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Are you a good enough driver for the £10,000 car, or should you buy a £200 banger - like mine?

Swap it for something else? 😁

I’m not a huge fan of the band, I like certain of their songs. I do like Flea though. This sounds a typical RFCP song.

Tony Levin was talking about this on Instagram the other day.

I came across this cooperative style streaming service last week. They’re recommended by a couple of people that I know. https://linktr.ee/resonatecoop

I’m not sure it really matters. As others have said, many times a live performance by the band that recorded the song will be quite different to the recorded version. Often it’s just not possible to recreate the original recording. A lot of the older artists aren’t able to sing in the original keys anymore. I think you need to capture the essence of the song, that’s more important.

I didn’t realise places still had these. I remember as a kid going with my parents most Saturday evenings to a social club, they always had bands on. I loved it, many of them would trip the sound level meter and go silent for a few seconds.

You’ve probably put it in the wrong section. There is a dedicated wanted section for double basses.

I’m guessing DPD. Most music shops seem to use them.

DPD? Don't use Parcelforce, they don’t insure musical instruments.

I’ll make truss rod and bridge adjustments on my electric basses yes. I wouldn’t touch the frets though, I don’t have the necessary skills.

Me neither, at least not for something sold on Facebook or Gumtree. It’s cash or bank transfer on collection only with them.

Brussels is a beautiful city, it’s usually pretty cheap to get there too on Eurostar.

It’s quite a well known scam. After agreeing you’ll get a message from the buyer to say he can’t pay cash, but will you take PayPal. They’ll then say they haven’t received the item. Obviously with no trackable shipping PayPal will just refund him.

I’ve never bought from his shop, I briefly studied music with Pierre at ICMP and bought two instruments from him privately. He’s got some great instruments in stock.

I tend to sit down for jazz gigs. I believe Dave Swift was seated for the recent Jools Holland NYE gig. Anthony Jackson has gigged seated for decades. I read somewhere that he was sacked by Al Jarreau for not standing and dancing.

Can honestly say I’ve never had a problem in all the time that I’ve been using them - which was before the physical shop started, when Mark was trading from home.

Yes. I genuinely hadn’t seen it before.

My long term teacher, latterly the programme leader on the BMus course I did is left-handed and plays that way. He had to modify his slap technique, but he’s a monster player. Left-handed instruments weren’t readily available when he first started, so he bought a regular right-handed bass and turned it upside down. The amazing Jimmy Haslip plays upside too.

That was my first thought. 😆.

I placed two ads in the effects section yesterday. I just received notification that they’ve been approved. I’ve never had that before.