Dad3353

It worked for Jaco ...

My 'bucket list' bass (I already have semi-acoustic basses; the JC won't trouble me at all by its size and shape...).

Any reason why this solution ... ...shouldn't fix any neck-dive issues..?

I'm not sure that everyone realises that this is a 'shreds' video..?

Hmm... Best steer clear of Daniel Defoe, then.

For some, maybe; not for me. Why Art, specifically, or only public figures..? Enid Blyton: still a Good Read for children, even if there are Golliwogs in the stories..? Salman Rushdie: do his views warrant a death sentence..? How much do we know of the manners of Chippendale..? What's so special about public figures at all..? Are anonymous folk except from this moral gaze..? Why..? It all seems very odd to me, with dotted lines drawn in thick fog surrounding a moral maze. I think that there are more important issues that are worthy of action, but... Who am I to sort out what is and what isn't..?

What is this 'playing the gig' of which you speak..? ...

Not a Facebook user, so can't see stuff posted this way. Never mind; thanks for trying. (If anyone has means of posting this in another format, I'd be interested ...)

That's great once you've acquired the physique for the job. As a beginner, such punishment is counter-productive, as the sore fingers then stop one's playing. Building up to your level is a matter of time, patience and working on solving the problem before it becomes a problem. You did that (as did I, drumming...); a beginner cannot expect to have the same results as an experienced player. Slow but sure, that's the answer; the rest will come, easily, over time.

Personally, I think that there's a lot of inner soul-searching merely to assuage some individual notion of 'conscience'. There is no 'right' or 'wrong'; each has (or has not...) a particular view on things. What were the morals of the person that made the chair you're sitting on..? What stuff does the bus driver in front of you get up to of an evening..? Is that creepy dentist really smiling, or enjoying some private fantasy whilst you're under his influence..? Why stop at Art..? It's not an issue for those who just get on with things, and look at the World in an innocent, positive, light. Would Mozart have turned out 'bad' if he'd lived longer..? What do we know of the doings of Bruckner, or Wagner, or Benjamin Britten..? Why pick on the few pop idols that fell from their pedestals..? No, to me, it's irrelevant, and more time and energy spent studying and performing the excellent music they produced should outweigh any misgivings about their conduct (or that which has been portrayed in the Media, who have their own agenda...) The paintings of Adolf would have been praised at a certain point of recent History. For those paintings, nothing has changed; they are the same. That he turned out to be something of a Bad Egg hasn't changed their intrinsic properties; Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder. An innocent, unaware of their provenance would base judgement on the article itself; I would hope to be able to do the same. (Not that I appreciate paintings at all, really, and the little I've seen of Adolf's work hasn't inspired me anyway...). Just my tuppence-worth.

Don't play so hard and for so long at a time. Keen practice sessions are great, but your fingers aren't 'up to it' yet. It's not all that productive, either, as a beginner, to play for too long at a time. 10-15 minute sessions, then doing something else for a while (it could be reading through a method book or a song, or brewing a cuppa...), two or three times a day (every day...) is a fast way forward. Once the fingers are in shape, it's reasonable to 'up' the dose a little, but hammering away for a couple of hours is not practice time well spent. Don't rush things; it'll all work out just fine if you give yourself time, and work regularly at it. Hope this helps Douglas

Should be in the 'Marketplace'; Mods, please move. ...

No need to make it so difficult ...

I might drum up enough energy to have a bash on my e-drums, whilst waiting for the F1 racing at 18h00. Other than that, rehearsing is at a quite low ebb. Maybe in a month or two, if the weather warms up a tad...

This ^^^^ looks to be the most likely. It's definitely not a Hayman, despite the similarities.

Well, you know what's coming next...

Many thanks for the link. Indeed, he has a lot of very interesting stock, and is right plumb in the middle of the sort of stuff that gets my attention. Amazingly, even the prices aren't daft..! I'll contact him, certainly, and see what a few midnight incantations and black goat sacrifices to the gods can do. A decade or so ago, I hosted a few French Hofner Bashes, and own several very nice specimens myself, gathered over the years, so it's nice to see the brand still around, commercially. Their current models, of guitars and basses, are worthy of interest. The model I'm hankering after was only a short run at the time, so there aren't all that many in the world, however, which makes the hunt a little more 'interesting'. Thanks again; meanwhile... Have a great day. Douglas

Not a bass, but my very first electric guitar, a Hofner Thin President E2, Florentine cutaway, just like this one... I've been looking for one like it for over half a century, to no avail. The stupidity of youth.

And rightly so. Whatever were you thinking of..? ...

The frets were all parallel. ...

No, it's just daft.

... and sod the abstinence if there's something that gives you a Birthday Buzz.

Yes, I'm just back from a much-needed eye check-up, and I'll be getting new specs soon. Meanwhile, I'll keep on reading things wrongly at first passage.