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Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Milk & Alcohol - Dr Feelgood

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Closer To Fine - The Indigo Girls

Stand & Deliver - A Ant & Co

Hard to go wrong with white or black (fingerprint magnet issues notwithstanding). However, I currently own neither and seem to be on a blue bass kick, with my last 2 incomers being that hue (I should point out that, due to supply, that was the only colour available at the time) and I’m rather liking it.

My Dingaling - Chuck Berry

Would it feasible to add a small section to the top of the pot you have by cutting the top off of another pot and attaching it to the Alpha (epoxy, drill and screw, whatever)? A bit Heath Robinson, but a potential solution if solid enough.

Diamond Dogs - Bowie (again).

Space Oddity - Bowie

Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann

If You Leaf Me Now - Chicago

Road To Hell - Chris Rea

Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter - Iron Maiden

I Stand Accused - Isaac Hayes

I selected no sigs years ago and I’ve not felt the need to switch it back on.

Playing a Mustang seated is the same as on a strap for me, the offset shape puts it right into that position. My ‘Ray SS, however, sits more to the right when seated than when on a strap.

Although not currently in any bands, I was lucky in one of my previous bands in that I could play a whole gig on fretless if I wanted to. We did a garden, live stream during 2020 and I did just that. Loved it. What a difference a couple of years and no bands makes. However, at odds with this thread, my fretless GAS is still very much intact, one the new ACG Mules has my bank account twitching madly 😂.

Can you undo the screws? It might be that they’re bottomed out.

Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley

The other Ezbass(no relation that I’m aware of)! That the dog is so unimpressed by such top playing always makes me smile.

Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

^^^^ This, all day long.

Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche

Ever since I first picked up the low end beast, I've been besotted with fretless. This probably stems from my love of Pino, Karn, and others from that era's sound, that first made me partially jump ship from the skinny stringed thing and dabble in the low end. Even when I made the complete transition to bass, it wasn't long before I had a fretless and I've always preferred it and, according to others, I'm quite good at it (checks door width against head dimensions to ensure some clearance ). However, when I moved into temporary accommodation late in 2020, I was limited as to what I could take with me and it was a no brainer as to which bass I would take, one of my fretless basses, obvious really; the others went into storage. However, after a while living in said accommodation, I acquired a short scale bass (something I had been planning to do before the move, but things got in the way). Once this arrived, I played it a lot (as you do with a new toy), even giving myself a touch of tendonitis (since remedied) such was the level of my practising (finger exercises to a drum machine FFS! When did I last do those?). I finally moved into permanent accommodation and was at last reunited with my other basses (a fretted and another fretless) and then acquired another fretted, short scale. The thing is, my love for fretless seems to have died. I'll pick one of them up, noodle for a few moments, then put it back on the stand - the sound doesn't move me anymore, I even find it a little irritating and I'm playing those great sounding '80s tunes on fretted bass, making the sound work (a little chorus goes a long way) and enjoying it far more. I look at my fretless basses and just see £ signs. Is the love affair over after nearly 40 years, or are we just 'on a break'? Has anyone else gone through something similar and come out the other side, love renewed or was that it, you walked away and never looked back?