Nice way to spend the afternoon, I’ve been doing a fair bit of driving this week listening to some albums I haven’t heard for a while, one was Doing it Right by Desi Roots from around 1980, sly and Robbie on this one
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Personally I wouldn’t do anything like that, I’ve been using flats for many years and I like mine worn in ,so if i sell one of my basses I take the flats off and just wipe them down and put them back in the packet for the next bass