Maude

No real need for many controls. Set it to P on the centre pickup, volume on full, then get on with it. 😉

Whoaaah aaaaah ah, let's go all the way.

This is the 45 played at 33. I'm still not convinced it's only that as it just sounds to good. Edit, just realised @TwoTimesBass has already posted this.

I was just about to post that one. 👍

Also the slowed down 'male' version is quite interesting/amusing/strange.

I can think of a fantastic track called 'Jolene' but unfortunately it's not a Dolly cover.

Like a lot of others, it's not my thing particularly, but, I didn't feel the need to turn it off. Doesn't sound like a compliment I know, but it is. There were enough changes, interesting chord choices and little bass runs to keep my attention. The drums, whilst they must've taken a long time to program sound too drum machiney, but I'm not sure that's a criticism, they are programmed after all. Drop the vocals at the end would be my only real critism. If that was knocked out live in it's entirety with a big beast of a drummer and some rawk vocals it would be fantastic. 🙂👍

In the City - The Jam

I'm not vying to take anyone's crown for slowest build because that's far too much like hard work, and it wasn't a build anyway, just a make over, but I started my Longhorn in 2016 and only got round to finishing it in the first lockdown last year. But it is finished. My contender would have to be my flip top combo I'm 'building'. I had an old dynacord valve amp kicking around with all the front missing and some old early 70s celestian 15" drivers. The plan is to rehouse it all in a flip top combo style. So far I have taken all of the internals out of the amp at the end of 2019 and put them in a cupboard, now I'm not a hundred percent sure how it all goes but fear not because the amp apparently runs a very high voltage to get 80watts out of the two valves which would normally give 50watts, or something like that, so it shouldn't hurt too much when it tries to bite me. I haven't got time for the amp though because I've got a precision/jazz/ray I started last summer (shelved temporarily) and a Hofner I'm doing now. 😂😂😂

A dependable ar$e? 🤔 😉 😁

Born to be alive - Patrick Hernandez

A fine upstanding pillar of the band. A stable constant that can always be depended on to provide the effective solution to any problem without having a complete meltdown. Happy in the knowledge that while not always as obvious as his bandmates, his presence is what keeps the band functioning. The singer is the face, the guitarist the arms and the drummer the belly, but the bassist is the internal organs, without which the band would die. Oh OK, keyboard players are the derrière. 😁

I'll be pop back in seven years and see how it's going. 😁

@TJ1, how old are you and what kind of music are you into? This isn't meant as some stereotyping, condescending rant in any way, so apologies if it might seem like that. While I put my old man 'what on earth are the youth listening to' hat on I'll say that I think, in pop music, the bass guitar has kind of lost its way. Of course there will be exceptions and this is purely my opinion, and very generalised. But, in pop music bass really started to make its mark in the 60s. With Motown and Stax, The Who, Spencer Davis Group, The Animals, some group called The Beatles all had fantastically prominent basslines, some of which were the foundation of the song. There was also the first wave of Ska and Bluebeat which was very bass centric. The 70's continued this but added in disco and funk, and the end of the 70s beginning of the 80s saw the Mod and Ska revival with bands like The Specials, The Jam, The Clash etc absolutely killing it on the bass front. The Clash bridged Ska and Punk, as did a few other, again with great bass, and a few of the bands lumped in with punk really knew the power of bass like The Stranglers The late 70s into early 80s also saw the rise of post punk bands like Joy Division, Gang Of Four Devo, Talking Heads, Killing Joke, etc, again showcasing songs with massively prominent basslines that the songs just wouldn't work without. The eighties rumbled on with the emergence of goth with bands like Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, The Cure, guess what massive domineering basslines. 90s grunge, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and others, bass you get the picture. They started in the 80s but came into their own in the 90s really, Red Hot Chili Peppers. The 90s also saw Rage Against The Machine, massive basslines again. It goes on and on. But slowly over the last twenty years bass seems to have lost its way in pop music. There are exceptions but maybe a twenty year old today would question the role of bass based on the popular music they've grown up with. Disclaimer, I've missed out loads but hopefully you get the jist.

I'm feeling mischievous this evening. 🙄 😁

And mine, so we'd better hear it. 🙂 Also, showing my love of a good pop song.

Ouch!

Not sure. I've bought individual strings to make up my own sets but they were rounds. I just assumed they did the same with flats, maybe not then. Sorry.

Fatty Fatty - Clancy Eccles

As you've mentioned the Quarter Pounders, maybe the Entwistle Neo pickups might suit, and not break the bank trying. I've always said the PBXN is very similar to a 1/4 pound P but even more modern sounding. Still definitely P but not vintage P. I also have the JBXN's in a jazz and really like them for same reason, powerful and foucussed. Don't let the low price sway you, they are very good pickups, just not traditional vintage sounding.

Front the other current string ID thread, Dunlop have black silks at both ends, LaBella only have them at the nut end.

Just to add, LaBella sell individual strings on their website. 🙂

Labella flats have black silks. I'm not sure if they all do but their set for Hofners do. Beware though, I needed a replacement D string as it snapped fitting it (LaBella replaced FOC) but it had a grey silk, so they might've changed them all now. A black sharpie soon matched it too the others though.

Sounds like a plan. 🙂👍