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The jabbing / honkytonk piano middle section of Thunderclap Newman’s “Something in the Air” bears no relation to the song either side of it. No idea why it’s there. Strangely, the intro to Phil Collins’ “Something Happened on the Way to Heaven” also bears no relation to the song, but works really well when it reappears halfway thru the song as well. It’s the best bit if you ask me....

This does look fantastic. I’ve seen quite a few pics of this bass now over the last couple of weeks and it’s very cool indeed.

Bass, (mostly acoustic) guitar, harmonica and singing (if you class that as an instrument). Have got by on cajon for some gigs but it’s not exactly rocket science. But I’ll stick with four based on things I do currently, regularly and to a gig worthy level.

The Animals - We gotta get out of this place. Tough, you can’t until the Government says so.

The Boxtops - My baby she wrote me a letter. Really? How quaint of her. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood. Surely nowadays it wouldn’t matter much if all the telephone lines were down? As long as the WiFi was doing ok. ....and of course being Back In The USSR is highly unlikely.

That neck will need adjusting tho.

I got 121 overall - best on the beat alignment (127), then melodic discrimination (119) and then mistuning perception (116). Better than 91.92% of the population - I'll have to up my fees....

Having owned both (well nearly - a TRB1005 and a TRBX505 ) I can certainly say that the TRB was a lot bigger and heavier, and had wider string spacing than the TRBX. For me that was quite a big deal as I found the 35” TRB felt massive and the fretboard really wide. The TRBX feels more comfortable, but I think the TRB had the edge slightly in terms of sound.

Carl just sorted me out with a bass Fatfinger I’d asked for in the Wanted forum. Arrived first class, great condition and a good deal all round. Top man.

I started playing bass when I was 12, and looking back I think it was an important creative and constructive channel for all that teenage uncertainty, anxiety and anger in the years that followed. Playing an instrument has been my best companion, and a big part of how I see myself. Its also introduced me to many of my friends and resulted in lots of cool situations. Ill never be a millionaire rockstar but I’ll always be a bassist.

I think you're right - i've had two GK Backline / BLX / whatever 1x15s and they were centrally located. They were also very good cabs for not much money.

That looks tremendous ha ha!

My 2013 MIJ Mustang has a 7.25” neck radius, smallish frets, and none of the Hipshot hardware that the JMJ has. I believe the JMJ has a thicker neck and headstock, lollipop tuners, 9.5” radius neck and medium jumbo frets, as well as Seymour Duncan p/ups (could be wrong tho). Plus of course JMJs are reliced (presumably with nitro paint jobs) whereas my MIJ is a straightforward poly paint job. Similar, but different enough.

Lovely basses! Looks cool in that colour too.

@mcnach I hear you loud and clear. I’m in the same sort of position. I picked up a Yamaha TRBX five string just before xmas and have been noodling around the house on it continually. After a couple of days the different dimensions etc felt more familiar and I find myself playing not so much the low notes but the other positions across the neck. Feels like a door has opened in my understanding of how things all interrelate. I’ve briefly owned a few five strings over the years but quickly lost interest and sold them - too big, too heavy, didn’t like the sound or feel etc. Suddenly the penny has dropped tho. Great!

I’ve got Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, American and Mexican bits of kit at the moment. Long ago realised that good quality and bad quality kit exists regardless of price point or country of origin.

I had a godawful plywood Satellite short scale bass back in 1986. Cost me £60 at the time which was £60 too much. Around 2000 I remember seeing it in a secondhand shop - my actual bass with the same strings on it - and the geezer wanted £120 for it. Swore it was a cool old Japanese thing. It really really wasn’t...

Exactly what I’ve got stashed under my desk. Easy to store out of the way. Tho usually I stand to practice anyway.

For me it's usually been cos I needed the money and had gear I wasn't using that was ripe for flogging. I've sold some basses for being uncomfortably heavy, and others because I'd bought them on a whim and not really liked them enough. In terms of effects, gadgets and gizmos, its usually because after the initial flurry of interest they go back in the drawer and get forgotten about. There's a few bits of kit I wish I'd kept, but then again I've mananged without them, so probably would have flogged them by now anyway.

I made up a 1x15 cab before by sticking a 4-ohm Eminence Delta 500 watt speaker in an empty GK Backline series cab I had. It was a really good speaker and handled everything my 300w head threw at it. Sounded so good I built another one the same. Worked out about £300 each at the time and worked very nicely for the small to medium pub gigs I was doing, plus the GK backline cabs had decent castor wheels on them.

I had a 1996 USA for many years as my main bass. Didn't have the S1 switching, but a chunky neck and hardware and bridge somewhere between hi-mass and BBOT. Good bass.