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I personally can't stand them, so different strokes etc I expect. I can't stand the way they look, especially the really long ones you get on quite high end basses, and I can't stand the feel of them. I fitted one to a jazz bass once and hated it, it felt quite restrictive. Then I play my Jack Casady and my hand slips all over the bass, if only there was just something to grip... 🤔

My favourite home base varies. The Jack Casady is great for a quick noodle when I can't be bothered amping up. My fretless is great because I've had it for twenty years so it's the most natural to play, but my band doesn't really fit for fretless playing. My number 1 love bass is my Stingray, the massive ballsy sound is what I need and what my band want, but I'm very protective of that bass and often can't be bothered getting it out the case to play at home when there are others waiting around to be played.

Hmmm... I like a lot of stuff that some people love and some hate. I like metal, Megadeth probably being my favourite but a lot of people hate them because of Dave Mustaine's voice and personality. I like Sixx:AM but wanting to see them at Download 2016 I got a drubbing from my friends cos they're seen as very naff (does anyone still say Naff?) but I think the guitarist is outstanding. I liked country when I was ten and discovered my mum's Johnny Cash LPs, that was very unpopular until the film Walk the Line came out then suddenly everyone idolised Johnny Cash. I love 80s music from Level 42 to the cheesiest of pop. Club Tropicana is pop perfection, but I am now in a band where half the people cannot stand anything 80s.

I'd love to have the time to learn it. It all looks so easy. Then you sit there and it's like your very first driving lesson all over again.

You can't stop it, and why would you? Punter sees something interesting and videos it... Then hopefully they whack it up online and tag the band in, traffic to your own pages develops and you might get more interest from further afield. It would be nice if people did post it and tag the band in so you can choose whether to keep it or not but usually there's a few people filming and then you, maybe even they, never actually see that film played back. We've made twenty second advertising clips using stitched together mobile footage and recordings from gigs made by people we know who have shared them with us. So the viewer gets multiple camera angles, perhaps from multiple gigs, alongside a good quality audio that is also recorded live, every box ticked.

"custom" must be part of the ad template for guitars in eBay. Many described as "custom" are either not at all in any way customised or custom made. Some are badly modified though. "Hand made". Yup, your Yamaha Pacifica was handmade. Well, someone picked it up by hand at some point in the production process. "Collection only DO NOT contact me asking about delivery". Items described like this are often located in a dragons backside, guarded by hungry dobermans in the hardest to reach part of some remote Scottish island. Or just some sh!thole somewhere around the country that's a pain to get to. Either way, if I'm willing to send a courier and pay the asking price and nobody else is biting why wouldn't you sell it? "Never gigged" what are you implying happens at gigs? Why would it be better if it just had the stuffing knocked out of it at home by your kids, but NEVER GIGGED. Why does it matter? It's either in good condition or it's not.

The Water Hole

Looks ok. If it were cheaper and I hadn't just spent too much on kit already I'd want it, take it to Mike and have it defretted and less vulgar hardware fitted.

Amateurs playing for one night only. Not Pink Floyd selling out every city three nights in a row.

This news is what we are relying on, also we are not earning from it. Understand it's not a dig, the topic is a minefield and one I've been wary of ever since it was first mentioned. Going by Eurostar I'm afraid so all luggage space is allocated!

Am thinking of sticking some stuff up on Instagram about it if I have time, can be bothered and don't look a complete t!t doing so. I am one of the most boring people on Instagram, but if you like pictures of left handed bass guitars you're welcome to check it out: @rr_on_bass

I raised this and one of the lads googled it, for small one offs there is no visa requirement.

Yeah I feel a bit bad going away without the family but do want to get a good look around. Thankfully the rest of the band aren't the "waaaaaayyyyy lads lads lads!" Spend all day and night drinking types so I expect to see more than just a few pubs.

Isn't it always the way... If you can decipher the timetables and where to go! We are going by Eurostar, the other lads have done this before so I'm relying on them to help get me around.

