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I’m really liking that Mustang.

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Ghost Town - The Specials

Night Swimming - REM

Put one of those pickups (or sometimes any pickups) in the P position and you get something not a million miles away from what we think of as P bass tone.

You’ve taken me right back to my childhood there, @Riverbassman65, I remember repeatedly reading a book about the St Lawrence river in the library. Nice to see that the epithet ‘gits’ is in use so far from these shores. Kudos!

That colour combo 😍

I like the T’Bird pickup.

Start Me Up - The Stones

Alive - Pearl Jam

Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue - The Ramones

The Seeker - The Whoo

Stick It Out - Rush

Don’t Speak - No Doubt

Get On Up - JB

Arrested For Driving While Blind - ZZ Top

I’ve seen Phil & Co doing the Thunderthumbs gig at the Bull’s Head and it’s absolutely well worth going to see. Everybody in the band (one of whom is a friend of mine) is absolutely top notch and the Bull’s Head is a nice venue, separate from the pub itself.

As much as slides, vibrato and mwah are great fun and are pretty much the de facto, trademarks of fretless, also set some time aside avoiding these and try and make it sound like a fretted bass (accurate fingering, using the fingertips, without vibrato). The ability to move between these techniques means that when you break out those trademark, fretless tones, they’ll stand out as features, rather than being full on, all the time.

Looking for Clues - Robert Palmer

I think it's probably his Fiesta Red one, it's just the colours are very muted, but you never know.

Pino thinking, “I don’t need no stinking mutes.” He is the king of bass cool. Thanks for sharing.

That was entertaining. I wish they’d done a few more modern vs vintage comparisons though. I liked the bit about not leaving your vintage bass at home, but taking it out and using it. This is why I sold my ‘63, for some reason I stopped gigging it (probably the, “What if it gets nicked,” mindset) and it seemed a waste, so off it went. It was a great bass, played really well and was light, but that caused a good amount of neck dive sadly. What I thought was missing from the video was that not all vintage instruments are not necessarily good just because of their age, there are dogs out there too. Anyway, I enjoyed that, it’s cheered me up, thanks for sharing @Reggaebass. Oh yeah, now I want a vintage again* *Not going to happen.

Mine certainly is.

I took my HB ‘stangalike, which sounds brilliant at home, and the JMJ to a rehearsal. I played the HB and it was good, really good. Then I played the JMJ and the difference was amazing, almost as if if the bass was saying, “Did you want better than really good? Oh well, I’ll see what I can do. How’s this?” And then winks at you conspiratorially. All a bit fantastical as a description, but I was truly surprised at the difference, it also did much the same against the Stingray shorty at a gig. I wonder if the Seymour Duncan custom shop Mustang pickup is the same?