Richard R

Dave Pegg plays mid level Ibanez and loves them.

This has been done several years ago (SE Bash I think). It needs a very, very, consistent player and an agreement on tone settings. (There can be more variation from the tone controls of one instrument than between instruments. ) But yes, it's fun to hear just how good a £125 HB can be, and how really good a £3k ACG is 😁. Most interesting at the end of that video was when those listening then played the basses. They all liked the sound of the $50 bass then they heard it blindfold, but didn't like playing it at all. So for them the cheap bass wasn't worth it. But they weren't keen on the $5k one either.

FB now always seems to ask for a login if you're either on a VPN or a cloud hosted virtual PC. Presumably to "confirm you are a real person, enhance your online experience and harvest your kidneys. Sorry should have said data"

I think a complete excemption should be made for any instrument purchases for dependant children who are learning to play. Though I'm tempted to exclude descant recorders and half-size violins. Also @neepheid - do yoy fancy running the 2026 challenge? Give you something to do as a displacement activity from buying and selling basses? 😉

At the risk of adding to the "overthinking this" aspect. 😉 "Expensive" is intangible, and so hard to measure. I therefore recommend the following excellent book: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/how-to-measure-anything-book-douglas-w-hubbard-9780470539392?

My main bass (a Brawley 5 string) was £450 s/h. I can't justify anything more as the bass is much better than I am, or probably will ever be, and I only play at home or in church. However there is an Ovation Magnum 1 on Reverb at around £2,600 that I really would like to own, but don't need. So to me that's an expensive bass. Those who gig regularly will have different criteria, and it's been interesting reading the views here.

No tapping out rhythm on the arms...

I went to update your status and there's a note says that when you joined this competition on 15th Jan you had already gone out with a T2 fail before you joined, but were "hoping to be good from now on". I think that is exactly the spirit of this thread, well done for lasting this long. 👏

Just about up to date. Best played on shuffle - Enjoy!!

The '72 vintage wasn't available on Spotify so went with the '78.

Not heard Twisted Sister since school days! I picked "Silver Bells" from this album, as there were no other versions of that song on the playlist.

That comes up on a Spotify search, but greyed out so the track isn't available. It is on YT though, and it is both weird and strange. But unlike the R2D2 song you won't need therapy afterwardsn

Oh my ears!!!!!! Mercifully it's not on Spotify so doesn't make the playlist.