Bassfinger

Midnight or 1am is not a good time to be eating with regard to digestive health, particularly if you'll be jitting the sack soonafter. SomI voted "nowt".

Buy whatever pickup you like, and if it has strong magnets then set it lower into the body away from the strings to mimic that low outpot 70s groove. Coil, pole pieces, magnets on the back. There genuinely isn't a lot to distinguish most of them beyond magnet strength and number of windings.

Not sure I want to give my personal information and bank details to yet another organisation. Still plenty of gigs out there without this type of malarkey.

Some of us set our straps up properly so don't suffer neck dive.

Any plans to chuck a few long scales into the pot?

51 P Bass. 57 P bass. That is all.

If only the plank would repair the bone damaged by demineralisation in my hip!

Thanks for all the suggestions. Ive emailed DV's re the Koenig-Meyer job to see whatnthe load capacity is. It certainly looks beefy.

Slap me down for one.

Ive only ever felt the need the change one set, the rather poor OE jobs on my HB MB4. They had so much slop I found tuning a chore as it was difficult to gauge when they were biting. Being a cheap - but still very decent sounding- bass I didn't want to spend a lot so slapped on some Wilkinsons. Not quite as nice "feeling" in operation than the likes of Gotoh or Schaller, but light years ahead of the originals, nicely finish, and no slop. Beyond that, guitar, bass or mandolin, I've never experienced tuners so poor that there was a genuine benefit to be had from replacing them. As for weight, I'm a big chap with broad shoulders so a nice wide platform for a strap to hang from and I tend to wear the bass fairly high up Phil Lynott style, so never suffer neck dive.

No, I don't mean poops, I mean the things you sit on. Last Saturdays gig finally drive it home that waiting for a new hip and being stood up for 3 and a half hours are largely incompatible. It hurt a lot, and I had to drug up with prescription goofballs just to get to sleep. So I need a stool, the type guitarists sometimes use. I'm 6'5" tall so I need the full height 70cm+ sort, which is no problem. The real issue is that most have either a 220lb weight limit, or don't quote a weight limit at all. The problem there is that im over 270lbs. 10 or even 20 over wouldn't worry me, but 50+ over is probably pushing my luck to a dangerous degree. So, do any of you fine fellows or fellowesses know of such a stool that is able to manage the huskier gent? Or do you know of any alternative folding type stools that might be suitable? I don't plan to spend the while gig sat down like Val Doonican, but the chance to occasionally lean on it a bit to take the weight off my worn out parts here and there would be most welcome. Many thanks, Dirk.

Black Lace?

Musically last night went well. Good set up, good sound mix, no major clangers with anyones playing. Sadly turnout was diasppointing. We'd plugged it to death on our FB page and sure enough some of our hardcore fans turned up, but the venue themselves had done nob all to promote it. Don't get me wrong, it was still a decent turnout, but were used to venues being absolutely packed. Still, we got paid just the same.

When the band learn a new song, make it very clear which version of it you're learning. Nothing worse than you learning the radio-edit single version, and your drummist learning the DJ Bongo acid house drug induced trance edit.

Because there are deep chested, broad shouldered players, over whose rippling muscled form the strap fits in perfect geometry so they never suffer neck dive? Aside from the rippling muscled bit, that's me.

I have a confession to make. A secret so extreme, so perverted, so "unusual" that you may be shocked, even horrified. I don't believe in "tone wood".

It's like the Hard Rock cafe. Last time I was in one, many moons ago, they were playing Wham! Made me feel ill and the food taste a bit sour.

Pure filth! Utter smut!!!

Yamaha sessioncake is cheap. Plug in your phone, tablet or MP3 player and headphones and you can play along. But if you can afford it a Tascam GB-10 is worth the dollar.

You must be absolutely exhausted!

...it. But that misses the obvious point - how a word is pronounced in its home country in its own language is not necessarily how it is pronounced in English, particularly in this imstance as English does not have an equivalent to the caron over the S in Skoda. That does not make those that do so automatically incorrect. It just illustrates that due to linguistic differences not every word either trnaslates exactly or would normally be pronounced exactly. Therefore, Skoda with no SH sound is actually equally correct when spoken by an English speaker.

I have a bass confession, something shameful. Something so perverted and warped that if the media were to find out then I would be headline news across the world. Here it is... I do not believe that MIA fenders are automatically better 'quality' or better sounding than top flight examples of the same bass from some of Fender's other factories. There, I've said it. I am working hard at this, going to all the counselling and taking the medication, so I hope you'll not judge me and will find it in your hearts to be supportive at this difficult time.

Alas, none like that round here, although a kindly haddock showed me how to set intonation.

Harley Benton is pronounced "awesome!"

I thought they were smoke markers so the Rand Corporation could visually track aircraft on behalf of David Icke's lizard people?