Frank Blank

I’m with @Andyjr1515 when it comes to the ‘clash’ between the scratch plate and the f hole. I keep imagining the bass in the bottom pic with another f hole just where the curved metal (is it called a control plate?) piece is.

Does it come with the ‘surprise’ snapping neck?

I believe he did just that...

They were like crack weren’t they? I had, what can only be called, a Ruffle habit.

Returning this thread firmly to it’s original topic, does anyone else remember Aztec chocolate bars?

I’ve only heard good reports about them and yet I remained sceptical... until I actually played one, it kind of stunned me a bit, really beefy and warm, it just knocked all the others into a cocked hat! I like the sunburst but that black is just calling me.

Don’t even look at the top one, any of you, avert your eyes 👀

Was in PMT Southend today, no prices on anything.

Coffee spat over iPad, there, 🤧

^ this.

Jazz not Jizz... Jesus! 😀

Tried to walk past PMT, failed... My search for a short scale four string continues, so far I have owned (briefly)... A Chowny SWB-Pro - a beautifully built bass bass but for some odd reason I just couldn’t get on with it. A Short Scale Fender Squier Jaguar - likewise, just couldn’t get on with it. So today I tried... An Ibanez Talman - meh. A Fender Mustang PJ - it was OKish but I really dislike those ‘orrible pastel colours, yeech. A Jackson JS 1X - dinky little thing. I couldn’t get over the toy/instrument schism until I actually played it, it was just as serious and nicely built as the previous two but again, meh. An Ibanez Mikro - same as above with the Jackson. Finally I tried a Gretsch G2220 - it had a head start simply by being black 🤘 but blimey, I had no idea it would be that kind of quality, not for under £300. I think I might be smitten. I’m thinking about a trip up to Bass Direct later this week to try a few out, they have a Chowny SWB-1 in there (it would be funny if I preferred it to the Pro, but then it is black🤘!) and I want to try a pre-owned Spector Euro Bantam and a Hofner Club.

He was, to say the least, an outlier. Nothing like him before, nothing since.

This is a decent guide. Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 & 2 along with Brilliant Corners are my faves.

Welcome!

How I forgot Money Jungle, Everybody Digs Bill Evans and Waltz For Debbie I don’t know! I also forgot to mention anything by The Modern Jazz Quartet.

I am loving this!

Allow me...

Sure thing!

We are not worthy *bows*

My pleasure Sir, loads of good suggestions from the other folk here too, it’s all excellent stuff.

I don’t think it has to be understood, in fact I think this is a thing that stops people from listening initially, that they are frightened that Jazz has to be engaged with on an intellectual level. If you dig it then great, if you don’t, no worries but I think the appreciation of Jazz purely on a dig it or don’t level is as important as understanding it. My Mum *spits* had no musical ability or theoretical understanding of Jazz but she turned me on to Brubeck, Ellington, Miles Davis loads of stuff.