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Can't Keep It In - Cat Stevens

Still Got The Poohs - Gary Moore

I've yet to have a bass that I don't have to adjust a bit/lot. I've had actions that are too high, and too low for me, they might suit someone, but we're all individuals and have our own foibles. That's not to say that were unplayable, far from it, in fact I've only ever handled one almost unplayable bass ever, a Rickenbacker, at a show, where there was so much neck relief, you could slide your fingers underneath. I think reviewers should use the phrase, playable out of the box, which is a fair assessment.

Losing My Religion - REM

Whereas mine was absolutely fine, construction wise. I wasn’t keen on the way it went gray/white in places where the strings rubbed, however. Felt great to play as @Beedster mentioned. I stripped mine as I didn’t like the stealth black, which revealed some very average basswood, with a great big knot in it (none of which affected the sound), still looked pretty cool though.

One of These Kites - Eagles (another double whammy)

Feats Don't Quail Me Now - Little Feat

Breaking All The Grouse Rules - Budgie (double whammy).

That would look great.

Something that popped up in my YT feed today. SBMM JDs being set up in California, at least that what Joe says.

Low action and low neck relief can help with mwah.

FWIW I used a different bass for rehearsal last night, in place of my usual Mustang, it sounded glorious and felt easier to play, despite being 3” longer in scale, it’s certainly quite a bit lighter. I also took the ‘Stang and swapped briefly for comparison, but went straight back to the Maruszczyk. It sounded somewhere between a P and a Ric, which pushes all my buttons currently. Long story short, no GAS for a new bass in the near future for me (he said, tempting the GAS genie to cast a spell).

I feel the gloves are off regarding encouragement and luring others into gear acquisition is now standard operating procedure.

I don’t know what you mean

At last I understand why Duck Dunn was so awesome, check that right hand .

The strings are never straight either, the easiest thing to do, you would have thought.

I have to agree, it's just nasty. Yup, all kinds of wrong.

FFS! They're 'aving a larf!

True that.

Pull yourselves together . I can't say whether any of this is accurate, or even helpful, but Nate is a bit good and I'd trust him over a drummer when it comes to bass lines -

Oh yeah, we ‘kin freezing too, keyboard player was really suffering. 🥶

Me neither, just too dense, it’s seems to be Nick Raskulinecz‘s MO. I’d love to hear a remix by someone else.

I looked at trying out fitting one of my extenders from an EB (lightweight Hipshot) in my NS WAV4 to see if it would go down to D, when I realised that, even if a standard length post would fit, the extender would have to be a “left handed” one (or at least one that fits the lower side of an EB headstock. So I can’t try that.

Rehearsal for a gig in 2 weeks. Took my Maruszczyk custom Elwood L and just used the neck pickup (I normally use a Mustang or P bass in this band), added a bit of drive from the VTDI and it roared like a cross between a Ric and a P - glorious!