Burns-bass

I’m usually a negative Nellie but I like this. Agree you’ll want to check it’s got the original pickups but looks great and if the regret is good and sympathetically done (doesn’t chop out loads of binding) it should be good for a long time.

It’s not my place to go into details, but a friend of mine had a poor experience with Lenspeed.

I don’t know what was on it but they were immediately swapped for Chromes which sound fab.

I’ve got a red one. It’s currently for sale but I think I might keep it

Indeed. I think you're effectively paying £100 just to be in a room with them. So many of these big gigs are a disappointemnt, too. I'm not a Cure fan really (I've never really tried), but Robert Smith speaks eloquently and passionately about this and I really respect that. Didn't they do something where ticket prices were limited to a price ceiling?

A lot of the Oasis stuff was about generating a false sense of scarcity. So many people attended those gigs to prove they were there and you weren't. A friend of mine went and said that about 80% of the crowd spent the gig filming it on their phones. It's utterly pathetic. I've heard similar stories of Paul McCartney gigs, etc.

It's probably because the only bands big enough to flll the monster venues are heritage acts. I went to see mercury music prize winning Joe Armon Jones with two of the best jazz playing sidemen I've seen and it cost me £8 and there were barely 200 people there. A few minutes' walk away Mark King was slapping the beejesus out of a Jaydee for 3000 people.

Very nicely put. My brother went to see Kraftwerk a few years ago and I think tickets were around £50. A Bristol gig now is around £100 or more a ticket. Insane really.

Definitely be a crime if you stain it, and you’ll deserve punishment.

Nail on the head. Deffo stickers. Looks really badly done (like I would do).

Players like Ray Brown would rarely play a scale up and down I guess but his book has some great scale exercises with intervals that are really musical.

I think in real life they’re probably all funny and engaging, like all bass players. Alas, the characters they’ve created are awful…

I love that film. Forgot what it was called! I don’t think I’ll ever work with people in the creative industries. I’m more interested in CBT stuff I think. I’ve certainly benefitted from that.

Boughy my Stagg EUB. Was happy to wait while I managed to find packaging for the beast and we came to a sensible and fair deal for everything. Just a lovely, easy transaction with Basschat royalty.

It's really interesting so far. I've volunteered for years with Age Concern and it's an extension of that. I just think that there has to be more to life than chasing ever diminishing amounts of cash. And being in bands is probably the best thing in the world for learning how to deal with conflict, awkward characters and trauma!

Debasement and devaluation of the creative act. As well as part time music I work as a writer and that field has similarly been smashed. I’m currently training to be a counsellor. Read into that what you will. Hope things improve for you.

Proper cool.

Lovely words. Someone said that everything he did was to serve the music not the ego, which was insightful.

I think they’re expensive for what they are. Assume it has to be Fiesta Red for some reason? Personally I’d go with the Squier if it has to be new. Otherwise I’d look for a Classic Series 50's Precision Bass and then add a white pickguard to it. You can wear it with some sandpaper if you feel the need to!

Before the internet existing you’d just give things a try and see what happens. Nowadays we all spend ages posting about it. Agree with the rest of the posters here. Give it a try and report back.

I think that’s the best plan. I bet it still sounds amazing!

It’s a shame but ultimately it’s a big old thing the double bass and it’s going to get superficially damaged when using it. My 1930s bass has damage similar to this and it’s characterful.

Might be worth sitting down and writing out what you actually want. I personally find this goal setting works (because it’s how I work). Might not work for you, but worth a try!