Frank Blank

I'm such an ar53, I clicked on this thinking I was going to find fretless basses constructed of metal....

Gulp. It's thirty seven years since I saw Subhumans, brings joy to my heart that they are still going.

That’s cool but I want a new one for some inexplicable reason.

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!