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I’ve always used wd40 or electrical contact cleaner with no issues whatsoever

Yes, thank you @Reggaebass, but I think it’s the “why” really. 30 years ago a teacher said to me “just learn the shapes” and then you can end formulaically playing in the same positions for each chord in each key; and possibly also avoiding certain keys due to an unwillingness to play certain positions. Learning boxes isn’t the answer in my very humble opinion

Modes ....

The German brand might be Musima?

Tort and natural was a thing once, you know - now, in my new found role of Satan I’m off to recruit some guitarists to join here 😈

Needs tort ....

Yes, couid also be a blob of paint or some other debris

Welcome - you’ve been here long enough now not to have to even mention the American thing - we have American members who still live there - shhhh! You’ll wake them up early and they’ll be all grumpy

Pictures ? Of what you see looking down the neck might help

Did you tell them they were playing it wrong ?

Hello ! All Americans and Canadians welcome

Why are we letting guitarists join ? 🙄 they must at least be able to spell ”bass” surely ?

Not my cup of tea but it looks nice, lovely work and lovely wood like the offset dot markers too

I still like magic - sometimes things do need to be left magical

I know nothing of VM, sorry. I therefore missed the reference:)

Yes but mine is sugar honey iced tea

Off the Boy album , and Under a Blood Red Sky album

Yes - there is a bass solo on Gloria, a thumped bass line on surrender, and some pops on the live version of Unforgettable Fire

That’s pretty much what James brown said to Bootsy Collins

There is slap on a couple of tracks - Surrender, Gloria and unforgettable fire spring to mind

Of them? Kind of them to make themselves available

Spookily I was born in st osyth ...

He was an English teacher, wasn’t he? He may well have read nabukov

Meanie ...

... incorporated. The finest caves available anywhere...** ** where did I get that one from, eh ? Hmm? Very bass driven track... answers on a postcard please