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Ooh... that's interesting.... surprised by the quite thin gauges down the low end....

Hi, I'm looking to restring my Yamaha JM6 so that I can tune it from E to E, the reason being that I want to bring some classical guitar-ish playing to my band's music, and use the same shapes as I would on a guitar, but in the lower register of the bass guitar. I usually have 105 gauge low E string, but I don't mind going bigger if it helps get me the right spread of gauges to make this happen. So... I thought I'd ask the Basschat hivemind if anyone had done similar, or to ask what gauges people think would be appropriate for this sort of E to E tuning? Any advice gratefully received! Rob 🙂

Just had a look on youtube.... Sounding great! - I shall be investigating further! 😎

Good Lord.... is he a disciple of Les Dawson perchance?

If you want good music, you'll have to go looking for it. It sure won't be presented to you through standard media. But the good news is we now have YouTube etc. Live music seems to be off the menu for the foreseeable future, but when it does return I'd like to think that people will value it more. Either that, or venues will realise that juke boxes are both more popular and more cost effective.... time will tell...

No. In the early 80s it was all about listening to Holst or learning Gilbert and Sullivan songs. That said, I didn't expect any different. I learned classical guitar outside of school, which I enjoyed, and when I was 19 some mates asked me to learn bass because they wanted a finger-style player. The rest is history. Anyway, if there had been Precisions, Strats etc. in school down my way, they would have ended up down at the local car boot within a week....

Yes that's right. The name had escaped me temporarily due to advancing age and a large weekend of drinking.... 😶

Yes indeed. Jason was interviewed on that same vid about that topic. I picked up a copy of his album and what quite surprised how grungy it was rather than metal. Good though! 🙂

I love Trujillo's playing, but I can see exactly where you're coming from. One of the lads in work lent me a dvd about Metallica - I didn't know quite the extent of James and Lars' egotism and childishness until I watched it. Kirk Hammett used to get criticised for a number of reasons but, gee whizz, the guy should get a medal for putting up with that pair of idiots. I'm glad Kirk has now got Robert Trujillo to have a decent conversation with, and I'm glad Robert has found a 'home' band inasmuch as he can earn a few quid, get his name out there, and pay the rent for the foreseeable future. I just hope he gets to continue any side projects he might be involved in, such as Infectious Grooves. I prefer his playing in Infectious Grooves, but I totally get why he is in Metallica. Good on him!

Traditionally-inspired Indian metal. Really stoked for these guys that they got to play at Wacken.

Oof! That's a beauty! 😎

Never saw the appeal in EC. Other people do. Fair play. I always thought Jeff Beck was head and shoulders above him. One man's opinion and all that....

No, it was Before The Chop III. I've made a massive list of bands from that one book to check out. Get In The Van is certainly on my list of books to get though! 🙂

A recent discovery thanks to reading a Henry Rollins book... and sure enough, KEXP delivered!

My smile looks more like a rictus, so I keep my bulldog-licking-the-p!ss-off-a-thistle face on at all times.

There is that... funding the GAS!! All my gig earnings got spent on gear! 😎

That's exactly what I meant with respect to inverse proportion. 🙂 I've done weddings, wakes and bar mitvahs for quite a chunk of cash years ago, but I have way more fun these days playing dive bars for peanuts.

If you find it.... burn it!!

Sounds like Frank Zappa's song Joe's Garage... "down at Joe's garage, we didn't have no dope or LSD... just a couple of quarts of beer... would fix it so the intonation would not offend your ear..." 🤣

I never thought of it like that before.... but it certainly rings true for me! 😄

Surfing With The Alien by Joe Satriani. I was asked to learn it by some mates who converted me from guitar to bass.

The principle of deferred gratification. 'Working' for free in the short term so you can work for money at a later date. Maybe you're not bothered about competing for less gigs? Not everyone is....and not everyone sees it as a grinding hardship either. Maybe the pubs will get jukeboxes in and sh!tcan bands altogether. I'm surprised more pubs haven't before.

I trust none of the 'no' brigade will be bleating about the lack of both venues and money in the coming months and years. I get it, I've got mates who rely on gigs. Most of them (but not all) seem agreed that currying a bit of favour with their regular venues might pay dividends in the long term. I can see both sides though. It's a bit of a b*stard situation.

Yep. My lot play originals for nowt or next to nowt anyway. We've all got different motivations.