Dan Dare

Yep. Love it. I'm 65 and still haven't found anything to equal it. Yes, I know there are duff gigs, lousy journeys, etc, etc, but a good 'un easily outweighs all that.

I prefer a tug bar if I use anything at all. I like to dig in when the occasion demands it.

That's what I did for 40 years. I had periods of playing full time, but for much of the time, I held down a day job (full or part time). I'm retired now. Yes, it was often tiring and yes, I had (as do we all) to put up with some nonsense, but you take the rough with the smooth and get on with it. The good stuff outweighs the bad and that's all we can hope for in life.

That's not a fretless. It's a worthless 😁

God loves a trier...

Well done to Ashdown. Another suggestion re Speakon plugs. Make sure, if you are assembling leads yourself, that you do not allow any stray cable filaments to short to the wrong terminal. It can happen, when you insert the stripped ends of the cables into the terminal recesses in the plug, that a single filament of copper will pass the wrong side of the plastic separator and cause a short. The terminals are close together and the space you have to work in on the plug is quite small, especially with the two pole ones. As others suggest, make sure you use the real McCoy. Some of the copies do not mate well. I found this when I tried to use a speaker cable someone gave me which had no-name copies on it. It did not fit smoothly into a real Speakon socket or make good contact. Buy nice or buy twice, as the saying goes.

Not so. Use heavy (at least 2.5mm cross section per conductor) cables and you'll be fine. I sometimes use 25 metre cables with my PA speakers (4mm cross section) and they're absolutely fine. Of course, if you use doorbell wire, you may have an issue.

I wouldn't agonise over a replacement speaker too much if you are only looking at a budget model. Just buy something that looks half promising and try it. You aren't going to find meaningful reviews of £40 drive units. You haven't lost much if it doesn't work, but I suspect pretty much anything will equal what is in there at the moment...

You didn't, but he wasn't the only great bassist who ever lived...

I love gigging. Wouldn't do it if I didn't. I can't understand those who complain about carrying stuff, travelling, etc, etc. We ought to reflect on how fortunate we are. Anything is better than doing a 40 hour week in a call centre or crappy retail outlet, which is what so many poor sods have to do to make ends meet.

My fiddle. Owned it for 40 years and it's 200 years old.

Anyone else receive the email from the MU about this? Appears they are going to pursue it.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/custom-friesian-precision-bass/1345888077

Snap. Did you have the 2x15 cab? I replaced the iffy drivers in mine with Peavey Black Widows and it was mega.

An inflatable 8x10 that you can fit in a rucksack 😊

Some types of exposure can even land you in gaol...

+1. I suspect those suggesting the OP reneges would be frothing with righteous indignation if someone did the same to them.

Everyone has to start somewhere and he does have 12 out of 12. Having said that, I'd collect if I was interested, so I could check it out thoroughly, but then I always do on the rare occasions I buy an instrument.

I doubt whether they will. Guitarists tend to like a vintage look - hence the script logo and so on. We tend to prefer a more functional look. I'm sure Alex realises this.

Real Bass Lessons is decent. Very much old school (which is right up my street).

This. It's not that massive a sum, so take the hit. I've done the same. You can usually get much of your money back unless it's truly a piece of garbage.

This. Hover the cursor over the email (DON'T click) and the sender's address will display. If you don't recognise it - the sender's name will often be different from the one that appears in your email list - delete it immediately.

God loves a trier.

Good spot. Think the likely motivation is that 1 p pickup is cheaper than a pair of j pickups.

I'm with skankdelvar on this one. As the genius who penned that wonderful reply to the Join my Band ad (which was featured on here recently) said, virtually all this stuff is pushed by cynical white guys in boardrooms on insecure gullible young male punters who are desperate to look cool and tough.