Bassfinger

I've a P5 and love it. The mid range punch is brilliant, making it an excellent live tool.

I just don't like them. I also don't like McDonalds, Coca Cola, or Kit Kats either. Taste is a peculiar thing.

Can't say I'm an enormous flea fan, being unfortunate as I am to have to play some of his basslines live, but he is a man of the bass so I shall certainly listen in with interest.

Well, and least I got to swear at them before the banned me.

The transition P bass looks like they copied Squier.

2 x basses, main and backup (backup is easier than fitting strings in the dark on stage). Holdall containing pedal board, 2 x power supplies, extension lead (everything PAT tested), leads, mic, mic stand, in ear wireless monitor, picks, MU liability insurance certificate, SKOL bar towel, couple bottles of San Pellegrino, multi tool.

Thanks Lefty, that's much appreciated. I spent a lot of time looking at real old basses and guitars to see the pattern of genuine wear and damage. I'm going to build another to sell. A bit of a self financing hobby rather than a genuine side hustle. Just getting the bits slowly together.

Some of you will have seen this one I made recently... Currently assembling the parts to build number 2.

It is real, read an interview with him recently where he discussed this, although some people would merrily pay 5 large to keep him away.

I managed to learn it for free using good old practice and persistence. Silly me.

Planning mine live for the first time next week, and then again the week after. Losing My Religion and Maggie May respectively, so nothing too challenging, although the little widdly fills on LMR took a bit of practive with my big P bass ready hands . I'm quite looking forward to it.

How tall is Mrs DylanB, how old are the sprogs? If Mrs DB isn't super tall and the kids aren't 17 year old England Junior rugbyists, then get the passenger seat as far forward as you can and strap the bass in its gig bag vertically to the rear of the seat.

And it's so much kinder to your back!

I have a couple of basses I favour for live indoor work to avoided the sweaty hand grabbing problem with the neck, never noticed any difference between strings personally. I have an old Skol bar towel, doubtless highly collectable now, that I keep for wiping my hands of even the neck occasionally between songs.

Sadly I don't even manage it in hindsight! 🤣

I know its hardware and not software, but I'm a huge fan of the olde Tascam GB10 which allows music to be slowed while maintaining original pitch. Its all simple button presses to operate, no in depth menus. I do about 2/3 of my learning from sheet music, but where it can't be easily sourced or is of questionable accuracy (which seems to be increasingly frequent) I use the GB10 and do it by ear. It's very handy, sometimes I'll play a track at half speed, wedge on the headphones, and listen while I'm doing chores like doing the washing up or vacuuming the house.

Way ahead of you. One Mr G Butler has supplied some pickups and cured the problem.

In my personal experience, with my skill level, with my particulary physiology, my £400 Sire is the most playable, nicest-feeling-in-the-hands bass I have ever played. Not the best sounding, although it sounds fantastic out the box. Playability is as much about design as it is about any other factor. The best luthier in the world using the most exotic woods, glued together with mermaids tears, using a sub optimum design will not make as playable an instrument as a decent quality mass produced item that does have the optimum design features and touches that the luthier left off. It's as much about what they put into it as how they put it in.

Sire Marcus Miller V5. Fantastic feel and tone, lovely quality, bang on budget, 8.8lbs according the the review I was reading recently. Certainly my P5 is none too weighty.

I'm not really into showing off to announce my awesomeness as a bassist. On the odd occasion where I have felt the need to let them know that the bassist is in charge I slap on the overdrive and thump out the little 2 bar break in the middle of the bass solo from Damage Case. Takes about 3 seconds to play but always grabs them by the balls, even the women.

I once dated a large Americano.

Rubbish! Where's your evidence? Please provide links to 19 different peer reviewed sources. Never heard such rot in my life. I'm reporting you to the mods!

A glaring irony here, probably too big for most folk to see round it...

Or, depending on your perspective, you've just proven the case in favour of the Beatles. And that's the nice thin about music being a broad church - we're all right!

A tale which will make you smile. My FiL is 76, a lovely old feller. As a young lad in the 60's he was a Beatles fan and begged his Dad for a pair of Chelsea boots like the Beatles wore. His Dad, through ignorance of mischief, gave him a set of heavy workman's boots instead. Not exactly the same thing. Anyway, being a Beatles man myself he regaled me with this tale so for his last birthday we smashed out a few hundred quid and bought him a really nice pair of Chelsea boots. He was chuffed to bits and appears not to have taken them off yet, probably even wears them to bed.