Bassfinger

Judging from the state of that (rather lovely) bass, I would suggest that the fluffy, cossetting case is a bit superfluous.

Some kind of one on one combat? See how prevails?

Perhaps send Parcel Farce a bill for 4 months rental of your instrument?

Were both strung with strings from the same batch, fitted at the same time, and played roughly the same amount since? Are they set up identically for nut height, string height, intonation? Just too many variables to start attributing these slight differences to types of wood. Two very nice bases, by the way.

A great song. It's a shame his conviction for domestic violence doesn't live up to the rose tinted ideals about which he sang.

They clearly advertise themselves as the nations #1 classic rock station, so the name cannot be regarded as the slightest bit deceptive. I've been listening most days while working from home, and today alone they've easily played stuff from the mid 60's, right through to the Brothers Osbourne's new release, so your description is completely disingenuous. And they do actually play quite a lot of new talent, more modern rock, country rock, metal, yacht rock, AORblues etc...but you need to listen to the programmes in which they are played, not the regular day time programming, which is largely fairly vanilla classic rock, as per their S.O.P. I suspect they spend their time while the music is playing wondering what sort of classic rock rock the nations humber 1 classic rock station should be playing. When Bauer media were in the sheet and offloaded a number stations Planet Rock was the only profitable one, and a good one at that, so whatever they're doing while the computerised playlist is playing is clearly working. You might not like them, that's cool, but they do exactly what they claim and a fair bit more besides, which you have failed to reflect in your rather narrow and blinkered summary of their output.

Too close to call. The difference is so slight it could be down to something like the age of the strings. The ash has slightly less fret buzz.

I always presumed they masturbated a lot. PS, I'm not sure what you expect of a classic rock station if you're surprised to hear them playing classic rock.

Choose the one with the least obtrusive hunchback.

See, white cars look horrible - it highlights all the shut lines and the like and just looks wrong. But white basses just look fantastic.

Indeed, Rabin's sound and style is rather more limited than Howe, but what he does do, in my humble opinion, he does some much better and tighter than Howe ever did. But, as you say, it's a horses for courses thing. As good as I was once I expect Howe is still better! 🤣

I get paid in Euro's - strictly speaking I'm employed by my company's HQ in Italy - and the current weak pound is doing me just fine! Just a teensy drop more and I'll be drawing a 6 figure basic salary in Sterling for the first time ever.

I never rated Steve Howe. As a guitarist myself I admired his classical skills, but to my ear his rock guitar work sounds sloppy and his timekeeping poor. Rabin is a real talent and a great songwriter and producer in his own right, and Pomeroy is a worthy successor to Squire - different, but worthy.

Hold The Line. Not especially difficult to play, but it takes a bit of flair to play it well so it goes with the groove. Definitely my favourite to play. A close run second would be Damage Case by Motorhead. It's just great fun to thump through that one.

Pomeroy is brilliant. His recent appearance on Rick Wakeman's Red Planet was something else indeed.

I dont think theres any inherent law of man or physics stopping you. It can be done, seen them first hand, although may be the case that some types don't survive the bend where they turn 90 degrees at the bridge. The power of Google shows many folk successfully doing so and listing the strings they are using.

Or you could buy one of the various waist strap/harness systems that are available, and play whatever weight bass you fancy without handling your back.

The pickups arent listening to to resonance of the wood - they're listening to the vibration of the strings, and that is a function of the rigidity of the structure. The doubters still doubt because the guys who make these instruments have yet to actually prove it scientifically. Where are the before and after audio analyses or oscilloscope traces to back up what they are saying? I'm not saying that they're not right - they may well be...or not - but they're going to have to actually employ a wee bit of science to prove their claims. We've had 7 decades since the P bass appeared and no one has done this, which kind of makes me understand where the doubters are coming from. Tapping blanks of wood is laughably meaningless ins scientific terms. You want to silence the doubters? Then show them the teensiest shred of actual scientific evidence. A before and after audio spectrum analysis using a machine to pluck the strings identically in both cases. Until that's done people can tap all the blanks they want.

On the bass it would have been Sunshine of Your Love.

Vlad the Impaler stuck spikes up peoples bottoms for less than that.

I should thing flats would be ok, but might be worth trying it with a cheap ish set first.

I trust the yes brigade wont be bleating about working for free? Work for free so someone else can get paid ? How is it then the bands fault if pubs and clubs close?

It's your job to say "yes"?

You're very generous Ead. I've have told them to jog on.

Perhaps, but I'd make it very, very clear that's it's only once or twice - or however many we agree - and then that's it, no wonga no play, no matter how much you plead. I dont mind genuinely helping out under the current circumstances but don't want to set a precedent.