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So, what’s the best entrenched position for metal, then? 😂

My thoughts as well. It seems to more of a semantic point than anything around a definition of the word “impart”. Thinking through the potential physics at play I don’t necessarily buy the “the body wood can only subtract frequencies” premise either. The strings will transmit vibrations into the body at the nut and bridge. These will rattle and reflect around the body/neck materials in all sorts of random ways at different frequencies. Some will be, of course, absorbed and dampened (at different frequencies and different amounts) reducing the overall energy of the system. However, it’s just as plausible that at some frequencies interference patterns or even standing wave vibrations could be formed within the body increasing the amplitude of those frequencies at the expense of others. The vibrations in the body would then transmit back into the strings at two points (nut and bridge) creating more complex overtones in the string. However, again since these would enter the strings at both ends it seems plausible that interference patterns could be formed at certain points along the string, potentially enhancing some harmonics while dampening others. If positive nodes coincide with the sensing area of the pickups - given the short wavelengths of many of the harmonics of the fundamental that also seems likely - within the complex waveform of the vibrating string there are likely to be positive and negative nodes at different micro-frequencies with some, therefore enhanced and others diminished, without breaking the law of the conservation of energy. But as others have said, a bass sounds good if a bass sounds good and it’s core tone is a sum of the various parts (including player and playing style). It’s not simply attributable to one single factor and the organic nature of wood and potential variation in physical properties within one species - or even one tree/plank/piece of wood - means the effects on sound aren’t reliably predictable purely on the basis of species name (the usual contention at the heart of most online tone wood debates).

This is a logical fallacy though, isn’t it? The statement implies (or seems to from reading and rereading it) that only additive “resonances” would make a difference to the tone/sound/frequency spectrum coming out of the instrument output. EQ can be subtractive as well as additive, after all. If, for simplicity’s sake to demonstrate the point, a body material attenuated all frequencies below 200hz that bass would sound thin. If another body material attenuated all frequencies above 500hz then that bass would sound woolly in comparison to a (theoretical) perfectly non-resonant body. Those subtractive resonances change the tone coming out of the instrument (the instrument being taken to comprise all construction materials, the construction itself, the hardware, the pickups and the wiring).

In a jazzy mood while making dinner. Just had Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album and now The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan. Love this tune!

JMJ gives a quick tour of his cool and quirky bass (and guitar) collection. The video lingers nicely for a moment on his three Wals... what a collection! https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMqRYTeBdF1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link And the rest...! https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMqR-cfh9U0/?igshid=qny4dim2m9m6

Great to see you again! The NYE set sounds great, really enjoyed that. Love a stripped down acoustic band and that Club is sweet. Hoping all the medical stuff goes really well!

“...Return To The Forbidden Planet...” - oh that brings back memories! I love that show! An old school chum, Rosie, was stage manager for a load of the national tours back in the 90s/00s. Saw that show so many times. Always a blast!

90s pop throwback evening... Alisha’s Attic - Illumina

Yes, a lot of folks pop advance warning up at the Wal Bass Lovers Of The World Unite FB group before they consign them or launch their TB/BC/Reverb ads... Well worth a look.

Row 2, #7 - Glen Gregory from Heaven 17, I presume... [EDIT] Ah, no.. there he is in row 5 - for certain! Still looks a bit like this era...

Yeah, like @toneknob says, that's Aimee in 'Til Tuesday mode...

I wondered if it was Hazel Dean next to Midge?

I know 65 of the 80s popsters for certain with about 10 others which would be guesses... Great graphic, though! [EDIT} Make that 67!

Wow, someone who's heard of Aviator! Yes, he'd have been fully Wal-ed then up. His short scale JG bass.

To be fair, both Caravan albums were pre-Wal on a Gibson EB!

The leather is mounted on a metal plate, if that helps!

Wal did like a bit of leather! The first ever Wal, owned by John G Perry (ex Caravan) Me having a noodle on it at Wal in High Wycombe way back... Leather scratch plate JG series... Theo de Jong Chris Squire’s triple had one too... The orders list. Some famous (and one or two surprising) names on there...

Doubly so given her well documented performance anxiety issues. That can’t have helped! Touched By Jesus has some cracking songs on it! That’s my morning playlist sorted!

Riveting or ribbeting!

I understand they’re pretty much recognised as the leading lights in the slime scene - and innovative blend of grime and frogspawn stylings!

Three pages in and not a single mention of The Toy Dolls big hit! Off their credibility and career went with a trumpetty trump trump trump...

But to be fair, Cornershop’s original is deadly dull while Norm’s remix is a cracking single! Which suggests most of the attraction is the added Fatboy touch!

Very few people can look cool and dignified playing a keytar but Patrice still oozes cool!

Brilliant!!!! It's one heck of an education, isn't it!!!

Seems like such a long time ago (because it was, a year to be precise!) but we’d get a songlist with keys (provisional of course!) and notes/comments on a Tuesday or Wednesday, evening rehearsal on Thursday 8-10 then musos set up and line check 8:30 to 9:00 on a Sunday, preservice rehearsal 9-between 9:45-10:00 for a 10:30 service. We’d get up at 10:20-25ish and quietly play a pre-service song or two as folks were arriving. Here is a typical song list from way back I happened to find on my iPad...