Bassfinger

You are Elon Musk AICMFP!

I read music just fine. It's tab that I can't get my little dyslexic head around, and which makes me glow like a Chernovyl estate agent.

Feel free, Sir. For techno type music feel free to replace "doorbell" with "car alarm", or drum and bass with "crockery salesman falling down a flight of stairs".

Entwistle pickups in JB form are very nice, and very inexpensive.

Indeed, it has the musical merit of a doorbell.

When you're dead.

The difference will be so slight it probably won't even be discernable by ear. It won't add sustain. Sustain is a function of the rigidity of the structure across which the strings are stretched. A mass damper will actually reduce sustain, although the difference between bridges there is so slight as to be pretty much untectable again. If the bridge you have your eye on brings you adjustability or stability benefits, or you like how it looks, then go for it. Otherwise, forget it.

Was recently after some DIY equipment. Shopping around it became apparent that B&Q are fearfully expensive - it was cheaper by some £££'s to buy the items from Wickes online and have them delivered than it was to buy them from B&Q over the counter. And they were actually in stock!

Was the guy in the shop being deliberately obtuse, or does he really think not having the item in their possession counts as "in stock"? Obtuse or crafty? Either way I would have my money back on the basis of misrepresentation.

Who is Poiil Eelsteorl?

When I discover that a parcel is being sent via Herpes I am filled with dread. Changing their name has done nothing to improve their service, and everyone has already twigged who Evri really are, so that seems like an expensive exercise in futility. Royal Mail are pretty good with small pacels, and my lady postie has nice legs and very obligingly jogs up the lane to my house. She takes care of my parcels, and she gets a bottle of wine every crimbo as a thank you.

Some kind of bizarre sex toy left over for the previous nights Chippendales show?

My £105 Harley Benton has a better finish than that.

And that's the thing, he is actually very talented.

This alvum arrived in 1975 and the British pulic bought half a million copies, so it wasn't all bad.

An unpleasant individual. Surprised Gibson would choose to associste with him so publicly.

You'd hope it would be good with so many of them on stage. It's like a human 8 track. As such the arrangement is far more impressive than the performance itself - someone went to a lot of trouble getting that right.

Its a bitsa with no provenance. If a Fender bitsa is what the buyer wants they could, with diligence, make their own for 7 or 800 sheets, possibly less.

An old boy who is a good friend of mine was a Green Howard in the 50's.

Could be, although im a bassist with 14 basses who only dabbles in guitar these days so has just the one Les Paul.

The CV Squiers that have passed through my hands have had far better, and visibly different, tuners to the likes of cooking level Ibanez, HB, etc. The statement about swampmash being lighter is so sweeping as to be quite untrue. There are literally dozens of varieties of ash, and ash of any type is itself one of the more variable woods in terms of density between individual trees. Indeed, swamp ash itself is denser than black ash and pretty much on a par with the typical varieties of white ash used in luthiery. It's only the european types that tend to run significantly denser, and these aren't used in instruments of far eastern origin.

The only one I thought was a bit of a garden gate was my friends JB-75, but boy did it make up for it with the sound. All mine have been light to middling.

Ash body. Of course there's ash and there's ash, so the weight could range from svelte to boat anchor... Not that bothers me, but some of our less muscular contributors get hung up on it so let us know how it feels in the hands (and the new bass).

I can't lokm at a doubleneck without giggling due to the images of Derek Smalls' 2 x 4 string doubleneck flashing through my mind. PS. Yes, I kmow, one neck was a shadow 8 string, but visually it was so funny.

Just to be awkward, I fit into multiple categories. I gig in a covers band, although about half the songs we do aren't straight covers but rocked up versions of pop songs. For example, we do a very hard rock version of "Beggin'". So we're a kind of covers-ish band, a re-work band if you like. The Far Corporation of covers bamds, but unlike them we're actually good. I also play a lot at home for pleasure, which goes way beyond mere practice with the hours I put in. And I record at home, both to satisfy my own creative urges and with the band. And just to be truly awkward we mainly play pubs and clubs for the craic and beer money, but we have three pretty meaty functions booked for this year as well.