Bassfinger

Depends very much on your build and how high/low you wear it. The broader you are and the higher you wear it the less it is prone to dive. If you're a 5'4" punk player that wears it round you're knees you'd be more likely to have hassles than me with a 53" chest and accordingly wide shoulders wearing it moderately high up.

New strings on a bass?!

Writing 'fragile' is surely akin to painting a target on it.

Yesh.

And ask to see their PAT test certs for the gear.

I was once mistaken for Sean Connery and asked for an autograph. She was a bit tipsy, but I hammed up the accent and played along.

I like prog a lot, but being a true believer I'm too deep in naval contemplation to talk about it.

Sorry, living with an ex copper I kind of pick up the lingo as she sits there correcting every dibble drama on tv. Criminal Records Office, I was suggesting there's a good likelihood he has a record for sticky fingers. The staff turnover on these firms is far too high for them to do a DBS check on most of them.

"This microwave is not for the drying of wet pets" is also ridiculous, but ask yourself why they issue the warning with every one sold? It's not just a different country, it really is a different country.

I'd pay to see that! 🤣

Pound to a penny the driver is CRO...

I use the Behringer BDi, it's very good, although I run it dry with the overdrive completely off and leave kverdrive duties to a Boss pedal. I almost always go to the PA, on which we run one or two subs, and use the second output from the pedal to drive my monitor. I prefer to feed my monitor directly and get it sounding how I want to hear it, rather than drive it with an output from the mixer and get what our sound man thinks I should be hearing, and I get enough ambient sound from my homie's monitors to hear what they're up to. That's what works for me personally, although the next person along would doubtless have great bouts of head shaking and disagreement. To head off any questions I use an Orange Crush 50 as a monitor, I just think it sounds nicer to listen to for 2 or 3 hours than a proper monitor and is kinder to the ears. I have tried in-ear monitoring, but I'm a bit down in my right ear (my time in the army was the era when ear defenders were considered effeminate by the NCOs and anyone asking for them would be scorned a a bit of a [insert politically incorrect term] and sent packing) and never felt totally at ease with them.

The Warman pickup almost went straight in. I duplicated the original wiring rather than fitting a switch and going 3 way switchable. I had to file the cutout on the pickguqrd ever so slightly, but otherwise was very easy to install. It turned an amazing bass for the money into a brilliant sounding one at any price, although string choice will have an impact there.

We only do Facebook now, but we're at the point where word of mouth generates most of our bookings so let the website go as superfluous to requirements.

Never looked at my P5's innards, but it's quiet as regards hum and unwanted noise.

Oh don't start that old malarkey . Everyone knows they gauge of finger puppets has for more influence on sound than the tone puppets.

Mine is an awkward arm break that left me with nerve damage and 2 fingers that I can no longer feel. I was a guitarist and being unable to fingerpick any more was seriously upsetting, so on Mrs Bassfinger's insistence I switched to bass on the basis there is 33% less real estate for my remaining digits to cover. Sure enough I could play finger style much better on the bass but was prone to errors so for live playing always used to revert to a pick. However, years of bloody minded persietence and practice paid off and my brain has rewired itself sufficiently for me to be able to fingerpick normally again (I still use a pick for those songs that suit one) even with no feeling in 2 digits, and I'm back on the guitar as well. I can even pingerpick on a mandolin. No trick, just years and years of hammering at it, 90 minutes to 3 hours a day, every si gle day. I even bought a Hofner shorty so I could pradtice when wkrking abroad. The only other concession I make to the inury is that I tend to practice standing. Sitting down quickly becomes uncomfortable on my nacked elbow and shoulder and the pressure on the nerves starts to make my right thumb numb as well, although that is transitory and quickly rights itself when I get the arm moving. I've had 3 operations, and nearly died in the last one due to an unexpected reaction to the general, so unless my life depends on it I'll pass on any more surgery and put up with the symptoms.

Never travelled on Ryanair for much the same reason I won't buy life saving medicines from Poundland, but my Steinberger just fits into the overhead lockers on a Virgin 777.

We do Blinding Lights in a hard rock style. Indeed, being middle aged farts we do everything in a hard rock style.

Gary Glitter, used to be a huge fan. I've done a complete 180 on that!

Strangely enough we start almost every gig with that one. Its short, snappy, everyone knows it, and it warms both us and the audience up before we start delving in to the set list.

I shoved a dirty great mudbucker onto my '54 transition shape Precision, albeit in the original pup position closer to the bridge. It sounds rather marvellous. Another advantage of a mudbucker is that the top is wider than the coils beneath so it matters not if the hole you carve is a bit rough as the edges will be hidden.

This. I'm a dyed in the wool rocker and I have to playw what seems to me to be some right sheet, but the alternative is to not play at all so suck it up. Fortunately my suggestion of Rockin' All Ofer the World goes down a storm as an encore in the pubs and clubs and has softened the stance of the other chaps on some of my suggestions. That aside I'm fortunate that they're not a bad bunch and any suggestion that gets aired is thoroughly examined to be sure that its viable for all to play it and that no one is disadvantaged. That's perhaps a consequence of all but one of us being in our fifties and long since having outgrown any egos.

HB and Warman were made for one another, like Scott and the Antarctic or Richard Harris and cigarettes.

Be careful who you pick a fight with!