Cato

We all hit plateaus. Times when we feel we're stuck in a rut, just playing the same old stuff without ever improving. I got out of my last one, a few years ago, by expanding my repertoire, I learned to slap and started playing genres I'd never considered before. Youtube tutorials were a huge help. As others have said, most of us have a tendency to play down our ability, especially to ourselves. Don't get despondent, cliched as it sounds, sometimes it's more useful to focus on the positives.

It's only early February and I 'm pretty sure that 70s Jazz is going to be next years bass purchase.

...and that is the correct answer.

The guy is obviously a serious talent and I can only dream of possessing that level of skill, but it's not the most pleasant sound I've ever heard.

I'm somewhere in the middle. I have no problems with setting action and intonation on my basses and guitars, but truss rods scare me. So far, touch wood, I've never had to adjust one, but if one of my instruments did ever develop neck bow it would be going straight to a tech. I love my guitars too much to risk effing it up.

Precision Deluxe Special. It's a PJ rather than a straight P, but they're in production at the moment and older models appear on the used market pretty regularly.

Guy sounds like a total Rooster. I knew a guy who worked backstage at the old Academy in Birmingham (the one that used to be the Hummingbird). He told me that certain bands specifically requested that the staff didn't talk them. He once said something along the lines of 'sorry mate' to the singer from quite a famous American band when they happened to be passing in a narrow backstage corridor before a show and the guy just completely blanked him, despite the fact they both had to turn sideways to get past each other.

If only they did a five string...

I'm conflicted.

I think you're right. I suspect I may have put some of my keys back on the wrong side of the case.

Well, I was judging by trial and error with a set of Allen keys snd an old Squier VM Jazz bridge I think you want a 0.050" key, which is normally the smallest key on an imperial set. However, I don't know that all bridges on all Squier Jazz basses from any given year have the same specs Anyhoo, if you're going to be maintaining multiple guitars and basses it's worth getting something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Spot-15320-Metric-Imperial/dp/B0039KE4IC. You'll never use most of them, but you will always have the right one. Edit: On closer inspection I'm not sure all my keys have been correctly replaced in the case, so I'm not entirely sure if I've given you the correct one. Sorry Best to get a complete set.

Is that nut as in there's usually two of them? It might cause a bit of neck dive.

Just to be pedantic, technically the split precision pickup is a humbucker.

I'm 99% sure that Ritter offer a 10,000 year old mammoth ivory nut as an option.

That whole 'Survival of the Fittest' album is a bit of an unknown classic, I listen to it and wonder why it never makes the all time greats lists. I only discovered it a couple of years ago.

I always just assumed using roasted maple on necks was just an aesthetic thing. Mind you, I don't really believe in tonewoods, or at least I don't believe my hearing is sensitive enough to tell the difference between ,say, an ash or a maple body.

The Headhunters, sans Herbie Hancock.

There are videos on YouTube of people shooting at pretty much everything.

I think most of tend to play down our skills, especially to ourselves. Generally, whenever I start learning new stuff there are sections when I think to myself 'I'm not sure I can do that'. I'm always quite surprised at how quickly I actually manage to learn those bits. Of course, there's stuff I really can't do, but there's definitely less of it than there used to be, which i take as a sign of progress.

I think it's a similar idea to 'Keys cut while you wait'. It just lets people know that the service is available.

I'm not a generally a fan of people filming on their phones at gigs but I have a drummer friend who is five foot nothing. Most of the gigs we go to are standing only and holding her phone in the air and pointing it at the stage is sometimes the only way she can see anything. She also likes to film drum solos so she can watch them back later and pick up tips or so she tells me. Normally I go the gents at the first hint of a drum solo breaking out, so I'm not there to see her doing this.

It's a well known fact that viewing anything on a tiny screen makes it better.

Prepare yourself, as soon as I've looked up those words in a dictionary I'll deliver such a stinging riposte that you'll wish you'd never posted.

Not if you put the emphasis on 'your'. eg. I fart in YOUR general direction, other people may be affected by the fart, but that's just collateral damage. I'm farting at You. (This is just an example @Happy Jack, I'm not actually farting at you, we live over a hundred miles apart. I may occasionally fart in your general direction, but it's not personal).

I think the problem with 'snowflake' as a term of of abuse is just that it's just a generic catch all term for anyone who challenges your opinion. It lacks imagination and creativity. Proper verbal abuse should be carefully and personally tailored to every individual you wish to insult.