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not bass related but got a real tie it yourself bowtie this is so I can untie it, after dinner, and look a bit more like Daniel Craig's Bond Mum sent me 100 quid which I've put towards my Dingwall Just like @NancyJohnson we tend to buy what we want, when we want it but this year Christmas was about having friends round for lunch, wine and games

well I'm glad to report that I'm not too far out with what my mate has told me but after my playing 2 days ago, my plucking fingers are sore, so I need more playing hours to build up calluses on my fingers shorter nails works for me too

damn, out of stock Still I can wait 10 days I hope it's not too heavy

Having recently bought my Dingwall John Taylor bass (and not really having a gig for it) I've started to learn my 80s duo stuff but on the bass. It would be fun to swap between guitar and bass on some gigs ( the bass line on Rio is particularly good) I've decided that I should do some of this stuff more authentically and play using fingers and not always with a pick The guy in my 80s band is a music teacher and awesome bass player and he's putting together a short video of how he plays with fingers stuff like how to keep the volume the same between different fingers Also he says to keep the nails on your plucking hand short so they don't pick the string Anyone else got any more tips for me on this, (keeping the nails short is a great tip)

Hi there actually I have no idea. There is facebook sites dedicated to tribut acts, they probably advertise on there Probably start following a few bands online and maybe message them that you would be interested if the opportunity came up I joined U2 Tribe after a support slot with The Policed in Southend. I saw their bassist had announced his departure and so I contacted their singer Job was mine immediately as they had already seen me and loved my bass sound

Getting older is tough. There seems to be more losses than gains. I feel for you all as we too have lost nearest to us this year My wife found her brother in may, Brain Hemorrhage 56 years old a close friend had a botched heart op and died suddenly another close friend has bone cancer it never stops I told my wife she had to retire, she's 62 and was a customs officer for over 40 years I hope to retire in the next 2 to 3 years and hope 2026 is quieter My love to you all

it doesn't bother me at all, weird isn't it. I've got two Adam Clayton basses (for my U2 tribute) a Slash Les Paul, JMJ mustang and recently added a John Taylor Dingwall to the arsenal. But the Adam Clayton jazz bass looks lovely

what's the problem with the signature on the headstock?

I'd buy the Adam Clayton signature jazz, if I wanted a jazz I did have a Flea jazz and it sounded awesome

I used to think £1500 was expensive In my Police tribute I would take my Bravewood £1500 and maybe the Steinberger £2000. That's £3500 worth of basses in a pub. This was a few years ago I now use a Harley Benton! This year I bought a Harry White 4003 at £1500, which considering a genuine Ric is much more money I don't see it as expensive But I've just paid £2600 for a Dingwall JT4. Now I do consider this purchase expensive, yes it's tax deductable but it won't ever be my main bass, so in terms of income over expenditure it's expensive (but as a life long JT fan, worth every penny) I have guitars that were £2000 new in 2010 and they are worth north of £4000 now but I gigged them for 3-4 years when i bought them and didn't really think about their value. My main U2 tribute basses are 2nd hand, coming in at about £500 each with the relic P bass build coming in at about £250, that's a total of £1250. These basses earn good money. Like all things, expensive is subjective. My £450 1973 P bass that I've gigged since 1990 was cheap at the time (no one wanted a P bass in 1990), I was doing 100 gigs a year then at £30 a gig, £3000 for the year, not bad in 1990 for a pub band

and they made it left handed for him, which was unusual. He also started playing bass in Germany I think, when Stuart left

I've seen her using a Status and a JayDee in the past

As a life long John Taylor fan I simply had to get myself one of these Dingwalls. I don't really do more than one pickup and volume, tone knob. This was b stock from Thomann. It had been used in their photos and has a slight ding on the back An amazing set up, action as low as Ive ever played and the pre-amp is amazing too. If only I had some gigs booked that weren't tribute gigs. Fanned frets. My word, just don't look at them. It does sound quite P bass like on the neck pickup I'll bring the Ampeg into my music room over the christmas break and see how it really sounds

how does it sound thru an amp, neck pickup turned all the way up and bridge pickup turned all the way down?

I paid 600 quid for mine, when I auditioned for The Fizz. Sang live, they edited it and I was very happy It got me my audition I'm thinking about doing one for my Police tribute too but that would be more money as it's a band set up I've lost a bit of weight since that was filmed, crikey