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Thanks both.

I think I want a thumb rest on this bass I bought. I have a thumb rest which I applied with blue tack and I liked it. Blue tack is good but couldn't prevent me pushing the thumb rest over after ten minutes or so. I need a more 'permanent' temporary solution before I put holes in my instrument 😮 Any ideas what wouldn't be unkind to the finish? Hot glue? Sticky velcro? Double sided tape? Or should I simply man up and bang a couple of screws in there?

Good tip, thanks.

Ay ay ay. I'm not supposed to like A)Jazz basses or B) maple boards. But this? Yum.

I have one of these for sale in the local 2nd hand shop. I'm going to bring it back, it's such a great instrument, and I'll have time to play with it over the coming months

I've had a few with varying degrees of quality! I'm usually so delighted not having to hump gear that I don't mind if it's a shoe box with a drawing of a cab on it. The most shocking one was a lovely looking old Carlsboro combo. It kind of looked a bit like a cross between a rolltop desk and a cooker and either would have sounded better. I assume I was the last person to use it before the trip to the skip. Again my gear was in the car but I was out of there so easily and quickly. Get paid, get out and don't hurt your back!

The only problem I have is my 10 year old pc just ain't up to the job. I get the latency down and the i/o goes up. If you have fast internet and a relatively decent machine with all appropriate drivers I can highly recommend it.

A couple of my bands have started using the Jamkazam app which works very well. No different from being in a studio in separate rooms - except we can see each other on screen. However I'm suffering latency issues and unhelpfully their help page is broken. Anyone know how to improve the latency in my system? Both the jitters are fine and it says the system is fine but my latency is too high. I managed but with the others a nano beat late in my ears - well, it was a feat of skill to play at all!!! I am using fibre and connected via ethernet.

A pleasure to deal with Paul. We didn't actually meet but used @cetera as an intermediary, both he and I employing strict quarantine discipline. Thanks Paul you're a fine Basschatter and a fine human to boot Similarly thank you @cetera hopefully next time I'll be able to shake your hand. 😷

Whoops! You are quite correct, I muddled my Harleys. Sorry

I can't choose. I'm going to use this period of isolation to play them all! Whichever ones get least use will hit the marketplace when the plague has passed.

Hi JW, you can get this on Amazon. Same product different label https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07JNDWQRN/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_hJFCEbAAGH7N3

Ah I misread the situation. Ok, row him out.

Ef Ef Ess. Bands eh! Still with your little one taking priority you can forget all about it for a while

Absolutely the best thing I've seen in a very long time.

Might have overlooked a couple 😬

We're hardly a mass!

@Maude I used to be a dreadful snob! Maybe I'm really zealous now because I'm a convert. I make my living from music, such as it is. Learning those standards is my meal ticket!

Ah but it isn't for us. It's for them. I have never once played Valerie without people rush up to dance. No matter how dead the gig, they get up. Similarly Sweet Child. Those opening notes are like crack to them. I have passed through to a blissful place where I just love playing music for its own sake. It doesn't matter a bit to me what the song is. I think it's age. I went through a couple of years convinced that I was washed up, couldn't get a gig for love nor money. So when I landed a dep job playing stuff by bands I thought were the absolute pits, I didn't care.. Just so grateful to be making music with people. An epiphany if you like.

Especially as the singer would turn up late. And the guitarist would go to the wrong pub.

Missing a few because, well, because I'm human and probably missed a few. Also not included are those I assumed weren't serious and the other Smiths song. One was too many really. Basschat Ultimate Average Punter Crowd Pleasers Set List: Sex on Fire Sweet Home Alabama Song 2 Wonderwall Mustang Sally Dakota Sweet Child of Mine Living on a Prayer Play The Funky Music. Let's Dance Smells Like Teen Spirit Chelsea Dagger Proud Mary Summer of 69 I'm a Believer Sweet Caroline Johhny B Goode All Right Now Mr. Brightside The Gambler Don't Stop Me Now Valerie Have You Ever Seen The Rain Brown Eyed Girl I'm A Believer Teenage Dirtbag You Make My Dreams BIllie Jean Walk This Way All Or Nothing The Joker I Want To Break Free Time Warp Teenage Kicks Footloose Basket Case Uptown Funk Three little birds Hey Jude Country Roads Zombie Sit Down I Am The Resurrection This Charming Man Waterfall Yellow With or without you Creep Hot Stuff Dancing in the Dark Get Lucky Superstition Hard To Handle Brown Sugar Whisky In The Jar Town Called Malice Let Me Entertain You Crocodile Rock Brass In Pocket Higher and Higher Now let's have a fight over the order.

Okey doke. Its not a big deal as I was probably going to drop a Retrovibe pup or two in there anyway. And the one I used actually sounds fine