No real reason to post other than I'm very excited about this opportunity. I joined a band just before Christmas who have a linkup with a bar in Amsterdam that they e played in before. They couldn't do it through covid but now we are booked in for a monster four hour set on Fri 20th May. We are well rehearsed, well prepared and ready to go! Really looking forward to it. Have never been to the Netherlands at all so to go there for a gig is a bit surreal.

The Desert Penguins go international! Revisiting the Water Hole in Amsterdam on Fri 20th May playing a monster four hours of guitar driven pop/ rock. Come along and ply me with red bull. 11 til 3. That's 11pm til 3am.

Looking for someone who'll pay seven grand not to wait I guess?

It is one of those impulse purchases you could make, like a few extra plectrums or something.

2016 I think

1. "Just jam along, it's 12 bar blues!" Then a mess of a solo emerges and goes on for ten full minutes. 2. People who probably don't want to be in a band, they just want to show off expensive gear they can't play properly. If you're forming a band and someone says "let's talk about what gear we've got" and they list out tons of stuff down to their primary school recorder I think it's a huge red flag. My answer is "the right gear to cover most gig situations" and that should be sufficient 3. Being incredible at one song on the list but not bothering to learn most of the rest. 4. Being Mr 3 in this list and lecturing everyone else on how this band won't go anywhere unless we rehearse twice a week. 5. Venue staff telling you you're too loud when you're not. 6. Venues not giving you sensible drinks for free and generally treating the band as a huge inconvenience 7. Venues that are obviously for swearing at football on TV, and not for live music, hiring bands 8. Venues with hardly any plug sockets. 9. Drummers who can't keep time 10. Singers who can't banter with the audience 11. Long lists

Seventeen thousand pounds. For a bass. FODERA Emperor II Elite 5 String LEFTY (2012) https://reverb.com/item/54803906-fodera-emperor-ii-elite-5-string-lefty-2012?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=54803906

Done. Good luck with the project

Musicman Stingray. So, so easy to choose. Why? I bought it from brand new with a nice tax rebate after discovering accidentally I'd been overpaying tax by a considerable amount for a long time. Went into Wunjos and under no pressure chose the bass I wanted for thumping out covers in pubs, halls and at weddings and functions. It's my number 1 live bass for its massive, massive ballsy sound. You can slap it, you can pick it, you can gently fingerstyle it but you get the best out of it by digging in. The tone and punch of this bass fits perfectly for pop and rock style stuff. The neck is perfection. The EQ is intuitive and so easy to use. It's really lightweight and it looks fantastic. The only thing it doesn't do is subtlety. If it were a dog it would be a stupid, slobbery Great Dane that only wants to play 24hrs a day and jumps all over you. It will chew up your shoes but never sh!t in them and you'll just love it even more. If my house were on fire it's not the first bass I'd run back in for. That would be the "worthless" Kramer I got for my 18th birthday and have loved ever since. Many basses have come and gone but the Kramer stays. That's the bass that is just so natural for me to play. Sadly it's looks, and it's sound, don't fit all occasions.

Similar to my gig it seems! Thing is the audience don't notice most of what you will have noticed. Even my bandmates didn't notice the vast majority of my mistakes on Saturday night. We've agreed to have a "random riff quiz" at our next practice: list the songs each of us tends to f up, randomly shout the name of a song and everyone needs to belt out the riff together!

Odd gig Saturday night. Had to wait until Liverpool v Spurs finished so didn't start playing until quarter to ten. We had loads of new songs to try out before a massive gig in two weeks but this meant I forgot and messed up loads of the set staples. Loads of issues with volume (staff telling us to turn down even though we were as quiet as we could manage if you didn't want a drum solo all night) and a strange room for sound. Very small audience sat still in chairs either chatting and reacting a bit to the start of a few songs or staring intensely at us throughout. Started to feel ill through the set and just couldn't wait for it to be over. FInding the positives: we got a rubbish gig out of our system before our next which we want to be perfect; I have a greater focus on what to practice for the next two weeks.