Woodinblack

My suggestion would just be to sell them and buy fretted versions of the basses if possible. Getting fretless basses fretted is a lot of work, so will be expensive and pretty non reversable and it is not money you would ever get back selling them, so unless they are very rare, just getting fretted versions would be easier.

Most songs are the same things over and over, the verses are all the same. The lyrics tend to change per verse, so that doesn't seem unreasonable.

OK, So I think we are pretty clear and conclusive here then. A Precision bass is: A bass made by Fender. Or Squier, or maybe someone else as long as it looks the same Has 4 strings - unless its a 5 string. Always has 4 tuners on one side - unless it has 5 string, then it is 5 on one side, or maybe 4 on one side and one on the other Always has a 34" maple neck. Unless its short scale. Has an unbound neck. Unless it's bound. Has a maple fingerboard. Unless it has a rosewood fingerboard Is always the same shape, unless it is a longhorn Says precision bass on the headstock The headstock is the rounded Strat type. Unless it is the telecaster type. Has a arm and top cutaway. unless it is slab sided, when it doesn't Always has one split pickup. Unless it has the original single coil pickup. Or 2 split pickups. But never one split and one j pickup. Unless it does. Always has a volume and tone control. Unless it has two pickups, then it can have another volume The volume and tone control are on the same pickguard as the pickup. Unless they are on a separate plate. Is always passive. Unless it's active. And then it is allowed another switch. or two.

It isn't common because it is licensed work which costs money and is harder to get, it is less fun to be in a band if you were to rely on the licenced music at £5 a pop and you have 50 covers to learn. I did play with a keyboard player that couldn't play anything without the sheet music. Which made it very unenjoyable to be in a band with as it both restricted your options for jamming, extending, or correcting errors. But it is pretty uncommon.

wasn't talking about a 3 year old amp, I wouldn't expect it to be anything other than perfect at that age, and I wouldn't routinely change anything. I was referring to when you get one of those old valve amps from the 60s or 70s

So a jazz bass is a P bass, but a Fender Player plus precision bass isn't a precision bass?

Sounds promising if that is the engine for their next batch of pedals. When they come up with something compact and pedalboard friendly it will be interesting.

They are in the old MusicMan building on Fender way.

Why not? They have a lifespan of about 30,000 hours, so if they have been gigged for 3 hours every night for 3 years you would still have another 6 years of the same schedule before they are getting towards their ends of life. If I picked up an old amp for a recondition I would be far more concerned about the conditions of the capacitors than the valves.

Yep, mine was a twin pickup one Maybe they only had two coils to go round so that if you wanted two pickups you got one on each

The other part - no split pickup

So the original P bass isn't a P bass?

Maybe they just recently changed it, but mine was a few years back and I would put money on it being a single coil pickup on it, that is how it acted.

We don't, but as you say, it doesn't matter.

Not that I fully understand what your second life thing is, or what 'that moving stuff' is but no, you don't have to gig to be a musician.

Youtube keeps a track of what you visited and has no more adverts than spotify has (and you can't skip spotifys ones).

Personally I wouldn't really consider it a build rather than a series of adjustments / mods, so I would probably put them in repairs / technical, but that isn't really an ideal place for a whole series of modifications, and I guess it is the same as a restoration, so probably the build diaries is as good as anywhere!

We sent an actual link to a youtube track. The version we were doing. Just click the link, but no, didn't work.

I'm not, you said gigging is a musicians whole life (or at least that is what I assume you meant), which it doesn't really need to be.

I would dispute that. We play Sex on Fire and I find no enjoyment playing it. it isn't a fun song to play, it has no interesting parts to it, there are no technical challenges with it, and it doesn't really groove. I carry on playing it because the others want to and the audience like it for whatever reason, just one of those songs you have to get through to get to more interesting ones. We won't play anything we haven't practiced, not even an easy one as it will mess up live. OK, the song is easy but the 'well I listened to the youtube version, oh I listened to the album version with another verse and a longer ending' etc. We had to do the dreary 'run' by snow patrol. Sent a link round, didn't get time for a practice as people were off ill, busy working etc. But so trivial figured it was ok to do without a practice. Sent the link out to the song. Got to play it live, the guitarist didn't go into the verse in the right place and stopped a verse early looking confused. He hadn't followed the link, he had just typed it into youtube and got the radio edit. Luckily everyone was so bored by that point they didn't really notice, but still. No it isn't. Beethoven never gigged his songs, but he was clearly a musician, Kate bush didn't gig for 35 years. Many musicians have never been on stage or had any desire to be. We have our own likes / dislikes