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Sooooo, spent a fun hour or so the other night taking my 2022 Rickenbacker 4003 apart and checking all the connections, pots etc to figure out why the volume for one of the pickups wasn't working. Put it back together only to find I couldn't get the tone working either. Turned out I was turning the wrong knobs. I've been playing my Gibson EB-2D a fair bit recently, and the volume for the neck pickup is where the tone for the neck pickup is on the Rick. I have now invested in a set of labelled knobs from Rickysounds. This is another reason why I like Precisions.

Just out of curiosity last night I compared my Gibson EB-2 and Epiphone Jack Casady. The Gibson is 30" short scale but it is the same length overall as the 34" scale JC, and in fact they both have identical cases. Same as the 4030, the EB-2 has the same sized body but the bridge is in a different spot. So that was quite interesting.

Quite pleased with this shot the wedding photographer got of my bass at my brother-in-law's wedding a few weeks ago.

Newton Faulkner on Tuesday night. Solo guitarist blokey, very talented and also funny. Nova Twins last night. The sounds Georgia gets out of her bass are just ridiculous, they are massively talented.

I remember seeing Kenickie, fronted by Lauren Laverne, at a festival waay back in the '90s. It stuck in my memory purely because Lauren's between song banter was so brilliant, it was really disappointing every time they interrupted it with one of their awful songs.

Personally speaking, having a job, wife and children are 3 good reasons for my wanting to be IN a band.

I feel I must take issue here. The thread title clearly asks for IRRATIONAL prejudices.

My solution is to leave the covers on the bass. And if I want to play bass.... then I pick up a different one.

I think it’s worth bearing in mind that if you bought this, and then later decided to move it on, all the questions you’re asking now will get asked by potential buyers. I’d imagine plenty of them would have reservations about the same things we’ve discussed here, so it might not be the easiest bass to sell. If it’s a great player, then you might be ok, but if it’s not (and a warped neck won’t help) then I fear you’d be stuck with a bit of a dog.

Can't wait for Jools to do a Eurovision medley in the Legends slot at Glasto.

Is it just me, or is there a concerted effort this year for every snare drum to sound like someone dropping a wet cardboard box?

I have a P bass, a Jack Casady and an Ampeg. I can assure you it’s all three you want.

I chanced upon Father John Misty’s set and absolutely loved it. The bass player wasn’t doing anything flash but he was totally in the pocket, gorgeous tone out of a Gibson Triumph. Really cool.

I spot an opportunity for cunning guitar companies to sell "signature" models without having to pay the artists. Look out for the new Steve Via model from Ibanez any day now.