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Back in the day most of us could only afford one bass, so only had one !... It was a case of flog it first and buy what you wanted to switch over to, or do a swap with someone.. I did a very good swap once, a Yamaha thing that I hated for a Stingray !

Doubt there's much left there nowadays, or Charing x rd. Just looked like a big building site round that way last time I passed by.

I've only been messing around with it really and not specifically "saved" anything. ( I don't have a serious use for a synth sound on bass tbh ) but if I come up with anything truly Fab I'll happily share it of course !

The zoom B1 4 is a great little pedal certainly, I wasn't overly keen on the synth sound that comes as standard, but you can extensively tweak and save your own versions. And as mentioned above has lots of other useful features, highly recommended IMHO.

Cheers for that 👍 I've had a can of red from NW a few years ago to do just the back of a Rick type neck that someone had attacked with sandpaper ! So a couple of cans of each is good advice, bloody annoying to run out just before the end of a paint session no doubt !

That's a great run down there with some cool ideas 👍 I was also looking at the Manchester tech guy's nitro paints, tho I assume pretty much any of the available nitro rattle cans, NW gtrs, ebay, etc etc, are more or less the same stuff?

I'm not usually into "bright" colours, but that looks absolutely fab ! Did you over spray the Surf Green with the tinted clear nitro ( like they use on necks) to get the nice grubby look ?

Funnily enough back in the day we did almost exactly the same to my mate's crappy sattelite (i think) jazz bass...we paint strippered the sunburst off the body, which we discovered, surprise surprise, was plywood, this got the wood dye / boot polish "finish"... The headstock got an artistic job, done by me, a band logo ( rather than a pretender fender), using airfix paints and jazzed up with transfers from a Tamiya russian T34 tank model ! it looked pretty crap but much more punk than it was before, so mission accomplished

I've actually come to like it !.. I tend to agree with what you said earlier, leave the horrible "finish" and just get it playing 👍

Blimey, I wouldn't have immediately thought of that one as a "slap bass" contender

Wants a jubilee clip round it jus' to be sure ! They'll be lucky at the starting price they've put on it.. Plus the postage is taking the p!ss somewhat

Elgar's Enigma Variations were composed when in his 40s and the renowned Cello concerto in his 60s if I remember correctly. Many previous eras didn't have this "cult of youth" thing, and you were unlikely to be taken seriously in many fields until you had acquired some age !

Btw the guitarist looks very much like Karl Burns from The Fall !

It certainly did the job for us... and as we were generally living in squats anyway, grotty was pretty much normal really i don't imagine it was overly expensive either, tho have no memory of how much we chipped in between 5 of us, probably not a lot !

If you came on the tube, I think both Leyton and Leytonstone were pretty much the same distance walk to AGs so I guess you'd think of it as whichever one you got off at ! Can't remember now exactly where we'd be coming from, but most of us would've been living in various squats, and to get around would "bunk" the tubes, ie pay 10p at the exit saying we'd come from the previous stop, or just jump over the barrier if no one was looking

Make that the 80s

We always thought of it as Leytonstone, but I believe the actual station was Leyton Midland Road now I think of it..

Allen Gordons of course ! That was driving me nuts trying to think of it !

I'm now struggling to try and remember the name of the place....

@Reggaebass and myself were only talking about the rehearsal studios in Leytonstone a couple of hours ago, it has to be the same place...we used it circa 78- 79.. full of old HH amps ( which is what started us going on about it in the first place !)

Any good for meta..... No 'course not...

Nice strings 👍 you could call it the Postman Bass

I remember George knocking around in the punk scene in London way before he was Boy George.. As I remember him he was a really nice bloke.

JB JG lyrics are a tad more entertaining..