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I recently had my BB set up by my local tech. The previous owner had the heights like this: E 2.25 .... A 2.50 .... D 2.60 .... G 2.00 What would have been the function of having the A and the D higher? The new set up is lower overall and gradually gets lower going up the strings: E 1.80 .... A 1.70 .... D 1.60 .... G 1.50 What is the purpose of the slight gradual change? Just giving thicker strings more room to vibrate? Or so that fingers aren't having to curl around so much....actually that makes no sense, does it? - the string still has to be pressed down to the frets.

Sorry for polluting the memory. Here, wash it away with this lovely finger-picked acoustic version. Music starts at 2'20"

Bagpiper + käsig Metal band + The Riddle, cutting through the mix indeed

40½mm and "thick C" .... very promising! I found an old ad which was for a Squier Dirnt - did that precede the Road Worn? Same neck specs. And yes it does, because it would be to take the Dimarzio model P pickup.

I like the absence of hats

About 13 or 14 years ago, I found myself working alongside Tim Bricheno, who was just doing of a bit of casual non-musical work to fill in the few weeks before he took up a permanent teaching position. I recognised the name and said, last time we were in the same room, I was miles back in the crowd and you were on the stage of Wembley Arena.... He was *awfully* good about it! 😂 I recently read an interview with Andreas Bruhn who said, "[Tim] is much too nice for this world."

Best gig - by miles - Grandaddy at Manchester Uni, about 2002, touring The Sophtware Slump, the most extraordinarily blissful atmosphere.

Finsbury Park (literally) 1993, the boring lowlight of a pretty boring day

While the edges of my 424's fretboard aren't rolled, they do have a pair of well judged bevels doing a useful impersonation. Will those have been done in the factory, or is that something that will have been done by the previous owner?

It seems the P-ish bass I bought has got lost in the post, and if so I'll soon be looking for something I can fit a Dimarzio Model P split pickup into. Something with a neck as similar as possible to that on my BB424. It has a seemingly unusual combination of a nut that is only 40mm (1.57") and deep 1st / 12th fret thicknesses of 22mm / 25mm (0.86" / 0.98") I expect all my options will be a millimetre or two wider, but I'd love to find something with a profile almost as deep. * The Squier CV 60s Precision has a 43mm (1.69") nut and a "slim C" profile, so that would be both too wide & too shallow * The Bass Centre's Power Bass has the 40mm nut, but is also shallow: 20mm / 22mm (0.79" / 0.87") * I think the Squier Matt Freeman neck has the standard 1⅝" / 41¼mm nut and I've heard that it's not as shallow as the current CVs, so that's a possibility * ditto the G&L Tribute LB-100 (Should you care, the deep profile is to keep the thumb on my left hand happy and relaxed: when a shallow neck requires it to press forward, the bending-back reminds it of an old injury and make it very weary. I won't be attempting any gymnastic lines on this bass, so the inevitable extra width won't be any bother)

When I was enjoying this, I had no idea who T Rex were I imagine, with some dismay, that there were some people who had never heard this song before 2001:

I always assumed this was written by The Undertones, until the Nuggets compilation corrected me. Well, half-corrected: thanks to Nuggets, I then spent a while thinking it was written by the Chocolate Watch Band

One of the great covers And that reminds: it was the Jesus and Mary Chain cover of Guitarman that led me to Elvis' version, and that led me to the original by .... oh, I've forgotten

I think short scale strings have a totally different size core relative to the overall width. The guy from GHS was explaining it on TB the other day, I'll see if I can find the post.

I first knew Knocking On Heavens Door in the Eric Clapton cover version. Then I knew it from (rather different) Sisters of Mercy cover. Eventually hearing the original was so underwhelming, I've still no memory of it

The PJ Harvey cover of Highway 61 Revisited on Rid Of Me still terrifies me after all of these years

Line 6 Amp and Cab sims plus Yamaha studio monitor: decent sound at any volume The Line 6 tho has the most frustrating user interface I've ever met, so it just sits on one setting the entire time. As does my bass, tbh.

I had a real sinking feeling once I finally realised The Fall's Mr Pharmacist was a cover

How often do people blending clean and distorted signals like to EQ them separately?

I've got Chromes on my TRBX604 which I think has the same preamp as the BB73xA. They sound great with the neck pickup on passive, but when on active, the slightly husky quality of the strings natural sound really fights against the focus that the EQ is trying to give. With more old fashioned flats I imagine the problem would be even worse. I got them to counteract the TRBX's lightweight sound. Buying a BB solved that problem a different way...

I think it does say 38 - the pen of the "3" seems to go on top of that horizontal line that seems to be the top of a "5"

I wish his rhythm was a little more crisp - in the very sparse section just after 2'00", for example, the articulation is a bit woolly. I guess it must be hard to feel the responsibility to be driving the rhythm when taking a tempo from something else?

Do amputees feel excluded when they hear And when the rain comes down Would you choose to walk or stay Would you choose to walk Would you choose to stay

J'avais l'habitude de visiter la France chaque année, mais je n'y suis plus allée depuis une décennie et ça me manque tellement.