Woodinblack

I record all the practices in case I need to remember something that happened!

Excellent, will keep this in mind next time I adjust the truss rod on mine (which I have done without trouble so far!)

I would certainly call that a bonus!

Indeed - that is my take on it. you don't have to like everything you play, but there shouldn't be anything that someone in the band hates. OK, the crowd are always going to want wonderwall, but that is ok, there are a whole group of other cover bands doing that, and we are the only band doing timber, surfin usa and baker street in our area. There needs to be something different between you and the next cover band so that there is a reason to pick one band over another, and not just what level of massacring you do to sex on fire.

Personally prefer the left, its a better shape and it is not pretending to be something it isn't. I never liked tele headstocks, even on tele basses!

That isn't a dyslexic thing, it never made any sense to me, I always have to look it up to see if it means clockwise or anticlockwise.

Good for you, I won't play it. I have no problems with brightside, but dakota I do, not specifically with playing it, just that it is a very dull song that I have never really heard a covers band done well (although in this case, done well isn't very high praise). So I avoid it for that. Luckily noone has suggested it in a while.

No

No, I won't play that. But there are a few that we have to play apparently, like 'i get knocked down' or whatever ever it is called. And Sex on fire - why does anyone like that, its not that its actually bad its just.. well, nothing special. Mustang sally, but honestly, I don't actually mind that for some reason. Oh 'Run' by.. whoever that is by, so dreary, luckily the rest of the band got bored of that too. Need your love so bad, and other blues songs.

Is it an unpopular opinion that a lot of people, like me, had to google who that was and still have no clue?

read the manual.. for a bass.. ummm.. sorry, not with you there I have a manual, probably, somewhere!

But having done it that way, people know they are reversed, so if they started doing them the right way round, other people would break them!

The logic is that the coils couldn't be placed close enough to be under the poles.

I knew they made guitars too - pictures of the beatles were around most places. Very true, they are very beige. TBH, most bass players I remember in glam had stuff made of stars or odd shapes.

Certainly not here, but it does pay for all its expenses and GAS, so that is all I could expect

Well, I am 57 today, and I haven't started yet!

Same here - when I started in the mid 70s, if you were a guitarist there was a strat or a les paul, but if you were a basist, fenders where quite a long way down the list of basses to get. You would see them but they weren't really something you would notice. It was kind of rickenbackers with a few gibsons.

I don't think that is entirely true, I think back in the past before mass production the quality of things was really variable, so for instance, if you had 10 les pauls, 1 would be fantastic, 2 would be very good, 5 would be ok and two would be firewood. Over time, the ones that were ok and firewood weren't really looked after or cherished and broke or dissapeared, but the fantastic ones were kept. So it provides this myth about them being great - no, just the good ones were.

Now just the small matter of making the next greatest album!

I absolutely would for the second. Not the first as I don't like those basses, and short scale thuddy bass probably not so good for downtuned.

Is there a reason you can't or don't want to update to 11.5?

When I was young, it really mattered. Now it doesn't matter at all. I can't think of anything I would or wouldn't play because of the connection of any artist. I would certainly never pick an artist model, because it was that artist model, but if it wasn't specifically custom (ie, just a colour etc) I might if I liked it

The floor controller on those was absolutely massive. Played the bass (not with the controller), played well.

Well, I have certainly lived in worse places!

That is how it would be written yes, but I couldn't bring myself to do it!