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He's taking online threats of having his guitar shoved up his jacksie seriously. Apparently he's only playing piccolo on the next album.

I'm not sure that the whole red top/ black top distinction works anymore. The Mirror went 'up market' a few years ago, moving away from the focus on scantily clad celebrities and sensational headlines .It now aims to be a left wing version of the Mail rather than the Sun. The Express on the other hand is like a down market Sun these days with it's focus on dog whistle politics, showbiz gossip and inaccurate extreeme weather predictions. And as pointed out above, the Star technically almost isn't a newspaper at all anymore in the traditional sense, it's closer to US gossip mags like the National Enquirer. Although there could be interesting days ahead for the Express and Star as they were recently acquired by the Mirror group, and despite reassurances from that group that those papers would retain their current political orientation, the reality is that the new owners seem to be planning to reduce the staff at both papers and plug the gaps with articles from journalists currently employed by the Mirror.

You could try emailing Andertons. https://www.andertons.co.uk/contact-us They should know.

Can't give any details on branding but my Sire V7 4 string fretless came with flatwounds fitted from the factory which often isn't the case with fretless basses.

Or just teach your cat to sh!t in your neighbour's flower beds, like mine. Although in truth there wasn't much tuition involved. After he'd watched me demonstrate a couple of times he'd pretty much got the hang of it.

The online version is a mixture of stories from the print version, liberally interspersed with clickbait, much of it lifted directly from other websites such as Reddit or Bored Panda and even other online newspapers. The John Deacon article is classic 'clickbait', there's nothing new or newsworthy in the article, it's just a headline designed to attract traffic to the site from people searching online for info on the new Queen film.

There will never be a better music video than this,

Are you listening through decent headphones/speakers? Just about everything sounds terrible coming through phone or tablet speakers and bass most of all.

I was watching this earlier. There's about 3 minutes of faffing around before he actually puts the thing on the bass and starts playing, but it sounds pretty good once he gets going. I'm tempted.

I think most people are over that now, certainly those of us who weren't alive when she was supposed to have broken up the Beatles. Now she's just part of the Beatles mythology and the legend of John Lennon.

After all the Stuart Zender love on here recently it'd be rude not to mention Jamiroquai. Emergency on Planet Earth is a bass-centric classic.

They've got a fair few guitar sigs. As far as I know they've never released an official signature bass.

It's happened to just about everybody who's ever started a thread at one time or another.

Is this like photobucket?

Anything by the Brothers Johnson. Slap bass how it should be done (as opposed to some of the over exuberant finger gymnastics that seem so popular on youtube these days).

I like her bass. What is it?

I haven't completely written off the whole 'tonewood' thing, but I'm absolutely certain that I personally wouldn't be able to hear, let alone describe, the tonal differences between ash or alder, or anything else for that matter. Has anyone ever correctly identified say 5 different body woods in a blind sound test? From reports I've seen from the recent SE bash, bassists of not inconsiderable experience struggled to identify completely different models of bass in a blind test, let alone what they were made from.

I recently discovered that there is genuinely a village called Bell End in Worcestershire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_End Disapointingly, despite wikipedia claiming that one of the local amenities is the 'Bell End service station' further research by myself has discovered that, for some reason, they actually advertise themselves as 'Bell service station'. Oh well.

This guy had a really specific target demographic. Featuring such classics as 'Don't use the W.C. Gentlemen must please refrain' and 'The Woodpecker's Hole'.

If you sent that image to someone these days you'd definitely end up being placed on the register.

For the first time ever on basschat todayI had a pop up add I couldn't switch off appear right over someone's comment, making it unreadable. It was for Dawson's so it wasn't wholly inappropriate, but it was a bit annoying. Two questions Does Basschat get revenue from these ads and will they cease to get that revenue if I install an adblocker? I'm a bit reluctant to do something that might deprive this free to use site of some well earned dosh (even of it's just fractions of of a penny per ad).

In answer to the question, Scott. But for me Mark Smith of Talking Bass has been by far the most easy to follow and downright useful YouTube tutor.

Check the gig/event listings. There's always something worth a punt on somewhere in London on any given night, normally multiple somethings.

Mr Zender was the stand out bassist of the 90s for me. The fact that he was in a band where the bass was almost always up front and centre in the mix was a big part of that. Jamiroquai weren't the same band after he left, although I suspect that Jay Kay wanted to to take things in a slightly different direction by then anyway.