Bassfinger

Like the god Thor furiously masurbating while bellowing with pent up sexual rage. And that's just the quiet stuff.

Whats wrong with his hair? Does he sleep with his head in a trouser press?

Agreed. Actually, in its own right it's pretty good but the original is so fantastic that even the best covers fall short.

The Association of British Insurers defines an "occupation" as... "A person's usual or principal work or business" If playing with your mates down at the Goat and Vasectomy meets thet definition then you need to tell your insurers. If it doesn't, you don't. I can't see why it is difficult.

What if you're not a musician and you have Mick Jagger in your car? Can I not give the poor old sod a lift home from the pub any more?

IIRC Bluntstone did a solo version of She's Not There in the eatly 70's, released under a daft pseudonym?

Tricky one. I have to say the Ox, because he was a fellow mason.

We discussed this one a few months ago when I mentioned on these hallowed pages that I had learned the bassline for a gig. It's a truly fantastic song, superbly executed. Great bass, superb keyboard, those breathy vocals from Colin Bluntstone. One of the greatest pop songs of all time IMHO.

There was a programme about prog on the other night, and I had the great fortune to catch some of it. Sadly, they were slightly lacking in the facts department. They proudly trotted out their knowledge of prog trivia by telling us that Yes were the longest surviving prog band. Never mind that Jethro Tull played their first gig under that name in February 1968, and numerpus gigs prior to that under different names♤, and those Johnny-come-latetelys at Yes wouldn't be arrissed to get put of bed until August. I was so upset I wrote an indignant letter of complaint to the Director General at the BBC before then becoming thoroughly confused when I remembered the programme had been on Sky Arts. ♤ In order not to risk being barred by venues who might not like their music Tull's promoter would change the bands name regularly.

MU membership gives personal PLI. Much safer, IMHO, avoids arguments about whether you were actually, technically, on band business at that exact moment in time with joint band insurance. MU also give 2 grand of equipment cover for free, which makes it even better value, My gear is PAT tested, but we have never been asked for evidence. As above, should any venue ever ask then we will be asking them for evidence of their electrical safety testing on the premises own electrics - show you ours if you show us yours sort of thing.

Ive heard everything from wee wee, to soaking it in petrol. I would suggest simply keeping it clean and moderating its use a little, while still playing a little to keep hardened up, and let nature take its course.

I too have a Geddy Lee. Mr Lee is, of course, a bass God but I'm not a huge Rush fan. I was just after a nice JB and it just so happened the MIM GL was the nicest player for a grand. As it happens last year I had opportunity to play and compare my MIM GL with an older MIJ GL - aside from the different bridges they were identical in appearance, indistinguishable in finish right down to the finest detail, and consequently sounded pretty much identical too (making slight allowance for different strings and set up).

Mrs Bassfinger runs our bands FB page as I refuse to sign up to Mark Suckerberk's service and hand over my data to him. Anyway, she checks every evening and it takes her perhaps 5 seconds, fingerprint unlock phone, tap FB icon, done, so it's not exactly onerous if you don't get a ping.

The answer to your question depends entirely on what your requirements are, and what characteristics are of value to you.

I use a PSU - who's make presently eludes me - which feeds into a proper noise supressed splitter, much like the PowerPlant but a different make. Each pedal then feeds individually into its own power supply socket. I did look at getting into one of these all-in-one pedal effects processors, but as I currently only run tuner, overdrive, drop box and DI/preamp it seems vast and expensive overkill.

You been stalking me?

Steonberger Spirit. The priginal 'berger arrived when I was an impressionable wee young pup, and I had to have one. Although the Spirit is rsther a diffrerent beast - but still great in its own right - it looms the part and I will admit to buying it on the basis of its looks alone.

It's lovely, but not exactly representative of the breed.

Thats rather pleasant. Were it a Limelight then it would indeed look more like its survived a natural disaster.

My lass is 10 and has a 3/4 size J&B jazz bass, and its the real deal. Reasonable finish, proper sound, perfectly playable, and relatively inexpensive.

Agree. I quite fancy a Limelight on the one hand, and word is generally positive about how they play. On the other, to someone who has been playing guitar, and latterly bass, for over 4 decades and who has relic'd up a couple by the simple expedient of using them for over 4 decades I find the Limelight relicing looks very artificial. More traumatised in a major natural disaster than a proper relic. Others, including Fender at a price, do the relic bit far, far more convincingly.

Yarp. Never fancied a jazz, they just neved tugged my rug. Then one day I read the review in Misic Radar of the MIM Geddy Lee, which they pronounced as the best bass for a grand bar none Brave talk indeed, so I tried a few and found that I couldn't disagree. Having been totally re-calibrated on the matter I had to put my money where my mouth was.

Fear not. I'm sure there will be another Glarry for sale eventually. Hang in there feller.

It ain't difficult, is it? Yet some places make it that way, and then wonder why they don't get repeat business.

Mrs Bassginger, ex detective extraordinaire, tells me that overseas crime enquiries tend only to be actioned for the most serious offences, rapes, murders, gun running, terrorism, that sort of thing. Even then the chances of cooperation is generally confined to EU countries and North America, and even within the EU the quality and willingness of assistance is variable. Anything East of Greece, forget it. For really important stuff embassy staff may go out on the ground and make enquiries directly, but that is unusual. Unless its in the tens or hundreds of millions you can forget any meaningful law enforcement cooperation from the likes of Malaysia.