Beedster

Fixed 🙂👍

What I love about Rush, or one of the things I love about Rush, is that unlike most supergroups, there's not a single track that doesn't sound like Rush. I guess some would see that as a limitation but it's a rarer band in which all parts (vox, gtr, bass, and drums) have a consistent signature. U2 are potentially in the same space in terms of signature, but IMO in nothing like the same league creatively. I will never forget the first time I heard Spirit of Radio, sublime moment, that track grooves, rocks, and transcends all at the same time. 38 seconds in, when the drums and bass lock in, just f***ing glorious. And as if by the magic at your fingers......

Had a funny sense of Rickenbacker when I read the thread title

Crikey, the bridge plate is bent AND pulling out the bass side screw, and it's likely to get worse. To prevent this sort of thing most bridges have three or more screws behind the saddles (your have two, Fender usually have five), so I'd suggest getting a Fender style BBOT and drilling the three - possibly five depending on how the two outside holes on the Fender bridge line up with the two screw holes in question - extra holes required 👍

PS the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, working at which was something of a goal for me as an 18-21 year old student of Electronic Music Technology in the early 80's, weren't in live music sound production but were focussed on sound effects and entire soundtracks for BBC shows, where would Dr Who have been without them EDIT: Just checked out the Wiki page on them and having been closed in later 90's some of their original members still do live music/audio performances using some of the original equipment 👍

I don't think the BBC were worried that their sound techs couldn't manage, they were more worried - correctly some/much the time - about that the acts themselves. But I suspect the economics of the show and the intended audience also lent themselves to non-live performances. IIRC they did do one or more live episodes that appeared to justify their earlier non-live position (I seem to remember T'Pau making a bit of a mess of things.....) It was always amusing watching bands like The Cure and Stranglers taking the piss by switching instruments/vocals, not playing in time or at all etc.

Are the whole band playing to pre-recorded tracks or just the bass? If the latter, accept that you’re not part of the band, if the former, ask yourself if you want to be part of the band/mime act in the first place

Deep down everyone loves Rush 👍

They’re called Mesa Engineering for a reason 👍

Apparently when I play DB I look like i'm dancing with a beautiful woman (comment from more than one audience member). However, when I actually dance with a beautiful woman I tend to look like I'm misusing a piece of agricultural machinery. Dancing is a complete mystery to me

It’s just a generation thing, nothing more 👍

That is not what you said though, you dismissed a whole category of instruments on the basis of spurious technological and audio grounds. Happy for more basses in the world, but the idea that if there’s more than a certain n= in the band you need a boutique 5er remains utter bollocks 👍

Don’t try and change it then 👍

I think Sire are perhaps where Fender were 60-70 years ago, producing instruments that do the job at a price that reflects that fact and nothing more. So much of the perceptual bollocks in bass guitar design/engineering/technology is being demonstrated as little more than placebo by these guys

Love it 👍

That's the truth, and my sense is that the 300 has moved even further way than the previous versions, despite the tech

That was a bit rude, apologies, but my sentiment re Fenders remains 👍

I think you're talking out of your backside frankly 👍

That explains why Precisions are so rarely seen/heard in live and recorded music. I guess it was the absence of definition, the excess of low notes (the latter not something a bass guitar should ever aspire to of course), and the overall woolyness that eventually killed them off. When you think about it, it's amazing that Fender still make them really. Rubbish instruments, really rubbish

....although those look a lot like frets to me?

Yep, bet this is a pretty decent alternative to some very expensive instruments, I'm almost tempted...... https://www.andertons.co.uk/sire-f10-fretless-6-string-natural-satin/

Sounds like you need some boutique all-tube amplification, that'll get the costs back up again 👍