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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.

Where do I plug in?

Analog Son by Anolog Son. Introduced to me by the Funk , Soul Disco and Groove- What's New? thread. What can I say. It's funky.

I bought a fretless from them that took around 10 days to arrive, but that was two weeks before Christmas, when normal delivery times don't apply for a lot of companies due to much higher demand.

I always find it slightly amusing that some people still talk about rap/hip-hop like it's some kind of terrible passing fad. It's been mainstream for 40 years. The first wave of artists are well into their 60s now.

I'm out. I've been thinking about next year's annual January purchase since this years annual January purchase.

I've seen harp guitars before, but this a new one on me. Very pleasant on the ear.

Ibanez Mikro bass? https://www.gak.co.uk/en/ibanez-gsrm20-bk-mikro-bass-black/128549 Although with a 28.6" scale the neck is still longer than most full sized skinny string guitars.

I'm another one who doesn't get the YOB thing. Maybe it would be different if I had a pre CBS birth date? But as it stands I'd much rather have a brand spanking new Stingray or just about any other top end bass from now than anything from my Y.O.B. in the 1970s .

I think there's a real problem that extends beyond specialist musical instrument magazines whereby the reviews of any consumer goods in any mainstream publication just don't seem honest any more. You almost never see a product get slated these days, presumably because the publishers are worried about upsetting the advertisers. Whereas if I come on a forum like BC and ask about an instrument I'm interested in, I'll get a fairly wide range of (often contradictory) opinions and experiences but at least if there is a potential issue with that product people here aren't too polite to mention it. On the downside (as far as the site's owners are concerned) it's unlikey that Rickenbacker will be placing any adverts on BC in the near future...

3 basses a combo and a multi fx unit on the bass side. Unfortunately, undoubtedly triggered by BC, the gear aquisition has also kicked in on the skinny stringer side, so I've also bought a couple of guitars. There'll be something else in January, but my GAS is all over the place at the moment so I'm not sure what it's going to be yet, I'm not even sure the 'what' is that important, I just know that there will be something.

Apart from strings I generally make one or two major purchases a year since I joined BC. I have serious hoarder tendencies when it comes to gear, so I doubt I'm ever moving any of it on.

I went almost fully digital a couple of years ago. It's saves a fair chunk of space and with a couple of decent bluetooth speakers it's easy to play music in any part of the house. I've still got maybe 30 CDs, all stuff that isn't available to stream digitally through spotify or Amazon, but the rest , over 200 of them, all went to local charity shops. I don't miss them.