SteveXFR

People in the audience might not hear what you're playing but people in the next town will hear if you hit the wrong note. Keep it simple, a complex bass part played badly makes your band sound terrible but a simple bass part played well makes your band sound great. Timing is everything.

There are no greatest basslines. Its too subjective to decide the absolute best.

I see what you're saying but after listening to both, Turnover just beats Waiting Room. The main riff is so catchy and then there's that fast killer riff halfway through when it goes double time. Waiting Room only really has the one riff although it is excellent and its illegal to pick up a Stingray and not play it.

I think bassists are the worst people to pick the three best bass lines as it'll most likely be some virtuoso nonsense like Joe Dart or Jaco Pistorious or some million note a second slapper. Here's my possibly terrible pics. Peaches - The Stranglers Rotten Apple - Alice In Chains Turnover - Fugazi

You could but Id recommend sticking in a Dingwall triple humbucker. You'll have to modify the body a touch obviously but I could lend you a hammer and chisel

Seems like the sort of thing a guitarist would do

Don't discount the fan frets, I find they feel really natural to play. It took about half on hour before I learned to just ignore the fact it was fan fret and just play it and it felt fine. I had the Ibanez SRMS805 which is less extreme than the Dingwall. My experience of fan frets was a much brighter and more defined B string. If you don't want that, then don't get fan frets

I have a question about BB1100S controls. Have I got this right? Three on the bottom are active eq control. On the top, starting from the bridge end its three way pickup selector, active/passive switch, passive tone, volume knob. There's no pickup blend. Is that correct?

Local band, Nuns Of The Tundra at Bristol Academy tonight. They booked the gig to play the second stage but determined to sell enough tickets to be upgraded to the main stage and they've done it. This will be by far their biggest show so hopefully, they'll be on top form.

I might buy this and play it with a pick through a signal chain including a selection of disgusting distortion pedals, a cheap solid state amp and one of those plastic TC cabs.

I can't remember where we got ours but they're a great way to get people to the merch table. Tell the audience theres free badges and they'll be straight there and you'll sell twice as many t shirts or records.

Is it any good for metal?

Nazi Punks - Dead Kennedys

I have officially joined the club. Here's my new (to me) 1985 BB1100S. My first Yamaha, first vintage bass and my first Japanese made bass and its really very nice. This is the one @Burns-bass shared the link for.

Liquid Jesus - Crippling Alcoholism Double point surely?

50 million year trip - Kyuss

One of the things I like about BC more than social media is its the one place there's no political BS. Its become rather overwhelming everywhere else and im sure thats partly due to deliberate manipulation of algorithms. There's even the bit useful advice here.

Im taking a break from Facebook, possibly permanently. Its mostly either adverts for crap, AI fake videos & images and political propaganda. Mostly political propaganda now it seems. At least here, the only discrimination is against pick players, slappers and Scott Devine

Where will the serial number be on a BB1100S?

Going blind - Melvins

Edgecrusher- Fear Factory

Supermassive black hole - Muse

I come here for the first time to just see whether anyone is selling a BB and the first thing I see is this bargain.

Big Bottom - Spinal Tap

One inch man - Kyuss