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Reminds me of what I read re Darryl Jones when he joined The Rolling Stones and when he asked Keef how the basslines went. The reply was “you tell me, you’re the bassist”.

I had one of the white ones and agree, really good instruments.

Think you made the right call there

In a similar vein when I was a teenager I had a dog chain fixed around my wrist, when I got a job as an engineer the manager said at the interview it would have to come off as I could potentially lose my hand on the machines I would be working on. I’m glad to say that my punky teenage self thought far more of keeping my hands than of fashion sense.

Great start, hope you get the position @JazzyJ

The singer in my last band always wanted to put together Boney Oi, as in an Oi band playing Boney M songs.

I’m going to try, aside from strings and works needed I’ve got everything I need so fingers crossed I can last this one out.

Agree, we really are spoiled for light portable gear now.

I left my last band due to the workload, which was getting more intensive as we progressed. I would have loved to have stayed but I would have held them back from their full potential as well as right royally doing myself in health wise. Whilst this band sounds great - drummer interference on bass matters aside - I get the feeling you’ve virtually made your mind up, shame it does sound like a band that’s doing great stuff.

My thoughts are if the same is made every time the song is played by a band then it has to be addressed by someone in the band so as to try and get it right. But a one off mistake, well we can all make those, listen to some of the live work by Slash, a great guitarist but even he hits a wrong note at times. Though saying that, in my last band we had a way of dealing with mistakes at gigs. If one of us dropped a howler it would be announced and then we would play our song Wanchor in dedication to said howler maker. It certainly meant that very few mistakes were ever made.

Ken!!!

If I recall correctly it was Verse is F, Eb, Bb Chorus is F, Ab, Bb

Think the above is spot on

There’s a used V2 Duff at Classic And Cool Guitars for £1150

I keep looking at that black 1100s. My first “proper” bass was a 1987 1100s so more than a bit of nostalgia leading me.

Sounds like a Friday afternoon instrument to me. I’ve got 3 Mexican made JMJ Mustang basses and all 3 are superb quality.

The highest tension strings - roundwounds - I’ve used are Rotosounds, Warwick Red Label and Fender. Many moons ago back in the late 80s I was in a band that detuned to D and used Roto 50-110s.

I use Elixirs, I only play with a plectrum and have never suffered any fraying or flaking. The set I’ve had on my JMJ have been on since April and still have plenty of zing to them.

I`ve done this and didn`t really notice much difference other than easier to hear it of course. But my sound at the time was quite trebly/aggressive so I wasn`t focusing on the low end and any lack of this.

I just watched a very good review of this by our very own @Dood, and yes fortunately adding drive or blend doesn’t add volume.

Sounds really nice, what strings are you using, the whole bass sound just fits in the mix really well.

Yes bizarrely the Shape function, which scoops the mids is engaged when in the Out position.

Re this Paul, does the volume increase when the Drive level or Blend level is increased?

There’s not much in them to be honest, JMJ has P-width neck, Squier J-width. JMJ sounds beefier but when you look at specs the pots in the Squier are 500s v the 250s of the JMJ, so a KiOgon loom sorts that (as does turning the tone control down to about 75%). Both similar weight, both have a nice gloss neck. Tuners on JMJ are Hipshots, just regular on Squier but they hold tuning fine.

The Green Day one would be the one I’d choose if I were doing this.