Beedster

Re fretless playing, it's all horses for courses of course, but for me, I play fretless and fretted very similarly as opposed to seeing each as needing a specific style/technique/genre - I often use fretless at rehearsal and gigs playing ostensible 'standard' bass parts, and always enjoy when someone says "I didn't realise you were playing fretless" (our keys player being a great example, I'd been playing fretless every week for three months before he noticed), which to my mind is far more of a compliment than producing lots of slides and double stops etc and having people say "I love the sound of fretless bass".

Ampeg is always a safe bet for definitive rock tones, the great thing about the V4B is that you can wind up the power tubes at decent stage volume in a small venue. Lovely amp

Not on a fretless no ……..

Smaller frets?

Great decision 👏

I say this with some trepidation (and yes I can hear all of the sniggering, calm down at the back please) I think this may be a keeper................ I put it together from parts left unsold after a recent bitsa sell-off. Late 70's Daion body, Warmoth full-fat Precision neck, with maple cap/slab. A big surprise is the Squier CV PUP and circuit, which frankly sounds as decent as any I've owned (I am going to test some alternatives at some stage just in case they sound even better). Currently rehearsing a Pixies show, this is doing the job rather nicely 👍

Glad you said it Lawrie, what a horror 🤔

Yes 👍

You won't get either trust me

It would give you an idea of overall percentage of bass players interested which I suspect could be quite useful unless you specifically don’t want to know? Non participating doesn’t help you much….

Nicely done @Rich, must admit I hadn't considered slap as a get out of jail free strategy

According to members of a couple of bands I know who've auditioned bassists, not as far from the truth as it should be .....

Good luck finding one (or even it) 👍

Thanks Steve, could you offer it as an option as do Warmoth with their 'standard 4-bolt' screwholes on Precision necks?

I'd be interested in an unlined fretless Precision neck also. What's the likely timescale and, minor as it sounds, will the heel be pre-drilled to accept neck screws (if not it would mean sending to a luthier to do which is something I'd need to factor in).

I do my best mate 👍

Saw this and thought of you Dan 🙂 https://ebay.us/m/udAHJX Not original, might not be kosher, but looks nice 👌

Graceland is on my album gig list, the problem at present is that our singer/guitarist isn't a fan. I'm working on it 👍

I was making the point that you most certainly can slap flats 👍