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I saw that when I was 11 or 12 and I STILL remember being freaked out by Ron Mael! Not so much a segue as alternative lyrics 🙂

Saw my brother this weekend (guitarist). He used to use a JCM100 head, but currently he's using a 20W(!) Marshall valve amp through a vintage Marshall 4x12 cab. His sound is driving a small valve amp very hard. And yes it is bloody loud.

Far from my first song, but I bought this years ago: Total waste as I (a) I can't read the music in it and anything I did learn I had to work out one note at a time. (b) I thought it would actually be a tutorial on slap, actually it doesn't contain a word of advice on how to play in thw style and (c) a large proportion of the songs aren't slap anyway... I think it was a 'bandwagon jumping' exercise by the publisher and never intended as "an easy to follow insight into 'slap' bass playing". The useful thing was it got me to listen to (but not play like) Stanley Clarke and Weather report! <edit> Just looked up a review on Amazon " There are a couple of things I would like to point out though, which is firstly that it is not a book about slapping. Even most of the Mark King lines are his finger style tunes (Chinese Way, Dune Tune, Living it Up...). " Bit late to ask for my money back...

Well we've all made contact by email! Drummer and I both keen to do Going Back Home, hope one of the the guitarists can do a Wilko! 🙂

As someone who is NOT lighting fast I try to syncopate my rhythym to compensate. Why not try a shuffle as a way to spice it up a bit? Anything by Status Quo will do 😉 Or the Wanderer by Dion.

Hi, yes, I looked at your ad, thanks. The Jag seems to be designed to be exactly a 'tad' too long for hard guitar cases. I might take it along to a shop and try it in a TGI Extreme.

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http://www.nfws.org.uk/mange/treatment01.htm It seems taht this thread is a 'safe sapce' for those of us who think things went downhill when Peter Gabriel left and people started buying their records...

Obviously not, you are clearly Ernst Blofeld...

Cheeky! I bought a b-grade case from Norman's today. Their website had this (accurate) photo of the damage, and the price was about 45% off. I'm guessing that epiphone one cost a bit more than £69 full price? <edit> I've just peeled the sellotape off, mostly glued back in place OK, so I just dabbed the last bit (the round spot at the bottom) with a sharpie and it's virtually invisible.

Good suggestion, although the padding is only 11mm. Sadly " Availability This item is no longer available for purchase " Three on eBay from Japan cheapest is £95 'rare'! + £22.75 postage! Clearly a desirable gig bag.... The only Fender ones i can find are "Fender FBSS-610 Short Scale Bass Bag" which doesn't look anywhere near as nice and even thinner padding 😞 Well I can get a cheap one from Thomann as a worst case case (or worst case bag...)

I live about five minutes from Norman's and spotted a Stagg hard electric guitar case with a tear in the covering for £39 today 🙂 I got it for my Tele but secretly hoped the jaguar SS would fit - it's almost exactly 1/2" too small 😞 The Jaguar is about 42 3/8" or 1080mm long. Affordable short-scale cases seem to be thin on the ground, but I really need one for storage rather than regular transport. I do like the TGI Extreme padded cases (I have a flatback mandolin one), but the bass one is much too long. The TGI Extreme padded guitar case is only 1060mm internally but being soft my thought is it should work, but I wouldn't want it to be stretched tight as this will just compress the padding at the vulnerable top and bottom. Has anyone tried to fit a Jaguar SS in one of these cases? Or do you know of a quality alternative for a similar price (~£40- 45)

I always used to have a few pedals used sparingly - Ibanez chorus and a HM2 as I used to play the/a solo in Like a Hurricane (!!!!) and a GE-7B for quick changes of sound. Was never really compression did much except making up for my poor fretless technique! Guitar is different - use as many as possible, all dimed and switched on at the same time for maximum 'Space Ritual' effect 🙂

Hadn't spotted those - something to read! I was going on having looked for them in several music shops over the last few months and having seen very few.

~35 years bass, 40 guitar. Took along break, now discovering just how much playing bass was part of who I was 🙂 Big shout to my brothers for their support and encouragement.

I recall that back in the old days (80s/90s) every bass player had a compressor pedal. They seem to have gone right out of fashion? I can't remember what happened to mine (I may have swapped it as my head has a basic compressor built in). Am I imagining this?

First one has a growlier bottom end, so the Precision? I am very bad at this but trying is a way of elarning...

Try one of these, used wet. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/flash-eraser-extra-power-x2?langId=44&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwycfkBRAFEiwAnLX5IdkFYyjnUGOu3LKR_k3YJxYi8vJuQrcclmdD_N9RD7JddJYUgcFekhoCbkcQAvD_BwE&amp;storeId=10151&amp;krypto=6hV02morN2TEDdsu0X0MU6uMJeuUKw8NpY56JQUcXY0dpkieEKaYv%2BxE7oOSL8o31KQW%2Fk3GQLqo0ccDEjfXP0iIsl39BrqZAngu2nnTtC7yGMHBNMv2u%2FUxenDpz1fkcr1WQ%2BG1VLYzaLHg0tQ5qJjFLUwUzclQriPcZiBlmiJjgbb5XOxr%2BgqpnRXl5RMJ8RTXjI9AyIXe4XfLA06KXAmX7881j8bRoIkp5vUFQRdCXNO0fGSDAup2MwBF%2Bv9q0FPhK8tFLjRaBL4646hMTrkXpLZ5BaSEYDz5tX7ilC8%3D&amp;ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fflash-eraser-extra-power-x2 Or google magic sponge. Obviously 'try on an inconspicuous area first'...

LOL - PWN'D!

Really hard... I thought the Alembic sounded dull and flat. I liked the Status, the Ken Smith and the Aria But he played such different things on each bass... never went beyond about fret 7 on the Gibson, for example. (Convinced the e-string on my ancient Hohner B2 sounds far better than lot of those 'flappy' ones in the video... surely a DI'd e-string should have some harmonics!) Just a thought... the nature of your PC's speakers is going to have a hefty influence on any listening test like this... surprised how well my tiny ones coped with the low Bs

They one time I took a watch off to play I left it on the mixing desk 😞 It was my great-uncles solid gold Sekonda from a time when solid-gold Sekondas were a bit special ;-( Yeek tatty one without original strap on eBay for £270...

Sounds like someone who wants others to make up for their own shortcomings!

Oh woe. Seeing Springsteen look so young makes me feel so old!

Good job it wasn't in Braille. Would have been even more entertaining if the old lady had said "Du Hast?"