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That's a lovely theatre - which is it, please?

Who would rather have to watch enjoying themselves, Dave Ellefson or his youthful penpal?

Are the Associates worth investigating? All I know about them is that Michael Dempsey joined them after The Cure's first album.

I once tried to shop with Bax and eventually PayPal had to retrieve my money for me. Never again, I thought. However I've just been shopping for 3 packs of GHS 45-105 Bass Boomers and had the following options, inc. delivery Music Room £105 Strings Direct £90 Bass Direct £68 Bax £47 Everything in ordering from the Bax site gave the impression that I'm buying from the UK: VAT was included, delivery was next business day (which, since I ordered on Thursday evening, will be Monday) The delivery will be Hermes, so rather than having to interact with them, I'll be collecting it from a nearby Londis (so no chance of their being able to claim it's been delivered if it hasn't)

I recently noticed that when I'm playing from normal written music, I'm not actually reading the notes, but am reading the intervals between them. Eg A to C, minor third, up a string and back 2 frets. (Which means if I start off two frets out, it can take me a while to realise... 😳 )

I think the lesson here is that you are only permitted a sense of humour once you've sold out Madison Sq Gdns. Please submit a CV to Ped before attempting any more jokes. Thnx.

don't think there is such a thing as shyte music

So sticking on this thread for the latest installment, an email from the long-suffering dealer: "....USPS has initiated an official inquiry with your postal service. They say it can take up to 32 working days to get a reply..... Here’s hoping shakes the package loose ...." Which is basically my hope: someone has parked the unhelpfully large parcel in a corner, hasn't yet got around to remembering about it, and would benefit from a gentle ahem in their ear.

You might like the short song Secret Oktober, the B-side to Union of the Snake.

New Wave Not New Wave ....pretty similar to me. And nice basslines in both

Prioritising doing the job well without wasting other people's time doesnt seem to me a reason for

Some earlyish Beatles track one of them sings boyfriend and the others sing girlfriend. Or vice versa.

I presumed that it was to give players who like to rest their thumb on the pickups a wide range of places they could do that, to give them more tonal variety, so I'm nicely confused now, too 🙃 As my relatively-oversized thumb likes to rest flat on the body, relaxing alongside the E string, there's no danger of my ever wanting one, so my ignorance isn't a problem. But, still, curiosity is curiosity......

I never got the whole being anxious about technique thing. The bass got invented by a non-musician trying to be helpful, and bassists found that it wanted to be played differently. Some people found one way worked for them, some people found another way worked for them, and another group decided that their way was the "correct" way, and managed to persuade huge swathes of bassists to believe them, possibly because it looks so fastidious and artificial. If a classical singer has an incorrect technique, you can literally hear it interfering with their tone. If someone is playing a bass with a ramp, what's the negative impact on the tone? If you've anxiety in need of something to do, take up the piano and worry about over-using the sustain pedal, the greatest crutch there is 😁

Avoiding frets 1 to 3 😬

I've decided that once the set of Rotosound Swing Bass on my 424 needs changing I'll be going back to GHS Boomers. The Swing Bass are great strings, with bags of tonal variety .... much of which doesnt suit the simple character of this bass at all. It seems to want a nice rich middle of the road tone. Anything trebly or bassy just seems to drop away alarmingly, and playing is one long struggle to keep a nice even line so that doesnt happen. No fun. (Bridge pickup with tone on 0% sounds sexy though)

Tell that to my little finger as it fails to reach over to the E string at the 14th fret 😣

I'm listening to a compilation I made of downloads from the Garage Hangover website at least dozen years ago. This is the stand out tune, from '66

Photo needed:

"Moved to 5 string basses and unlikely to go back to 4."

That price makes it sound as if they would really rather not sell them, as they would just have to go to the bother of making more to refresh the stocks. Perhaps they want to offer a service to the needy, with as little risk as possible of causing themselves the hassle that comes with turnover.

That was well worth the read

Listening to this made me want to see how far I could get into Transvision Vamps rip off before I had to turn it off (the answer was 17 seconds)