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The only "lesser" item I take to gigs is my Vintage Tony Butler Sig Precision, as a backup to my main US Fender Precision. It`s a perfectly decent bass, will cover me for a gig should I need it and it saves me having to take 2 expensive basses along.

Sold a tuner to Stuart. Good comms, swift payment, advised both when item received and once used, so all good, a decent transaction from start to end.

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I think Blues list is pretty comprehensive, and pretty spot-on if wanting to avoid waste of time bands that talk about being in a band, but don`t actually do much/anything. If the people in a prospective band passed that list then I`m pretty sure I`d be able to get on with them, unless they were politicos, on either side of the spectrum.

Note consistency is a factor, but ease for me is the main thing. When I started it was whilst punk & new wave were big, all the bassists I saw on Top of The Pops were playing with a pick so as a kid I just thought that`s how you did it. I learned to play a bit with my fingers but I prefer playing with a pick, it feels more natural to me.

Well it`s a difficult one, I think if I got to the same position where I was playing a cheaper instrument live through necessity I`d still want to have my fave bass to play at home, as in all honesty I play far more at home than I do with the band. Similarly I would want to keep that one to record with as I just love the sound. My preference is for the US 2012-15 Series Fenders, but if I had to I`d be fine to use my Vintage Tony Butler live.

I find it all rather bizarre, Kevin. I`ve now had a set on the go for at least 3 months and whilst they don`t sound brand new there is much more life/zing left in them than I would have on a set of Rotosounds after 3 weeks.

Agree, Mark. When i saw a rather well-known punk band a few years back I was amazed at him "only" playing a Squier. And then I saw the amount of beer thrown at them throughout the set and realised maybe he didn`t want that happening to his more expensive instruments.

Three: Seasons in The Sun by Terry Jacks - was the first time I recall noticing the sound of the bass, though in all fairness at the age of 6 or 7 at that point I didn`t know what the bass was yet, I just liked the sound. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen - as soon as I saw the "live" bit in the video I knew I wanted to be a musician. Pretty Vacant by The Sex Pistols - the energy from that song told me my musical direction, and as bass was pretty up-front in the mix for many of the punk bands I knew it was that that I wanted to play.

When i worked on the Post Office counter there were certain forms of ID we could accept, and others that we couldn`t. I won`t explain why certain items were unacceptable, but there was often a way to apply common sense to a situation. Fair enough if there wasn`t then the rules were there, but said common sense not only made the customers day easier, it actually made your own day easier.

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I think learning to fret notes properly up and down a single string, then moving on to learning to do the same across the strings is a good place to start. If notes can be played without dead-fretting or buzzing, then go on to songs. And as mentioned, songs that the beginner likes, much more likely to keep interest that way, or certainly I did when I was learning.

What a great smile

Order a full size CTS pot online, will cost a couple of quid. See if it will fit, if so then I`d go with the KiOgon loom idea, quality easy to install products, same spec gear as what Fender put in their US basses. Yes you`ll have to probably widen the holes in the scratchplate but that`s not too difficult. I`d go for split-shaft pots rather than solid-shaft ones as well - sometimes the knobs on Squiers won`t fit the solid-shaft pots.

Just shows that the often dismissed talents of Mr Clayton are in fact greater than many give him credit for.

Must admit I thought it was Dave

I`ve never had a bad incident of sales or purchases on here. There have been some where the comms haven`t been that great, but never anything where there was a problem.

Try @Ashdown Engineering on here

I`ve seen a fair few pro bands using Squiers/Epiphones/Westones etc. I think it`s great that this happens, and I really wish my fave instruments to play weren`t US Precisions, but they just are, so I`ll have to live with it.

I can`t see this myself, how can AC/DC not have been taking rock uphill, or Guns N Roses, both quality bands imo.