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Green Tinted Sixties Mind - Mr Big

It has been an absolutely crap period for losing bassists lately .

Nooo! 😢

Digging in the Dirt - Peter Gabriel

Well, it was a secret 🤐🤦🏻

I actually did a fair bit of this today and most enjoyable it was too. Welcome to GM status, we’ll heat up the crumpets and wax the paddle for the initiation ceremony .

That's not good for a non B stock instrument and dead batteries is another no-no. Anderton's are really good guys, raise it with them and I'm sure they'll sort it soon as.

Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze

As it should be.

Sorry to hear the above, Andy. Never rains but it pours.

I play live, which is a performing art, according to the definition. Therefore, I must be an artist. I am currently sitting in a comfy chair, with my 2nd glass of wine for the evening, which potentially makes me another kind of artist . Cheers 🍷!

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now - The Smiths

If you have the ability to blend your pickups, rather than just toggle switch, just favour the bridge a bit more, that will get you most of the way there. However, some sort of humped EQ curve from 250-750Hz should get the job done too.

Perhaps it’s time to step away from the technical side and concentrate on performance. By this I mean try to stop analysing what you’re doing when playing in your band and feel the groove of the song more and what the other band members are doing. I had an example of this in my own playing, recently. I was playing along to a song I know well with one of my fretless basses and I played it well enough, but it lacked something, I was going through a series of mechanical motions that, whilst they did the job, didn’t seem right. I then played the same song on my EUB. My upright skills, by comparison to my EB skills, are really not great. I don’t have the dexterity or the stamina that I have on EB and have to pare back my performance. Anyway, I played the song the best I could with my upright abilities. What happened was that, although I was delivering a less technical performance, I was really enjoying it, I was actually physically dancing with the EUB and just enjoying the groove. Out of the 2 performances, I know which one I preferred and which one an audience (and band members) would appreciate more.

Perhaps these Godin-alikes come from a different factory. However, at at least £1k less than an actual Godin, it's a small price to pay.

From the many reports on BC, Sire fret ends are normally as smooth as silk. Plainly, this is not always the case .

Tea in the Sahara - The Police

I do this for my WAV4.

I have my suspicions too. Headstocks are often (nearly always) the giveaway. I call Skwire

Hello, it appears that WoT is in the know as to the identity of the builder.

Chris is a top bloke and a very tasty player. I’ve seen him with Thunder, but mostly I saw him with local legends (when I lived down south), Bad Influence, when I making the jump from the 6 string thing, to the righteous instrument. I count him as an influence because of this timing. He also has a great singing voice too. Very much the complete package - so when I say top bloke, I mean utter, utter bastard . Seriously, those attending are in for a treat.

Lip Up Fatty - Bad Manners

Brinsley is ageing well. I had a long conversation with him, years ago, when he was also the amp tech at Chandler’s. A thoroughly nice gent and a mine of information on the workings of amplifiers. Also saw him with GP at the Marquee and Mean Fiddler, back in the late ‘80s; great player.

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