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Nice.

Ooh! 😯

That is freaking genius!

Another vote for Squiers, not only are they great for the money, but they also have really good residual value. Harley Bentons from Thomann, receive good reviews, but won't have the resale value should you choose to move it on. If you don't have a bass playing buddy, get yourself down to your local bass emporium and try a few. If you let us know where you're based, I'm sure the BC collective can recommend a helpful outlet.

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel, always makes me feel good. As does Lola Montez - Volbeat. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin has a wonderful melancholy about it, which is then easily lifted by Over The Hills And Far Away (what a great album House of the Holy is). Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson never seems to get old to my ears, as does pretty much anything from the first Bad Company album. To be honest, there are way more more tunes that give me joy than those that make me want to eject the radio out of the nearest window; probably why I'm a musician.

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One of my bands is a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers tribute. There are more 6 stringers than you can shake a stick up and there are numerous changes (i.e. not just window dressing). I just take one bass.

Could be a galloping success. I’ll get my coat.

All 5 springs tightened right down always managed to lock my old Strat bridges down. However, you can also add a Hipshot Tremsetter.

Yikes! 😮

No really mistakes, but picking up a ‘63 P Bass when I only went out to buy an MIM ‘50s reissue and hearing Peter Kastner play a Rob Allen MB-2 on YouTube; both resulted in inflated expenditure.

It’s easy for me to say anything by (insert artist name here), but I’d like to try for something more specific. These are the things that make turn the radio, normally tuned to Planet Rock, off: Bat out of Hell (it’s so long and meandering, with nasty guitar tone, basically cod opera). Sweet Home Alabama (done to death by cover bands and poorly at that). Anything by The Doors (sorry, I know I said I wouldn’t, but I really can’t stand them).

Yep, I just posted this on the review page. Free TARDIS with every ‘advance’ ticket.

Hmm, I just received an email (as I’m sure plenty of you did too) to buy advance tickets to last week’s show. It appears time travel is possible. 😂

Thread resurrection time with a demo of the Rick fiver...

So - Peter Gabriel Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin No Parlez - Paul Young Regatta De Blanc - The Police Moving Pictures - Rush Continuum - John Mayer The Blue Line - Robben Ford and the Blue Line Argus - Wishbone Ash Graceland - Paul Simon

Sweet! I saw them at The Lyceum in London on the No Parlez tour; marvellous!

👏👏👏 I see what you did there, kudos.

Far More - Lari Basilio. On CD from the lady herself at the guitar show.

Not at all! Whippersnappers stealing my gigs, buying the gear I want! They should should be up chimneys, making sure that they're clean! 😡 And seriously now folks. Yes, it was good see a large contingent of youngsters present, certainly flies in the face of the, clickbait type proclamations that guitar based music (and bass of course) is dead. It's also something I see in my local Guitar Guitar, a good number of young folk coming in with adults to buy instruments. Long may that continue.

Hardly a new artist, but the new release from Robben Ford has some good stuff on it, I particularly like the groove on this one...

Well done for posting, @Joel McIver, it's good to see that you're taking an interest and noting our concerns and suggestions.

A bit late to the party, but I watched it last night. Yes the timeline was ar5e backwards at times, but if you don’t know their history well, it didn’t detract from being rather entertaining IMO. I thought John Deacon’s portrayal was very well observed and the bass level and tone in the mix was very pleasing. All the main characters were pretty well done, although Roger’s portrayal seemed less so than the others and those playing the minders and management were a bit 2 dimensional. During the film I was reminded that I really like the first 3 albums, it’s the later, more overblown stuff that I could live without (still musically solid, just not my cup of tea). If you haven’t seen it, give it a whirl.

Having done exhibitions myself in the past (including at the BDC) I can testify to this. It’s a great feeling meeting folks who are actually interested in what you’re selling and have made the effort to come and have a look. But being on your feet all day, trying to say the same thing hundreds of times in a different way, takes it out of you. Noise at any trade exhibition tends to high (people are just noisy on their own never mind if the product being sold makes a sound too) and the old ears get fatigued too, that said, it wasn’t until mid afternoon that I found it started to become oppressive, an improvement on Olympia. The BDC is very bright, which is a good thing, but it is also acoustically challenged with its marvellous roof. However, there is office space and the like on the top and ground floors which could be utilised as demo areas in the future, should the organisers decide to use this venue again. The idea of bringing your own headphone amp that you’re familiar with is something I’d consider in the future, although this won’t help for amps and cabs of course, but demo rooms could sort that. Finally, it may seem that a lot of people are moaning but, for the most part, Brits can be quite curmudgeonly and an honest critique may come over as negative, especially when we forget to praise the things that we liked. However, if we don’t point out the short comings, things won’t improve and folks will eventually stop coming.

Not really a bass album per se, but Paul Young’s No Parlez was a revelation to my ears. I’ve been a fan of fretless and Pino ever since.