Frank Blank

The starting prices are between $1750 - $1900 according to the website.

I’d say this is bang on as a rule of thumb.

I have a couple of these... Electrician Aluminium Lockable Flight Case Tool Box Storage Plastic Handle New https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008JAOKB8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_tai_VrsxAbJ9RP96H

I started playing in bands at 15 yrs of age and it took over twenty years to find a stable committed band and after that finished another ten years to settle into the duo I’m part of now. If my musical collaborator left now I’d pack it in. Actually, thinking about it, my current musical project began in 2004 and we did our first gig in late 2017, so I can’t really comment as I think we are mad. What I might suggest is that if you are good musicians doing covers you might be quicker at getting a set together than bands that are writing original material. Not saying one is superior to the other here btw.

I think it is extremely rare to find committed musicians prepared to work. They are either young and wanting disproportionate success to the amount of work they are prepared to put in or older and too jaded to put work in,it seems difficult to find a sweet spot, I have rarely found musicians who are willing to work in order to get a good set together, it’s either musos wanting a compliant platform from which they can flaunt their virtuosity or pedestrians who didn’t realise making good music is a difficult and arduous task. I think the answer is that you need more luck than anything else and don’t let go of that guitarist. Good luck.

This one?

Hooligans, I do love that word and they sure were, perfect nomenclature.

That was at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, a Birthday Party gig, MA wasn’t even onstage. Everyone was looking over the balcony above the stairs when he walked in, someone gobbled and everyone else just joined in, he was soaked, he turned around and left. I remember a similar situation when Orange Juice backed up Killing Joke at Hammersmith Palais, they were spat at so much it was even dripping off the drummer. I remember Edwin Collins leaving the stage with the wry observation of “You’ve got very adhesive spittle”.

They were gentlemen not to be trifled with.

That gig is actually legendary in KJ circles.

Killing Joke were a band you were risking trouble with if you spat at them, I’ve seen a few post gig dust ups. JJB was a major reason I picked up a bass. Just as a possible list of interest, these are people I have successfully spat at in a gig situation... Suggs Fad Gadget Ian Astbury Kim Gordon Nick Cave Marc Almond Doctor (from Doctor And The Medics) ...it’s not big nor clever but what the hell.

Thank you so much! That’s perfect.

Any chance you could post a pic of the back of the SWB Pro? I’ve just ordered one and I’m curious to see the back.

I wholly agree with this.

This...

Oh my God, Fragile... such a +1.

Jah Wobble on Metal Box, sublime. That’s the pinnacle for me, right there.

+1 twice.

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! by Bow Wow Wow - Leigh Gorman, yes... Empires & Dance by Simple Minds - Derek Forbes, yes...

Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum by Japan... Mick Karn, what a dude.

I saw Motörhead at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 12th of April 1982. They were so loud they caused the building structural damage... proper. The second loudest band I've ever seen.

I had a feeling someone would kindly point me in the direction of an excellent and huge thread! Thanks. Your comment confirms what I was thinking, tuners, bridge, J pup but I hadn’t considered the strings so that’s cool advice. Did you change tuners?

As I clicked into this article I somehow knew that scene from Spinal Tap would be depicted somewhere, class.

I have had a scoot around the site and can't seem to find a definitive thread on this, please feel free to disabuse me of this notion and direct me if incorrect. I am selling up all my full scale basses in order to completely move over to short scale. Initially I was considering a Chowny but I am leaning towards getting a Squier Jaguar and modifying it, if, indeed, it needs any mods. Any opinions on this, any people out there who have modified a Squier Jaguar, if so what mods have been good/bad, any people who think it unnecessary? Any opinions, thoughts welcome...