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Definitely. I love Del Amitri. They’ve been the soundtrack to quite a lot of occasions in my life when Currie’s brand of melancholy has suited perfectly.

You Got It - Roy Orbison

I expect it's because the string spacing on the smaller model isn't standard, and so instead of making different pickups just for this model, they've set the regular ones at an angle to match the string spacing. Same as EVH did using a Gibson PAF humbucker to match the Fender string spacing on Frankenstrat.

Sorry - I didn’t mean to sound harsh. If you’re unhappy with it then that’s reason enough to send it back. It’s your money after all. The use of multiple pieces of wood, not always brilliantly matched, is far from rare in mass produced instruments and doesn’t mean it’s bad. Glad the shop was happy to take it back tho.

No but I’ve had the opposite more than once - where I’m a better guitarist than the guitar player.

Is that seriously all that was wrong - that the body was made of two pieces of wood? That’s hardly unusual. What about the rest of it, the stuff that matters - the fit of the neck pocket, the nut, the fretwork, the electronics, the general build quality, and how it sounded?

I’d love to see a pic of this bass. I’m intrigued.

Welcome aboard Todd.

This weekend i have my first gig since March 13. It's an outdoor one in the beer garden of a pub with limited table seating etc, doing an hour set of classic rock stuff with three other like-minded musicians all right up for playing live. If the weather turns we may well end up indoors, so packing masks etc in case. It'll be nice to actually finally play the Genz Benz cab i bought here during lockdown. Normally i'm happy to use whatever backline is there, but i'll make an exception this time. Rehearsed last night (again, socially distanced in a big room) and it was euphoric to make a right royal racket again.

What bass line was it?

It’s good to know Keef looks just as cool being a bassist as he does being a guitarist.

Er didn't Thora Hird die several years ago tho? That’s a bit niche by any standards.

Touch wood I’m ok at the moment as I’m a key worker doing press and media for the local council. I am missing the money from regular gigging but it’s not a massive part of my income. Hopefully my job will be safe for now, and I’ll be working from home for the foreseeable future.

Just bought a boss daisy chain power supply from Peter - easy and quick delivery, no probs at all. A pleasure.

All from Basschat... Markbass Little Mark II head, and a Genz Benz 212 NX2 cab, connected with Rockwire cable. Yamaha BB604 Korg pitchblack tuner and various Boss pedals (octave, bass overdrive) Couple of Comfort Straps Various d’addario strings Even the hiscox case is from here Thanks Basschat!

Watched the Dave Grohl and Brian Johnson programme the other night which was great. That Stones Sweet Summer Sun gig is worth a watch too. I stumbled across Sky Arts up the dusty end of the channels - didn’t realise we even had it on freeview.

My dad was very accepting of me and my brother both wanting to learn to play (me bass, and my brother guitar) and agreed to sign the hire purchase agreements which allowed us to buy our first instruments and amps, as I was only 12 at the time. We paid him back every month from our paper round wages. He used to give me lifts to gigs and rehearsals too, and we'd go and see local pub bands together. My dad would have liked to be a drummer, and only i found out recently that his dad used to be a violinist, so maybe that's why he is so open and helpful. My mum strangely never showed any interest at all in our music, never asked about what we were doing or seemed very interested when we'd done well, which was a shame.

Cool pic too.

I went to see them on that tour and Copeland in particular blew me away. I love the thing he does in Wrapped Around Your Finger, switching between the percussion set up and the drum kit without every missing a beat. Perfection.

Ha ha that’s a bit special isn’t it! Wow.

For me it’s either been stuff that I wasn’t using, stuff that was underwhelming or stuff I had to shift to pay for some other bit of kit.