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The vocalist had been MIA for a few days before the gig. With half an hour to go we still hadn't heard from him, so someone went to get him. When he turned up, he looked, and smelled, like a zombie. The gig started and the vocalist started to shriek and moan into the mic. No vocals or vocalising, just shrieking and moaning. The set was (thankfully) cut short when his Mother suddenly appeared on stage, and took him straight out of the venue and to a mental health facility where he was sectioned. Still not sure how his Mother turned up, she wasn't there to start with. Anyway, it turned out that during the previous few days he had done nothing, except smoke his way through a mahoosive bag of weed, which had led to a psychotic episode. So during the break we had a disscussion which was reminicant of the conversion in Spinal Tap, to the extent that the guiatrist actually said "well that's a cosy 10 minutes".

The bass on this is pretty close to what I'm after

Not mine, but still an overdrive - the bass chief. https://flattleyguitarpedals.com/product/bass-chief-bass-overdrive/?fbclid=IwAR0FW-wLNWHK0-dgnUEom768xtdHhpDNnfqnltbcDMJ9e5SSyonmJP-v4fw

I'm still searching for an 80's keyboard bass sound - not to be confused with an 80's synth bass sound! So sound is very important to me, as attested by all the effects pedals I'm faffing with 😎

All my Shuker's are 32" to the nut. Slightly longer to the end of the frets for the low D.

The Queens Guard Pay Tribute to Meatloaf Outside Buckingham Palace. I hope his family get to hear about this.

"no rickenbacker bassists allowed" 🤣 https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/bass-slinger-needed-desperately-to-sling-flamboyant-bassline-t1314235.html

I'd rather not. I'd be scared I'd break something or wouldn't be able to put it back together 😟

When Gibson brought out the Flying V and Explorer in the late 50's, it wasn't unusual to see them in Country bands. So the Star bass isn't too much of a stretch 🤩

https://flattleyguitarpedals.com/ Flattley FX pedals. I have the Bass Poison Ivy, and it's the best bass fuzz I've ever had or heard 😎

It's taking the Bite Bass guitar headstock to extremes!

and the golden ratio (1.618) is pretty close to 1.7. Makes you think...

I never found my perfect bass, so I had to get Jon Shuker to make it for me 😁

I'd go for: Steve Browning³

mightily tempted by one of these.

no mention of the Gibson EB-1 (the bass Macca originally wanted, but was too expensive and heavy).

The Ramones were incredibly lucky that they had family members ready to step in when Dee Dee, and Tommy left.

And Ozzy is preceded by Devo 🙂

Taggart without Taggart?

Many people thought Blondie, was Debbie Harry's name in their early days.

I remember some years ago, a young Basschater (probably not so young now) bought an Eden 8x10 from the BC marketplace. His parents had a Volvo estate.

By excessive use of the question mark?