Frank Blank

Yes, I've seen her with a couple of different Wem basses.

That's excellent, thank you very much!

Does anyone know what bass the excellent Rozi Plain is playing in these shots? Is this within @Bassassin's superb breadth of bass knowledge I wonder?

@Woodinblack could you close this thread? Cheers.

@Troop Dogg & @Beedster Apologies, bass position now filled. If it becomes available again I'll contact you both directly.

Just emailed, will PM you when I get a reply.

Will check for you.

It might still be available, shall I check?

Ah, allow me... Shoegaze - when you are tying your shoelaces and your shoes look back up at you because they don't want to go for a walk, they want to eat chips, sit on the sofa and watch Casualty. Dreampop - that awful moment when you are finally about to engage in tongue Kung-Fu with *insert attractive celebrity here* and you are woken up by the fourth slash of the night. Thanks enlarged prostate. Hardcore - broken bricks, rubble, or similar solid material used as a filling or foundation in building and nothing whatsoever to do with Pr0n M'Lud. Post-Punk - a service whereby pink-haired thugs gob through your letterbox. Sludge - an obscure animated character who appeared in only two episodes of the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Flintstones. He was a bouncer who worked the door of the club where Fred and Barney attended drunken parties held by The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. Stoner Doom - a term used in dry-stone walling circles in North Yorkshire, essentially a wall collapse due to furtive sheep action or drunk-driving veterinary incidents. New-Wave - the latest type of wave employed by any of the younger royals upon their inaugural trip in a carriage. Midwest Emo - the initial name for the act that subsequently went on to great success renamed as Rod Hull and Emu. Indie - Short Stop's nickname for Doctor Jones as used with annoying frequency in the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and played by Vietnamese actor Ke Huy Quan. Alt-Rock - a sugar free vegan tofu alternative to the teeth-demolishing confection sold to unwitting children on Blackpool's 'Golden' Mile and certainly not a county lines soubriquet for crack cocaine. Yes.

I think it’s an amalgam of many things but the sum of those parts is I’m just not enjoying any of it, rehearsing, writing or performing. I’ve got to an age where I don’t want to waste any time doing stuff I don’t want to.

@scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich - Shuker 5-string, OLP/Jaydee fretless 'Ray, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Kateplaysbass - Ashdown CTM-100 and LB212, Pawn Shop Mustang, medium scale ACG Finn, and maybe also ACG Recurve and Bass Collection 5 string fretless, since I'm thinking about offloading both of those @Woodinblack - Bongo, just to wind people up @Richard R - Brawley 5 string, as usual, HB 5 String thing with Roland hex pickup and V-bass COSM synth. @BreadBin - something interesting @chyc - a very nice double bass, an Ashbory Bass, GSS 06B400MKD combo, and possibly Warwick Streamer fretless, Sandberg Custom 5 with Delano XTender, Sandberg TT Marcus Miller rip-off, BC 110T cabinet, BC 112mk3 cabinet, Acoustic Image Coda @TRBboy - Frost Custom Basses PJ5 (my first build from scratch), Sandberg California TT5 Passive, possibly my customised Yamaha BBN5, Markbass Stu Amp 1000w, GR Bass GR 410+ (1200w, 4 ohm), a fairly unexciting pedal board 😅, & converted Trace 1x15" cab, if it's in a satisfactory state by then @Stub Mandrel - Joyo BadASS & PJB C2, three or four hopefully 'interesting' basses.

I doubt I'll be the owner of them by the time of the bash, edit me off the list old man.

Your reinstated me @Stub Mandrel..!

You can't. I don't suppose they are really, although is does alert folk when a change to the list has been made.

UPDATED LIST: Just removing myself from the list. I have just given up playing and, a matter of days later, the QSC packed up! I'll be selling up soon, apart from the QSC obviously. @scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich- Shuker 5-string, OLP/Jaydee fretless 'Ray, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Kateplaysbass - Ashdown CTM-100 and LB212, Pawn Shop Mustang, medium scale ACG Finn, and maybe also ACG Recurve and Bass Collection 5 string fretless, since I'm thinking about offloading both of those @Woodinblack - Bongo, just to wind people up @Richard R - Brawley 5 string, as usual, HB 5 String thing with Roland hex pickup and V-bass COSM synth. @BreadBin - something interesting @chyc - a very nice double bass, an Ashbory Bass, GSS 06B400MKD combo, and possibly Warwick Streamer fretless, Sandberg Custom 5 with Delano XTender, Sandberg TT Marcus Miller rip-off, BC 110T cabinet, BC 112mk3 cabinet, Acoustic Image Coda @TRBboy - Frost Custom Basses PJ5 (my first build from scratch), Sandberg California TT5 Passive, possibly my customised Yamaha BBN5, Markbass Stu Amp 1000w, GR Bass GR 410+ (1200w, 4 ohm), a fairly unexciting pedal board 😅, & converted Trace 1x15" cab, if it's in a satisfactory state by then

The OED definition, just for reference of course... Thump (v) - To strike or beat heavily, as with the fist, a club, or any blunt instrument, producing a dead, dull, somewhat hard sound; also, without reference to the sound produced, to hammer, pound, knock forcibly. Thump (n) - 'hard heavy dead dull blow with something blunt’ (Johnson), as with a club or the fist; a heavy knock; also, the heavy sound of such a blow (not so dull as a thud). Also figurative.

@scrumpymike - everything he owns unless he sells it between now and then @Rich - Shuker 5-string, OLP/Jaydee fretless 'Ray, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2, Barefaced Super 12T cab. @Frank Blank - Short scale @Jabba_the_gut fretted and fretless basses, QSC K12.2, Grace Design Alix. Keep it going folks

☝☝☝ this exactly. It's a difficult to define effect but I have set mine in exactly the way described above and everything just sounds tighter, as if the speaker is working more efficiently, which of course it is.

Frank Blank & The Bandying Semantics. Hmmmm, anyone play fiddle?

Yes, this is very true EZ old man, but the thread also serves another invaluable purpose in that it gently, yet succinctly, unearths tossers. In a tosser-free forum this thread would have occurred once and lasted a page at most with everyone quickly and reasonably agreeing that wood does (or maybe doesn't) affect tone to a lesser (or indeed greater) degree and, as its huge (or possibly infinitesimal) influence on tone is neither quantifiable nor, much more importantly, adjustable, and we'd all have scratched our heads, thoughtfully stroked our chins and retired affably to the pub. Unfortunately, thirty pages in, we haven't got anywhere nearer an answer and that's simply because there isn't a definitive one, which is why people get so hot under the collar. Without @Muzz's spot on appeal for empirical evidence, of which there is none, that vacuum is filled with speculation and opinion, both of which are fine, as long as we realise that's what they are, speculation and opinions, neither of which, in my humble opinion, are hills worth dying on.

Eleventy better.

Personally, although pleased as punch with the election result, I'd still take a short trip back in a time machine and this time round vote @Muzz for PM.

Gutted, they'd love you to do it too!

Bassist wanted for Creedence Clearwater Revival Covers/Tribute band based in Southend/Essex. Please PM me and I will pass your details on to the band leader. Rehearsals booked, rest of band ready to go.