Killerfridge

If you want an example of his improv skills, check out this one. Genuinely funny:

It's good, but I think it misses some key points. Janek and his wife Chelsea address it very well here, especially around how "we have no evidence that fakery is bad for self esteem", except we have a litany of evidence in young women and facetuning:

I think this one was the most damning. Just a total ding-dong as described by someone who it sounds like tried to work quite hard with him. Like, why would you do no promotion for a gig that's been setup for you; even a basic bar band will promote a basic bar gig. If you've got a following of millions on Insta, how difficult is it to say "hey, I'm playing at X&Y tonight, come down and see me"

Debra is one of my all time favourite songs, it's great seeing him do it live

That's the kiddie. Really nice bass to play, B string to die for, and the asymmetric neck was lovely. Unfortunately the Mayones HF Jabba stole my heart

Becks always been an artist I will forget about, then every few years remember exists and will listen to nothing but him for a month before forgetting again. I adore his creativity and his novel approaches to music (e.g. the album he released as sheet music only, so you had to "make" the song yourself). Guess I'm listening to only Beck for a month!

I'm super interested in seeing/hearing some sound clips though

The issue I have with fully flat radius boards is that because I'm so used to having a radius (9") that flat feels almost concave to me. I'm sure I'd get used to it, but I found the AGC Graft at Bass Direct a bit too odd. 20" is about where I feel a board as "flat"

It's not generative AI. Generative AI is what powers things like ChatGPT or Dalle and can be thought of as auto-complete on steroids. Whilst I don't doubt some people are using them to build recommendation engines, recommenders are traditionally using something like collaborative filtering

It's a bit like Amazon's recommendation engine: "Ah I see you bought a new TV. I guess that means you like buying TVs, so now I'm only going to recommend you TVs for the next few months"

The online course option really drove me forward in terms of motivation. Specifically Jaymes Bass Academy because there are monthly challenges that keep me interested and give me something to work on for the month (as well as the courses). Jayme is also reasonably active on the forum giving feedback etc.

I keep meaning to come down to this, hopefully I'll drop in in the next month or so