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+1 for talking bass. I've never done a whole course with them but I found Mark's free videos the absolute pick of the YouTube crop when I finaly got round to learning how to slap a few years back. His teaching style really clicked with me.

Little bit surprised they got it on before the watershed, but I suppose it's not really any more fruity than the Carry On films I watched as a kid where I was completely oblivious to even the single entendres.

It's been doing the rounds on social media for a few days. Are they showing it on the telly?

As above I'm confident that the gizmo does what it says it can, but I'm doubtful it's as simple as just clipping it on and you're good to go as implied on on the website. Once you'd adjusted the action to work with the 'Flatter' you'd presumably then have a bass that had a very high action without it.

250 apparently.

Beyerdynamic DT770 pro.

John Lydon is currently on a speaking tour in the UK which ends at the start of August. There was some sort of legal dispute between him and the other Pistols over Danny Boyles biopic TV series, no idea whether it got particularly acrimonious but maybe that's a contributing factor as to why he doesn't fancy the reunion.

This is a genuine screen shot of the options when you try to 'filter' the shop.

That was my first reaction but now I'm starting to quite like it. Although to be honest if I was in the market for another VI at this moment I'd get the silver.

Looks like there's an Olive one coming in at about the same time. https://www.thomann.de/gb/squier_ltd_cv_bass_vi_lrl_olv.htm

Any of the above would likely have me reaching for the wallet. Assuming I can overcome the current mental difficulty I have with spending 1k+ on an Epiphone, should they be priced in line with other recent releases by the company.

I stopped watching traditional TV channels some years ago. It wasn't a concious decision one day I just realised that my entire TV consumption had moved to 'on demand' The only time Eurovision is even on my radar is when I see the inevitable threads on here or elsewhere online. I'm quite suprised, given how much TV viewing habits have changed in the last decade, that it's still seemingly such a big thing and that people are apparently so passionate about it, those who dislike it as much as those who love it. As a non viewer I'd say it's probably doing something right purely on the grounds that a concept and format that hasn't really changed for decades hasn't just quietly faded into utter obscurity.

Not at all what I was expecting. I've not heard a lot of her work but a couple of years ago she did this, which I rather like. Kind of more of a straight up pop song.

Esentially it was designed as a guitar to be tuned one octave below standard. It can sound either more or less identical to a standard bass guitar on the bottom 4 strings or like a baritone guitar depending on how you employ the pickup selector and and the bass cut switch.

I'd say, using a pick, that it's no more difficult or fiddly to play than a standard solid body electric guitar, anyone who plays even a little bit of guitar as well as bass should be able to pick a VI up and hit the ground running.

I'd not known these were available. Cheers for the heads up.

Basket Case and I think most of the rest of the Dookie album by Green Day.

Nowt wrong with a bit of pointiness and that's a beaut!

I love mine. Aside from what other have said, because it works both as a bass and a baritone guitar it's pretty much the perfect instrument for messing about with a looper pedal if that's your thing.

That's going to split the crowd. I know there's fans af Antigua out there but I've also heard it described, more than once, as Fender's most repulsive finish ever. Personally, while I'm not sure about the other models in that picture, for some reason I reckon it really suits the Bass VI

Telescopic neck. Allows quick changes of scale length on the fly. When not in use the neck reverse-telecopes right down to the body and you can fit the whole thing in a small briefcase or carrier bag.

I'm torn between natural or this.

In my experience it's not unusual for tone controls on basses to be more on/off or for all the noticeable changes to happen in the last 1/4 turn rather than a smooth transition between maximum and minimum as you roll the pot. No idea why they're like that.

The biggest fingerstyle breakthrough I ever had was when when I started brushing my fingertips across the top of the strings rather than plucking them from the sides with my finger oads, if that makes sense. Less effort, more speed. I did have to turn the amp up though to compensate for the lighter touch.

On the positive side fretless appears to be option, which I don't think has been the case for production Rays for a few years.