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That shows how good my search skills are. I feel like I have let myself down

I have Smith Gas. I would love to try one. I cannot find one for sale in the UK. Any suggestions?

Playing to a click is actually a discipline in itself. Playing to a drum machine/Logic Drummer track is actually a lot easier.

I dream of playing to a click.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you cannot spell bass without a B.

Capo up. It will be fine

Time for you to get a black polo neck and a silver necklace then!

It is for the best.

Building is cool and lots of fun, but an 8" active PA speaker could be easier. Obviously a cheaper one will not fight with drummers, but for this specific purpose I would certainly be considering one - especially 2nd hand. I picked up a 2nd hand QSC K10.2 (too big, I know) for £350 and am wondering why I did not go in that direction sooner.

I was about to say that that is massive overkill, but then I remembered an epic early rig I had which was an SWR SM400 biamped into a Turbosound TMS cab which was a 2 x 15 + 2 x 10 and horn.

L42 + Holdsworth. Bonkers. In a really good way.

I feel your pain.

If there is a local FE college anywhere close that do a music course I am sure they would be glad of them. If I was any closer, my dept would be all over them like a bad rash.

I used that on a Double Bass once. With a big sheepskin buffer on a drill. It came up lovely.

Uh oh.

I have a 73 P bass which is all original apart from all the hardware. And the J pickup at the bridge. Where do I get to sell it as all original?

Kind of a super-duper jazz?

That will be a very small percentage of us!

Imagnine if playing it right and serving the congregation actually counted as worship. Oh, wait, it does. I had a student a long time ago. He was in his mid 70s. He was the lovliest bloke. He had been "taught" bass by a guitarist. Do not get me started. He barely ever went beyond the 7th fret. But from the "wrong" side. He played in a local church and used to say that during worship times the whole band would get into the zone and it would just flow. As it happened I knew the pianist and drummer. It was deeply unflow-y. We had a service recently organised by someone who is astonishingly able, but clueless musically. She had a bunch of people doing the music but invited me to sit in, so I rolled in expecting at least a chord chart. There was absolultely nothing there. They were singing to backing tracks of material I had never heard. She honestly believed that people "just play". This was just a lack of knowledge on her part. Next time she does it I will prime her as to what is needed. Lots of good stuff happened at the service so I am not whinging - it was just interesting to see genuinely how little understanding there was. We have a guy who sings and plays piano. He is an old school Musical Theatre belter. When he sings his mic is turned off and he is still too loud. When he joined in with the choir this woman had put together who were proper going for it with African stuff, it was as if he had not even opened his mouth. I have never, ever heard his voice dissapear.

Tone is tone.