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Green day "When I come Around" off the record and Cream "Badge" from a transcription in bassist magazine ( I could read a bit from playing the trumpet) Both really great inventive lines that taught me loads

You'll be spending nearly as much as the bass is worth to devalue it if you get it defrettted , I'd get a fretless sire on here and if you don't like it you can get your money back

Yeah , I'm interested to know if the mij ones are hand built by one person like the US ones or is it more of a factory set up?

I must admit having now done a deep dive on Ken Smith basses the US one in the classifieds at £4500 is tempting me too !

Thanks for that mate , great info

That's lovely mate , what's the difference with the e series? Are they the solid colour ones?

Thanks for that mate , are the US ones brighter then ? I guess I'm looking for more the jazz bass end of things , more punchy mids than sparkly highs

Great aren't they , yeah built in Japan and I understand that burners always have been although there a few early US ones apparently

Always had a soft spot for Ken Smith basses , love Andrew Gouche and Pattitucci but I've never been a fan of the figured wood look , just seen the fiesta red burner on bass direct and I'm in love! Any one played them , got one ?

It's sounds counterintuitive but sometimes playing higher can blend a bit better , I've noticed that alot of 60/70s bass players would play higher than people do now , don't know if rubbish amps had a part in it but sometimes the bass being closer in pitch to the guitar can thicken it up a bit , Noel Redding , Andy Fraser , Entwistle etc , if there is a riff in G for instance try it at fret 10 on the A string

You know some venues have a PA and they put the bass through it?

Put this on my Xmas list , about halfway through, it's so good , you've got to read it , absolutely fascinating

I got shown those yacht rock vids I reckon at least 15 years ago by my mates who were in indie bands who definitely didn't appreciate the music , for them it was a sneering derogatory take on the music focused on superficial aspects of it like the dated keyboard sounds and moustaches etc, I thought it was vaguely amusing but I've never been very cool and even at the time had an appreciation of that mix of sophisticated harmony , funk rhythms and rock guitar, I get that now it is a bit more of an appreciative take what with taches , mullets and dodgy keys sounds having come back around into the mainstream but I'm actually with Rick on this and agree they've lumped together a disparate collection of artists to suit their narrative