nilebodgers

Get the amp looked at by an electronics tech pronto. Speaker cone displacement like that sounds like a DC fault on the amp output.

It isn't in the basket I've got sitting there at the moment. It appears that £134.99 ex delivery is currently the max order that you can be sure of the total cost.

That is pretty reasonable for an artist signature model.

Lol. I had an almost identical response the last time I sold something on gumtree. The person/bot stopped responding when I said cash on collection only. Funny that.

That looks a bit "over-knobbed" if that's a thing...

Working on "This charming man" by the Smiths. Fantastic bassline even though I don't care for Morrisey's vocals much. Original was played with a plectrum, but I prefer playing with fingers and I can get close enough to the sound to fake it. It's great playing along in Transcribe as the pitch can be corrected to standard and section markers can be added so I don't forget when that extended first verse goes into the chorus. It's always one more repeat than I think.

Haha, yes I am going to learn that too. I picked a copy of the original cd up cheap so I could get the track into Transcribe.

A £K is bonkers, they are decent basses, but not that super special. I just set mine up recently and the machine heads are driving me spare, the adjustable collars that take the lash out of the gears keep coming loose (they tend to turn with the key) and the special tool for tightening them is unobtanium. I need to strip them down and clean+grease, but I was in too much of a hurry.

My precioussssss...

The bass player is usually the only one with spare leads, batteries, fuses, plugs, tools. Often the one with the PA and a clue of how to fix things when they don't work.

I'd be inclined to leave well alone with small dings like that. I've got a couple on my black J-bass that ideally I'd like to fix, but I doubt my ability to make it look significantly better without practice on something that doesn't matter if I fail.

Black.

LOL. Yes, that one wouldn't fly with a lot of people on here.

Anyone else got some New Year's resolutions for playing? What I wanted to do was "practice more", but based on experience that's not going to happen unless I get specific. So: Play for at least 30 mins every day. Do a warm up then at least one technique exercise for speed/dexterity based on part of a song. Do at least one musical exercise with arpeggios/scales in all keys round the cycle of 4ths. Work on learning songs - a complete song, not just licks or parts. Play along with it until can be done with no significant mistakes. Continue working on the Jazz walking bass course I have been doing. Keep a practice diary and time how long I am spending on each item. Don't buy any more gear! (apart from consumables and odds & ends) This is mostly stuff I have been doing anyway, but in an organised way instead of random impulses and noodling around on a lick that caught my ear. Anyone else got some resolutions they want to share?

Isn't this just the most amazing thing, @neilmurraybass himself posts a transcription. It really doesn't get much better than that. One of the 3 ultimate bass heros of my youth - Neil Murray, Mars Cowling (sadly deceased) and Glenn Hughes.

I hadn’t thought about that extra twist. That is perversely possibly good news as I can’t see Thomann wanting to lose all their UK Fender (etc) sales. I would imagine that they will get a proper UK trading presence like dv247 & others pretty quickly.

The plot thickens!

Zoom b1four. Fantastic practice tool

I thought it was really laboured actually. Tom Jones was surprisingly good though, his voice has held up really well for 80.

Because the seller can claim to know nothing about it. It’s a catch-all lie rather than having to invent a convincing story.

The "waist" in the part of the peg below the cloverleaf sits in the wrong place for current squiers though, it is over wood on those and in air on the ebay bass. I think it's a no-name bitsa, not a Fender or Squier at all.

I found a pic of a squier classic vibe headstock on line and the tuner baseplate shape is the same, so some kind of squier could be a possible.

They aren't mexi fender, I just had a look at mine.