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I hadn't really realised that SBMM prices had reached these kinds of levels too. The price of my made-to-order USA G&L SB-1 is suddenly looking like a bargain. (Ok not a bargain, but less of a ridiculous indulgence 😬 )

Thought it good to get this screengrabbed now

Striking juxtaposition of prices

Time for the Scheidt jokes 🙄

A photo of that model is the wallpaper on my phone's home screen.

I cant remember when or where I read this, so I might well be spouting utter balls, but I think if you don't bother to defend your trademarks etc from being used by one person then it's open season on them.

I got that from Wikipedia: "Bennett got the opportunity to hear the Paul McCartney song "Got to Get You into My Life", which was used on the Revolver album but was never released as a single. Bennett recorded it, with his own composition "Baby Each Day" appearing on the B-side. McCartney produced the session. The record reached No. 6 on the British charts, becoming Bennett's biggest ever hit." Discogs entry

I've had my BB424 a couple of weeks now and I'm still extremely pleased with it. I've carried on listening to as many youtube demos of the various models as I can bear, and feel that, for the sound I was wanting this was exactly the right model for me, not just against the 414 and 434, but even against the more expensive Series 2 models. So thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and gave me advice back in December. I'm very shy of dipping my toe into the debate about what a bass's neck contributes to the tone, but I'm sure I can sense the combination of the thick neck + the strings coming through the body contributing something to the ringing tone. So I'm glad I went 424 rather than 414 for that. I can see why Yahama changed the style of the pickups from 424 to 434, can understand why the market would prefer the new ones, but for what I want the character has been diluted. Played side by side with the skinny TRBX, the 424's neck is more challenging, but since I can (rightly or wrongly) sense what it's contributing to the glorious sound, that extra effort feels exciting, not difficult.

Interesting that it was produced by Paul McCartney, and recorded very very shortly after the Beatles version.

They should have taken a tip from YouTube players: if you want people to know you're playing fretless, play out of tune.

In the Bass Centres collection, this one caught my eye for having a 40mm nut, halfway between a J neck and the usual modern P neck Bass Collection Power Bass

Yamaha shop in London has them listed for £915, and are open to having a go at lowering prices. Iacopo there is very friendly and chatty and helpful. BB PH Yamaha London

The G&L p-bass, the LB-100, is £450, £50 less than that Bass Centre model https://www.andertons.co.uk/brands/gl-guitars/g-l-tribute-lb-100-bass-in-olympic-white-3-ply-black-pickguard-vintage-tint-gloss-neck-with-brazilian-cherry-fingerboard

The upside to using Hermes once in blue moon is that it reminds you not to

On the promo video for GHS Balanced Nickels they say that most G strings have just one cover, with 2 for the D and A, and 3 for the E. The Balanced Nickels have 2 wraps for all 4 strings. I wonder how they would do on any bass where the G string underwhelms

About £100 more

I've now added a BB424 to my TRBX604. The sound the BB makes is more my thing, but the size of its body and the thickness of its neck all make me very grateful for the TRBX being physically so much more manageable 😅 When my lightweight, thin-necked G&L SB-1 finally arrives (and heaven knows when that will be) I might move the TRBX on, but until then, there's no way I could do without it!

The 41x and 43x have painted headstocks, the 42x do not. Is this because they were wanting to show off the laminated necks?

Kill 'Em All

If you open this on YouTube and change the playback speed to 1.25x, you'll have it back to something like the original speed, but with the pitch and timbre still down at Tracy Chapman levels

All these very nice covers in that stick to the original style have made me appreciate just how good a singer Dolly Parton is: the singers have beautiful voices used musically, but they're not matching the inflections of their voice to the words as quite closely as she does. Without that, the careful balance between the cheerful music and the sad words goes.

Does that mean you can live without a link of a five year girl singing it on Ellen?

Beatles cover, though? (not that this was the first recording of it either)

While this thread has a clear winner, this Candi Staton version is an ever more clear second place. Please do listen, if you aren't heartily sick of the song by now.