Paul S

If you decide to move it on at some point I'd be interested. Save you all the bother of pictures and listings and wot not. I know, what a guy 😎

I had a Squier 32" scale P bass, MIJ, absolutely fantastic bass. Should never, ever, have sold it. I wonder where it is now? Here alongside a 32" scale Aria Pro II CSB 'Black n Gold' in museum piece condition which I probably shouldn't have sold. I bought another, sold that, too. On the strength of the white one I imported a black 32" Squier P from Japan. It was nice, but not as nice as the white one. I did get a Fender one, too - a 32" scale Jazz Bass Special. Again, imported it from Japan. Don't recall why I sold this one.

For the band as a whole we currently do about half of one of the songs we are working on, a Lonnie Mack tune called Cincinnati Jail. One day Alan will learn the third verse and we can stick it in the set but that requires a rehearsal and drummer Joe doesn't have time at the moment, him being a farmer and all. On occasions when I have to do a solo line check I launch into my 'disco bassline medley' but rarely get past the run down at the start of Disco Inferno before soundman shouts 'That's fine'. That's usually after listening to 5 mins of 'dub dub dub dub' for the kick drum, followed by 5 mins of 'bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap' for the snare. Then the rest of the kit.

Beats the hell out of M&Ms and complementary water.

I asked about the weight yesterday - it is 10lbs. Bit of a chunk.

I love these threads. Music is such a broad church with such diverse genres that we can all find very different things uplifting. I'd probably choose something fairly mainstream like 'Long Train Running' by The Doobie Brothers that most folk could identify with. Then someone will post a song called something like 'Rancid Cadaver' by a band with a name like Mutant Zombie Slime with hoarse shouty vocals and superspeed, detuned and distorted riffing.

And....?

I had this from Bass Direct a few years ago - I bought a Hipshot Supertone bridge and it arrived as a kind of DIY assembly kit loose in a plastic bag. Without all the bits. One of the saddles was completely detatched.

I played a decent one with the Bon Jovi tribute band I used to be in. It was called Bunn Leisure at Selsey on the south coast - called something else now. That was a great gig, great facilities although food options were limited. Fish and chips or sausage and chips as I recall. They put on some good shows and had a massive revolving stage that had a curtain across the middle, so we could physically set up while the act before was on, then it was all spun around. A couple of chalets were put at our disposal to stay afterwards but I drove home.

Yes please! PM incoming.

My blues rock trio Toredown's regular 4th Friday of the month gig at the Shamrock in Ipswich. Traffic on A12 on the way there was light, which makes a change. Unloaded then had to park a fair distance from the pub. Only a couple of our regulars turned out and the pub was generally quiet. Kicked off to a handful of largely distinterested punters with maybe only a dozen or so paying attention. Things improved as the night progressed but we didn't get the usual kind of joy coming back at us which, in turn, meant the evening lacked the usual spark from our direction. We played well but it seemed to me something was missing. My back and knees are playing up and I felt rather uncomfortable all evening, especially in the heat, so I was generally out of sorts. A12 shut homebound, followed 4 articulated lorries along the diversion of small roads for 10 miles, got home about 30 mins later than usual at 01:45. Maybe I am spoilt as I usually leave gigs feeling fairly euphoric but last night not so much. Looking forward to our next one is in 3 weeks - a beer, beetroot (?) and blues festival - slightly nearer and slightly earlier.

Excellent. Great video, great song especially - kind of country meets Fleetwood Mac vibe. Love the little touches on guitar all the way through but everything was just fab. Right up my street.

Drive. Rehearsal space is 30 miles away, gigs usually 50-60 miles away.

Looks like one of the Cardinal Series, CSB300 or similar, but they were passive. Maybe someone has modded it.

I have this fella, an early/mid 70s Antoria precision. Really good bass, great quality. Fijigen, I believe. Not masses different to my JV Squier, pictured to the left, which continues to be my benchmark bass. If anything I find the neck a bit more comfy, in fact, as it is a tad slimmer and deeper. Sounds immense, very aggressive 70s P bass tone. Had a look at the serial number on the pickups to try to pin down the date and discoverted that it was, in fact, a 1975 Fender pickup that someone had put in there at some point. That'll explain the tone then! On its own it's worth more than I paid for the bass Someone had changed the pickguard to an all black - I've since swapped the screws for black ones. The original tuners were a bit grindy so I stuck in the drop in Gotohs.

Absolutely. Local to me so always gigging nearby. Saw them countless times, got all their material on CD

I bought Dave's MM Sterling shorty in the simplest of transactions. Bass arrived beautifully packed. Great comms throughout, lovely chap to deal with. Thanks Dave!

I keep posting about it but when they came out a few years ago I bought a Harley Benton PB Shorty. 30" scale length, weighs 3.1kg. Cost at the time was under £70. Straight out of the box it was great, nicely set up - I stuck my favoured TI Flats on it and immediately got a great woody vintage P bass tone - through my set up it sounded just like the P bass tone in Santana's 'Europa' which has always been something of a bench mark for me as a P bass tone. It would be a good bass at many price points, for under £70 it is nothing short of miraculous. I have since changed the pickup for a Tonerider (£35) for a bit more of an edge, but that is a choice on my part. I keep looking at other short scale Fender-flavoured basses, especially the Mustangs, but always back out because this one has it covered.

Self taught, started with guitar in my teens/early 20s. Stopped anything musical for 25 years then took up bass in my late 40s. My rather agricultural playing style grew exponentially in the first few days and quickly peaked - a level that, 20 years on, I have consistently failed to meet ever since I've promised myself I would one day learn some theory but that remains one of those aspirational things like sorting out the loft and keeping the car clean. Still, I get by and have fun

Still there as far as I can see.

Just weighed it - 3.1kg, which is 6.8 lbs.

Mine is around 7lbs I think. I'll check on Friday as I'm away from home at the moment. Certainly it is my lightest bass.