Happy Jack

I first experienced this sort of nonsense 30 years ago and got very bored with it very quickly. My solution was to stop going to see super-annuated big-name bands from my youth (unless it was part of corporate hostility and someone else was paying). Seriously, I've seen the Stones three times and they've never once been as good as The Counterfeit Stones. Even more bizarrely, an evening with The Bootleg Beatles in 2023 is likely to be a far better gig than seeing The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966.

What makes you think they're looking for a bass player?

Is there a reason for avoiding Gator?

That's all very well, but I agree with him 1000% so that makes my agreement ten times better than yours.

Yes, but you wouldn't understand it. 😂😂😂

Anyway, this is all complete tosh. I know for a fact that I play ten times as well on a £1000 bass as I do on a £100 bass. I've measured this objectively and accurately, and there can be no denying it.

Sue Ryder (For those who've been here a VERY long time )

Some excellent advice there ^ On the rare occasions I find myself in this territory, I usually resort to playing the main riff / bass line at the 12th fret on the D/G strings, with just a touch of fuzz or distortion. With a Rickenbacker strung with rounds this works well. With a Thunderbird strung with flats ... erm ... less so.

Y'see, this is why they invented the 5-string bass ... 😂

It's almost certainly electrical noise caused by poor shielding or a bad earth connection. Rolling off the tone reduces the hum and makes it less noticeable, but it's still there, and of course you've lost an important part of your signal. Any competent guitar tech should be able to fix this for you fairly easily.

I like everything about that except the colour-matched finger rest. Not sure why that upsets me, I guess I could grow to love it.

You're advocating a barter system based on chicken nuggets? 😂

Jaaaaaaazz ...

What he said. ^

At rehearsal for a Dep gig that I really regret accepting: Me to Guitard - Are you playing a quick change there at the start of the verse? Guitard to Me - No no no, it's not a quick change. Me to Guitard - I know that, but it sounded to me like you went to the F and then back to the C. Guitard to Me - Yes I did, but I was trying not to ...

Clearly you haven't heard me play then. 😂😂😂

Understood. I can really only play one song at a time with a pick, or I also run the risk of the ball of my thumb cramping up. I haven't got a solution, you understand, but being the person who does the set lists has its advantages. 😎

Bad habit holding the pick wrong, or bad habit playing with a pick at all?

Sadly, I have. In my repertoire it's only a handful, but without a pick they just don't work. The most obvious ones are Summertime Blues and C'mon Everybody, but I can't get Let's Dance or Down Down to sound right with fingers either. For pick playing I don't use the traditional thumb + forefinger grip, instead I use thumb + first two fingers. It's clumsy and restrictive, but you know exactly where you are and you're much less likely to drop the pick. @BassAdder60 is spot on with the whole 'anchoring your hand' thing. With my r'n'r band I play a Precision with '57 pickup cover in place, so I rest the side of my hand on that and pluck between pickup and neck. With my covers band I play (mostly) a Rick 4003s5 with a sensible bridge so I rest the side of my hand on that and pluck over the bridge pickup.

But if you want the Daddy of them all ...

Yup, if I was selling an incredibly rare and expensive bass with a totally off-the-wall design, I'd definitely list it with four rather poor photographs and no description worth mentioning. Must be a French thing.

No dates in London?

I tried the GruvGear Duo ... absolutely hated it. 😂 In the final analysis, there's no substitute for actually trying these things for yourself.

Troo dat, but I've posted about them several times and I wouldn't want my fellow Basschatters to think that I was on commission ...