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The one you know, Crash by The Primitives The one you probably don't, Crash's elder twin, Vélomoteur by Les Calamités

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Everything got resolved in the end

I'm not finding much about it online, but apparently it ran from Apr 86 to Jul 02

I recall an unexpected number of reference to Alan Lancaster, too. The article that I remember most clearly was a guide to touring pre-1989 Poland. Rule no.1: never attempt to outdrink a Pole.

When people enthuse about their L-2000s - which they often do, and vigorously - they're not usually mentioning old school tones.

Making Music magazine! I loved that back in 86/87, endlessly rereading my pile of back issues. Ridiculously readable for a free magazine 😚

Just found the best BBP34 demo on YouTube, 35 very special seconds

It took me a while to get my head around the fact that I too prefer humbuckers on a guitar and single coils on a bass. Presumably the sonic information coming from two coils is creates something very slightly blurred, which my ears think improves thick crunchy guitars playing multiple notes but takes away the focus of a single line deep down in the bass register?

...and some guy on TB keeps banging on about his.... 😜

When browsing the Bass Bros site just now, I saw they've a mid 80s MIJ Yamaha BB-VIs, which they've mislabelled as a BB-IVs. (I don't know what the extra EX suffix means - "export", @AndyTravis?) I guess the "s" stood for short, but the scale length is something like 31½". And it's RED.

Pretty hacked off at having missed out on the opportunity to get to know the music of The Crucifixion Pyjamas. I bet Semi-Detached Kitten Asylum were perfect for getting a bleary-eyed festival crowd going.

Thought to look up the line up. What was interesting about the Cure that day was that they had recently lost a band member and so performed as only a 4 piece - was good to hear the old stuff like A Forest with a bit more of the traditional sparse texture rather than the late 80s wash. What also stuck in my mind was Robert Smith played Fire In Cairo just him and a 12 string acoustic, I was delighted when I found it on YouTube: Quite impressed how well the festival crowd knew the words to an ancient album track

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Why is this bass line at a different pitch to the faint track in the background?

GAK's 80s MIJ BB-VI has had another £100 knocked off its price, now £499: sober-looking BB-VI If only it were like this one: black, with a reverse P

German mini-LP: very promising Creation album: fantastic, still First Fontana album: bobbins

*sigh* more internet lies. There is NO evidence that he EVER had the tea cakes, and is on record as saying, every time I went there, it was either the curd tarts or a fat rascal.

The gentle modesty of this colour caught my eye. (Not sure how logical that is, but never mind)

I don't get any fret buzz, despite that low action - but then I've fairly high tension strings and play with a very light touch. My tech was sceptical of how much he could lower the action until I demonstrated how I play. Ah, right, yeah, no problem

Presumably a fair bit more expensive than the Squiers I've been mentioning, and so not for this purchase, is this current MIJ Traditional 70s Precision - 40mm nut but U-shape. I wonder what the thickness specs are. (The MIJ Traditional 50s and 60s also have U necks, btw, with 43mm and 42mm nuts respectively.)

There were some things about the state of the bass that made me think the previous owner knew what they were doing - an interesting balance of pickup heights, a choice of strings that made the most of the resulting sound - but the intonation was quite flat so maybe not. Perhaps the bassist was used to a 7¼" radius, and the higher A and D on this 10" radius fretboard was for familiarity's sake, to get a sense of that greater curve? At any rate, this bass didn't get played much in its first 9 years on this planet. That's being corrected now

There's something about this fact which is unusually satisfying, no idea why

When trying to be nimble on the E string, it would be nice if it were as low as the G string .... but on the other hand, it is good to be able to give the lowest notes a hearty thwonk safe in the knowledge that the stringp won't clatter into the frets.