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Agreed. Separate Lefty section I can understand, I can imagine being a lefty is a pain and it's not like one chooses ones handedness. Beyond that one binary choice which is fairly easy to make I'd have to vote no. Besides, most manufacturers make lefties feel like lepers already, so shoving them off into their own little sub forum shouldn't feel like too much of an imposition Making more subfora would quickly become messy and increase the possibility of misposts, increase the amount of moderation/adminstration required. If you want a better marketplace with the granularity which could quickly develop then it would need to be an actual marketplace, using items with attributes which can be searched against/filtered. Trying to replicate this with simple subfora is like trying to build a house with a fork, knife and spoon.

I see the problem - it's that Fender branded grolschlock sitting on a Gibson product. Matter and antimatter, there's clearly been an adverse reaction of some sort that's arced from strap button to strap button

My effort was an attempt at humour, sorry it didn't land

Let us know how your tuner-less US tour goes

FWIW I still use mine as my practice setup. CBA with using the amp for practice. CBA with practice so the Sessioncake means it at least happens sometimes

No, turns out you need friends as well as a cable to make that happen

Force fed an L-1000 10 tonnes of butter?

Did you get it? I gigged mine on Saturday night and it did a grand job. Can't say the bassist attached to it did though!

Speaking personally, because I don't like to or want to, nor is it applicable to what I am playing or what I would want to play. Principally because I don't like how basses sound the higher they go. Everyone else is, of course, free to play their basses in whichever way they choose.

Leaning towards option 2 here. Buy a replacement neck - second hand shouldn't be too much outlay. Your time has value - what do you get out of this by trying to do it yourself? Even if you did manage to sort it out, wouldn't the amount of time and effort involved make it a pyrrhic victory at best?

Putin dies of a massive heart attack through overconsumption of pies, I'd be ok with that

I think pie is a satisfactory answer to most problems. Let's say you have two people kicking lumps out of each other in the street. Are you seriously telling me that if I had two hot pies on me and I said "if you two stop fighting now, you can each have a pie" that they wouldn't at least consider stopping? @jd56hawk - if you stop putting the same effing picture of your basses up in almost every thread you participate in, I'll give you a pie? Worth a shot...

Bolt on neck joints - they really don't bother me. I'm sorry they bother you to the degree where you advocate their banning. Please don't ban half my basses! They've got a stupid name, I'll give you that. No bolts involved, even if you do one of those mods with threaded inserts and machine screws, because although a machine screw can function as a bolt it's not being used that way in this context (no nut - tightened against opposing thread). Whether or not they're responsible for a directly attributable change in the tone of a bass, I'm not touching that one. Over such things holy wars are fought and never really won.

The pie IS the compelling reason to eat it. It is its own self contained reason to be eaten. It's just as well they're easy to make - if they were a creature they'd have gone the way of the dodo long ago! Gratuitous pie porn In Scotland we've got you vegetarians covered. Sometimes I prefer a macaroni pie to a steak pie, they're that good anyway. Finally, have a picture of a good old pork pie. All at least 30 mins before lunch, I am so cruel

Cool story bro?

Ahh, thanks for reminding me, I forgot to mention the urine sponge

Can confirm that this stuff works.

No help for the OP but I had a left pinky problem on Wednesday - spilled lava hot soup on it straight from the microwave. There might have been an MF or two uttered. 20 mins under the cold tap and lukewarm soup - this endeavour was totally not worth it. Thankfully the scald was not on the fingertip so although it's still sensitive I am still able to play.

While I play fast and loose what with not taking a spare bass to the gig (I know, my place in hell was reserved long before I started playing bass), my bag o stuff is probably overcompensating for something... Cables (instrument, XLR, speakon, power, misc small ones like pedal interconnects, DC power daisychain, USB power, 3.5mm aux audio in/out) Stand (foldy Hercules thing) Spare strings Tool kit Notepad Wee towel Spare T-shirt Duct tape Behringer DI/preamp thing (for amp emergencies) Pedal PSU Earplugs Clip on tuner (for pedal tuner fail) String winder Pedal tuner OD pedal 9V batteries Zoom audio recorder Phone charger (doubles as PSU for Zoom) That's all I can remember without having the bag to hand. Do I need all this stuff? Probably not. Perhaps I should consider a bag o stuff lite edition.

I appreciate the nebulous nature of "you" to mean "one". Maybe it's just me but when I quote someone and use "you" in the text directly below it, I'm directing my response at the person I'm quoting. If I want to make a generic point, I'll word it in such a way as to make it clear that it's a generic, non-specific point. I wasn't asking for a lesson and I really didn't think I sounded like a total n00b when I wrote my initial post. That's my point and that's why my nose is a wee bit out of joint.

I know what note is at which fret on which string already. I've already made that decision based upon my style and how I play the bass. I don't need to see the music behind the tab to make that call. I feel really talked down to right now. You NEED to do this, you NEED to do that. Was that your intention? You have no idea to what degree I suck at playing bass, and the degree to which I suck at playing bass has no bearing whatsoever on how utterly amazing you are so thanks for the pep talk, but I'm happy to wallow, roll around and generally indulge in the mud of my mediocrity and just have some fun.

I find the "official" tabs on Ultimate Guitar to be pretty good on the whole (I think you have to subscribe to get them) - but that doesn't mean I have to agree with them all the time. There have been times when I've disagreed with the suggested fingering (thinks to myself - why did you play that there?) so I've done it the way that makes sense to me - it's just an interpretation after all.

I'll name that tune in... none.

Took GG a while to get them up on the site, I've had mine (from GG!) for almost 2 months now because I ninja'd in and bought it via email Enjoy, let us know how you get on with it.

I just got it out of the bag seeing as you mentioned it. Blocks on a P bass. I can forgive a lot for those looks. And for £350, absolute steal, even with the dodgy shielding. Fixed that with a fiver's worth of slug tape and a couple of hours work.