tauzero

£500 is about 100 times what I want to pay.

I think you've missed the point of what I want. Battery-powered transmitter is indeed what I meant. Bass -> no wires -> Tascam GB-10 -> no wires -> headphones. The second "no wires" may be preceded by -> battery-powered transmitter. I don't like having headphone wires dangling round me. I could probably cope with battery transmitter -> battery receiver -> headphones as I could coil up the headphones lead and get it out of the way somewhere.

We're classic rock covers, I'd like to avoid the most hackneyed but we do have Dakota and All Right Now in the set. @Smanth, I've done some songs as bass plus vocals (Mrs Zero doing the vocals) - Stand by me, Fields of gold, and Fever by Peggy Lee. We're also looking at Wicked Game by Chris Isaacs.

I'd like to be able to practice with a Tascam GB-10 wirelessly. I have no problem with a wireless for the bass (Lekato 5.8GHz bug), but I would also like as near as possible wireless headphones. I don't want anything mains powered, as I'd like it to be fully portable and self-contained, and Bluetooth is out due to latency, so is there such a thing as wireless headphones that have a battery-powered transmitter?

"I'm a believer" by the Monkees has a cracking bass line by Carol Kaye. Or at least I thought it was, but someone says otherwise in the comments under this transcription.

It's also worth trying out 34" 5 stringers as there's nothing stopping them having good B strings. Barring one MS and one 36", all my 5+ stringers are 34" scale.

Is that all? I did a 400 mile round trip once to get a bass combo. Even worse, it was a Trace Elliot 4x10.

Even though Townshend was never even tried for any offence? Rather a case of double standards, isn't it?

I don't see a problem with practicing once a week if there's a purpose to it. Once up and gigging, if you're gigging reasonably frequently and varying the set then you should only need to rehearse to bring new material in, or maybe if a significant number of repeating mistakes start creeping in. Of course you might want to rehearse a bit more for the social side of it.

I've just been reading a little piece on Vincent Berton, who made this and another couple of dozen guitars and basses. Rather a tragic story, he took his onw life in the 1990s after producing the couple of dozen highly imaginative instruments. https://jedistar.com/vincent-berton/

Make sure your flies are properly done up then.

My ardour got severely dampened when I saw the price. Wonder if anyone on AliExpress will make a copy.

Are they different to the fret cutters then? Cutters to cut off a bit of fret tang to allow the fret to go into a bound neck?

I'd be looking at Hohner cricket bats or the Aria Sinsonido.

I did have a doubleneck 6/12 SG in the only possible colour, red, either CMI or CSL (it's a long time ago). Played it at one or two gigs where I mainly played bass but did the odd bit of guitar, but eventually sold it. No pictures, it was all before digital cameras and the interwebs.

I trust you didn't open the set by inviting the happy couple up for the first dance. The whole question is set in a very specific context. Uganda has just made homosexuality punishable by death, so I think "Two Tribes" might go down rather badly there for other reasons than Ukraine. Probably best not play anything by George Michael, Queen, or any number of others if you happen to be gigging there. Personally, I separate performer and performance. So Morrissey might have unpleasant right-wing views but that doesn't matter to me because he's such a bloody awful singer and I can't stand listening to him. Roger Waters may be a Putin fanboi but I will still happily play "Comfortably Numb".

Excellent!

Did you try https://www.woodsheets.com/ ? I don't know if they supply to NI but they provide a cutting service.

@Andyjr1515 posted a link in Repairs and Technical - https://www.chrisalsopguitar.co.uk/shop/guitar-tools/fret-pullers-and-fret-cutters

That is a very valid point. They're absolutely horrid things to play.

Yes, that's the tuning - similar to the bottom 4 strings of a 12-string guitar (an octave down from that, of course).

It would be worth checking if there are any bass bashes near you in the near future, there's a wide assortment of basses at those to have a play on.

From the 1986 Prince's Trust, Mark King playing a superb bassline on a Jaydee and getting almost a fretless tone from it in many of the fills.

Another vote from me for playing as many as you can. I get on best with slim shallow necks, so the Ibanez SDGR and EHB suit me but Spectors don't. For the same reason, I preferred the (cheap) Peavey Grind to the (quite a bit more expensive) Peavey Cirrus. I would also throw in Hohner as one to look at - the headless Jack and B2AV, and the headed Bass 5, which also have slightly chunkier necks than my ideal.

I bought a MIDI keyboard off Ebay recently. The seller arranged a collection with Royal Mail, which never materialised, so on Tuesday he took it to a post office. 48 hour tracked, so Thursday was a reasonable expectation for its arrival. However, no sign of it, and still no sign today, a week after it was dispatched. Seller has been really good, fortunately. The package was so good that RF received it twice. Maybe they lost it down the back of the settee after the first time, then found it again.