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Sounds good but it's annoying me now, what is that first tune? 😁 It sounds like Echo and the Bunnymen or The Jesus and Mary Chain but I just can't place it, or is it your own?

Can't help with the tuner but I want to know what the ruler's hiding that starts with FU 😁 Hopefully someone here will know what other basses had those tuners so you can widen the search criteria.

This is great way of looking at it. I don't like gigs where I'm not paid for loading, travelling, setting up and tearing down but I always enjoy playing. BTW I don't actually dislike all the stuff that goes hand in hand with gigging but I do prefer to be paid for it. 🙂

Any bass with the right EQ will be fine, but that's not what you want to hear. 🙂 A 3/4 doublebass will fit you fine, I'm 6' and have the endpin out about 8 to 10" at a guess so mine with the endpin in more would be fine. An EUB would be OK but I've heard the bluegrass gang can be sticklers for tradition and beat you to death with a mandolin for turning up with an EUB, an F style mandolin that is, the same punishment is dished out for turning up with an A style mandolin. Seriously though a doublebass, EUB or good old Precision with flats (other basses with flats are available) will be suitable. Your size is no reason not play any of these and the scale length difference doesn't seem make much difference to me, I'll work out songs at home on a fretted P bass to play at rehearsal on 3/4 upright, as soon as you're playing one instrument or the other, you automatically adapt without thinking. The choice is yours but my favourite bit of advice given to me applies here I think; "If you want something, you'll find a way. If you don't want it, you'll find an excuse." Best of luck with your decision. 👍

As with everyone I'm sure, my list will be different if you ask me on a different day, but these are albums I keep coming back to time and time again. A few of them being 'best of's' as I like the range in time rather than the snapshot if an album for some bands. Joy Division - Substance New Order - Substance The Cure - Standing on a Beach (the b sides are bliss) Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged. Raw, beautiful and painful. New Model Army - Raw Melody Men (a favourite live album) Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes The Specials - The Specials. Gang of Four - Entertainment Hard-fi - Stars of CCTV The Who - Quadrophenia (so I can play the film in my head while it's playing)

The Cure - Join the Dots (b sides and rarities '78-2001). I had Standing On A Beach on cassette when came it in '86, basically a greatest hits but the b side was all the b sides of the singles, and they really weren't just songs not good enough be a sides, some of them better than the singles. Anyway they are all on this four disc compilation along with all the b sides from that point on and some tracks which weren't on albums. Disc one's the best as it's the music of my yoof.

He was brilliant when his band opened for Alice Cooper a couple of years ago, but he really needs to get a wireless mic, he spent most of his set running around with 628 feet of mic cable wrapped around himself with a roadie chasing him trying to untangle him. 😁 Seriously though, MM and his band were fantastic, straight outta the 80s flamboyance, far too revealing red spandex, a casual disregard for the environment judging by the amount of bleach and hairspray used, a hugely energetic performance but most of all, great tunes.

If the allen key reaches back to the soundhole then, yes, it's essentially doing the same thing. 👍

Just a thought, would a quarter drive allen socket with a long extention bar so that the ratchet is in line with the soundhole help at all, rather than reaching inside with a standard allen key?

Re the monitor mixes via the app. We use the xr18 and I've found that if the band are reasonably disciplined then the monitors are all but set and forget. I'm no tech geek but the app is so basic to use, if they can use a slider on a desk then they can use the app. I don't use an amp or IEM's, just and decent wedge, loads more space an the sound coming straight at your face rather than trying to dry your socks from behind.

Being born in '73 I was too young to appreciate Joy Division when they were around. I got into them in my early teens through New Order and JD's Substance was the first album that really made me think about the bass, that and Power, Corruption and Lies.

Exactly this. Only downside for me was that I think the cinema I saw it in had a lot of dust in the air, because towards the end my eyes kept watering. It must've been in the air because my wife's eyes were also watering a lot.

Smokin' 😎

I saw the title and thought someone had been stealing pants off my line again.

I've got one of those bar towels, being the sad man that I am.

I actually prefer my theory over the 'they're the notes in the C major scale with one missing and a different one added' one in the link. That link is far more about what they're for and different styles than why they are where they are. Interesting link all the same though. 👍

As a complete guess I've always assumed that it was useful to know where the octave was so let's put a marker there. Then it would useful to have other markers so you knew at a glance where you were. If they were on every fret there would be nothing to differentiate them so every other fret was opted for. Now the choice is on the odds or evens, if evens were chosen then the octave at the twelfth wouldn't stand out, so odds were chosen. Markers on every other fret help you count quickly and the octave is easily rocognised by being on its own with a pair of unmarked frets either side. A quick glance and you know exactly where you are. I told you it was a guess.

And "ring peace" gets a fair few mentions. Yes there's an 'in' between them but I'm Justin delighted in singing these smutty phrases in a twee Christmas song. 😄

But standing still and looking bored was their thing. If they got a keytar and started running round the stage everyone would moan about them trying to be rock stars. They've stuck to what they do and their fans like it, and I say good on them.

It's was quite high when I made him an offer, but as soon as he accepted it I relaxed again. I haven't actually tried any yet. 🙂

They're on ebay at the mo for £12.99 but an offer of a tenner is auto accepted.

I have no idea what these are like but I've used their electric bass flats and they're alright really, not the best but perfectly alright. Black Dog Music are selling Olympia doublebass sets for a tenner. They may be of use to somebody and may even be a decent string. Anyway here's the link https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F390439584066 🙂

I just thought I'd mention here that Olympia flatwounds are on ebay for £12.99, but I just made an offer of £10, just to see, and it was automatically accepted, I don't really need them but they'll get used. So if you want to try flats on the cheap then see how low an offer you can get away with, or just offer a tenner and they're yours. 😎 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F332486029353

When it comes to stands I just go Hercules every time. Yet to have anything fall off or over yet.

One of the best voices the rock world has ever witnessed with a visceral scream that could tear plaster of the back walls of the club, wild flailing guitar chords with enough anger buried in them to start a fight at fifty paces accompanied by basslines that cut to the very bone such was the aggressive nature of the tone, all backed by a madly hammered out set of beats that were constantly on the verge of going off into a cacophony of out of time noise and yet always kept just on the right side of in time. Ah yes, The Who were definitely something special. But this new one's nice enough to have on in the background while I dunk a couple of custard cream into my milky tea.