PaulWarning

I used to use them but could never find the bloody things at a dark pub gig on top of my dark amp, so I switched to .94mm luminous ones https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271293877634?hash=item3f2a600d82:g:tsUAAOxy-sRSVCjC

won't the intonation be all wrong? Ah, I see he's moved the neck back, for people with short arms, makes a change from fat fingers I suppose

I would have thought a drummer with out a kick pedal could be a good thing, bit like a keyboard player with no left arm, more space for the bass

a lot depends on the venue, a while ago at a gig every time I played a B note it boomed, last Saturday we played outdoors on a concrete floor, perfect acoustics

I started off playing a right handed Hondo flipped (I got it for £40), it was symmetrical, so looked ok, I took off the volume and tone controls because I kept catching them with my arm (after the photo was taken), I used it for quite a while I've still got it, it still sounds good and has nice neck, heavy though,, bit more trebly, than a precision, sounds a bit more like J J Burnel, surprisingly. Would I do the same now? probably not.

my No 1 hate, overly loud kick drum, just invades my bass space, unfortunately it seems the modern way, on too many recordings as well

I bought a cheap acoustic guitar from there last year, returned once because of a fault, the replacement had the action as high a Mount Everest, at that point I gave up and asked for my money back, no problems at all

yes that occurred to me, but Steve Jones played bass on almost all the tracks on NMTB (except Anarchy I believe), presumable with a pick, and Sid definitely used a pick, not that that's a recommendation for pick players😂

they're not Paul Gray, on the OGWT Annie Nightingale says there's a new bass play Alister Ward

it was the story put our by Maclaren that the Sex Pistols couldn't play, totally untrue of course, and it sort of stuck for all punk bands, in 1977 all the first wave of punk bands had been around for a while so had learnt to play, although it was fairly basic rock and roll it was well played at speed and some interesting bass lines as well, listen to some of the tracks on the Rezillos first album, it was a year or two later that punk emerged where they couldn't play very well, I know, I was one of them 😊

on the subject of Rics in punk, I can think of 3 players that changed from Rics to P basses, Michael Bradley of the Undertones, Bruce Foxton, and Glen Matlock, can't think of any that went the other way, though someone will not doubt think of one

The Shapes Wot's for Lunch Mum (not beans again), is great, the bass is really up in the mix and superb playing, I was almost tempted to get a Ric when I heard that, almost

TBH, there's a lot of truth in this, it's more about the look than the sound

with a few exceptions, a P bass with round wounds, a long strap and a pick, finger players doing punk just isn't right YMMV

mole grips, then new screws if required, well that's what I did when I had a similar situation

our drummer uses a Shure, a WH20xlr I think, it doesn't need extra power, plugs straight into the PA, although not quite as loud a signal as a normal mic, the gain on the PA does the job easily, no feedback issues

I got some luminous tape off ebay

I do find it difficult to believe there's a shortage of fuel delivery drivers, they are one of the highest paid truck drivers, and so recruitment shouldn't be a problem, like the loo roll shortage it's panic buying because of an unsubstantiated rumour driven by hysterical reporting, once everybody is driving around with full tanks of petrol it'll settle down

I remember in the last fuel crises (2000?) some taxi driver filled a wheelie bin with petrol kept it in his front room, the bin melted the fuel leaked out, they and the neighbours all had to move out of their houses

or maybe they sold out because he wasn't around to stop it, he refused to do Margarita Time on TOTP's because he hated it so much, they were never the same when he left

another self fulfilling prophecy, our media really needs to show more responsibility when reporting these scare stories

yes one of my bass playing heroes, it'll be covered in the notable deaths thread

they do, with things like active basses, but luddites like me just think Leo, more or less, got it right first time and I'm not on my own, I had a Stingray once but soon went back to a Precision.

the problem Fender and other manufacturers have is that their product will lasts forever (unless seriously mistreated)and has technically reached it's peak unlike say, a car, they're trying to sell to a market that doesn't really need or want a new one, so they keep bringing out new models, what else can they do?

yes doesn't he? till he blow up his Marshall valve amp and bought a tranny one, he packed up playing abut 6 years ago, when he got it right he was good, trouble is towards the end he made a lot of alcohol and lack of practice induced mistakes, shame