Gareth Hughes

I got that same feeling with my recent order. Sending him a few messages on Facebook got a quicker reply.

Sofa shot for now, should be here (hopefully) early next week.

A friend of mine is from North Korea. I asked him what it was like. He said he couldn't complain.

Ordered on the 6th of April I think, so just over 12 weeks - 13 by the time it arrives. And here it is:

I received my sofa shot today - 2nd payment did not reflect any change.

Yup - I did that with an Edgar Meyer cd. Was enjoying it (the 2nd copy) thoroughly and then a melody hit me that I recognised, and lo and behold there was my first copy sitting on a shelf. Hey - at least we're consistent!!!

Here you go. Sorry for the sideways angle, can’t figure out how to change that here.

I’ve just bought a new Player Precision with a maple board, arrived a few days ago. I’m more than impressed, not having ever been wowed by anything MIM before. To put it in context - my other Precision is an early 2000’s MIJ, and I have a MIJ Mustang, ‘75 Reissue Jazz and a 2009 US American Standard Jazz 5. Genuinely, the Player is better put together than the US Jazz or the MIJ Precision. Both those basses sound, and feel, wonderful to me, but they took a lot of work to get there. This Player needed a truss rod tweak and the bridge lowered, but that’s just personal preference, so all in - sound and playability of the MIM Player is more than good. Satin neck feels great, body is light weight, finish is perfect, strings are ok but again that’s a personal thing. Am I happy? Hell yes. Would I spend more on the higher end Fenders? Not again.

I like the extension, but being thin I found it digging into my side a bit much. I remedied this by having the upper ribs and neck block of a broken double bass transplanted onto it. The extension now serves to support the new rib. Feels so much more realistic to lean against.

Maybe acoustic on the record, but he played it on the electric the night I saw them in Dublin on the Book Of Souls tour.

Steve’s tone is .... Steve’s tone. It works for Maiden and that’s all it needs to do. But..... as much as I love Maiden, and Steve Harris is a huge reason that I’ve played bass since for 30 years now, sometimes his tone can be a little too much for me. The start of ‘The Red and the Black’, especially live, is so damn bright it takes away from the actual riff he’s playing, IMO. Having said that - Up the Irons!!!! And ‘Hallowed be thy Name’ is 37 years old, so maybe that’s why it sounds like their 80s material 😉

It’s good to be open minded to new possibilities :; (I’ll issue my apologies now)

Not using his pinky finger has really got to slow him down.

Too true - it's funny how close your slapping on (presumably) roundwounds is to his playing on flats. But rhythmically - a great idea to take his patterns and slap them.

This is so wrong on so many levels!!!! AND I LOVE IT!!!!! Seriously - great job, and what a tune. Up the Irons!

Ha! Don't get me started on regular books - I had to make a stack of unread books and let it guilt me into submission. And then there's the dvd's.....the umpteen gigabytes of questionably sourced mp3's....the lost folders of barely perused pdf's.....

Not just you at all. I could easily have written that post. So much so, that despite some amazing new books/courses coming out from the likes of Danny Ziemann, Damian Erskine, the DiscoverDoubleBass folks, Janek Gwizdala, etc - I have vowed not to buy anything new until I've finished at least 3-4 of the method books I've bought and all of the courses I've bought from Janek and DiscoverDoubleBass. So far it's actually working out great - focused me to finish the first Michael Moore method book and I'm about 20 exercises away from finishing the first Bottesini method. But then you've gone and thrown a spanner in the works with all of your wonderful transcriptions. ('Why Not!' is giving me a dirty look from the music stand.)

Thanks so much for sharing 'Why Not!' Really, thanks - it's very much appreciated.

Thank you for doing these, and for sharing them. I feel obliged to give them a go. On a side note - I've never been a YES fan - I don't dislike them, they're just on a to-do list of sorts - BUT I did meet Chris Squire once backstage at a YES gig. A mate had a plus one ticket through some connections so I went along. As impressive as the night was, my outstanding memory is - Bloody hell, Chris Squire is a huge!

This is so incredibly useful - thank you for doing this.

You've inspired me to finally upload this medley I made of some of the Twin Peaks themes. Drums are a loop from the original recording, bass line on a Fender Mustang, melody on a Maruszczyk Elwood 6P. I was still getting my head around the melody and reading it from the page, so do excuse the stiffness in places. (Apologies for the thread hijack)

Such a beautiful tune, and nice playing too - perfect tone for it.