Happy Jack

Up to a point. I had exactly this situation a couple of years ago. It then turned out that the reason for this attention to detail was that the other two band members were complete control freaks who wanted me to play EXACTLY what my predecessor had played, note for note, no room for anything else.

Oh bloody hell! Fair point, well made ...

My experience of this is playing in an Americana outfit originally formed by a ukelele-playing music-in-the-community merchant. She was very enthusiastic and did a lot of good, but she was a very limited musician and either couldn't or CBA to learn the songs properly. Over a couple of years the band attracted some much better musicians because the song choices were a lot of fun, but each as they joined pretty much 'dumbed down' to her level. Finally their long-term bassist left and I was recruited, and I don't do dumbing down. If it's a 5-chord song then I play five chords ... I don't leave out the funny ones in the bridge because someone hasn't learned those chords on a uke. It didn't end well. She got her boyfriend (guitar & banjo) to sack me, which he did very apologetically, then it turned out the rest of the band didn't know until it was too late and within a month both she and her boyfriend were out of the band and they had split up too. I should stress that there are no villains in this piece. She wasn't evil, her boyfriend wasn't a silly billy, and I probably didn't help matters. But stinky poo happens.

We're a bunch of 50-something guys playing to a pub rammed with 20-somethings. Girl comes up to me and says, "Can you play something by Keith Moon?" Says I, "By Keith Moon?" "Yes", she says, "he was the lead drummer in a band called Who". We have always described our sticksman as the lead drummer ever since.

It's also worth remembering that (for reasons we are entirely forbidden from discussing) the value of the Pound has plummeted ever since we held a Referendum on Brexit (oops ... damn! damn! damn!) so your bass will now be a great deal more expensive over here than it would have been in 2016.

This is one very cool lady, and she never once mentions neck dive.

Shame the OP is in Edinburgh. I have both a Crazy 8 and a Crazy 88 (the only one in the UK, I believe) and I honestly think they're ideal for small-sized DB rigs. If you're going to be down South any time soon, Razze, drop me a PM and come and try them.

Genius. Sheer genius.

Yup, pity poor Norman Greenbaum ...

Don't really associate Fender with Sterlings ...

Photos, or it didn't happen.

Now these guys are onto something. Or maybe just on something. https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/ancient-temple-looking-for-priestess-bard-and-minstrel-t1135590.html

You can practice and improve your guitar skills by using this guitar unfriendly spots.

If he wants to cover his @rse then he'd better off with a Bongo ...

And it's all the wrong way round, too ...

That's exactly what I said to those two drunks who nearly knocked over the PA stand ...

I'm struggling to understand how this relates to playing Brown Sugar down at the Dog & Duck ...

I like that a lot. Not for me either musically or socially, but at least you can see exactly where they're coming from.

Use of English, dear boy. It's possible to work out what he means if you read it properly. Notice the plurals, as also the lack of any mention of vocals or BVs. If you're spoiling for an argument, do go somewhere else.

If you two don't start behaving, I'll bloody report the pair of you! Now what are you wittering on about?

This is for playing in your lounge? Check out the Crazy 8 instead of the OneTen.

If I asked my son the same question (he's 23) I'd get a list of completely indigestible drum'n'bass outfits ...

"Inspired by Pino Palladino’s bass used extensively with “D’Angelo” and “The Who” I wanted to do a recreation of his Bass but with much more attention to detail and no expenses to spare. Find below a video of Pino playing “Brown Sugar” using the referred instrument: https://youtu.be/hu1JVTvzzxM" So that's why I posted a link to an 8-minute YouTube in which there is only a single 1/4-second glimpse of Pino at 0:18 (before the song even starts) and where the audio is pretty obviously not a live recording by someone in the crowd but the usual tidied-up and improved version. But not to worry, that glimpse is still enough to show that my attention to detail and lack of spared expenses wasn't enough to prevent me fitting the wrong neck to the bass. Doubles all round ...