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  1. bassbiscuits
    I sometimes use a mandrake
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    My very first way to tune up was to tune to the floppy plastic 7” record at the back of Jim Gregory and Harvey Vinson’s “electric bass” book which had the four notes followed by some basic progressions. I have a tuner on my board nowadays but I still often use the old way of putting my palm against the back of the neck and tuning until I can feel the out of phase notes come together. Come to think of it I’ve still got the Arion tuner I got for Christmas 1986. Still works too.
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    Cool basses these - I have two of the active versions. Well balanced, light and with a lovely neck. GLWTS
  4. bassbiscuits started following D’addario 40-100 chromes - *SOLD* and Zoom Rhythmtrak RT323 drum machine
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    I bought this Zoom drum machine from Basschat some years ago for some planned home recording and songwriting which never happened, and it’s been safely packed away in my drawer ever since. It’s a Zoom Rhythmtrak RT323 - an early 2000s bit of kit which is thankfully dead easy to use and has lots of very decent drum sounds in it. It’s in exactly the same condition as when I bought it, and it’s never even left the house. Comes with its 9v DC adaptor and a slightly dog eared manual. No box but I’ll pack it up well. As you’d expect there’s a big range of drum kits, percussion and bass sounds, and user drumkits whose parameters can be edited etc, and the ability to create patterns, songs etc etc. It’s worth mentioning that it doesn’t appear to function on batteries (it takes 6xAAs). The connectors are all clean and not damaged in any way, so I’m not sure what the issue might be. I always used it with the power supply, so it wasn’t an issue but obviously worth pointing out. Cosmetically there are a few marks on the metal back plate of it which I’ve tried to show - none affect how it works. There’s a few of these on EBay/Reverb etc for between about £65 to £100 upwards. I’m looking for £45. Happy to post within the UK and I can work out a price to do so. Equally you’re welcome to pop in for a cuppa and to try it out. Any questions give me a shout.
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    Bump - I’d completely forgotten about these being still for sale. Feel free to PM me if I’ve misjudged the price on these.
  7. bassbiscuits
    Set of D’addario Chrome flatwounds, gauges 40-100 and cut for 2+2 headstock. I bought them off fellow Basschatter @vinorange in January but have changed my plans for the bass in question so I haven’t even unpacked them. Link to the original advert here: Just looking to get back what I paid, which was £15 collected or £17.50 including postage in the UK. Cheers
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    Birthday party function gig with my brother’s band - his first gig since finishing chemotherapy last week. None of us were quite match fit, having not played together since before Christmas, and the first half of the gig started very early (7.45pm) to a modest audience. After a very long interval and buffet, the second half started around 10.30pm but the audience were much more up for it - dancefloor was full and it all went well. I’d taken my big rig - Markbass STD102HF cab and Traveller 2x10 stacked, my old precision bass and a Yamaha. I’d really wanted to use my brother’s old red Squier P Bass project bass that I’m slowly working on, but there’s some earth buzz I didn’t have time to sort. Footwear was some sort of Ben Sherman Chelsea boot I bought 10 years ago. Beer by Peroni 0.0%. An hour’s drive home with light snowfall swirling about on the motorway. Bed o’ clock now tho.
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    My weekly practice with my originals band is most Thursdays. On the weeks we can’t all meet, me and the guitarist meet at home and work up song ideas. I record them as voice memos on my phone. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working thru the better ideas in there and turning out some great sounding songs that we’d more or less forgotten about but which are now coming together really quickly. Excellent!
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    Just done a lovely little solo gig at Bar Dos Hermanos in Leicester. Quite a quiet night possibly due to the ghastly weather but it meant I could experiment with more subtle stuff and new tunes rather than competing against a really noisy crowded bar. A girl from the audience asked if I knew Jolene and could she sing it (she was really good too so that worked really nicely). Chucked in a bunch of new stuff too which went down well. And only got slightly soaked loading out. Happy with that. Gear: the usual Simon and Patrick SP6 guitar and soundhole pickup, Allen and Health desk and Mackie SRM350 speakers. Footwear by Clarkes.
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    Duplicate post in error. Sorry. 😔
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    UPDATE on my budget number 1 Squier Affinity P bass. Since taking ownership in autumn 2025 it’s had a few more tweaks. In addition to the Tonerider Classic P pickup and Fender Vintage 60s bridge I installed late last year, I’ve also sourced some identical machine heads from a 1997 Squier neck to replace two that were on their last legs. It’s also just had some proper metal knobs installed and a parchment which scratchplate, which takes me back to being a kid and marvelling at Francis Buchholz (RIP) from the Scorpions and his red P bass. Thumb rest on order to complete the faux 60s look. Been using it extensively for rehearsals and gigs and it’s playing in nicely to how I want it.
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    A whole bunch of classic Billy Joel songs. Some nice bass parts. I know very little about who the players are so will get googling…
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    I saw the Scorpions at the NEC with Winger opening for them back in, crikey 1990/91 maybe? My copies of Worldwide Live (VHS and cassette) were both worn to the bone too.
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    Yup - a formative influence on me as a young musician back in the day (the whole band rather than him as a bassist in particular in fairness). Him and Steve Harris are why I play a P bass.
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    Depends on the reasons I suppose. The tribute band and the function band I play with stick closely to the originals for obvious reasons; a few are in different keys, but arrangements and other important details stay the same. On the other hand, my solo work and my blues/soul trio are full of “interpretations” of songs which have been rearranged and rejigged into something that works best for us in those formats. That’s not the same as being too lazy to learn parts, or being incapable of playing them properly. That’s just freedom to experiment (with the caveat of them actually sounding good!). But yeah oversimplifying or messing with songs for no good reason seems a bit daft.
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