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STOP !!! STOP !!! STOP !!! STOP !!! STOP !!! STOP !!! Are you crazy, Mick ? It's a nitro finish and acetone (or nail varnish remover) will remove it too ! Don't ever do this to a nitro finish !!!

With a friend, who like me was fed up of endless subcategories in the metal genre, we decided to call metal anything played with distortion and jazz everything played without distortion. It was a very effective way to categorise. 😎 That said, there's even a faster way to categorise things : music opposed to dire.

On the other hand, sorry, but I didn't learn anything and to be frank, the title should be "The *ss licking documentary". The assertion that comes back all the time saying "no one can play like Jaco" is so stupid. Never heard of Michel Hatzigeorgiou who plays Jaco better than Jaco and who has transcribed all Jaco's music... Hatzi also played for years with Toots Thielemans who has been ignored in this documentary. Maybe worth asking Hatzi (as he lived with Jaco for a few horrible weeks and simply run away) or Michael Manring who Jaco really was... I love a lot of his work, for sure, but this kind of documentary is really useless and soooooooo incomplete. Won't make friends, I know, but it's not the point.

I've did it a lot of times. Finding wound strings for the F is the main issue, but Kalium in the USA provides almost anything you want. LaBella and D'Addario 0.020 F strings are plain. In the U.K., you can have a set made to measure by Newtone : https://newtonestrings.com/shop/custom-bass-string-configurator/ In Germany, Pyramid will do the same for you : http://pyramid-saiten.de/de/custom-shop/custom-shop.php All these manufacturers make excellent strings.

They both look good to me and certainly get requests. 😉 That said, even if Ray Brown is the original double bass player on this huge piece of music, the way NHOP is playing it is very interesting too and I tend to prefer it over the "original". Maybe it's because I've listened to this Oscar Peterson album hundreds if not thousands of times. So it's a bit like a refreshing or rehearing of this very tune.

Granny Awkward !

Indeed NHOP never got the fame he deserved. He was such an amazing player, always grooving. Thanks @Barking Spiders for reminding the bass community that if Jaco only needed 4, NHOP played with 3. Hats off.

Absolutely totally fully non original. Look at the decal that is not a ... decal and the chrome plated tuners with the Fender® stamped on them that appeared in the 70's ... without forgetting the brass nut and the greasy dirt everywhere on the neck. That said it's only £400 ... binned.

No more TLRT's so here is one for you fantastic work ! 💙

No more TLRT's so here is one for you fantastic work ! 💙

Thanks for the heads up. You did it and all was fine, at least as expected (too bad for the missing crowd), which is what music is supposed to be : fun. 👍

Was kidding Douglas. 😉

I guess it will work with a thin flat blade screwdriver. Don't we all agree.

Use a flat blade screwdriver and it will come out with the right strength applied.

Shall we start listening to some Talking Heads ?

If the pickups are wired exactly as indicated, they shouldn't be out of phase... Maybe your neck pickup is way too close to the strings... or the bridge way too far. Concerning the fact that you only hear output changes on the remaining 10% of your pot, it's normal as your pots are logarithmic ones. If you want to hear a better progression, put some linear pots instead. Nothing wrong with the way you made the grounding. To be sure just check the grounding continuity.

Or she was so good that she's been hired for a world tour that started immediately. 🤔

Elder twin, indeed : Vélémoteur was released in 1987 and Crash in 1988... For once, the French didn't copy a British tune. 😉

So, how was it ?