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Everything within your specified price range (which is inclusive of approx 95% of the bass market) which is not a Fodera is an alternative to a Fodera. The only person able to shed light upon a suitable alternative that meets your exact subjective specifications ...is you. Btw GAS, like any other bad habit or addiction is entirely destructive and completely fruitless.

Look forward to this one...keep us posted!

Way too complicated for a one off client/gig......avoid!

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1441540572' post='2859613'] Ah, dear old Biff. He's 64, you know. [/quote] ...and it is glaringly obvious that he is right handed.

Forget the graphite neck and buy a Warwick Thumb bass or Corvette.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1441534282' post='2859510'] I guess it seems a bit like a professionalism thing [/quote] ....if people care enough about it to be upset then it could be construed as unprofessional, in my experience nobody cares. In this context I personally consider pointlessly hanging around for hours unprofessional, and a waste of the most valuable commodity of all....time!

Seems absolutely logical to me, we have even done similar at weddings on agreement with the DJ. It's not disrespectful if those who would potentially feel disrespected have intimated they won't feel disrespected. If the client is happy, the DJ has no issues with it and the punters don't care then what else is there?

Super nice!

Congrats on a really lovely job!

It's not what you know that you don't know that causes you problems, its what you don't know that you know. You don't ever not know what you knew....you still do but have simply forgotten that you know. You haven't forgotten how to play the bass...you have just forgotten that you know how to. Relax and enjoy remembering.

Really sad to hear of this....love Lemmy

Yup....guilty as charged. I warble and pluck simultaneously.

New packaging....same old strings. Great for one gig.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1440244746' post='2849313'] I use stringbusters.com, good service and I think they're generally cheaper than Strings Direct. [/quote] Me too...great company!

My thoughts on this are that your thoughts on this are accurate. You are the CEO of your life...you can evaluate, promote, demote and terminate the contracts of those in it as you choose. I suggest you now choose.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1439727796' post='2845231'] I totally agree - and have recently begun to do so (again) after a relatively long period of trying out many different basses. It's been a fun and interesting experience though, and at no point did I ever think I'd find a bass that would magically make me a better player, or would increase the size of my gonads. The conclusion I've come to is, that by and large most bass guitars sound pretty much the same when they're in the mix, and if you can pick out what the bass is doing it's probably too loud or you're playing it wrong. *Runs away* [/quote] I wholeheartedly agree. This place is infected with an unhealthy, rampant GAS virus that seems to infect most. The key word being "unhealthy" - as demonstrated by the OP's statement "Why am I never happy?"

Here is my perspective - I find that it is better to concentrate on playing than to obsess about instruments...I enjoy making music and am therefore "happy". The name playing the instrument is more important than the name on the headstock.

That is going to be really nice.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1438811163' post='2837704'] When checking out a bass one needs to stop thinking one is being tested. The bass is being tested not you. Don't perform. Play every note on every string, Play octaves, play fifths. Use different pickups, play with the tone controls. Etc.etc. [/quote] Very sound advice.