Baxlin

DFA - reminds me of a bloke in the RAF who ‘knew everything’, he was known as KFA.....

But surely beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I’m sure there are folks, apart from the writer and performer, who liked listening to Grandad, Grandma we love you, Mr Blobby, the Floral dance (vocal version...) etc, etc! (anyone else remember Mike Sarne and Wendy Richard's “Come Outside”?)

Ditto here, I’m afraid, but we have all recorded our ‘bits’ for one song, which are currently being put together as a vid.

Our church is similar size, and we play on a rota basis, so it’s very rare to be in the same band twice! Again, it’s drummers we're light on, only have three. 5 bassists, but some are multi-talented, so I seem to do more bass-Ing than most. It’s sometimes quite challenging when there’s another bass player in the band, with them playing guitar or keys..... At our 'morning' venue, we have to set up, but we have installed permanent PA and sub, cabling for the sound desk and amp (we are DI’d), with the drum kit on a castored platform with full screen, which just rolls into a huge back-of-the-stage cupboard, with all the stands, Korg etc The evening venue is our own church building, so everything’s in place, mostly just plug in and play. Malcolm

Two bands, both reflecting my age (and their’s!) The Hollies, quite a few years ago, just before Allen Clarke retired. His voice had obviously gone, which seemed to affect the rest of the band. I had been looking forward to seeing them live, as they were brilliant in their day. The Searchers - John McNally's version, with Frank Allen, 3 or 4 years ago.. OK, I heard a couple of months later that they had called it a day, but they should have done it long before they did. JMcN is not a lead guitarist. For me, it was quite sad to see them.

Looks like they’re priced as sculptures, as in 'art'.... The pricing/value of which I can never understand. Eg Hockney. Or is it a wind-up, and I’ve fallen for it?

Million Dollar Quartet musical at Aylesbury Waterside later this month. But ATG, who own/run the theatre say they will resched when possible.

87 years old today, I believe..

Apropos nothing, I had a tour round the Gunn and Moore (the bat sacrificed here was a G&M) factory in Nottingham when I were a lad in the 1960s. Fascinating how the wood blanks were ‘squeezed' into the required shape by a big roller press.

I’m assuming the self tapper will have cut a thread, so it would have to unscrew itself, but I take your point.

I had a different solution, I’d cut the G marginally too short - it reached the hole, and went part way round the capstan, but kept slipping under tension. So I held it in place in the hole with a small self-tapping screw, which held it enough to bring it up to tune. It’s on my 'only use at home’ bass (well of course they all are at the moment!!), but it’s been on and in tune for several months now. But all disclaimers apply......

That was my first bass, too, but in pearlised (?) white

Right colour, at least......

Wasn’t an image as such, but in the 1980s I fitted a large speaker in the rear parcel shelf of my Austin Allegro - and the bass boomed out, reflected from the rear window. I think that was the first time I really 'heard' bass......

Fairport convention?

I’ve thought about recording a bass line, and WhatsApp-ing it to the drummer, so he can record his playalong and pass it onto other band-ists to add their contribution, a bit like Chinese whispers... (Unfortunately we’ve had to suspend the band, not only for CV, because our lead guitarist has just started chemo, as has the drummer's wife)

Depends which room I’m in! Basses strategically spread around the house - my bargain G4M semi acoustic in the loft room with my lecky drum kit, EB3 in the corner behind an armchair in the lounge, etc, you get the picture.......

RAF Air Traffic Control Building Society staff then Branch Manager IFA for almost 30 years before RETIRING

Ditto. Mrs B bought me a lovely padded leather strap at Christmas, but the threaded part wasn’t long enough to allow the nut to fit, even when I used a thinner washer than that provided.

Like others have said, try for both. I was in my 50s before I bought a bass guitar, and now, in my 'music corner' I now also have an electronic drum kit, (drum kit was my first instrument, in the 1960s) strat-style guitar, and a budget 'home use' bass. A keyboard amp to play each through, and a set of headphones completes the set up. But then I am retired, so have the time. Now for a slight tangent... I was asked by our minister, "do you play guitar as well as bass, Malcolm?” Like an idiot, trying to be funny, I replied that I played guitar better than I played bass. "That can’t be very difficult, can it!" was what I walked straight into....😁

Layla?

Yesterday there was a teeny bit of a (self inflicted - ie I’d switched to the wrong pickup which was volume zero’d) problem in the first song, which meant no bass at all. Afterwards I asked around: the acoustic guitarist had noticed, but she’s a bass player anyway, the sound man noticed, as he should, but no-one else, not even Mrs B, noticed!! Brings you sown to earth a bit........

Not really a fan of the carbon fibre look, but what a great job you have made of this bass. All my basses are black gloss - I might just look into wrapping one of them......

OK, I only play at one church, but on a rota, so we have different lineups each service. We have evolved (Created??) a set of hand signals, both to move to verse/chorus/bridge, and to build/cut/end etc the song. TBH though, I think songs in church, while obviously covers, are meant, or at least ours are, for the congregation/audience to join in, rather than a performance, so the "should we nail it" question maybe isn’t as important. I do agree though, that the bassist does have the most freedom. Great, isn’t it! Malcolm