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By the way that is gorgeous. If I'd noticed it listed I'd have bitten your hand off rather than buying a Warwick Thumb 6 (currently en route to me from Germany). Which I'm sure will be superb, but pm me if you do really need to find a new home for the Ibby 🙂

1992 MIA Fender Jazz Plus V. Top quality, rare, and unusually still has the original Kubicki electronics. I just don't get on with it, too heavy and with a slabby body shape (think Tele rather that Strat). If somebody walked up and offered me something near what I paid for it (£750) I'd hand it over like a shot. Just can't face the hassle and expense of advertising and shipping it. At the moment luckily neither space nor money is an urgent problem, but if they were, that would be the first to go.

Numbers for letters is easy. That's why pa55w0rd is not a safe password.

Welcome! As you already know, if you want help restraining your GAS, you've come to the wrong place 🙂 For anything else, it's a good place. Let us know how it goes.

Welcome! Nice basses 🙂

Also Stevie Nimmo. Sean Webster - probably the best voice on the scene at the moment. https://www.seanwebsterband.com/ Catfish - Matt Long is a virtuoso young guitar player with a huge dynamic range, and the best bass solo I've ever heard live was from Adam Pyke playing an Ibanez 6. https://www.catfishbluesband.co.uk/

It was! Good high-energy stuff and good audience. Really sorry I had to leave early, but you don't want to be on the last bus out of Stockport on a Saturday night 😞 Hoping to get my band to one of your Sunday afternoon open mics soon.

"Youth, ex Killing Joke bassist, ORB frontman and producer who's produced artists including Sir Paul McCartney , Pink Floyd, The Verve, De La Soul, Beth Orton, Kool and the Gang talks about his career and new label, Painted Word" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbtm4f The segment runs from 0:32:40 to 1:12:40. Good to see a bass player getting such good coverage.

Roughly 2-5pm with a couple of breaks, but whatever we felt like really.

First cd better than the second imho... Saw them live at Mcr Academy soon after they released the second - they were dreadful. Complete shambles. Still love the cleverness of the lyrics and range of genres parodied in the first though.

Different story... we briefly had a Sunday afternoon residency in the beer garden at a fun local community-run pub - never many people there, but we enjoyed it and so did they. No money, but excellent free food and beer. Sadly they started getting hassled for noise, so we could only play (literally) unplugged - so no keys, no mics, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, and the harp player blew out an expensive harp trying to play loud enough to be heard. And then the woman who was organising everything had to quit with health problems 😞 We're still in close touch and they definitely want us back sometime. I really hope they sort out the problems with the neighbours, they're a great community centre and we'd love to play there again. http://www.theoldabbeytaphouse.co.uk/

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Welcome! Projects are a great way to get started - we started as a blues workshop project, turned ourselves into a band and it's going well. You get to know each other and figure out how to work together, and avoid the risks (noted on many threads) of joining a band with peeps you don't know and having it go pearshaped. Let us know how it goes!

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Otoh - to widen the discussion - a single-cut 5 is likely to be a heavier club than a double-cut 4. Not that I'd risk mine anywhere near the head of a drunken punter 🙂

That's a good argument for long-scale basses rather than the number of strings. When my keys player goes off too fast (as usual) I can "accidentally" knock him on the head with my headstock from a plausible playing distance with my 35" - it might look deliberate with a 33" 🙂

Good point, but I also think the audio format makes it possible to actually hear what peeps are talking about. There have been many excellent threads where peeps are describing differences in sound between - amps, bridges, pups, ... - and I'd love to be able to actually hear what they're describing rather than trying to imagine it from the descriptions.

I'm tempted to mention flat / half-round / round needle-nosed pliers... 🙂

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Welcome! Make the most of it... let us know how it goes.

Welcome! Nice basses 🙂

Welcome Sarah! Thank you for the story, another good example of "it's never too late" 🙂

Sounds like a good plan 🙂 How about comparing string types - round / half-round / flat / tape wound? Would the sound quality be good enough for the differences to show up? Mind you it might be difficult to control for everything else - you probably don't want to be taking four sets of strings off and on the same bass for the sake of a few minutes playing on each...