Bassfinger

Going back to the OP, our guitarist is a copper so there's no change for him. Our drummer is a news editor for BBC radio and no change for him. Our second guitarist and singer owns a shop selling car spares and the like, and on paper he suffered but in reality has made a fortune over the years and hasn't spunked it all away so he's kept life and soul together. Indeed, he's got the builders in at the moment tarting up his house and that must be costing him 25 or 30 gees, so I don't think hes fretting at the moment. Yeah, as a group were doing ok.

Thora Hird? Diane Abbott? Anne Widdecombe? I hear they have a great deal of disposable oncome.

More info. As I'd guessed, it is indeed active... https://www.guitarworld.com/news/harley-benton-unveils-all-black-version-of-thunderbird-like-tb-70-bass

If I've made as much as a thousand pounds from 40 years of on/off gigging I'd be surprised. I do it because I love gurning like a bellend while holding an instrument and doing the pogo, not because I thought it would put food on the table. Fortunately.

Crescent moon.

Fortunately, I never made more than 50 quid here or there from playing music, so that aspect doesn't fiqure for me. Fairly lucky (though luck doesn't ultimately come into it). My salaried job as European Legacy Equipment manager for a large petrochemical company is unaffected, although the private consultancy work stopped dead. Once my most recent project was completed and the cheque banked that was that, not a whiff of business. Mrs Bassfinger has a well paid job in a school and also gets her police pension. We've loads salted away ready for my pending retirement, so weve rejigged our plans to allow me to finish 2 years earlier than envisaged, and ive alreary handed in my notice. I was going to wind up my own business as I was the only regular employee, and I in turn hired in what i needed, but ive had an offer on that. They aren't getting a lot other than the name, goodwill, contacts and portfolio of existing work, but thats another 55k in my pocket so I won't knock it. Come February I'll become to be a house husband, although I may still prostitute myself offtimes as a contractor to the chap thats buying the firm. We're fortunate that our hard work and sacrifice has paid off, just in the nick of time, and we're pretty comfortable. My thoughts are with those who aren't doing so well. Oldest daughter owns a hair salon, was previously making a mint but is suffering at the moment. She'll weather the storm, but her staff are in dire straits. Instead of having paid staff its normal for salons to hire out a chair to a stylist so they're self employed and will be in real pain right now. Daughter #2 is a lazy donkey dole mole. Daughter #3 is a newly qualified accountant and tells me that business is booming, processing all the furlough claims and stuff. Shes been doing 12 and 14 hour days at home, 6 days a week, but she reckons she'll take 70k this year, which is isn't bad for a newly qualified accountant at 23. I was opposed to her not going to Uni, but if she had she'd have just left and be earning pittance, if she even had a job at all, so she proved me wrong. So bookeeping and accountancy is where its currently at if you want to buck the trend. Hang up the bass and buy a calculator.

I've heard those bridges make intonation a bit tricky, but have no experience of it myself.

To answer the question in the thread title...no. There are tone deaf people, completely deaf people, and people that have perfectly serviceable hearing but who simply don't get it. I guess the Bolivian folk were of that ilk. Alas, we don't get interesting stuff like that in the Geologists Association magazine.

I'm half tempted to buy one in burst.

I name my dogs after famous bassists. I've had a Geddy, and currently have a Lemmy, and my next dog will be Jet.

Perhaps the OP is a budding dentist?

Cliff Richard porked Jet's missus. He seemed quite a personable bloke when I met him. He appeared teeny tiny, although im 6'5". A tidy player too, bit of a pioneer of the precision bass in the UK.

I believe it is active. The TB-70VS is active, and this looks the same but with a black finish.

6mm I should have thought.

It looks absolutely spot on in that finish.

Is it active? How much? Why am I so excited?

I'd buy a PB50 tomorrow in surf green or olympic white. The burst is a bit underwhelming and the fester red is a bit in your face, but something in the funky middle ground would be sweet.

I've had a crack on the 4 string version and its a very decent instrument. That is to say, not just a decent instrument for £105, but simply a decent instrument, full-stop. The real deal is a wonderful tool, but it simply is not head and shoulders better spunding or playing than the HB. I don't know what laws Harley Benton are breaking to make these basses as they do, how much crack they deal, how much money they launder, how many guns they smuggle, I'm happy to turn a blind eye to it if it means they can carry on as they do. They make a mockery of the prices the big name manufacturers charge for their far eastern wares.

About 50% of my practice is clean through, about 40% with compression, and maybe once or twice a month I have a good jam with a recording of the band and give it the beans with chorus, overdrive and delay.

Loosely coiled as we were taught in t'Army, with a velcro strap to hold it in position. Years ago I had to go on a rope course for work, and was given all new Petzl ropes and rigging. The moment I got home I emptied out the very nice bag the kit came in and my cables go in there.

That's going the leave poor old Stew sexually frustrated for a while!

A bit different, but rather jolly good...

I simply can't dance, period! I gurn a bit, bob and weave with all the physicality ofmplaying, but dancing...nah. I'd be more likely to roll a smoke while playing than dance.

At the moment my home made ash bodied Femder Precision clone. The pickups are hand modified and the output is mahoosive and im still experimenting with that, but the feel and playability are first class, and that is my most played bass and, until some young upstart new bass comes along, my favourite.

As nice all round as the Sub but rather less pennies required... https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_mm_84a_sb_deluxe_series.htm Only people not happy are the brand snobs.