Bassman68

Just bought a Squier P-bass neck from Ben What a great guy to deal with… Item was exactly as described & very well packaged Thanks again Ben

The best purchase this year for me has been my Shure GLXD6+ system to replace an ageing Sennheiser system that I’ve had since the 00’s.. The worst was probably some BlackSmith coated strings from Amazon, Someone had mentioned them on here so I thought I’d give them a go…Unfortunately they sounded dead, straight out of the packet. Great it you want that kind of sound, but I was expecting at least some ‘zing’? Notable mentions shouldn’t also go to the s/h pedals I bought to build up my ‘back-up’ pedalboard, purchased from here or e-bay… EBS Microbass2 EBS Multicomp TC Polytune2

They’re my gigging workhorse basses, Squier VM & CV Jazz & Precision’s… They get enough knocks etc. to not worry too much, They’re my trade tools that serve a purpose.

I’ve got the 3mm dots on 4 of my workhorse basses my initial experience was on a particularly ‘muggy’ evening at an outdoor theatre gig… by the end of the evening, most of the dots had come off of the Jazz bass I was playing. To get round any further disappointment, I’ve blobbed over each of the dots with a tiny amount of clear nail varnish, to hold them in place. That was a couple of years ago now and all the dots remain in place & do a sterling job on dark stage intro’s & stage blackouts. I find that bursts of stage lighting are enough to charge the dots for when the dark moments arise…. The irony for me is that I have two basses with fitted LED’s but they aren’t the right Image for my regular gig with my tribute band.

I got this Meijia Peli style camera case from E-bay a while back. It’s pick foam lined & fits my small pedalboard in, along with IEM’s & tablet bracket.. It’s all I need to take to small theatre gigs apart from my dual bass gigbag & stands.

Been a couple of times that Imodium has seen me through a gig? 😄 (Comfortably bunged!)

Can almost feel the neckdive just by looking at it?

If you are thinking of more ‘shuffle’ beats, A few of Billy Ocean’s songs have it? ’When the going gets tough’ ’Love really hurts’ They all have that shuffle on the Hi-hat…

Damn the Sandberg configurator.. Trying to talk myself out of pulling the trigger on one of these?

I dunno who sets these basses up, but studying the Nikki Sixx bass last night in Hard Rock café restaurant Tenerife, looks like the G is below the E string?

Looks more like a hoodie?

I always viewed fretwraps as a gimmick when i first started noticing them, an excuse for poor technique? Over the years though, I’ve come to find them useful, especially on multi-string basses, for keeping the ‘rumble’ from those low strings at bay… I now use them when I play my 5 string basses, especially my Stingray 5, to tame the B string from rattling when slapping. Here’s a pic of me at a recent festival in Germany, letting loose on “Too shy” by Kajagoogoo..