Frank Blank

Sold an Ibanez SRC6 to Ian, pleasure doing business, deal with confidence.

Sold Mick an Aerodyne bass. A pleasure doing business with him, trade with confidence.

Due to a timetabling miscalculation (my error) I am actually at work... Bah.

Will do.

Anytime. I have relatives in Northampton and I get my guitars set up by a chap in Warwick, about 50 mins from you.

Excellent band, I once backed up Dub War and Benji wore one of our beanies, made me stupidly happy.

Isn't this some kind of ancient coracle we should be rowing across a ditch?

I have a 23.5" scale Taylor Mini-e bass that changed the way I think about basses forever. I went from struggling to play (small hands, smaller talent) 34" scale basses straight down to the little Taylor and found myself able to do so much more on it than I thought myself capable of, the realisation set in that I'd not been playing longer basses for thirty years but I'd been fighting them. Now I don't play anything over 30" scale.

That's a great name.

I believe there was a funk/punk band in Essex called Funky Monks once upon a time...

Genius...

Where are you dude, you are more than welcome to have a try on mine.

...apart from the one going to PMT because it’s mine!

That's simply too complicated for a Friday before midday.

I totally missed this post somehow, even though it answers all the questions I've emailed you about *cleans glasses*.

It took me a few goes just now to Google it in order to spell it right just now!

We were young and a little whizzed...

...mind you I was in a synth duo once for a total of one gig going under the snappy moniker of Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia.

This is really interesting, learning about other players' techniques, it does make perfect sense.

Absolutely.

See I never really vary my hand position between neck and bridge.

I was in a thrash band for years and we could never settle on a name we all liked and we went out under a compromise moniker that I disliked but what the hey. We were discussing a name during a lull in a rehearsal and our drummer crossed his arms and said "Why don't we just call the band Scotland, no explanations, just Scotland", I loved the idea but singer and guitarist quashed it. I wish we'd pushed a bit harder for it, just for the incongruity.