Reggaebass

Hi Soz welcome 👍 you could post your question here, more Yamaha aficionados will probably see it 🙂

I remember Dood posted this a few years back, there’s a series of them covering different things

Two very different tunes for a Friday, the first I’ve never heard before, nice riddim and the second one some of you might know , a great song from Pat Kelly

Not really my normal listening but that’s really cool, nice groove ☝️

Maybe the bass is inside a sofa 😁

A good learning curve for me about how the bass went together was stripping a few to have the body re sprayed , I had to put them back together 🙂

I used to pay for all my basses to be set up and the main requirement I asked for was for the action to be as low as possible, very few came back lower than 2.5 - 3mm , and I ended up doing it myself ,so I now do all my own setup’s with the exception of fretwork or work on the nut, which I’ve never had to do

That’s what I said in 1982 when I bought my labella’s 😁

I think with the rm all they could do is brush the dust off the fan and check that no wires are loose, that’s all Dave did to my older ABM, and he said it didn’t even need doing 🙂

That’s impressive ☝️

Really 😲, a friend of mine plays that, I can’t get anywhere near it , I get lost after about 20 seconds 😁

I’m not a fast player and I’ve never really wanted to be, but a few years back I set about learning a few funk tunes , and I quickly realised that I couldn’t play them unless I learned to play faster, I worked on a few videos from talkingbass, about speed and stamina, and within a few weeks of a couple of hours each night I definitely improved, speed exercises are a good thing to add to your practice routine .

I’ve got Daddario half rounds on a Yamaha I bought, I was going to put my normal flats on but they sound really nice, they do the lows well and are considerably brighter than labella flats , also nice and smooth

I’ve been to see Dave many times, he’s a very helpful guy, that’s great service fretmeister, glad you got it sorted

I know these are referred to as rubbish and they probably are compared to today’s standards, but my one was in the loft for about 25 years with no case and one day I got it down and plugged it in and it worked, the jack was a bit crackly but other than that it was fine, and the truss rod still works, they are quite fun to play 😁

Any idea what bass Robbie is playing here, I’ve never seen him play this one

Cruising through Whitechapel listening to matumbi

I didn’t have time this morning to clear it, I’ll try and get an uncluttered pic later 😁, the vices and drawer are handy

A bit late and Excuse the mess I’ve been rearranging the workshop , but this is my bench

That’s really nice, I’ve been looking at those lately and there’s not many around with the maple and black blocks

I’ve seen them sell for around the £100 mark which is a bit more realistic, probably bought by someone for nostalgic reasons 🙂

Yeah just looked, your right, not my thing either

I’d agree with that

A bit of rockers from Derrick Lara , around 1980