Piers_Williamson

And while we are at it, I think Imagination's bass player used to appear with a different bass every time, so this might be the only Wal appearance? (and I presume the bass line was actually a synth?)

The Bass player looks suspiciously like Keith Chegwin

I think she met one or two men in her time...... I was lucky enough to see her play with Larry Klein at Wembley. Dare I say I think Jaco (or even Pino) were probably a bit more interesting (as bass players)

One of my favourite albums of all time is Shadows and Light. It also made me a life long fan of Pat Methingy and Lyle Mays (the latter now sadly RIP)

What should have been a fantastic Fender Precision Lefty, except it wasn't. I think it was probably that I didn't know how to play it! I ended up hot rodding it with a di Mazio pickup, putting a Badass on it and stripping the sunburst ala John Deacon. All to no avail. 40 years on, I acquired a 77 Precision which must be pretty close to my original (bar a maple v rosewood neck), and it is the business. In the intervening 40 years I've learned to play a little bit better too.

Fat fingers. Here's the truss rod

Thanks all, so to continue my education

If you saw this on a pre-CBS bass and knew that it had been re-fretted, what would you look out for?

there is only one type of biscuit....a chocolate minty one....

That has a bit of a John Entwhistle vibe to it doesn't it (except I think his was Rum and Coke and had a straw)?

Did the Ramones have an unusually undersized fan base?

I'm waiting for the Alembic he used to play with Judie Tzuke to come up for sale (Although I'm a leftie so no use to me)

Well I think Duke Ellington’s title was well deserved

😔 Not good. My go to amp/speaker repairer. I would be interested in who is recommended. If they had to clear their gear out of their premises, it must have taken a mega effort! It was a proper Aladdin's Cave

Interesting. I have a Handbox R400, where I assumed the pre-amp stage did much the same job as the Noble, so I plug either my Wal or my Fender straight in. I tend to use the Noble as a front end to my Phil Jones (the combination is absolutely brilliant, but not as loud as the Handbox) or my Mesa D800+ (which got rather sidelined by the Handbox!)

As a fellow Noble fan, I'm curious as to what you like about the combination with your active basses. I primarily like my Noble with old school fender passive pickups (having listened to Tim Lefevre). I also discovered it works well in combination with a compressor, but I find my Wal and Musicman pretty overpowering in combination. Any advise?

I have a fantastic Noble valve pre-amp which has an equally fantastic valve DI

I really like the way the neck of a Stingray really sits under your hands, almost like I imagine a short-scale would (albeit I don't own a short scale). Much more forgiving to play long sets with.

I'm afraid Alicia Keys song will be forever associated with part of South Wales for me, so I count that as an honorary GB song

If it were me I would have a luthier do the cutting for you. It's not a time consuming or expensive job for someone who knows what they are doing.

Once upon a time I had an active Lakland five string that I thought sounded really 'naselly', other than through an old fashioned valve rig. For better, for worse, I sold it to a fellow basschatter in Spain, who was in raptures about my (ex) bass. Roll the clock on a few years and I was very fortunate to acquire two Wals (at 'player' rather than 'e-bay merchant' prices). I thought both sounded quite 'bassy' 'til I started playing about with the pickup trim pots. Then I discovered that if I cut the bottom end and turned up the pick-attack pot I could make both sound like a Jazz and/or a Musicman. I wondered whether as a (getting deaf) 60 year old one's sense of enjoyment of the sound of a particular bass can be adapted a lot using active basses? (I own three passive Jazz basses as my reference)

There is a band called The XX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_xx Does XXXX plus the XX comply with the Rules? (Not quite but close)

Love Shack B52s

I watched this yesterday, went back to the 'Shadows of Motown' score, and my jaw dropped, particularly with the bridge section. what an astonishing phenomenon Jamerson was, and Julia Hofer is a pretty understated player that covers some great tunes too.