Reggaebass

Nice job, 👍 I have one on one of my jazzes and love it 

Someone’s been eating jammy dodgers 😉

17 minutes ago, BrunoBass said:

The estate they lived on had a sizeable West Indian population, and everywhere we went we’d hear reggae and dub coming out of the houses and flats. Of course as an eight year old boy I didn’t know what dub reggae was, but I remember loving how it sounded. I had no clue what I was hearing, no idea what bass was but I remember how it seemed to travel through the air and through the ground. Years later I started listening to Culture, King Tubby, Burning Spear, and many more, all of which I still love, so I guess it must’ve all sunk in!

This sounds very similar to me as a kid , only I was on a council estate in east London, great story,  thanks for sharing BrunoBass 🙂

The first time I tried fender flats they felt a bit grippy (if that’s a word) out of the packet , but it wore off in a few days 🙂

eBay and screwfix also do various size aluminium tool boxes which you could add your own size foam to , I’ve got one with my router in they are quite robust 🙂https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F152951894863

Very nice 👍

I’d say Robbie Shakespeare was the biggest inspiration to me after seeing him play live in the early 80s , I was playing blues at the time but after hearing the rhythm and drive of heavy reggae I just knew it was for me , and I haven’t stopped playing reggae since 🙂

4 minutes ago, jazzyvee said:

since the thread is starting to re-awaken, here are my basses Series I & II europas. Quilted maple, burl maple and burl redwood. 

Just Beautiful 🙂

Just bought some strings from Pawel , excellent comms, and fast delivery, 1st class  basschatter 👍 Thanks Tony 

16 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Newbie question: What exactly do the fretwraps do? 

They help to mute the open strings and stop the overtones 🙂

Just stunning, GLWYS 🙂

Where’s the reggae 🤔

This is starting to sound like, Lock, Stock and two smoking fenders 😄

4 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Spot on!

His thumb technique looks like a carbon copy of Larry Graham's thumb -- but I kinda think he was even better than Larry!? 😮 🤐

The guy is so funky 👍

26 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

2 points for recognising the young bass player! 👍

Looks like Rustee allen 🙂

Good luck to him, he’s obviously got a talent 👍

I’ve seen chrome paint in car spares shops, but I don’t know how good it is, also they do chrome paint in modelling shops , which you could try on an offcut of metal to see if it’s any good 🙂

There’s a few exercises here that may help , it’s mainly the little finger he’s talking about but it covers all of them really 🙂

Very nice, l really like the body finish 👍

Hi pawelG are these the 42-100 🙂

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

Got a pic / link to where we can source for us? 

I got mine from, ibassline 🙂 https://www.amazon.co.uk/iBassline®-Bass-Mute-Dampener-x/dp/B00QVNUZK0

4 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

explain to people its a sweat band because i play so fast lol.

I may have to use that one Dave 😄

For me it has to be my fretwraps, I first bought one thinking they were a bit of a gimmick, but I now have one on every bass 🙂

Pm’d 

On 12/08/2019 at 11:09, SH73 said:

Nice bass

Thanks 👍 I play my jazzes and my Sandberg mostly these days but I do like the sound of the P  🙂