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As I said before , I paid £200 back in 1984, so in today’s money that’s quite a sum. Fenders were round about the £500 back then if I remember correctly , so that gives a bit of a bench mark.

Coming in March. I cannot wait for this! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirt_(film)

I can’t inderstand cheating. If you don’t want to be with someone, leave them. Why live with someone and live a double life.? I couldn’t cheat even if I wanted. Mrs Ubit and I do everything together. ( to a point )

What sort of price are we talking for this baby?

poasibly the best song ever written. The lyrics are superb plus I love this remix

I’ll be honest and say I don’t know as I’ve never played another Ibanez bass. They are famous for their fast necks right enough, so I’m guessing they are all tight string spacing. Possibly I could get used to it, but I’m just not that bothered about a five, so I don’t persevere. It’s a nice bass and I love the finish. I see Fieldy has now got a white one as his bass. Even although I’ve got the black one and am not struck on it, I still get gas for a white one!

I had no idea that they made Ric copies. That’s interesting. It does look as though it’s just not right but for £300? Why not?

If the Squire Jazz V that I have is anything similar, I know what you mean but to my sausage fingers, the K5 is harder. I think I could get used to the Squire neck ( I have never used it live) but I just can’t get used to the K5 at all. Just to add, I love the sound of the K5. The Squire is incredible too. I’ve just never needed a V when playing live so far.

I’ve got a K5. I really like it but the neck is so slim that I find it difficult to play smoothly. The string spacing is so tight!

I’ve got a Squire Jazz V and surprisingly, it sounds incredible!

I had a Status bass that was a brown burst. Faded into black. It was gorgeous, but it got battered over the years

As I said, something you are confident at doing. Something you know back to front. The song I mucked up was a new song for us

As I said in another post. We did a gig once where I messed up. I freely admit, I completely forgot the song. Drummer threw his sticks and stormed off. End of the night! In my book, if anyone mucks up, straight away do something you know back to front and is a real crowd pleaser. Even if you have to borrow from later in the set, or even repeat. Just something to get the audience bouncing. Previous mistake will be forgotten.

Only happened to me once and it went kind of like “ flip you! Stick your band up your derrière!

Nicest P I’ve ever seen was a wine colour. That’s not in your selection. To be honest, I like any colour and take them as they come.

He used me as an excuse and when he saw that I didn’t approve, he stopped telling me. As if I couldn’t see for myself. Eventually when him and his wife split up, I was the bad one because I had “ known all about his infidelity and didn’t say anything” You can’t win. He is my mate , so am I supposed to drop him in it?

Ive got a mate who did this. One time we had been playing on the back of a lorry at a festival. We’d finished, we’re walking along. His wife came towards us. She was about twenty feet from us and he said, I stayed at yours last night. I was raging!

I lost all interest in playing for a while. My job means I work away a lot on an ad hoc basis. It’s rubbish for making plans. Mrs Ubits son was staying with us and the spare room/music room became cluttered and full of rubbish. The fact that her son was omnipresent in the house deterred me from noodling. He’s at Uni now and I’ve cleared the music room. Result? I now go in and play whenever I want and I’ve got a renewed desire to play things and learn new bass parts. It feels great!

So you bought your wife a Ukelele and it’s you that’s playing it? 🤔. I think I’ve come across this type of thing before! 😂

Happened to me once too. I wasn’t sure if they were taking the Mick, but to this day I’m like why the hell didn’t I call their bluff? I could have easily said right you start and I’ll join in and could have said I was joking if it backfired

Personally, I would prefer to see a mixture of styles if I was at this kind of do. I like variation.

An example of a song where the bass changes and gets annoyingly hard to pin down is Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder. It’s a fantastic bass line and I have it pretty much off pat, but the second verse and the later chorus’s change very subtlety. It annoys me as I’m trying to be able to sing over it and little changes makes it harder.

I agree with the type of stuff which is tempered down and commercialised but the Zydeco deep , Deep South Louisiana type stuff floats my boat.

I will say what I said on that thread. If you capture the gist of the song. Melody, swing, feeling. If you manage that and the audience enjoy it, so what if it’s not note perfect. Very few people will say , actually, in the second verse the original has a run down from an open E. You left it out. As said above. You check live versions of original songs and quite often the parts are not the same because they realise you have to simplify what you did in the studio because you have to leap about and pose, or sing , or for whatever reason.

I actually like Bluegrass. I find it much more palatable than the normal country Blanket on the ground type stuff. Old Crow Medicine Show are one of my faves Some of that Deep South swamp music is pretty good. I must admit I was right into it about ten years ago and my liking has mellowed but I still like it. I took the notion that I was going to teach myself the banjo. I got reasonable but gave up as I wanted to be lightning fast right away. It’s bloody hard!