Woodinblack

Yep - well, maybe both sides - that one is the standard, there is a custom too...

little finger on the 15th fret of the 4th string, and the index alternating between the 12th and 14th of the 2nd string. That is fairly comfortable and 1 fret shorter!

Same here! Luckily I am sure it will be way too expensive to consider

Yes, no room left in the car

Dingwall now have a DBird 5, so now I am a bit interested! https://www.dingwallguitars.com/d-bird I think it might be time to give the dingwall another try, or at least fine one where I can play it. Prefer the white over the others, but the gold is probably the only gold bass i haven't hated Anyone tried the original DBird, the 4?

No, but I might be more likely to buy it a drink in a pub...

That one - is that a Yamaha? that looks a lot better. I guess the side bits are like make up contouring, you don't really realise how fat the side bit is!

Really, no. Big old slab body and droopy mr blobby headstock. No, far from pretty, and that jazz pickup gap is screaming at me. I would say that it looks functional. The ones with the metal pickup surrounds look better (and would cover those unfinished pickup holes), and I guess in black it wouldn't look so big. I am sure it is very good but.. no.

Our guitarist loves blues and given the choice would play just that. He isn't given that choice, but we do play a few. They are incredibly dull, doesn't seem like anyone wants to hear them, but we play them anyway. Which is lucky, considering how much hostility you get round here for not wanting to play oasis, not wanting to play blues is probably a lynching offence!

I am guessing there probably is

I am sure the yamahas are great (I have no doubt), but they are not the prettiest things are they, and that headstock is most certainly in the top ten ugliest. That white one, the stupidly expensive one, that looks better (and the white tones down the headstock), but that is a bit expensive. I think the arias (at least the 80s styled ones) win by quite a margin on looks

Honestly, I have over 10 basses and my only fretless is up for sale currently. I like playing it when I play it, but I really don't reach for it often, I never have an opportunity to gig it, and it gets less use than the 8 string. So I will go for two 5s. An expensive one and a cheap one. OK, they both technically do the same thing, but I can take the cheap one into pubs I won't take the expensive one!

we get asked for some very strange requests. We got asked for 'come on Eileen' at a party we were doing because it was a 'family song'. This was a private party where they had hired us, 6 months before. Maybe they could have mentioned that one at all. There are some songs we do now because they were requested, whether the requestee ever came back who knows.

There are several groups in the local area who are very good. It would be complete arrogance to say we could do it better than them. We are different, because we have different instruments and we play different songs, but the more we play the same thing, the less different we get. I am not interested in a race to mediocracy.

Well, yes, that is a different sort of thing. I am playing for my enjoyment. Yes, I get paid but it has no material effect on my welbeing or income. A job is different, you do whatever stinky poo is required. And if that was oasis, fine. Obviously if I was depping for someone and they wanted to do Oasis, then that would also be fine, or if I joined a group that already had one of their songs. Again yes. But I don't think it has that affect. The amount of times we are asked for things we don't do, and we don't rush out and do them. Agreed. But again, different from 'your' group.

Note also those are just red lined songs. There’s other songs like when we were going to do sex on fire, I said I didn’t want to do it, but the other 3 did so we did it, that is fair enough

Not had that, the only count in we do is poker face Yes, it seems perfectly reasonable. Have you never refused to do a song? A good third of the songs we play I don’t really like, and a couple I hate, but it’s all give and take. Oasis is out, slade Christmas songs are out, that’s it. There are a few songs that I was instrumental in dropping because they didn’t work, or we sounded bad doing them, and some others that the audience didn’t go for, and there are some songs I would like to do but the others aren’t keen. Luckily we are a covers band, there are many thousands of songs for us to choose from that aren’t in any of those groups. Frankly if we are just another band doing sex on fire / oasis etc, why come and see us rather than one of the 10 other bands on?

We have sex on fire and other awful songs for that. Ignoring that I really detest oasis songs, there is nothing worse than a pub crowd singing oasis to make leave a pub. So no, if gigging is playing that, I am happy to not do it

I am not experienced, but I don't play mine. Just don't like the neck much and it is just never the one I want to play. I don't even know what I don't like about the neck, and I have no problem when playing it, I just never pick it up.

Yep - that is what I am happy to not be a part of!

We often get drunk people asking for Oasis, I am sure it irritates the others in the band that I won't do them.

Welcome - I bet your winter in Pheonix feels different to the winters when you were growing up then