Owen

Just beautiful!

Thanks. As is the nature of these things, the GAS is les fierce after a couple of days, but I am still tempted.

Steve Slate did let you have a couple of kits for nowt. He emails you alot, but that is cheap at the price.

I sometimes feel like that as well. Not often though. Actually, not ever.

I feel myself being drawn into fretless world. Again. It will end badly, but it is what it is. I was watching Juila Hofer doing some Pino stuff and the MM Sire V7 Alder-5 FL BK 2nd Gen she is using looks to me like a coated board. Does anyone have any experience of this?

I'll be the parade, you can be my rain

It could become a Basschat-ism!

SBCTR-line. It has a certain ring to it, no?

100%. But to have an amp which will do what is needed in a smaller room situation without FOH support is where it is at. I do not believe that a 10" wedge will deal with an enthusiastic drummer if that is the only amplification for bass in the room.

I have a QSC K10.2. It is a very capable cab. Would it fight with a drummer? As a monitor? Yes. As backline? No.

It might be that a decent preamp is all you need. It is possible that the pickup will be just fine and dandy.

I have one of these and love it. I have no pickup recommendations. But I have been playing through a Sadowsky outboard preamp recently and LOVE what it does to my basses. A Sadowsky onboard is a good shout. YMMV.

I can dig that.

To drag this back on topic, I bought a trashed 66J in 1987 just because it looked like Jaco's bass. I had no idea of it's historical "value" I just knew it looked (and still looks) uber cool. Do I sound like Jaco? Not even remotely

Actually, he was . My brother has a 4 track recording of a gig he played locally on reel to reel somewhere. It is probably knackered by now.

Or Jools Holland. Or Endaf Emlyn, or Geraint Jarman or Myfyr Issac. Pino was active on the Welsh Language scene a long time before he hit the bright lights. We have been enjoying him a lot longer than anyone else. We discovered him. Between him, Gareth Edwards and Aneurin Bevan we have a rightful claim to world domination.

Hey y'all. No, I do not have "lack of practice" blisters (even though I deserve them). I seem to have a very small lump across the palm side of my top joint in my plucking index finger. It is on the bone. And when I drag it across a string, for pizz, it hurts. It hurts in a way that makes me think "this is unattractive" and makes me want to make it not hurt. This requires not playing. Obviously, I am not going to take medical advice from an internet forum, much as I love you people. However, does this ring any bells with anyone? It will have a bit of a long term effect on my DB playing if it does not behave. I am thinking some sort of arthritis-y thang. Fortunately, my sister and her husband are GPs so I can get informed opinion on the very lamest medical situations. Any thoughts? In other news, I have taken a choir/orchestra gig playing Vivaldi’s Gloria and the first half of the Messiah in 4 weeks. I will be hurting in all sorts of ways. I have not used a bow in anger in ………..many, many years, and actually maintaining a properly functioning left hand to play all that classical stuff in tune is going to be a rude awakening I am expecting pain there, but I know what that is.

I was worried that you had left the country with the spoils.

You can change this stuff?

Hey Jacob. Welcome