Bassassin

SnotGlo.

I hope whoever you borrowed it off didn't pay much for it, thinking it was a hand-made one-off. I think I paid about £40 for mine.

These look great in the flesh. £63??? Very gently kicking myself now.

The great Bill Hicks said this: That may or may not be factually correct, but if so, it may account for why statistically no-one on Planet Earth has ever heard or cared about a single note I've ever played, not to mention the hundreds of songs & pieces of music I've created! And that's because the smallest amount of tangible intoxication - whether from restricted substances or alcohol - utterly severs whatever connection exists between my brain & hands, and I literally cannot play. Muscle memory vanishes, the flow of learned song structure evaporates, my knowledge of the fretboard fades into the noise and it's all replaced by uncoordinated, stumbling, incoherent, atonal, unmusical nonsense. And giggling. Lots of giggling. Some may say that's just my perception, and my playing's actually better if I'm wasted (and they may have a point), but it has meant I've actively avoided mixing drugs/alcohol with music since my late teens/early 20s - and have been able to coldly (and sometimes furiously) observe other people, including former bandmates, spectacularly f*cking things up onstage, while plainly having the times of their lives, thinking everyone else was too, and that the garbage they were churning out was being channeled from some higher astral plane. Man. So I dunno if you're right, Bill.

Congratulations on the NBD (I love the subtle sparkle finish, and being MIJ it's a winner!), but you know me - I'm easily distracted... So, that cool black 'Made By The Bass Workshop' Precision... There's something oddly familiar about that. I'll take an entirely random guess that it's a through-neck build, and looks like it's had a somewhat comprehensive paintjob, including the fretboard - pretty sure I can see dot markers between some of the frets. So, what does the group think we'd find if we filled a bath with industrial-strength paint stripper, and lobbed it in? I've got a sneaking suspicion that when it was hauled out & hosed off, it might well look something like this: And they'd have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids! And leaving the headstock unpainted.

In a related vein, it's definitely worth having a listen to Storm Corrosion - a 2012 collaboration between SW and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth. And counterintuitively - it's very much not a metal recommendation!

Best SW solo (in my view, obvs) - The Overview, Hand. Cannot. Erase, The Raven That Refused To Sing. The title track of Raven is quite possibly the most bleakly miserable piece of music I've ever heard. Best Porky Tree - In Absentia, Deadwing, Fear Of A Blank Planet, The Incident. The caveat with this is that this is SW's metal phase - and while not full-on metal albums by any stretch, the excursions into the genre can sound jarring and to be quite honest, inauthentic. To me it's sort of apparent that's not really in their musical DNA.

I don't know nuffink about these but I did find this, which calls itself a 2001 Hamer Standard Explorer bass, which is pretty much the same instrument as the Ebay one. https://www.loudandclearmusic.com/shop/c/p/HAMER-STANDARD-EXPLORER-4-STRING-BASS-2001-x88149777.htm I'd guess this is a sort-of reissue of the 80s Blitz (which as I mentioned, I know nuffink about) but much closer to being an unashamed Explorer knockoff, and likely Korean or Indonesian, considering the vintage. There are some minor differences from the Epi Explorer (trc, screw positions, pickups, bridge etc) but it may well be they're both variations of the same thing, from the same factory. The description's a pack of lies - he's trying to fob it off as an original US-made bass when you can actually see there's a country of origin (not legible, but absolutely NOT USA) under the serial number! Googled 'Hamer Explorer bass' & there are loads. Heres one, 2010, Korean. https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Hamer-Standard-Explorer-Bass-2010-Black-Finish-87420#prettyPhoto I now know much more about these than I previously did...

Yes indeed - and just like her version despite all her denials, it is very real indeed - and it's not all Other People's Talent. Well, not always...

Yes - let's! Bass By The Bins! Which might either be a reflection on my modding skills or an entire new sub-topic. Either way I think I've now given the poor thing a complex...

This isn't the first thread we've had about Sqoeeeee basses - those Strandberg-esque headlesses provoked a bit of interest a couple of years back, if I recall. Did anyone take the plunge?

If you can't find it, you can always steal other people's. Works for me. ...oh shit, did I say that last bit out loud?

Me & my partner/bandmate are currently 3 songs into a concept album, LastDay, ideas for which have been kicking about for years. Obviously the plan is to generate a few more ideas, & knock them & the remaining years-old ones into another 6 or 7 songs, in a sort-of organised & flowing-into-each-other sequence, sometime before the heat-death of the universe and hopefully by this time next year. It feels like a vain hope but I'd like this to actually be properly mixed & finished, and released out into the world in some tangile form, rather than languishing on my hard drive with 'sod it, that'll do' mixes, and a couple of YouTube uploads with 25 views between them. Not sure how to achieve that, but that part still feels reassuringly distant. Prior to that, progress will be accelerated by good weather - as my co-conspirator has been absolutely snowed-under by work for the last year or so, generating lyrics has fallen to me, at least for 2 of the 3 new songs, and I find I often come back from long, aimless, moderate intensity bike rides with fully-formed, functional lyrics that we both actually like! Who knew? But not in the howling wind, biting cold & pissing rain... Otherwise I'd like to finally find the motivation to offload a bunch of guitars & basses that are gathering dust, finish an unspecified number of seemingly abandoned projects, and maybe, just maybe -get in the practice room with an old ex-bandmate who's back from living abroad for a number of years. Jazz Odyssey is inevitable, but finding out if we still get on as musicians could be fun!

I don't, but I should - I tend to photograph mine (individually) on backgrounds of brightly-coloured fluffy fabric, or more recently on a rainbow rug! Request thread title change to 'Basses In Strange Places' & let's make it a thing!