eastwood is much more like an actual bass. I'd been keeping an eye open for a used Eastwood but they just never seem to come up for sale. This one had been on facebook for a while but was too expensive for me, £300 more than new as it's one of the limited edition Fac51 Hacienda ones, so I'd kind of been toying with ordering a new one. I was selling stuff to buy the Peavey T40 I'd mentioned in other threads (I won't bore you) but the seller has decided to keep it. Feeling a little deflated I looked up the Eastwood ad and the seller had reduced it substantially. I made an offer and we struck up a deal. Now, I wasn't after the Hacienda one, it's kind of tacky, and being only 51 made is more of a collectable than a player, but I got it for a couple of hundred less than a new standard one so what does it matter? And being a huge Joy Division/New Order fan helps. It'll sit nicely with my Yamaha BBPH. It's never been played, just bought then squirelled away, so is absolutely mint condition. It's actually way nicer in the flesh than the pictures online make it look. Well built, lovely finish (I'm a fussy git) and really nice neck wood with quite a bit of quilting and grain, it looks really 3d as you move it in the light. It feels so much better than the Squier to play, the stock strings are fine and the spacing feels much better for me. Although wide, the neck is very shallow so feels very comfortable. It sounds fantastic, of course I had to put it through my EHX Bass Clone and play some New Order. 😁 It was bought as a 'let's see' kind of bass, which is why I was after second hand. But after a few hours of playing I can already tell it's a keeper, it just feels right where every other Bass VI I've tried doesn't. Anyway you must be bored by now so here's some pictures. 😉

Two recent acquisitions. First came the BB2000 (from Alex Carr). I’d lusted after a BB2000 since receiving their catalogue when Making Music Magazine did the old business reply card system. As a young musician, I gazed/drooled for hours at the BB pages. I was never into Fenders at the time so I’m not sure why I was so fixated on them. I drove down to Reading and collected this 1982 bass at the beginning of April. What a stunning bass. Change of strings and a Setup to my preferences and it floored me. Stunning tone and playability. The MC924 I drove to a gorgeous village outside Tonbridge on Saturday and brought it home with me. I got it from the original owner who bought it new in 1980. I had an MC900 which I sold foolishly around 20 years ago. They’ve always been in the back of my mind with the intention to replace it. The neck on this one is far superior to the one I sold, the clarity of the tone is so much better than I remember too. Again, string change, Schaller straplock buttons and setup and it’s a beautiful player. Both keepers.

In a few minutes I shall be revisiting the heady days of 2005 when a mate asked me if I wanted to see a band he'd heard on Zane Lowe's new music show on Radio 1. Ended up at the Wolverhampton Little Civic to watch the Arctic Monkeys playing to a sold out crowd of around 100 people. Damn good they were too, though neither me or my mates had any inkling of their imminent meteoric rise. As the only band I've ever seen in a tiny venue that went on to become genuinely massive and stay the course (for nearly 2 decades now) they've always had a special place in my heart.

I am old school and with you on that. Blue is in the groove and staying out of the way. Way to go

No one could accuse you of that. If you did, well, you picked the wrong instrument! Should have been the lead guitarist! Nice work mate, that was very good!

Another vote for Feline https://felineguitars.com/ Jonathan is a stone cold genius.

I hope "your friend" found it in the end for a nice snooze.

Every Sperm is Sacred - Monty Python

Senses Working Overtime XTC

80s classic with Vince Clarke on synth bass Yazoo - Don't Go

Blood On The Rocks ～ Neil Diamond

No, I’ve just got back home after doing it today. I was a bit sweaty when I got there, but we are a dad-rock covers band so it wasn’t a problem 🤗. To be honest, walking there started out as a necessity as my car needed serious repairs I couldn’t afford. The wife’s car wasn’t always available, bus times were unsuitable for rehearsal times so, it was hoof it time. I’m a regular long-distance walker. Often with my brother, who is an ex-Royal Marine suffering PTSD. I’m the only one who can cope with his hours of silence, sudden mood-swings and (almost) match his drinking capacity.

Take My Breath Away ～ Berlin

^ I tried something similar with a wood TRC...

Massive sellers regret coming on lately over the one I let go in 2021☹️ Overall vibe, neck feel and profile, string spacing etc are very, very close to a StingRay 5HH. In between sounds were wonderful. I've realised I've partly now got a Sterling Ray35HH( which is a lovely bass in its own right) not kust because it is half the price of a used full fat USA one, but also about trying to atone for some of the Dimension Deluxe 5HH sellers regret I currently have. Trust me, If you see one come up for sale, buy it!!

If you make a mistake, look at the guitarist, drummer or vocalist. It was definitely their fault.

yea it dances in time with everything, its got better timing than me 🙂