Bassfinger

At least its exactly how Brian May imagined it in his one vision.

Now you're talking.

A left field suggestion, one that caught the attention of ny bass orientated ear recently; Stormwatch, Jethro Tull.

The thread title is misleading - it led me to bepoeve this was a Weezer thread.

In all seriousness, which is difficult for me... A quick wipe of the whole thing, including strings and fretboard, with a dry microfibre cloth after every play. In over 4 decades of guitaring and latterly 5 of 6 of bass playing I have suffered zero grunge buikd up on frets and the like as a result. Every 6 months or so all (gloss) painted and plated parts get a going over with pure carnauba paste wax. Matte finish paint gets a spray and wipe with a liquid car sealant, who's name eludes me. I periodically do other stuff to fretboards, nuts, etc, but that steps over the threshold into maintanence and the brief for this thread is cleaning so I won't go there. But most importantly Inwash my hands before playing the damn things in the first place - that's the biggest contribution we can make to 'cleaning.

Indeed. One just ordered it in any colour from the UK Dallas Arbiter palette.

I'll have to ask my butler what he ises to clean mine.

If we're being really sarcastic, it should be pointed out that the government has not legally defined what best practice is instance...

He never so much ate meat as had it intravenously piped into his veins.

Make me Smile. A day or twomof practice to perfect that one.

I didn't realise that they'd even started to make music at any point.

Either way, Claptons lawyers still get paid by someone so they're happy.

Lifts around the nation will be forever devoid of muzak.

I have to tell people I'm allergic to nuts but only because I quite like being alive, not because I'm evangelical about nut rights or anything like that.

I don't suppose it's at all difficult to guess which one I am.

Did Fender ever state in the literature what the purpose of the composite layer was?

Tell me, is that Joey Tempest's real hair?

The irony is you'd have been a lot safer without a couple of redcap lancejacks drawing attention to you!

I hear that this bass comes with a special tuner that has Anita Dobson singing the Eastenders theme tune when you switch it on.

Not come across this yet, but our manager (AKA lead guitarist) claims to be set up and ready for it.

They can only be "the same" superficially. Even supposedly identical four strings can have quite a different tone and character to one another. Ditto fives.

I'm amazed. I didn't know they did creosote in that colour.

The Brian May signature toupee was never a big seller.

Someone had started a rumour that Gurkhas were cannibals - Argentine conscripts couldn't surrender quickly enough!

Derinitely don't pith off a Gurkha. We fronted a trio of them at Gib and were expecting fists to fly. We were bitterly disappointed when they just smiled and nodded and shuffled away. The next morning we awoke to find red felt tip pen marks across our throats. The adjutant went chuffing nuts and had some most uncomplimentary things to say about Gurkhas, but the rest of us were rather in awe to say the least.