Maude

I'm not even convinced wiping them down does much apart from push any dirt into the windings, unless you use your cloth 'with the grain' so to speak, so as to wipe dirt out of the windings. I'm sure any wipers on here wipe 'against the grain', up and down the length of the string, and probably never underneath anyway where most dirt will collect.

+ a lot of numbers So many people seem to spend ages laboriously taking the paint/primer/sealing coat off and then another age trying to cover/fill the woodgrain and prime it to get it back to where it was when they started. Leave the original finish if in good nick, a quick rub with some scotchbrite or Micromesh or the like and you're good to go. I really love that colour BTW, I seem to share your love of cream basses, I paint a colour to be different to all the cream ones and then wish I'd done it cream.

To be honest, I'm not sure what brands they are, maybe they are all from G4M basses but I'd guess a company manufactures and supplies them to a few lower end bass sellers. I've just checked ebay and there aren't any I just remember seeing them for sale second hand for very little money every now and again. I saw one go for less than twenty quid because I considered buying it (just in case) but I chickened out in the end as storage was a problem.

I don't know if you'd class them as strictly blues but a while ago I quite go into Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band after hearing this on a free magazine compilation.

One of our gigs last weekend was at a pub whose landlord, Phil, used to own a different pub. We used to play regularly for Phil at his previous pub but the new owners cancelled all the bookings when they took over. At last Saturdays gig two minibuses turned up full of locals from Phil's previous pub who'd come especially to see us, a thirty mile round trip. Money in Phil's till and two fingers up to the new landlord at his previous pub. We were delighted to see them

Sorry, can't help with the GK but I have spent far too long watching your avatar going round

Just had a look (your linky didn't work) and you should be able to get an as new second hand one for less than fifty quid.

Don't know how much the G4M ones are but you can usually pick up the hardcases supplied with the cheaper doublebasses second hand for next to nothing. Folks don't tend to keep them as they are massive and unwieldy. Have a look on ebay/gumtree/facebook etc.

Fender 9120 black nylon strings are nice and slick feeling and should be less than £30 if you haven't settled on strings yet.

Could it be a little trick whoever recorded/produced the song used to give the song a retro feel? Slightly off pitch that gives the feeling of a stretched tape or something.

Following on from my post from last night's gig, we've just taken a wedding booking off the back of it. Even the bad venues have their positives

We're playing a place I'd be happy to drop right now, on our break in the middle. There's a really nice outdoor seating area, a really nice bar and a room between the two where we're playing. Just people passing through from bar to outside. The reason we play is the owners own another venue which is always epic, so if we turn this one down we risk losing the good one. Oh well, tomorrows is a good venue so tonight is just a dress rehearsal

The first clip reminds me of The Fall.

18 here in the UK.

^^^ So, that iconic post quite literally decimated me!!! Look, you started it

Slightly OT but we had this discussion at rehearsal a few weeks ago. Guitar = guitarist, bass = bassist, violin = violinist, drums = drumist? Is there a rule to what becomes an 'ist' or an 'er'?

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The Behringer version of the SM58 really is amazing for the money. You can get a pack of three in a case for around £30, honestly give an SM58 a run for its money sound wise. I've had mine for years, backing vocals, and they've been brilliant.

I like a challenge but that's too much

Anything where they have to chant, Inger-laaaand. Which is pretty much all of them, well English ones anyway I seem to recall liking a Scottish one with the bloke from Gregory's Girl singing. Early eighties. Talking of Gregory's Girl, Clare Grogan 😍

As soon as the drums stop he absolutely cannot keep time, or even hear the bass keeping time, he's definitely a guitarist.

I won't go into the details of what happened but while setting up at last night's gig our guitarist had a little 'toys out the pram' moment. This morning we all had this email; "Just want to say sorry for my tantrum last night, no excuses, I was a tool!" Obviously I accepted his apology and replied telling him he was a d!ckhead. See, they're not that bad after all

That's a gorgeous looking bass 😍

I've not heard Death Magnetic but I'm surprised it sound bad with RR on board. So many times I've been listening to an album and thought 'this recording is amazing', to then find out RR was in charge. Shame.

'Stanley Clarke' by Stanley Clarke. Bought it about 25 years ago as I was trying to broaden my influential horizons as a bass player. The man and album are legendary so it must be good, right? I physically cannot listen to it, I get this creeping urge crawling over me to turn it off. I get Restless Leg Syndrome and the best way I can describe this album is the aural version of RLS, I try to resist but the only relief is to turn it off. I've tried a number of times over the years but to no avail.