Frank Blank

If you only you knew what pastel pink curly wigs do to my dong...

I find that if I play a mistake and don’t stop and go back to correct it I am prone to making that mistake again. I think it isn’t just muscle memory there is all something psychological going on too, this happens when I’m playing my own basslines too!

Don’t have a harshed buzz! Some people like stuff others don’t, I didn’t watch the video because I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t ding my dong, but my dong (like everyone else’s) has its own tastes. What I really do appreciate and is a really great aspect of this site is checking out stuff other people have found and I’ve listened to loads of stuff I wouldn’t have usually thanks to BC. So keep posting and don’t worry, some folk will dig it, others not, life innit.

Much as I agree with @ped in principle, I would be concerned, especially as it is your first bass and as you improve and begin to suffer from the inevitable GAS you’ll maybe want to sell this bass and get something else, that the knot in the fingerboard may put off prospective buyers. So many of us, despite going into endless detail about all manner of technical details, are hugely swayed by the aesthetics of particular instruments. I wouldn’t buy your bass, even if it were a model I was after, because of how the fingerboard looks, I’d wait for one without the knot, for no other reason that I’d be concerned about resale. Forgive me for playing Devil’s advocate but I think it is a consideration worth bearing in mind.

I’m afraid it is, strikingly so...

...and just about to listen to White Riot on Sky Arts.

Watching some interesting clips on Guy Garvey: From The Vaults.

Yes, and rightly so, wasn’t the Hundred Years War your fault? Tsk.

Welcome @TonyMM55

Mine are done and finished it's just a case of getting to @Jabba_the_gut to get them!

Mick Karn - unique genius Jah Wobble - geezer Family Man - The Man Paul Raven RIP - funniest man to ever play bass

Paul Raven RIP

Hopefully by then I’ll have one or two of my own Jabba builds.

Stop talking about your bloody fretless! Because it’s bloody lovely and I want one. That is all.

I’m just starting to really miss the ACG Harlot SC...

No.

I agree, one should try to listen to it in whatever fashion suits, before moving swiftly on to The Rubettes.

Until you reach Tales From Topographic Oceans at which point you”ll move swiftly on to Right Said Fred.

The latest from Royal Blood, described by the Guardian as AC/DC meets Donna Summer, not sure quite what I think about it...

I was lucky enough to see them play a few times with Morrow, not only is it hard playing like that with a pick but how an earth he did it throwing himself all over the place like he did I don’t know. Mind you thankfully he set the bar extremely high for the subsequent bass players in NMA who have all been excellent, but none as unique as Stuart Morrow.

You, Sir, are bang on...

I didn't say I preferred pre-Relayer Yes, nor with-Gabriel Genesis, I just said I hadn't listened to them, I may well listen to these in the future and might possibly like them, which is specifically why I didn't say I preferred them.

Personal taste, exactly, the answer to most threads on BC. I heard DSOTM first and yet I have listened to WYWH more over the years, it's just personal preference. I never listened to anything by Yes after Relayer, never listened to any Genesis after Peter Gabriel left and I have never knowingly heard a track, let alone an album, by Rush.