Maude

Well you shouldn't, I love an Encore bass.

The scratchplate makes it look like one of those terrible Soviet Union basses that pop up on ebay.

Haha, the all new Music Man MangoBanana. I actually like the look of a Stingray.

It possibly comes under the heading 'functional' (although I've yet to encounter problems without the feature) but I just don't like the of any of those modern single cuts. A traditional single cut looks fine, Hofner Club, Gibson Les Paul, Yamaha Bex4, etc, it's just those with a bloomin' great bulbous top, erm, lump, that I can't get my head around.

Ooh now you're talking! 😁

Last time I looked, a Jaguar/Precision/Jazz/Telecaster hybrid bass was a bitsa.......... and not the best part seven grand.

That looks cool. I really like black plates on Ricks. I would put a black scratchplate and TRC on my 4005 ("IT'S NOT A REAL ONE!" "Shut up you.") but it's got white binding around the edge and the f? hole so wouldn't look right. Same with my 4001 ("THAT'S NOT REAL EITHER!" "What the hell is wrong with you?")

Those look quite cool, interesting to see the differences in gaps between windings up close. Can you feel a difference? This is the only photo of a flatwound up close I have. My doublebass G string after it fell over and landed G string first against the edge of a granite step.

Gorgeous. Gold hardware on the right bass just works.

With songs that have boring bass I quite like spending some time just jamming my own lines over the top. Something like this from Gary Clark Jr is great for improving your improvised walking bass lines. It's a bit more blues based but those walking lines can be used anywhere.

A few years ago Fender did a 60th anniversary edition P/J for Thomann which had a lovely violin burst. That was a stunner.

I'll go along with that @Andyjr1515. 🙂

That's the word! My mind went blank. It would make for an interesting System Of A Down song though. 😁

I came out a while ago about my love for Copacabana, and I'm not going back in now! 🙂

That yew is certainly a very pretty wood. Just curious about the poisonosity (surely that's not a word) of it. If the body was left unfinished, would it stay poisonous or is it just when freshly cut?

Matching black, black, maple bass and stagewear. Body, scratchplate & fretboard, and jeans, shirt & head. 😁

Gimme Three Steps has a cool bassline that's fun to jam to.

Oh I don't know, Cake without vibraslap is like Blue Oyster Cult without cowbell.

You just know that Vibraslap's coming, even if you've never heard the song.

For some reason I've ended up listening to lots of cover versions of known bands by other known bands but done in the coverees style, does that make sense? No? I thought not. 😄 Here's what I mean. Here's Black Sabbaths 'War Pigs', an absolute belter from Sabbath. Now Cake have a complete sound of their own, unmistakable, and this is their take on War Pigs. The timings seem odd at first but totally works in that 'Cake' style, and the pumping bass from the off really drives it. Here's another, Bill Haleys 'Thirteen Women', a slightly risqué topic given the era. And this is The Renegades version. A superb slice of sixties garage rock. Such an enjoyable version which I feel is way ahead of its time, the sound, the hair and the video. Apparently this band were huge wherever The Beatles couldn't, wouldn't, or didn't play. This is the best version soundwise on YouTube and has a little bonus cover afterwards in the form of Vince Taylors 'Brand New Cadillac', so guess where we go next? Vince Taylor and his Playboys, Thirteen Women Which we all know was covered in grand style by the The Clash on their London Calling album. Quite similar in style but unmistakably The Clash, although I've never really felt it fitted on the LC album, but I digress. Enjoy

Also lots of Northern Soul Classics, there's just something eternally hopeful about the genre. I had a major cut back of the bottom of the garden yesterday after not being touched for a few years, it was on list of stuff to sort in the summer but now seems like a good time. I had a bonfire yesterday evening to get rid of the waste and had a little shuffle around the garden by myself to some tunes like this.

I posted this in the 'What are you learning' thread and it puts a cheesey grin on my face so I'll post it here as well.

Oh yeah, welcome to the forum. 👋 With the money saved from isolating it would be impolite to not buy something bass related. 😁

Mrs. Maude had a courier delivery yesterday, I don't know which courier but there was a knock at the door, when I opened the door the parcel was on the doorstep with the driver stood about ten feet away, he signed the the illegible hieroglyphs machine when I took the parcel. As safe and secure as possible given the current situation.