neepheid

My first thought was "it's surprising what you can get on the NHS these days"...

It's not for bass so it doesn't count unless you're going hardcore abstinence.

Thanks.

I'd say postage ain't gear. If the gear is being gifted then have at it.

Eh, Mrs. Neepheid asked me after the gig if I wanted to hang around (for my benefit, not hers) but I was like nah, what's the point? Let's say I did actually get a chance to speak to Arry, what could I say that he hasn't heard a million times already? Plus I put myself in his shoes and to be honest even in my current state of complete unfamousness I would still prefer that everyone just eff off after a gig and not bug me when I'm dismantling gear, or just generally decompressing and letting the adrenaline die down naturally - imagine it's a hundred times worse when you are famous and you have to play nice otherwise someone will get all offended on the internet about it. I'm happy that I got to see him up close (way closer than at a Maiden concert) and watch him tan the hell out of those strings.

And I was just thinking of posting a "two weeks in - how you all doing?" type post today. How's everyone else doing? Holding up OK? I was living dangerously earlier and looking at FB marketplace - mostly for things to mock but thankfully didn't see any tasty, tempting treats...

What a way to go though. Hard to ignore... Do show us when you get it!

There is no uniform right/wrong answer to this. I've seen BBs set up both ways - pickup halves dead flat and both angled in an effort to mirror the radius of the fingerboard/relative string heights. If you liked the sound of it better before, put it back the way it was. Whatever your ears tell you, they're right.

Ahh, an attack of the good old "because I can" without the corresponding "should I?"

Hehe, they look like wee jelly moulds

Nice one - I saw them in Aberdeen on Tuesday night - 5 yards from one of my favourite bass players of all time, it was a great gig

Ok, I'll play properly - the first three tracks of ELP's Trilogy The Endless Enigma (Part 1) Fugue The Endless Enigma (Part 2) This was probably my intro to prog. Thanks, Dad!

Well, if circumstances dictate that you must move now, I wouldn't worry about a bass having its strings off for a week or two.

Why not wait until you have the strings you need for the swap if you're worried about it?

Pick any three songs from Dark Side of the Moon? Is that cheating?

With respect, I didn't say that, and I don't subscribe to that school of thought at all - I regularly buy basses at distance sight unseen. When I said "get an example of the bass I'm interested in" I generally mean "buy it". #justsayin

Facetiousness aside, I don't think any bass has a divine right to be better than any other based solely upon who made it and where. I simply ignore any of these kind of comments, get an example of the bass I'm interested in and let my ears, hands and eyes decide. Whatever you like, you're not wrong - you don't need your hand held while you decide.

It's been said a million times - you can't go wrong with a Yamaha...

5 tops imo, and only if a couple of those are pretty simple.

That's the covers band, the 'Spoons is the originals band which apart from an offshore sax player has no personnel issues. and no, it's still not resolved

Played with The Inevitable Teaspoons last night at Krakatoa in Aberdeen. Man down cos Stu the sax had his shifts changed on him so was somewhere on a rig somewhere in the North Sea. 4 band bill and we were playing last. Things were going to plan until the second last band came on - for some reason the sound gremlins came out of the woodwork and hit them hard - things not working, then feedback when they were - knocked things about half an hour off course. Anyhoo, we did make it on. We were a bit grumpy by the time we got on so we played quite angrily - fast and ragged, especially the first couple of songs. Tried a new song and ballsed it up royally - second chorus is supposed to be half length but half of us did the repeat. I was "right" but that doesn't matter when the result was that it sounded like a jumbled mess. Oh well. It got better towards the end though, and had fun machinegunning the audience at the end of the last song so we'll see. Speaking of which, there was a decent crowd for a BOTB gig and there was some enthusiastic dancing going on - even had someone doing the worm! BB1200 was Bloody Brilliant. Pedalboard worked, in that it didn't spontaneously collapse, or wander about the place when stepped on. All in all, got to spend an evening with my mates, play some tunes and drink some beers - with all the awful stuff that's going on in the world it can't be that bad, can it?

It is wrong to suggest that looks aren't a factor. An instrument could be the finest, well crafted, hand finished, Smithsonian worthy example of its kind - if that instrument is a Jazz bass, it can get in the bin.

Well, I know you want a PJ, but the BB1200 I bought recently is stellar - the PJ equivalent would be the BB2000 but that might be out of budget. I much prefer the older BBs to the newer ones - they've done something odd to the proportions and feel of the newest ones (23x, 43x, 73x, P3x) that I can't exactly put my finger on but I just don't get it. For reference I had a BB434 but it just didn't feel right to me.

Hope so, going to put it to the test tonight - The Inevitable Teaspoons are playing at Krakatoa in Aberdeen.

Right, that's it done. Back panel lacquered a few days ago and pinned on this afternoon. Yay, I'm a pedalboard guy now!