Maude

Grace (Supergrass)

Similarly, "What's your best price?". If I'm selling a bass for £500, my best price is £500, or more if you want.

Shakespeare's Sister (The Smiths)

Aren't they all black sharpie coloured? 😉

That's playing Prog with a lazy drummer for ya! 😉

In the same way that the correct answer to the 'Stones or Beatles?' debate is The Kinks, the answer to the 'Oasis or Blur?' debate is Pulp. Jarvis Cocker wrote some great lyrics.

"What I wouldn't give to see her pee, between two parked cars on a well lit street." NOFX See Her Pee. OK maybe not 😬.

This might be just about the right length 😉.

There are several normal pubs, not music venues, in Plymouth with weekend warrior, not professional, cover bands playing every weekend at the moment. I work in Plymouth and keep getting asked when my bands will be playing again and I say we're not allowed, to which colleagues reel of all the bands that were playing at various pubs in the city last Saturday. None of these places are ticketed music venues, just your average pub that puts bands on at the weekend. I just don't know what the rules are. I thought we weren't allowed to, but if we're not how are they getting away with it? They advertise the the gigs on Facebook and the bands have videos of them playing in the pubs posted online so it's no secret.

Funny you should say that. They haven't got their name on these. 😁

Here we go 🙂. https://reverb.com/uk/item/4071344-fender-8250-5m-nickelplated-steel-taperwound-5-string-bass-strings

I may be dreaming it but that packet with the sunburst Jazz looks identical to the Fender taperwound 5 string set I bought a while ago. Where there's a big gap above 'Nickelplated steel' it had the Fender logo. 🤔

Although way over the 30 minute mark at 50 minutes, the 'Short Music For Short People' compilation has an impressive 101 tracks by 101 bands.

There's this bridge available as a replacement for the standard one if you can't find a Pro. https://www.ebay.com/itm/233672307709

That 'Antiprocrastination Song' drags on though doesn't it.

Yes, there's solid block underneath the bridge. There has to be to hold the original bridge. Personally I'd go with the similar styled bridge with the adjustable saddles for intonation to keep the looks the same. Having said that I've just kept the original and the intonation is all but bang on. There is actually quite a lot of adjustment with the original. The wooden saddle has a single central screw in a longitudinal slot, allowing movement up and down and twisting. I've just biased it so that the G and D are spot and the A very, very close and the E is a whisker out. But you're less likely to need the E string higher up. Unless you're doing chordal playing it's not noticeable at all really.

Possibly, yes. But I'd be more concerned as to why it has split. It doesn't look to follow the grain so I wouldn't think it was just old wood drying out or anything. If you glue it will the force that has caused it split continue to put stress on the crack? Or has it took an impact to cause it and won't have similar continued stress on it?

On average I sell one bass per decade and I've only just sold one so I'm safe for a while, but I've got serious non buyers remorse at the moment. I saw an absolutely gorgeous late 60s Eko Florentine guitar for sale not too far away, debated for too long as I don't need it, but I love quirky, vintage designs and this has it in spadefuls. Anyway it sold and now I can't have it I really want it. Yes I am like a spoilt child. 🙂

Crazy Train (Ozzy)

Voodoo people (Prodigy)

Up a Junction (Squeeze)

Dropping through sky, Through the glass of the roof, Through the roof of your mouth, Through the mouth of your eye, Through the eye of the needle, It's easier for me to get closer to Heaven Than ever feel whole again. Disintegration by The Cure. I love Liz Taylors, I mean Robert Smiths little word plays and phrasing. There's many, many more from their back catalogue.

It's an excellent recovery of a terrible bandsaw accident when cutting the body shape. Maybe he's made some equaly lovely coasters out of the lower bout than got accidently cut off.

Thanks @Teebs, maybe another restoration project on the cards then. Anyway I've derailed enough. Back to the suspense of what @Dandelionhas bought.

There's something odd with it though. The pickup is routed slightly off centre (lining pole pieces up with the body laminate lines) and as such the bridge is way off centre. The strings run parallel to the fretboard but way off from the body laminate lines. It all looks untampered with though. Which made wonder if these were poor quality.