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Hate to say it because I wish it would change, but "welcome to the Internet".

I don't think you'll find much help here - I think you'll need to start an entirely new site for this sort of thing!

Just thought I'd check and take the opportunity to make the distinction - as I'm sure you're aware (not everyone is, it seems) it's wildly different for originals bands, you're minted if you "make it", but at the other end of the scale it's £50 after doing the promoter's job for them and expected to be grateful that your existence was acknowledged, nothing or even worse ... pay to play. I physically shuddered as I typed that last bit!

Presumably you're talking about covers band fees here. Aberdeen city and shire - £250-400 depending on distance/ballache to get to the venue. Out in the sticks tends to pay better than the city.

But, but, think of the children! You can't take bass X to gig Y!

I miss my G3

Bog off Amazon! Take your siren song elsewhere please!

LOL BWBWB FTW IMHO

Good job, and I also think that's a mighty fine looking bass - liking the trans blue over the quilted top - looks like water.

I do the wristband trick. I look like a craddock but at least I'm a craddock without red marks on my forearm. The feedback can be fun to play with if you mean to do it. Otherwise, some extra diligence with string muting while playing is sometimes required if you can't avoid being close to your amp.

Sure, let's have a 10 day update. I'm still in FWIW.

Please document the reason for your disqualification

You're talking about this fairly regular, rounded off body shape like it's a BC Rich Warlock or something! I wouldn't bat an eyelid at this bass turning up at any gig regardless of the genre because it's pretty conventional but modern to my eyes. Is it the name that bothers you enough to pigeonhole it? Is it the slightly gothic/churchy inlays? Genuinely interested to know where other people's lines are drawn on these things.

I'm no wood expert, but I must commend you on your Gibson Ripper knowledge. When they weren't maple, they were alder, and it was mid 70s that happened - 75/76. I had a 1975 alder bodied Ripper and it was pretty light

Up in Scotland, we'll batter and deep fry anything!

That's goddamn right!

I know, I used to watch the Dukes of Hazzard too and just think it was a cool pattern on the roof of the General Lee (which was also just a cool, made up name for a car). Oh dear.

Proud of you for reaching your bass nirvana, but be prepared for a lot of tutting and eye contact avoidance at the pearly gates!

Vote for no. I don't believe there is such a thing. I keep changing, not the basses. Right now I'm going through a "death to bridge pickups" phase. I'd like to think that I'm more evolution than revolution so maybe some time when my fingers are too arthritic to play I'll have defined what my "perfect" bass is. And if everything else comes true, much like my appetite for finding new music has all but dried up like I swore blind it never would, it'll be a P bass, the bass of choice in heaven/hell's waiting room.

There's only a tuner and an overdrive pedal at most, so even when I'm having to Bill Wyman it every 5 minutes because I've ended up on the route to the bog again, I still manage to have the pedals on the floor in front of me.

Scotland has a long and distinguished history of not knowing what's good for it. The M-2000 is a fine bass with a lovely neck profile, slightly dialed back MFD pickups for those who find regular MFDs a bit too rorty and those 18V electronics will give active boffins that headroom that they keep banging on about that's so damn important I would, but I'm going through a no actives, no bridge pickups type phase, or whatever I'm telling myself this week to keep my participation in this year's gear abstinence thread alive...

Well, if you're going to bow out, do it with some style and panache

Lol at "riled bee"

Seek and ye shall find (in the third place you look ) That do you, @Jonesy?