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Hard to know what's discussion in this thread and what's perverse delight in distracting pedantry, but anyway.... ....thanks for the answer If you ever find yourself wanting to be shot of the DiMarzio P, I'm sure offering it to me would be worthwhile, at this rate I'm not going to stop bugging myself about them until I've bought myself one. Even if I don't have a bass to put it in....

Who can forget Malcolm Devon?

Surprisingly enough, Bax didn't then bother to give me the refund offered. Fortunately I had paid by PayPal and rather than waste my time emailling Bax I went straight to the PP resolution centre. PP closed the case in my favour within a couple of minutes. They must be used to Bax......

I know maple was original, but surely since the 60s the vast majority of Ps have been rosewood? If I had a choice what kind of neck to pair with a dimarzio, I would choose maple, to try to make the most of it

Have you opted for a maple neck to go with the dimarzio?

Just yesterday I was listening to this video of a Squier CV P with Di Marzio Model P added, and thinking how fantastic it sounded

I was well past my youth before I heard a note of the Ramones, who promptly became one of my absolute favourites. It wasnt until 2021 before I heard a note of Megadeth, and ditto, it seems. I'm wondering who might be next for that experience. Black Sabbath? Bruce Springsteen? Since joining TB and BC, I've learnt of several highly talented and artistic bassists, the kings of Basstopia. Each time I've headed to YouTube to investigate, I've never managed more than a couple of minutes of any of their music. I'm not going to mention their names, for fear of lynching 😬

I was just looking at the Thomann prices, and adding delivery and VAT and wondering about this and that and the other, and have decided that, once Bax have coughed up, Bass Direct should be next to get a turn with my money, what with their being a real shop.

Thought it was time to drop Bax a line. Their automated BS generator sent me this: "Thank you for your email. I have been asked to contact you as there has been an error with your shipment and with the Hermes Parcel shop address chosen. I am extremely sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. Please let us know if it will be convenient to send back out to your billing address instead or you would prefer to be refunded now." I think this sounds like the wisest move!

A long time ago I discovered that, despite having a relatively obscure surname, someone with exactly the same name as me was working in exactly the same niche. He was better and more established than me, so I figured he had got first dibs on it, and got myself a stage name. Before too long, no one I knew knew me by my real name, so I changed that by deed poll to my stage name. The sense of reinvention was definitely enjoyable, and sometimes I feel like doing it again, just for the sake of it.

I've just been watching multiple crummy videos of BB300 and BB-VI. I concluded that they make a loose, throaty tone relative to the more tightly focussed purr of, say, the 2024 on neck only. And then I looked at my words and remembered the adage about writing about music being like dancing about architecture. At any rate, the VI sounds like it would be an upgrade on whatever kind of P bass you could get for £600. But if I had a P shaped bass, all I would want to do with it would be give it a Di Marzio, and pretend it was an Ibanez Blazer. And that doesn't need £600.

The blue matches the Like buttons. What do Yamaha call that shade? Is this Racing Blue again?

💬 As well as the draw of the bands, there was the lure of the DJ, Claire Shearsby. The unprepossessing youth found himself “going out with the glamorous DJ and we lived together for years.” Shearsby and Taylor were sketched by The Mekons: "In the flat above the chemists Andy and Claire are dressing to kill But they don't come out till after dark In Charlie Cake Park." “He’d be down at every gig with Claire,” recalls Keenan. “When Claire was DJing and wanted to go to the bar or to toilet or whatever, Andy would take over for a bit and all he ever played was Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Gary Glitter.” “You could always tell when I’d taken over,” Eldritch confirms “because on came the Glitter.” 💬

It's only recently dawned on me that Gary Marx (founding guitarist of the Sisters of Mercy and born Mark Pearman) picked his stage name in pseudo-homage to Gary Glitter

If someone was selling a bass with a decal in ye traditional scripts saying "Bitsa Partsmaster, cobbled together in the UK" that would be a definite plus for me.

At what age did you think it was time your son stopped wearing a Superman outfit to parties?

I'm glad I wasn't in a hurry and believing their claims that they would be dispatching them on Friday..... 😂 What a shower of a company.

Out of tune singing is caused by technical errors coming between the intention and the delivery: the voice is being told correctly what pitch to sing at, but thanks to problems in producing the sound, a slightly different pitch comes out. If a singer is persistently out of tune, there's probably an ingrained vocal fault which wont be going anywhere soon, let alone in performance.

I also found that @hypercarrots had one, and also mentions its similarity to a 300. Theres also a couple of mentions of the VIs, shorter than 34" scale. And that appears to be the sum total of info on BC about them. Five years ago someone was selling one on TB, saying "These were originally made for the Japanese market. They're super rare outside of Japan. Actually got mine direct from Japan."

The majority of the photos on a google search for the VI have the split reversed. And look rather more tatty than that one. Searching BC found someone calling it "Like an earlier/posher BB300"

Sometimes it feels like YouTube exists primarily as a vehicle for ridiculing Lars Ulrich, so this probably needs taking with a pinch of salt, but people out there want you to know that some of the complexities in the drumming on ...And Justice For All are thanks to Lars getting lost, and the cockups felt to be worth keeping, or at least not worth trying to correct.

I was similar when I was a teenager in my attitude to Telecasters: I was almost angry at how weak they sounded. Now I find them enchanting.

Since my G&L has gone seriously AWOL on its journey from the US, I'm letting myself daydream about what I would fritter the money on if it never reappeared. So ... a white 1024, obviously ... and then a MIJ 300 in nice nick as well ... 43mm nut, no bridge pickup, reverse split pickup, metallic red - four solid differences to justify having both, yes? Mmm, yes. A more sensible daydream would be a used BBP34, but what's the point of daydreaming if you're just going to be sensible?

A fortnight later, and the new string brightness has slipped away from the set of Swing Bass. However it's still offering a wide range of sounds - everything from a lithe shimmer to a plump warmth - and also the strings are still very responsive to variations in touch.... ....which is my way of saying that I'm still having real trouble getting a nice smooth line with consistent tone and volume when playing gently with fingers. Great strings but perhaps for the time being I should only put them on a bass with an easier neck. At the moment there are a bit too helpful at pointing out the infelicities in my playing 🤕

My Yamaha has a split pickup. Neither the numbers on the page nor the look of the shape nor the sound in my ears makes me think I'm playing a P bass, so you might be in the clear on that count?