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Life's A Gas - T. Rex

Bend Me, Shape Me - The American Breed

I bought Who Do We Think We Are? by Deep Purple and I wore out the intro of My Woman From Tokyo and it skipped like a beast. When I hear it now, it sounds wrong, without that jump.

Skweez Me Pleeze Me - Slade

Iron Out The Rough Spots - Paul Young

I have nothing to add to which is format is better, or which turntable drive system is best (other than they all have their shortcomings) and my shot hearing probably couldn’t tell anyway (no probably about it). However, I watched a video the other day about vinyl ownership. There were some statistics mentioned (they might have been complete BS of course) said that only about 50% of new vinyl purchasers actually an own a deck to play the medium on. For some, it seems, it’s about ownership of the latest cool thing, or displaying the sleeves as artwork (I can get my head around the latter, it’s what I really miss about vinyl, not displaying it, but interacting with it, whilst the album played. I gave all mine away).

Iron Man - Sabbath

GarageBand is free, so why not start there and upgrade to Logic if necessary? Use the saved cash for something else you might need now.

I started on bass back in ‘82 but was lured back to full time guitar playing until the early 2000s, when I ‘jumped ship’ properly. Both times my first bass was a Yamaha. They don’t make a duff instrument at any price point IMO.

And any decent shop will be happy to help as, if you have a positive experience and don’t feel ripped off, you’ll be back again & again & again… A trip to Bass Direct (no, it’s not all high priced exotica, there are a decent bunch of sub £400 basses, albeit not MM types) or Guitar Guitar in Birmingham will be well worth it.

It doesn’t really matter that you can’t play much right now, you know what feels comfy and is aesthetically appealing. These 2 things are the most important for your first bass, you’ve got to want to pick it up and if it doesn’t appeal to your eye and feels ‘wrong’, you won’t play it and that defeats the point. Set your budget, go to a retailer, play a bunch of basses in your price range and go home with the one that feels and looks right. Will this be your forever bass? Unlikely, but you’ve got to start somewhere.

I’d hadn’t had a duff bass string in 25 years or so, then I had 2 in fairly quick succession. Glad you got this sorted.

Can’t Keep It In - Cat Stevens

Roundabout - Yes