Daz39

Welcome! Nice gear!!

Nice - Mindcrime/Empire is possibly one of the best bass tones ever. Even on feeble car speakers it sounds awesome - such grind!

Why not plug a dual connector/daisy chain thingy to the speaker output?

I want a Combustion 6. I'll likely never be able to justify a Z, AB or even ABZ, so that would be just nice thankyou. 3 pickup, nice shiny colour.

Look on talkbass at the dingwall forum: more mods than you will know what to do with; esp around selector switching, Sheldon even gives wiring diagrams to help. nerdy : isn’t this an NG-5 3x?

Lovely progress so far.

I live in Halifax and concur with @peteb. there are a lot of towns round here so more varied opportunities; but with that comes a surplus of bands.

I loved Tower of Power and i am not a funk fan. The singer can realllly sing.

I see what you've done there - those floorboards ARE not bookmatched... Tsk.

Yep. My brother lived there for years but he just couldn’t afford to buy and rents were crazy.

London-on-sea, good luck affording anything there though!

Quadruple Nelson!

He'll be too busy rolling around on the bed with them, as previously mentioned. Just make sure he doesn't hurl them up in the air like notes - that would be rather a headache.

Just be thankful Ticketmaster aren't involved...!

Machine Head - The More Things Change...

I like the original pic the OP has - the other ones with horns and fuller body just look like more regular short-scales. I thought the WB was sposed to be ultra-portable!!

Perhaps they struggle to remember them onstage? I think Michael Stipe does/did have lyrics on the floor because he would blank when onstage.

Welcome!!

Livin the dream Blue!

At last, more vicarious build threadage!

I strike sort of towards the frets, rather than perpendicular - there's definitely some tap of the finger against the frets for clank - and sometimes it's full on slap-sound. I struggle to get a light touch - I can't use an amp at enough volume to play lightly (because inevitable louder striking would get me grief from downstairs.) also I have played unplugged for most of my life (for quietness reasons) and need to strike harder to actually hear the note. I do move about from bridge to front pickup as required - you do get a different feel and sound. And sometimes I rest my hand on the bridge and use all fingers (and thumb on the E) for arpeggio stuff. It feels much easier than moving up and down with the index and middle on a 4 string as the spacing is large.

Play all the way through? pfft - probably only a few dozen. Most of them will be Rush songs, a few ones by U2, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater and the like. I can play bits of hundreds - probably enough to learn the whole song if I were ever in a band and it was required.

Shhh. Don't mention the war!! It could be worse - it wasn't Rickenb***er

I thought he was just having a rant about EU customs bureaucracy! ;0

Oof, bit sparse, but if it feels good keep it! best wishes for your little one btw, i’ve had one newborn be seriously unwell, not fun.